Cassandra Anderson: Richard Rothschild Battles Local Agenda 21
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Richard Rothschild Battles Local Agenda 21
By Cassandra Anderson
July 23. 2012
Richard Rothschild was the first county commissioner to officially oppose the United Nations’ International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), also known as Local Governments for Sustainability. In fact, Mr. Rothschild won the November 2010 election in Carroll County, Maryland based on his opposition to ICLEI, which is the local UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development action plan that attacks property and Constitutional rights.
Find out why Rothschild is opposed to Agenda 21 and ICLEI:
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0xw-DhmQmU&feature=player_embedded#!
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Commissioner Rothschild’s most profound observations since taking office have been that the federal and state governments use coercive grant money to expand their power beyond Constitutional limits and that all of the processes of government are geared toward spending money, which leads to budgets that spin out of control.
Carroll County is a rural area that is under threat of urbanization, mixed-use buildings (compact apartment-like housing also called “stack ‘em and pack ‘em” units) and social engineering.
Mr. Rothschild is devoted to protecting Carroll County’s citizens’ Constitutional rights. He has encountered forceful opposition in his pursuit of upholding the Constitution and respect for property rights from the phony environmentalist policies of the US government and the State of Maryland.
However, he has been able to make some significant changes in Carroll County’s Municipal Master Plan, the foundation for development, that include steering his county away from mixed use development and abolishing certain socialist language like “social equity”.
While Carroll County planning and zoning officials have been cooperative with Commissioner Rothschild, he has been restrained in fully protecting citizens’ rights because of federal laws, mostly handed down by the EPA, and state laws that attack property rights. The State of Maryland encroaches on local government jurisdiction through covert zoning and building regulations.
An example of this is a new Maryland state regulation that prohibits building anything within 100 feet of a stream. So, if a landowner wants to build a a home or other structure on his or her land, the parcel better be big enough to accommodate the state’s new regulation or they are plain out of luck. Imagine the effect of down-zoning on property value!
The good news is that people are waking up to the rotten UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development plot. Alabama is the first state to officially ban Agenda 21! Governor Bentley reluctantly signed the resolution under extreme pressure from activists.
Several other states are in the process of considering and/or passing resolutions against Agenda 21.
Many local governments have rejected ICLEI and others have silently refused to renew the program contract (click here for the full list).
Additionally, a number of Republican groups are actively fighting Agenda 21 (click here for list).
Conclusion:
Alabama proved that efforts by activists can make all the difference.
Commissioner Rothschild recommends spending time to go through your Municipal Master Plan planning and zoning regulations to weed out the ones that are strangling citizens’ rights (especially landowners). Other activists have been successful and taken action by pressuring lawmakers to protect their rights and their property.
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July 24th, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Ms. Anderson,
As an ex-Marylander, it’s both comforting and painful to know that there are still a faithful few left holding the line against the unstoppable flow of power from the people to the State, from the State to Washington and, so it seems of late, from Washington to our conspiring enemies in the UN.
It’s comforting that some still believe Maryland has a bright future in which private property Rights are guaranteed, at least for the next generation or two. If Carroll County can stand up to Agenda 21 without being bulldozed by O’Malley and company, then one day so might all points west, along with the “Alabama of the East Coast” as we used to affectionately call it, the Eastern Shore. (It was alarming to see Salisbury on ICLEI’s membership roster, which we may attribute to a mere general lack of awareness).
What’s painful is how thin and outmatched the voice of the Sovereign Citizen is when stacked against the center of gravity in the State, which consists of my old hometown of Baltimore (where the voting population is either old-money out of touch with reality, or on the dole) – and the overwhelmingly socialist satellites of D.C. – namely Montgomery County and Prince George’s, where some of the most horrifying stories of the new world order in action I’ve ever heard originate, particularly having to do with the public education system.
If Maryland has a future free of Agenda 21, it would necessarily depend on a major cultural shift in those areas – a shift that I’m heartbroken to admit I don’t see on the horizon, or have any reason to hope for. It adds up to an unacceptable long-term situation. I took my queue from O’Malley’s re-election and requested an assignment in Texas where it’s still (sort-of) a free country. As it is, I won’t be planting roots in my home State, for which I often feel pangs of regret – but knowing that I’ve made that choice for the next generation lessens that sense of sadness somewhat. It would be hypocritical of me to offer “keep up the good fight,” so I won’t insult you with it. I’ll just say this: on some level, it’s good to hear a little bit of hopeful news coming from the Old Line State for a change.
v/r
Pat
July 24th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
p.s. Carroll County is still listed as an ICLEI member on ICLEI.org. Inflated membership roster? Perhaps they’re not as powerful as they’d like us to think!