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Agenda 21 and the Indians
Agenda 21 is not, in fact, a communist
plot. It is not an international treaty or
an enforceable legal document. It cannot
make anyone do anything at all.
Agenda 21 is an innocuous plan
aimed at helping communities around
the world develop sustainability plans
meant to preserve their resources and
make wise use of them. It was signed
without controversy in 1992 by thenPresident George H.W. Bush, along
with the leaders of 177 other nations
who had gathered in Brazil for a United
Nations summit on development and
the environment.
Yet in the hands of groups like the
Birch Society and a growing array of
others on the radical right, it has been
transformed into a nefarious conspiracy by UN officials and other grasping
globalists to impose a collectivist world
government known as the “New World
Order,” trampling American freedoms in
the process.
The Agenda 21 conspiracy theory
has pushed its way into parts of the
political mainstream. In early 2012, the
Republican National Committee adopted
a resolution denouncing the plan as
a “destructive and insidious scheme”
aimed at imposing a “socialist/communist redistribution of wealth.” After Mitt
Romney was nominated as the GOP
presidential candidate later that year,
that language disappeared in favor of a
calmer critique, but the plan has continued to cause heated political controversy,
even provoking an Alabama law intended
to outlaw its feared effects.
Now, thanks to CERA and others in
the anti-Indian world, Agenda 21 is being
reimagined as a plot to use Indian water
and other rights as the leading edge of an
effort to destroy state government, federalize ownership of natural resources, and
force the United States to cede its independence to politically correct globalists.
In her interview with the Birch
Society’s New American magazine,
Willman put it like this: “There seems
to be a movement to just tear down the
fabric of this country. It’s hard to envision us in the long term being the United
States with [the] combined marriage of
YOUTUBE
I O L E N T H O S T I L I T Y where she worked to challenge various
toward American Indians sovereign rights of the Oneida Indians
may be our original hatred, as an official of the city of Hobart. She
going back to more than 250 came because she fears the final approval
years before the American Revolution of a long-contested water compact
and even predating the anti-black rac- between the state of Montana and the
ism that was long nourished by slavery. Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Indigenous peoples have been the vic- (CSKT) portends disaster.
tims of massacres, exploitation, cultural
“I became convinced the CSKT
annihilation and a litany of hate violence Compact is a template for federalizing
that continues to this day. They are weak, all state waters and implementing commarginalized and ignored.
munalism and socialism consistent with
Still, the organized anti-Indian move- Agenda 21, and that it is intentionally
ment has in recent decades adopted the aligned to spread tribalism as a governing
language of the civil rights movement. system while eliminating State authority,”
Although its claims are clearly disin- she wrote to a newspaper earlier in 2015.
genuous, they are cloaked in terms of
“equality,” complaints about government favoritism, and calls for repealing
treaties and “special” rights for Indians
in favor of treating all American citizens
alike. Anti-Indian activists rarely talk
about their enemies in the openly contemptuous ways favored by other parts
of the radical right.
Until now, that is.
In the last year or two, some of the
nation’s leading anti-Indian activists and