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Subscribe to RSSArizona lawmakers appear close to sending to Gov. Jan Brewer a tea party-backed bill that proponents say would stop a United Nations takeover conspiracy but that critics claim could end state and cities’ pollution-fighting efforts and even dismantle the state unemployment office.
A final legislative vote is expected Monday on a bill that would outlaw government support of any of the 27 principles contained in the 1992 United Nations Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, also sometimes referred to as Agenda 21.
Senate Bill 1507 was passed by the state Senate last month and received an initial House affirmation Wednesday. It is sponsored by state Sen. Judy Burges, R-Sun City West, who also sponsored a state birther bill that Brewer vetoed last year.
"The bill is designed to protect the rights of Arizona citizens and prevent encroachment on those rights by international institutions," Burges told msnbc.com in an email. "We have three branches of government and when one branch preempts the process through executive orders, the balance of power is lost in the process. It is that simple -- no more, no less."
At a March 15 hearing on the bill, Burges said an executive order signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1993 started the implementation of Agenda 21 after the Senate refused to pass a treaty ratifying it.
"Any way you want to describe it, Agenda 21 is a direct attack on the middle class and working poor" through "social engineering of our citizens" in "every aspect" of their lives," she told the hearing.
But House Minority Leader Chad Campbell, D-Phoenix, has a different view.
“It’s the most poorly crafted bill in this state,” Campbell told msnbc.com. “It’s so broad and overreaching, we’re not sure what it could impact.”
Among the U.N. declaration’s non-binding principles are calls for sustainable development, environmental protection, eradicating poverty, eliminating unsustainable production and consumption patterns, economic growth and the participation of women in government decisions.
“We wouldn’t be able to use CFL light bulbs in state buildings because that would be considered energy efficiency,” Campbell said.
Campbell also said that the state’s Economic Security Department, which handles unemployment and welfare benefits, could be outlawed because it has to do with eradicating poverty.
Also, Arizona universities have sustainability programs that could be banned if the bill becomes law, Campbell warned.
Arizona State University has a School of Sustainability, Northern Arizona University offers a master's in sustainable communities, and the University of Arizona has an environment and sustainability portal.
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Brewer, who last spring vetoed Burges' bill to require presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship, typically does not comment on legislation until it reaches her desk, her spokesperson told msnbc.com Thursday.
About the Rio declaration, SB1507 says “the United Nations has enlisted the support of numerous independent, shadow organizations to surreptitiously implement this agenda around the world.”
Rep. Terri Proud, R-Tucson, told supporters in an email that the U.N. declaration “will take away our rights as Americans by allowing the United Nations to mandate laws on our soil,” the AzCapitolTimes.com reported. “It’s very real and it is happening.”
The Times also reported that during House debate Wednesday, Rep. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, said the declaration is connected to the “occult” of sustainability.
"The tea party and conspiracy theorists run the state now, Campbell told msnbc.com.
See video from the March 15 House Judiciary committee meeting on SB1507 here.
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My god, Half the freaking people commenting are communists......If you don't like America, Get out, go elsewhere. Arizona has the right to govern itself as it see's fit short of seceding from the nation. The federal govt has many options for dealing with a belligerent state and will likely exercise them.
Wolves??? What does wolves have to do with anything?? Much as I like Wolves and I have lived with them around me all my life, Wolves must be managed, It is a fact of Life so get over it...You get too many wolves and they cant find food they do desperate things..Like Eat Young female Teachers in Alaska....We have over 5000 Timber wolves in the northern 1/2 of Minnesota alone... They are not endangered and females have 2-4 Pups every year. They do not know about birth control....
Back to Arizona...they are simply responding in the most direct way they can to the corporate banker run United Nations having any Say at all in Policies within the United States...They are fighting against one world government. The UN has an agenda and it is not necessarily in the best interests of the United States.
