By JOHN NORTH
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HENDERSONVILLE — A progresive-liberal elite intends to use Agenda 21 and other measures to create a worldwide government in which it would have complete control over the masses and the planet’s resources, Dr. Michael Coffman said on April 28.

“Basically, the end game is to create a world government,” he told a crowd of about 75 people during the second of two addresses on consecutive nights at the Opportunity House Cultural Center in Hendersonville.

Dr. Michael Coffman

Coffman addressed “How the United Nations’ Destructive Agenda 21 Is Rapidly Being Implemented in America — Without Anyone Knowing It.”

He also reviewed some high points of his April 27 speech, “The War of Worldviews That Is Causing Increasing Violence and Gridlock in America.”

Coffman was billed as “perhaps the foremost expert and most active speaker on the subject of Agenda 21” by the region’s Anti-Communism KTM, the event sponsor.

Coffman is widely credited with playing a key roll in blocking the Biodiversity Treaty. He is president of Environmental Perspectives Inc. and executive director of Sovereignty International. EPI bills itself as focusing “on providing professional guidance and training in defining environmental problems and solutions based on Judeo-Christian principles of stewardship, as contrasted with pantheistically based environmentalism.”

Among Coffman’s books are “Rescuing a Broken America: Why America Is Deeply Divided” and “Global Warming or Global Governance.”

In addressing what he termed “the elite,” Coffman said succinctly, “They’re trying to take your liberties away ... and have a world government.”

Coffman, who holds a Ph.D. in forest science, said he left his job as a manager for Champion International paper company about 20 years ago because he said he saw the danger facing the nation from radical environmentalists in particular, and progressive liberals in general.

He noted he had spoken the previous night about the John Locke models, with 100 percent tyranny on the far left and anarchy on the far right.

Within a triangle, he listed (from top to bottom) federal government, state government, county government, city government, individual and God-given inaliable rights.

 “What we’re seening is an ... effort to assert federal sovereignty ... By the way, the Constitution was designed to protects citizens from the government” — and not the other way around.

“What he (President Barack Obama) wans to impose” is the model by Swiss-born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau — “the feudal system model.”

 In  a triangle depicting his interpretation of Rousseau, Coffman listed (from top to bottom) federal government, state government, local government and families and individuals.“I’ll say again what I said last night ... We have one chance to roll this back — and that’s in the election this November.

“If we don’t, I think it will be — at a minimum — 200 years before we get the opportunity again” to be free. (In a brief interview with the Daily Planet immediately after the program, Coffman said the new Dark Ages could last up to 400 years.)

Coffman said the Rousseau model was behind fascism, Marxism and communism — and that 200 million citizens have been killed in its name.

What’s more, he asserted, “The Rousseau model is converting our Constitutional Republican into feudalism.”

Coffman then turned his criticism to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which, he said, “basically wrote Agenda 21 for the United Nations ... It’s a modern-day weapon against freedom.”

In quoting from IUCN documents, Coffman said Agenda 21’s purpose is to “promote alternative models ... based in eco-spiritual practices and principles ... to accelerate our transition to a just and sustainable future ....”

More succinctly, Coffman said, “It basically means Mother Earth is far more important than you and I.”

He called Agenda 21 “the legal implementation ... to force nations that sign this treat to physically worship nature ... They want to re-establish the feudal system of government.”

Coffman then asked, rhetorically, “What does ‘sustainable development’ really mean?” 

From a document by those implementing Agenda 21 titled “Our Common Future,” he said it says that “sustainable development’ meets the needs of the present without compromising future generations ... But that’s not what their endgame is,” rather the aforementioned statement is “for public consumption,” Coffman asserted.

He then reiterated that pantheism — defined by Coffman as “the belief that nature is God” — is a key value and “if you believe  in reincarnation, that makes sense — reincarnation into ascended masters.”

