Blacksburg denies following United Nations orders
The United Nations building in New York City.
For those of you following the “sustainable development” and “urban development” debate — common-sense planning tool or one-world government from the United Nations? — you have two choices today.
There’s this report from The Roanoke Times on Blacksburg Town Council “tweaking” its comprehensive plan.
Or there’s this press release, which showed up in my e-mail box today. I have no idea who it’s from. It’s attributed to a group called the NRV Citizens Coalition, which I’ve not previously heard of. And normally I wouldn’t be a fan of posting what seems to me an “anonymous” press release — there’s not a single name listed as a contact here — but in the spirit of full disclosure, here ’tis, and you can judge for yourself:
Blacksburg Denies Following United Nations Orders
Ignoring repeated protests from property owners, at the August 9th meeting the Blacksburg Town Council approved incorporating eight Urban Development Areas into the master Comprehensive Plan. Although not required to approve the state mandated UDA’s until July 2012, the Council ignored requests to defer the action amid pleas for more public knowledge and debate.
In discussion before voting unanimous approval, Council members assured the public that the Town is not required to follow directives from ICLEI or the United Nations. A member of the International Council for Local Environmental Issues (ICLEI) since 2007, the Council denied any imperative associated with the UN affiliate, themselves taking credit for the adoption of land use plans that involve the controversial designation of “mixed use” areas, with “infill” as a pervading characteristic. The Council also defends their arbitrary decision to join the “Cool Cities” alliance as well as adopt the “Sustainable Blacksburg” initiative.
Outraged that Sustainable Blacksburg members received an email alert to attend the meeting in support of the Council’s pre-determined decision to adopt the ordinance while the stronger showing of property owners had been blatantly denied the opportunity to be on the Agenda to voice their concerns about the effects on property values prior to the vote. The Council also defends their arbitrary decision to join the “Cool Cities” alliance as well as adopt the “Sustainable Blacksburg” initiative, despite the lack of input from residents.
Denied the democratic process and the opportunity to document their case, property owners question the Town Council motto, “Blacksburg is a special place”.
August 11, 2011 - 11:16 AM
“Outraged that Sustainable Blacksburg members received an email alert to attend the meeting in support of the Council’s pre-determined decision to adopt the ordinance while the stronger showing of property owners had been blatantly denied the opportunity to be on the Agenda to voice their concerns about the effects on property values prior to the vote.”
Is it me, or is this not an actual sentence? Blacksburg houses a huge palace to hard sciences and technology…good luck selling the flat earth UN nonsense there. Prepare to be further outraged.
Perhaps the Blacksburg town council should be compelled to deny following “directives” from Hale-Bopp, Oprah, and the KGB while they’re at it.
But they’re not wrong about the motto…it’s stupid.
Well, Kristen, maybe all them big important scientists might oughta come down out of the palace every now and agin and tell us about that commitment to “Sustainability” that they have to make before VT will even hire them….I’ll send Mason the link when I come across it again.
Hey! Sustainablists!! Since this is your religion, wouldn’t you like to get just a wee bit of the background on the stuff before becoming an acolyte? It’s not like there’s a dearth of information on the stuff. Start with the 1974 UN Declaration on the “New International Economic Order”. Then the ’76 Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I), and on and on until we get to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, which gave us Agenda 21—which all of you like to accuse us “tin foil hat” folk of making up outta thin air.
It was adopted by 179 nations and sets forth very specific public policy objectives designed to reorganize societies around the central principle of protecting the environment—so much for the concept of UNALIENABLE RIGHTS! Let’s all go to “a new collaborative decision process” called consensus building! Bill Clinton goes on to issue Executive Order 12852, better known as the President’s Council on Sustainable Development–29 NON-ELECTED federal officials and a host of major industry and environmental organizations put to the task of translating Agenda 21 into 154 specific public policy recommendations to be implemented throughout America. Not by the voters—by the BUREAUCRATS.
Welcome to your Marxist starter kit. You CAN’T make this stuff up! I salute my friends in the NRV for standing up to this crap and the sheer ARROGANCE of the Blacksburg Town Council.
Catherine Turner, your post was all anyone really needs to read. You boiled it down quite nicely as a matter of fact.
Some days, I seriously wonder how the hell we made it this far.
“…sets forth very specific public policy objectives designed to reorganize societies around the central principle of protecting the environment…”
Get out. Does this mean I can’t dump my ashtray on the ground while at a stop-light?
Oh the tyranny.
“…better known as the President’s Council on Sustainable Development–29 NON-ELECTED federal officials and a host of major industry and environmental organizations put to the task of translating Agenda 21 into 154 specific public policy recommendations to be implemented throughout America.’
Not recommendations. NOT RECOMMENDATIONS.
That my country should ever have come to this.
I thank god the TP is out there defending my right to dump used motor oil into a stream or whatever.
#2 Check out Catherine’s link. Phew.
Tin foil for sale! Tin foil for sale!
There have always been kooks, why is the media suddenly paying attention to them?
Sad…from Catherine’s site she sounds like she used to be sort of cool.
Hi again, Kristen. Hello Art, and gdad…glad you’re paying attention.
I have to ask you all this—why do you resort to personal attacks? I take care not to post anything that I can’t readily document. Have you fact-checked me?
