In Our Dreams…

“I will tell you now, if you want to keep your guns, your property, your children and your God... if you love liberty... then Sustainable Development is your enemy!” – Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center (www.americanpolicy.org) You could be forgiven for thinking that SD has made little progress over the water, but Mr DeWeese sees things rather differently: “Imagine an America in which a specific ‘ruling principle’ is used to consider everything you eat, what you wear, the kind of homes you live in, the method of transportation to get to work, the way you dispose of waste, perhaps the number of children you may have, even your education and employment decisions.” “Perhaps you are beginning to notice such changes as you go about your daily routine, but haven’t understood where those changes, and the ideas behind them, are coming from. But Sustainable Development is a very difficult concept to grasp. It’s written almost in a foreign language – designed to mislead and refrain from alarming you.” “Any possible excuse to control human development or activities [has begun to sprout up]... Endangered species, real or made up, have been used to close down industry and steal private lands.” “Sustainable Development. It’s a life plan. Planned by someone else. Not you.” “An international agenda to transform the world into global governance under Sustainable Development policy [has taken] hold and [become] official policy of the United States of America.”

10 November 2004