All you communist marxist Socialists need to get with the program and start fighting for something that actually counts like bringing manufacturing Back to the united states and insisting on products that Last not the throw away garbage we get from China. 100 years ago we made products that lasted, now you buy a new coffee maker every year and more garbage ends up in the landfills.
You want to save a tree?? Get America working again so we can take back our share of the world market with top quality goods so we do not need to rape the earth of its precious resources.
Spend a little energy coming up with sensible products for market instead of whining about wolves for gods sake!! Beat those at thier own game who would make the worlds population into a disposable society for profits...People now realize that Quality even if it costs a bit more is well worth it in the end!! a Coffeemaker that lasts 10 years and can be rebuilt with new gaskets for 200.00 beats a 50.00 tosser that has to be purchased new every year.....Why do you think China has gained on the USA so quickly??They sell you cheap junk. Every Year the same things over and over again.
And dont tell me we cant build Quality.....I have a Circular SAW and A 3/8 Drill built in the late 40's that Still outperform the new stuff at 70 years old...Think about that!!
Laws like this will no longer be necessary, after november's election
Arizona, the first to abandon the American socialist Titanic. The U.S.A. is listing as Captain Commie -Obama and his clowns take the ship of state to the bottom. It is way past time for a house cleaning. To bad all the parasites in Arizona will just have to get out of Arizona when the socialist tit drys up. Good for Arizona ,a day of reckoning for Communist. Arizona is just the first to evict the Federal parasitic cancer, the rest of the states will follow soon. As long as we have our guns we will have liberty. The next move is to set up a honest banking system and erase the fiat federal debt. Get rid of the federal slave master controlled by the criminals at the Federal Reserve, Have the Arizona legislature tell the FED to go to Hell, print their own money and hand out 50,000 Arizona dollars te each citizen . The fed dollars can be concerted into Arizona dollars at one to one . Arizona starts over fresh , they arrest any fed bureaucrat , AND LOAD THEM ON CATTLE CARS BOUND FOR, D.C. Arizona becomes the poster Republic for all states to join in a new REPUBLIC. Any one who is communist obstructionist exile them to North Korea. We are free again , we prosper again, and we rebuild our nation into the economic power house it was before we were duped by the Bastard that has us under the thumb of TYRANTS.
Must be Gov. Brewer's spokesman.
Give the damn state back to Mexico. That solves their immigrant problem - but then of course all the whites are then immigrants in Mexico. The only thing they have of use in that state is the Grand Canyon anyway.
You have something against Whites?
Google: "Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station"
John you need to learn how to swim. The Titanic is on its way to the bottom. If you survive we will gladly drop you off three miles of North Korea's,s shore , . I am sure your emancipate commie -buddies will welcome you to work in their advanced agriculture program until you starve to death. In any event you have utility in their bio composting program which is Eco-friendly and carbon neutral.1111111111111111111111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is very obvious that most of the commentors on this subject at ignorant of various treaties and agreements coming out of the United Nations.
For example, Agenda 21 allows international intervention in your local community - from farms to your local wells to your own home. In essence, an overseeing international body will determine whether you are living in a manner they determine is sustainable for your locale.
The USA and everywhere else in the world has thrived when government and over-seeing do-gooders get out of the way and let the people have liberty for themselves. So you can be free and have liberty or you can have tyranny - and wonder when the government and UN forces are going to wield their power against you.
The UN is also negotiating a small arms treaty which will in many ways usurp your Second Amendment rights.
Of course, a free society is all based on having a moral and religious people. Because if an individual cannot or is unwilling to control themselves, someone else will soon control them (for the sanity and good and peacefullness of society).
Bottom line: Let Freedom Ring by letting the people of Arizona do what they decide to do. Otherwise, you are hypocrites for not celebrating their diversity.
