Fighting Regionalism in Maine and New Hampshire
Many of you are familiar with our fight to stop regional, top-down government and its appointees from the NH Regional Planning Commissions and NH Water Sustainability Commission from imposing unwanted mandates upon us, using our own tax dollars. As Rosa Koire stated in her book “Behind the Green Mask”, these appointed regional groups have gone far from just being towns banding together to plan roads and streets. They have become the vehicle to implement “a global plan to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world. Inventory and control.”
Unfortunately HB 144 was defeated in the NH HOUSE with 141 people on our side and 211 against us.
We have been called names by Progressive organizations who favor central planning.
And we have refuted those silly claims that these efforts to change the way we do things locally is but a mere “conspiracy theory”.
After seeing proof positive of this national plan for regionalism going forward, we can no longer just fight this on the defense.
As someone in our NH working group so astutely noted, the proponents of Agenda 21 are very adaptable and very cunning and the program is so very big it is overwhelming us. THIS IS NOT LOCAL CONTROL.
An appointee from one of our NH planning commissions was asked, why a statement added to the outside of a 2013-2016 Transportation Plan document for his region said: “This plan uses the framework of the Granite State Future for consistency” when some towns do not want the GSF and have voted against it? (Granite State Future is one of the Agenda 21 schemes for NH… along with Plan NH).
The appointee replied: “Well, since this town doesn’t want to be involved you can just wall yourself off, but we will still move ahead.”
Read that chilling statement again… “Well, since this town doesn’t want to be involved you can just wall yourself off, but we will still move ahead.”
So much for RPCs being “ADVISORY” and for the ideas they are promoting using corporate PR firms as coming from LOCAL COMMUNITIES and the people themselves, or even being approved by local people.
Read what happened in Maine after scores of activists testified for a bill that was filed against Agenda 21. Far from a “conspiracy theory” this is happening all over the country.
The following piece is by Diana George Chapin, a farmer and freelance writer from Montville. She authored a series on land conservation for The Maine Wire last year. She focuses on the land allocation aspect of Agenda 21, although if you read the documents containing the goals of the RPCs in NH, you will see that they are also focusing on health care, education, water distribution, energy, transportation, food, etc. (with the emphasis on taxation and control of all mentioned).
“This dangerous agenda is bound to change who accesses land in the future, who derives financial benefits and security from owning land and the succession of land from owner to owner. It also threatens to negatively impact the private natural resource infrastructure in Maine. Unchecked and unquestioned, it threatens to subjugate rural landowners to perpetual subordination to the state, a nonrepresentative corporation or an international entity.”
Read her full article at the Bangor Daily News
Watch a video of one of the PR firms, Action Media, training people on how to implement Granite State Future using federal funding. The plan would get each region to align their master plan along the same guidelines, per the GSF. THE CONTENT IS ALL ENCOMPASSING.
One size fits all?