This morning I encountered a small army of Agenda 21 paranoid fruitcakes while visiting the Phoenixville Farmer’s Market. They looked kind of normal. All in their forties or fifties, a little less than average in the looks department. But zonked out of their minds on bullshit. I have their flyer in the car. It looks like it took a moron about twenty-five minutes to produce and it makes no sense whatsoever. However, it does follow the basic outline Michele Bachmann provided here, while discussing high gas prices in 2008:
“This is their agenda—I know it’s hard to believe, it’s hard to fathom, but this is ‘Mission Accomplished’ for them,” she said of congressional Democrats. “They want Americans to take transit and move to the inner cities. They want Americans to move to the urban core, live in tenements, [and] take light rail to their government jobs. That’s their vision for America.”
I guess they read Eschaton but they have the reading comprehension of a six-year old. I hope she’s not our next president.
OMFG!! Seriously? Ride TRANSIT? Oh the horrors!
Live in a CITY where there might actually be something to do? SOCIALISM!!!
It’s that city stuff. All those evils things that you can do in a city like getting drunk and whoring around. Did you never see Oklahoma! the musical by Rogers and Hammerstein. To say the “Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City” strikes fear and fascination into the local rural folks. Especially the bur-lee-cue.
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Got a scanner? I’d love top see this flyer.
I’m so not motivated to scan their two-sided screed of manure…
Understood. But hang onto that flier so that when one of them decides to bomb a gay bar or abortion clinic, you can say you remembered them when they were so peaceful… weird and strange looking, but peaceful.
Well, that is my vision of America. That sounds amazing. The only thing that’s missing is the ability to ride my bike to work.
But we all know what they mean by this: they want to force rich, white suburbanites to assimilate with minorities, gays and atheists.
I’d rather “their kind” stay out of the major cities, if you don’t mind so all of us Heretics can have some fun with each other, not having to look over our shoulders at those people making their funny faces of disgust at us.
They can just stay out in the ‘burbs and drive around in their tanks because they’re so afraid of everything.
these are some crazy ass, stupid muthafuckas.
plain and simple.
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Freedom21 Conference in St. Louis Mo. led to the start of the organization in 2000. The founding conference was sponsored by American Policy Center, Sovereignty International, Liberty Matters, Eagle Forum and Environmental Conservation Organization.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Somewhere near the beginning of Truffant’s movie version of Fahrenheit 451 you see the main character being an average working guy. He rides a high-rail train that stops in a leafy green forest and a ramp drops down. There’s no station; no retail center. He gets off the train with a few others and they walk off down grassy paths into the woods. He arrives at his tidy, high-tech house… well, from there is gets nightmarish.
But, throughout the movie there are glimpses of a suburban life without many streets, without cars, all that infrastructure has been replaced by electric trains and people walk or ride bicycles in between. The pavements and mowed lawns are knee-high grasses and new-growth birch forests. THAT PART of this awful vision of the future always looked fabulous to me.
When we first moved out here to the barren middle of flatland nowhere, gas prices went thru the ceiling and there were shortages after a hurricane. We lived near one town and my husband worked in another about 18 miles away. A quarter mile from our house was a rail line that went right to the plant where Hubby worked. I thought then–wouldn’t it be cool if the plant ran a single electric rail car to pick up workers along the line! They could by-pass the pickup trucks and the highway completely! Almost every little town out here has old railway depots that are now banks or restaurants and everywhere I drive I cross rail lines that aren’t used for much anymore.
I vaguely see this vision of a post-gas-dependency, SUSTAINABLE RURAL lifestyle. Yeah, I throw in horse-drawn wagons and goat carts to help farmers get their produce to the open air markets in the nearest little towns. People take electric trains out of the cities for weekly food buying sprees, walk a lot and tote net bags of purchases. The dead storefronts in these rural towns are filled with cottage-industry goods for the weekend city visitors to buy.
I know it’s dream-like and probably not entirely practical. In the distance there would still be electric vehicles on the old highways going places where the rail lines don’t go. BUT, I can see how it could work, how the future doesn’t have to be condensed urban centers filled with zombie office workers who never smell fresh air. If we had cheap, clean, fast transportation, people wouldn’t HAVE TO live in cities, they could still have their enclaves of like-minded-others to retreat into at the end of the day.
Yeah, I dream of small, light-weight, electric passenger trains… And these Agenda 21 nuts have no imagination.
Indiana once had an extensive network of light rail, known as the Interurban. It died in the 1930s with proliferation of the automobile. All that’s left are the shadows of old roadbed and the remains of a trestle here and there, if you know where to look. I feel sad every time I pass the overgrown remains of this old bridge near Morgantown, IN.
OMG It’s the “world supergovernment United Nations” crowd again. Here come the black helicopters.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, a bunch of bedwetting cowards starts parading their paranoia. When do Michelle Bachmann and Mitt Romney start pandering to them? Oh?? Michele Bachmann did in 2008. Wow.
The good news. Obama’s not going to be primaried by anyoone serious. A PPP poll in Vermont showed Obama beating both Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean if they primaried him. Not that they will. Now that that’s settled can we move on to building a progressive base independent of any campaign.
Instead of focusing on the crazy that we know besets us. Forties or fifties would be the Reagan generation. Anti-UN stuff is just their speed.