Tell that to the people who live around the Chesapeake Bay. It was turned into a sewer until the GOVERNMENT came in and forced the "freedom morons" into cleaning it up. Or maybe the Great Lakes. You could not eat the fish in several until the GOVERNMENT stepped in and forced the "freedom" spouting greed mongers into cleaning up their act. Your concept of "freedom" simply screws things up because there are TOO MANY IDIOTS - GET IT?
Ted is obviously running for office as a Tea Party Candidate. This seems crazy enough for a campaign speech but you need to add a little racial hate and a dash of conspiracy. End it with Don't Tread On Me!!!!
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Let Freedom Ring! Az. is leading the Nation in immigration reform. Be legal or be GONE. I have not read the bill, but I trust the folks in AZ. have and it is bad for Americans to submit to ANYTHING passed by the UN that effects us internally. Give em HELL AZ:)
Do you always jump in blindly? I bet the teachers who tried to pound the concept of critical thinking into your head are pissed right now.
Hot Daddy-good name for a potential resident of Arizona. Just a few more paranoid and racist folks and the new name will be Arizooma. Arizooma-free from reason at liberty to drool.
I have read the bill Hot, and you are right in supporting Arizona !
The US Constitution states that all treaties are to be ratified through the US Senate. An Executive Order should not be allowed to override that. It bypasses one of the safeguards implemented by the founding fathers to prevent a sitting president from assuming to much power!
Never has the Executive Order been so abused as under Obama. Maybe that was the 'change' he promised?
This was from Clinton's executive order, not Obama's.
Riamus-don't confuse them with facts-they don't do facts. Conspiracies and paranoid dreams need only apply.
These Tea Party people should be better called the " American Taliban Party".
I'm sure this is going to help solve the foreclosure, employment, and small business concerns.
You guys make Barry Goldwater look like a Liberal!!!
The un should be chunked in the ocean along with all of its supporters! The US is the last group not taken over by this bunch of one world bunch and it is none of their business encroaching on ours!
Mad cow in porkchops, now? What next? The John Birch Society-Koch Family Museum will be built with Arizona state funds in Flagstaff. That way it can trickle down on Phoenix.
Porky,
You left out the "from my dead cold fingers" part, are you slipping into dementia?
You remind me of a rumor spread around our rural community by the T-party idiots a couple of years ago. They sent letters to the Editor of our local paper that "UN tanks" were being brought into our county under cover of darkness and stored in barns preparing to come out and blast the cows into submission!
There is a serious sickness among us that takes reality, twists it until it becomes completely insane and then makes people run around screaming "freedom" until they run out of drool.
The real Elmo would be embarrassed by your mindlessness.
Lies of the GOP & Tea bagger, Citizens United and all the Alec corps ( WALMART ) that pay off the Politician. Its all about the Wealthy getting richer and the middle class getting poorer.....They don't want to help the poor, I do mean the poor not the lazy good for nothings...Who are the one's that leach off the taxpayer. The Wealthy: they get welfare both for themselves an for the Corps. ...But it seems that the Wealthy get away with it ..They steal billions and the few poor steals a few thousands. So what does the GOP want, is Screw the MIddle Class to get even with the few. As I say its the me me me and F everyone else.... The failures of the Republicans party trying to take away SS & Medicare & Health care for Woman so they can give their wealthy Blackmailers more money...To hell with the Poor and Needy. Let them freeze in the winter and stave the Old and Babies,let them die from bad water, do away with the EPA and thats what you'll have, just like all you Tea baggers want...You make me sick with your Me Me Me altitude. It just a matter of time before the masses raise up against you . Greedy and you all call yourself Christians, Christains. What a laugh: Wake up America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAKE UP
You are without a doubt, the single most confused individule I've encountered in a very long time!! WOW!
So if I read this right. Liberal are complaining that AZ does not want to allow Agenda 21, drafted by the UN to dictate AZ or US policies...
Not surprising the liberals would be all over the UN taking over the US, since they thrive on government telling them what they should think and eat, why not allow the UN to take over the US and tell us what everyone should eat or drink...