You don’t know me. You have no idea about who I am. I “used to be sort of cool”? How do you arrive at that assessment? What constitutes “cool” to you?
What does the position I take here, defending my friends’ right to be heard before the Blacksburg Town Council being BLATANTLY REFUSED—the Rule of Law completely dismissed—have to do with dumping ash trays, motor oil…WHAT MOTIVATES YOU TO MAKE THIS LEAP WITH YOUR IMAGINATION?
Is that cool, to you, when local government blows you off? If, say, you’ve got a house on a half-acre in one of the UDA’s and because the Blacksburg Town Council decides that it’s for the greater good, they take your land by eminent domain and put 16×20 foot 3-story houses on what used to be YOUR LAND right next door to you, and oh well, too bad…it’s for the “collective good”? It’s called “infill”. It’s a given. (HINT: Check with the American Planning Association. They’re BIG proponents.)
Would that really be OK with you, if it were your property…Kristen, gdad, Art? Unless perhaps you don’t believe that people should have the right to own their own property….???
As much as the Sustainability Movement embraces “social justice” and heralds championing the cause of “the marginalized” and “the underserved”…the three of you just demonstrated the most overt, baseless bigotry that I’ve seen, oh say,….. in the last 18 hours….
Since perhaps the New River Valley “Livability Initiative Kick-Off Event” that I attended yesterday. HEY! I grew up in HUD housing. Now there’s a plan to screw property owners and bring the projects to the sticks! Hell-bound, Karl Marx yet blushes with pride!
Here’s the challenge, kids: You meet me right back here with the facts and let’s go One-On-One. Let’s have a real debate. Better yet, you get your people and I’ll get mine and we’ll get a real venue and let the truth run just like a river and wash us all clean.
How refreshing that would be. Any takers?
“WHAT MOTIVATES YOU TO MAKE THIS LEAP”
Umm…reality?? It’s jobs and the economy, Catherine, not some tin-foil
conspiracy. Why are you trying to change the subject?
“why do you resort to personal attacks?”
Because they can’t win a strait up argument.
Catherine – the way the Liberals on this blog work is like this – they try to outnumber you first – then they pound you with unsupported lies and half truths – then when you prove them wrong and back them in a corner, they attack and insult you personally. They are soooo predictable. Oh yeah, I almost forgot – when all else fails, they play the race card.
#11 And when all else fails for DD, he challenges you to meet him somewhere or falsely hints that he has been sort of stalking you.
gdad always proves my point for me. I said I was going to refrain from commenting on individuals by name, but he just cannot keep his yap shut. Will prove to be his undoing one day I am sure. No lack of “courage” on the Lib side as long as they can hide behind an avatar and take cheap shots.
Well thank god Marx got mentioned…I know he was all about sustainability.
Sorry Catherine…I’ve seen what your ilk considers a “source” and I’m not impressed. Emminent domain has always existed, although, like so many things, it appears the TP was completely ignorant of it up until now.
Sorry, I can’t take people who get their panties in a wad over words like “clean”, “Green”, and “sustainable”. You’re better off going back to cooking.
There’s no argument to be had here, “strait up” or otherwise. No one’s obligated to make a case against insanity, no matter how well “sourced” the insanity is. So stop wasting everyone’s time.
“he challenges you to meet him somewhere or falsely hints that he has been sort of stalking you”
Must have rattled your cage since you constantly bring it up.
LOL, When exactly did you say you were “going to refrain from commenting on individuals by name”? You can call yourself a hypocrite any second now:
“As for the above comments by Dan’s two (cleaninig it up here) female bulldogs, I expect nothing more from you. Any female who brags about being a “in your face” type of female apparently only appeals to a certain aspect of the sexes, certainly not the male population.
Comment by Dublin Dawg — August 11, 2011 @ 7:02 pm ”
Yes Catherine, it is ONLY the liberals here who call people names (“Marxist”, “them big important scientists”, “(cleaninig it up here) female bulldogs”) or who denigrate people’s opinions (“Since this is your religion”) and those who insist they have all the knowledge (I take care not to post anything that I can’t readily document. Have you fact-checked me?”) and they will most certainly welcome you with the same open mind you have shown them.
You do not want a debate or discussion, just like Dublin Dawg and several others here, you just want to fight and throw around accusations because you do not support what elected leaders and appointed representatives are doing and deciding. Guess what, only under our government do you even get the chance to complain about that! Go live in a “Marxist” nation and get back to us when you wise up.
You prove my point – no names mentioned in my comment above.
You mean like you constantly bring up Dan Casey and the folks on his blog Jack? That must have “rattled your cage since you constantly bring it up”!
#15 Nah, Jack, didn’t rattle my cage any more than when you said you wanted to punch me out. It IS pretty funny to see either one of you trying to claim to be taking the high road.
You’ll notice that in my post that rattled DD, I didn’t call him any sort of name. I simply told the truth about some of his posting habits. I’m not sure when telling the truth became a “cheap shot.”
18.”You mean like you constantly bring up Dan Casey and the folks on his blog Jack?”
I don’t think I have ever brought him up except in response to others. His name seldom gets mentioned at all unless you,gdad, or kristen are around. His “Danciples”…