For many months I have been resisting requests from various people
(both pro- and anti-sustainability) to write about Agenda 21.
Why resist? Because I considered the anti-Agenda 21 campaign
a distraction from real issues.
Now that ALEC’s “our state legislators” have
made Georgia an international laughingstock over it,
I suppose it’s a big enough distraction to write about.
But the topic of this series is sustainability:
you know, exactly what the astroturf talking points are meant to subvert.
Sustainability is important, and we should talk about it.
Jim Galloway’s 12 November 2012 AJC article,
Georgia’s own 52-minute video on the ‘Agenda 21’ conspiracy,
notes that the video some of ALEC’s “our state legislators” chose to play
in the state capitol, like every other attack on sustainability that
uses “Agenda 21” as a key talking point, also includes this:
”The Delphi technique was developed by the Rand Corporation
during the Cold War as a mind-control technique. It’s also known as
‘consensive process.’ But basically the goal of the Delphi
technique is to lead is to lead a targeted group of people to a
pre-determined outcome…..”
The actual RAND Delphi study is
readily available on the web,
and it doesn’t say what Agenda 21 conspiracy buffs say it says.
Come on, conspiracy buffs: show me where the RAND study says its
goal is “to lead a targeted group of people to a pre-determined outcome.”
Nobody can show me that, because it doesn’t say that.
Galloway’s article says
ALEC’s “our state legislators”
were being taught that T-SPLOST was
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understanding that this issue will be tabled until sometime next year (Chairman-elect Slaughter will decide when to put it back on the agenda) because we are working with MAFB on a compromise as they are well aware of our mandate to balance property rights with protecting against base encroachment.