Liberals hate Brewer enough because she embarrassed Obama with Immigration that they are willing to allow outside forces dictate their lives...
Use of Liberal as a stereotyping classification, which really means anyone who doesn't agree with your line of B.S., shows just how ignorant you bigots really are.
Kim must be a closet liberal if it hurts her to be called a liberal...Liberals as a stereotype. Now that's funny.
Especially with so many self described proud liberals spewing venom each day. So you tell me what liberals want to be called.
Well, I'll say this much. It's not the conservative (another stereotype I suppose, or should I use the ever so colorful Teabaggers) whose for the UN take over of the US. It's LIBERALS..
I for one love my country and believe its being ruined not by the UN, but by ignorant right wing nuts who know nothing of what they speak and can only be manipulated by their political gurus and motivate by thier own hate. I am more than happy to call my self a liberal - even a commie if you prefer - if denotes my opposition to conservative/Tea Party fascists.
Where, ect-Liberals don't hate Brewer-they just can't believe that she was elected Governor. Jan and her crowd come right out in the open with the craziest public ideas ever heard and then they pass them into laws. I thank them for this over reach.
Arizona was headed for the Democrat column, eventually, Jan Brewer and her crowd's crazy laws will cause the state to ditch them and go hard the other way. Thanks, Jan.
NotFooledAnymore - that is just what you think (or dont think)! You are the biggest fool of all. LOL
xpatbarca
Proof positive that P.T. Barnum was correct!
We have seen movements for black rights, women's rights, rights for the handicapped, children's rights, latino rights, gay rights, and so forth. The tea party movement is nothing more or less than rights for the stupid.
Too bad we didn't stop while we were ahead
After reading the article one question comes to mind:
Why is this a issue now, 19 years later, but wasn't since 1993? Anyone?
Take a look at our current POTUS 's "executive orders". Do a little reading on agenda 21. It's quite real, and being implemented on an ever-quickening scale. Read a lot then decide what you think for yourself.
Do you have any specific examples?
While the United States may be a member of the United Nations, the UN resolutions are not legally binding unless a treaty is ratified by the US Congress. UN initiatives should never be forced down the throats the people of any state by executive order of a US president.
The UN has absolutely zero authority in the State of Arizona, and even the United States of America's federal government has limited authority in Arizona - limited to authority laid out in the US Constitution.
The federal government needs to stop trying to creatively surpass their constitutionally given authority and instead focus on their job of protecting the borders. The states are allowed to handle their own affairs internally.
The dim wits are those who make comments without checking out the facts first. Looking at some of the statements here there are a lot of dim wits in this world. Hitler said "The masses feel little shame in being Terrorized intellectually and are scarcely conscious of the fact that their freedom as human beings is abused".
Where are these people coming from? And here I thought Maine had the market on idiocy.
Wow, the socialist/communist damocraps are really worked up about Arizona standing up for their rights. Must be because the Supreme court is close to saying Arizonas immigration bill is okay. Think of all the voters that will cost the damocraps. No more illegal immigrant votes!
I love how if "you dont fall in line" give it back to mexico, get rid of that sorry state, YOU SUCK!, etc, etc....People are already uspset with arizona and the anti immigration deal so this is just one more step for them to step on.......F the federal government if a state wants to stand up for what it believes is right and right for the people than so be it thats Democracy hey love it or leave it buddy! Its not just about laying over and saying ok..... whatever you say.....Its about fighting for what you feel is right, right or wrong. Your all Communists to say otherwise, and if you dont like what i said close my post....go ahaid because those are the ones i read first
Thanks jack-you are a prime example of the foolish few with Jan who will drive Arizona left. It's the only way to get away from the crazy label Arizooma carries, now.
Thanks jack-it could happen in 2012/Arizona for Obama-courtesy of Jan brewer and the Tea Party.
realist, I don’t see Arizona doing a U-turn and moving left anytime soon if the alternative is someone like Terry Goddard. Jan only beat him by 13% of the vote so there is still hope.
