Editor, Gazette-Journal:

In the Feb. 16 edition of the Gazette-Journal, Norris Richardson says that he recently read Agenda 21 and finds it a threat to no one. I congratulate him for reading it, because it is not an easy read. But I was astounded that he found it a non entity. I find it quite the opposite. He goes on to basically say that population growth and limited resources provides the need for sustainable development. My message to him is, sustainable development may not be what he interprets it to be. It has been presented as protecting the world’s resources while its true agenda is to control the world’s resources.

It has three components: global land use, global education and global population control and reduction. The international focus for sustainable development is the United States. This is because America is the only country in the world based on the ideals of private property. Private property is incompatible with the collectivist premise of sustainable development. Sustainable development works to abolish private property in order to manufacture natural resource shortages and other alarms in order to facilitate governmental control over all resources and ultimately all human action. So-called public/private partnerships are the major tool to accomplish this objective.

Let no one deceive you, the basic concept of sustainable development came from the constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Chapter 2, Article 18, where it discusses the need "to protect and make scientific, rational use of the land and its mineral and water resources, and the plant and animal kingdoms to preserve the purity of air and water, ensure reproduction of natural wealth, and improve the human environment."

Those who have written opinions over the last several weeks describing their opposition to the number of letters addressing the subject of U.N. Agenda 21 should know that this issue is much more important than they comprehend it to be and people need to know the truth. Thankfully, the Republican National Committee has passed a resolution against Agenda 21.

Despite what Mr. Richardson said about the attendance at our meetings, they were successful beyond our expectations. There were approximately 250 people at the property rights meeting and 180 at the global warming fraud meeting. In a small county like ours, it is remarkable to get that many people out on a Monday night.

Mr. Richardson and others who have not attended the Concerned Citizens’ meetings in the past are invited to our next meeting to learn what we are all about.

DeWitt Edwards

Mathews, Va.