The UN is irrelevant...
AZ is one of the few states that seems to be going backwards in time. The longer Brewer is governor, the bigger hole thay will eventually have to dig themselves out of.
We need to go back in time. To the days of prosperity and freedoms. Making our own decisions. Taking care of our own responsibilities. Living within our means. Defending our states. United as one. We the People...
Spot on NotFooled....
Most people think progress is better, but I can well understand how some would rather regress to a fantasy time that no longer exists.
But like the old saying goes, you can never go home.
Progress...You mean the national debt that we can't dig ourselves out of. Highest poverty level in history. More people on welfare in history. Credit downgrades, high unemployment. Presidents suing states. Class warfare and division.
Most people wouldn't consider that progress, well except progressives...
Where, do you think that unacceptably large number of people on relief is the result of Obama's policies (if so, please cite one) or the result of the worst economic times in almost 100 years?
Be honest.
Hey NotFooled.....im not busting your chops but I know what YOUR saying but people dont wanna hear that anymore, they would rather live in their BS lives with all the technological crap they think is gonna save them get in their stupid fuel efficient SUVs with heated seats and mirrors and all the crap they dont need while screwing with their "distractions" phones to keep them in bliss "IGNORANCE IS BLISS"
Jack...Who said anything about technology. I never said I wanted to go back to the horse and wagon days. How the hell did you get that from anything I wrote.
I want us to go back to the days of prosperity and freedom, people making their own decisions and responsible for their own actions.
We can't have that and a cell phone too????
Maybe you shouldn't use the word ignorant. Because what you said was ignorant...(and calling someone ignorant is busting their chops)
your reading too much into it......go back to their cell phone meant....have you seen these people in a daze and stuper and all thaty matters is what is going on right now in front of them on that stupid phone.....its a destration from all that is going on around them they are being ignorant to what is happening around them....ignorance and therefore creating a false state of bliss
Mark...The unacceptablepeople on welfare and living under the poverty line would be much better if Obama actually spent time helping small businesses rather than spending time campaigning and dividing this country.
Where are the infrastructure projects that Obama promised us if we passed his stimulus package. What about the Keystone pipe line...There are ways to help. He choses not to. For some progressive ideology
Is he directly responsible. Of course not. But his policies are standing in the way. Definitely...
Notfooled, you are fooling yourself and listening to the big fool Rush. How can we become united again if the rich corporate world that funds the T-tardican propaganda of hatred continues to slither their way into our pockets? They have brainwashed you into thinking the problem is coming from the folks who fight for reasonable rights of all and not just for the super rich. Of course, it takes a lot of effort to clear the poison from a mind that has bought into the lies and fear.
oh BTW notfooled I didnt call you ignorant therefore i want busting your chops....I just thought you had more on the ball than that and figure what i meant all this technological crap it a distraction from what is really going on. let me give you an example so you can understand, states are banning talikng on cell phones while you drive....why? oh its a distraction from what is going on around you. another example would be texting while driving....why? its a distraction from what is going on around you. Also let me further explain all that technological are all distractions you dont think that the powers that be dont know this and see it as a way to make people think they need this come on, use more common sense when sommone is trying to support you and your point of view instead of "what no cellphones too" use your head
Keep it up Jack. Jack is the official spokesman for the Arizona Tea Party (that's right I said spokeman-none of that equality crap) and clearly demonstrates their reasoning and thought process.
It's kind of funny all the people blaming the governor for this. The governor hasn't said if she supports this or will veto it like she did with the birther bill. Right now, all you can really blame are the legislators. IF she supports it, THEN you can blame her as well. Too many people wanting to lay blame without thinking about whether or not they are blaming the right people.
As far as the bill, I do think it's too broad. The bill can basically say that anything the UN votes for becomes something the state cannot support, even if the state wants to support it or already does. There isn't anything wrong with trying to eradicate poverty or protect the environment, for example. Just because the UN wants its members to do those things doesn't make them wrong. Sure, we don't really need the UN controlling us, but if they want us to do something that we already want to do, where is the harm? Now, if the UN really was trying take control of the US (it isn't, regardless of conspiracy theorists), then we would want a bill that prevents that, but does not prevent us from supporting things that the UN wants if we choose to do so.
This bill should be rejected for being too broad and if they really want something to "protect" us from the UN, then they should propose a bill that only does that and doesn't take away the state's rights to support what it wants to support.
It is weird that AZ would pre-emptively deny initiatives that may very well be very beneficial to the state.
Being dictated by the UN is not beneficial to anyone but the UN who will rake in billions. We can decide what's beneficial for us all by ourselves.
Protecting the rights of AZ people should be the priority of any Governor (or President)
Whoever mentioned "dictated by the UN"?
Try to stick to the facts, it's much more useful than fantasy-land.
Mark, the facts are the UN DOES want us to follow their UN policies. Maybe it's called "follow us" and not dictated, but I refuse either...
You can stop using words verbatim when you know the intending meaning...It doesn't make you look smarter, just makes you look like a smart a-s-s...
Where,ect-The UN has no teeth or power without the US. Your fears and paranoia should be saved for more real issues like the influx of Northern Liberal public worker retirees streaming into Arizona. They plan to ruin your regressive paradise. I'm afraid many of them were teachers (probably commies) and bring that inconvenient knowledge and that boring reason with them. Don't let it happen.
WhereHasAmericaGone
More appropriately, where has your mind gone? Unless you can read the post and take it literally, why post? Of course, if it is parody of fools that post without meaning what they say, I guess you can take any meaning you want kinda like what the right wing fanatics do with facts.
The problem Notfooled, is that Mark, and tex2c are Progressives, their ideaology is patterened after their leaders, like Pelosi "We have to pass it to know what's in it " and Harry Reid, " We have to pass it to know if it will work "! You know the old idea that only by letting the horse out will we be able to evaluate the effectiveness of the barn door!
Everyone - PLEASE read about the UN resolution. Look at youtube videos. Then see what Az is talking about. This resolution if followed would prevent any individual ownership of land. You would not be allowed to own a vehicle. You would be forced to live in high density population zones. A large percentage of land would be declared off limits and you would be forbidden to travel through there. Again, please research what the Agenda 21 Resolution actually states. You will then undestand why AZ is against it. Each of our presidents has agreed to the terms of it. Our government is continuing the process of taking our rights away from us. It goes against everything we have fought for since becoming the US of America.
no they wont look wont take time to understand and really understand what it means they will post something like your crazy and go on about their BS lives
It doesn't matter what the resolution says. If anything in it is not in line with our laws, the treaty cannot be ratified by Congress nor enforced in this country. This law is a waste of time and is the brainchild of paranoid lawmakers who don't know how our legal system works as it relates to treaties.
Thank you for actually being educated and taking it upon yourself to look at the real reason for what is going on instead onblindly following snippets from Senators placed by the media
Becky It scares me to see what is happening to our individual rights in this country. I am not some sort of crazy extremist. But the abuse of imminent domain rules that take private land for shaky reasons scares me. Used to be it had to be for th good of the entire public such as for a highway that was going through private land. Now our government is taking land so private companies can build malls or casinos. The big bucks they pay to our elected officials gets them the correct vote and the little people get trampled.
You can go to the UN website and read the entire plan. Don't take my word for it. See it on their own site. Many cities are signing onto this and promoting it as saving the environment. It is taking land away from us and putting into government hands at the direction of the UN. That is scary to me.
See the maps of this country where the land will be 'returned to nature'.
Hey, do you know why it's OK to put lead and mercury in the drinking water, millions of tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere and a shiny stainless steel wand into a woman's vagina??
Because GOD says it's OK, end of discussion.