Coffman showed a diagram of a triangle labeled United Nations, with World Research Institute on one side, World Wildlife Fund on another and IUCN on the third. He added that many federal agencies would be classified with IUCN, including the EPA, the USFS, the USFWS and NPS.

He said that about 700 environmentalists, social and socialist organizations are members of the IUCN.

“They (the IUCN groups) meeting every year behind closed doors in small groups — to plan their social-spiritual programs on you and I ... The goal is to implement an eco-spiritual strategy locally ... Their ruse is to make it look like it’s a spontaneous movement — but it’s not.”

He reviewed an IUCN document that paved the way for Agenda 21, noting that, in its 40 chapters, “it basically covers every aspect of our lives, with all socialistic solutions ... Private property rights will disappear ... Now the Sierra Club gets to decide what you can do with your property.”

President George H.W. Bush signed Agenda 21 on behalf of the United States in 1992, Coffman lamented. President Bill Clinton, who succeeded Bush at the helm, also supported the agreement, as has every president since then. In 1993, Clinton supported Agenda 21 through the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, he said.

“Basically, this is all coming from the federal government and, for over five years now, every grant (from the federal government) has Agenda 21 strings attached.”

At that point, a woman in the crowd asked, “Has Agenda 21 been ratified?”

“No,” Coffman replied, “it doesn’t have to be ratified. Its just an agreement — not a treaty.”

Continuing, he asserted, “You have these egghead bureaucrats trying to make the point that we all need to bow down to Mother Nature ... We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars to do this — for no defined benefit.”

Coffman said the changes resulting from Agenda 21 have “become the new guidelines for every federal agency.” As a result, he noted, the role of the federal government has shifted “from helping the American people to be successful to helping the economy to hurt the American people.”

Ultimately, he said, “If you take money from the federal government, you’re signing on to a sustainable America ... The last 15 or 20 years — we’re well down the road” to socialism.

He reiterated that, “in one fell swoop, the purpose of the federal government changed” under Agenda 21. “If you happen to have progressives on your council or commission, they’ll be willing partners to shovel this right down your throats.

“If you take federal money, you’re signing onto sustainable development,” Coffman said. “Fortunately, this county (Henderson) has backed away from this” as a result of citizen input.

“I want to praise the people who worked on this and the commissioners for being willing to listen to you.” In his observation, Coffman said, “Most of the time, they (government officials) are not” listening.

He also said that Agenda 21 “is basically a way for people in urban areas to have control over rural areas.”

As for what can be done about what he termed the threat of Agenda 21, Coffman said, “Every regional ‘this or that’ should be stopped dead in its tracks .... because you have no recourse” as concerned citizens. “It’s designed to strap you into tyranny.”

He then reviewed a number of benefits touted by proponents of Smart Growth, noting that “it does none of those things.”

He added that “the whole concept of Agenda 21 and Smart Growth “open the doors to corruption. Coffman cited some examples, asserting that “it’s horrifying” and that “it’s happening every day.”

He explored examples of Smart Growth from Portland, Ore., to Los Angeles, stating that “the real family income stays steady, but housing costs go up by a multipe of three.”

What’s more, Coffman said, “Land under Smart Growth has gone up by 600 percent in Los Angeles. It’s all due to Smart Growth and comprehensive planning because now you’ve put an artificial barrier on what can be developed and what cannot be.

In reality, Coffman said, Smart Growth “dramatically increases congestion.” He also noted the following effects of Smart Growth:

• Increases air pollution.

• Destroys the American Dream of owning a home.

• Dramatically increases the cost of living.

• Transfers privated property rights to the government, which, Coffman said, is Smart Growth’s main purpose.

Next, Coffman addressed what he termed “the corruption of education ... In the 1950s, the Congressional Reese Committee found that the Education Foundation ... contributed to the reckless public spending an overgrowth of government by ‘radical educators’ who ‘subborn schools.’”

In addition, he said the Supreme Court ruling in 1962, forbidding school-sponsored prayers and Bible readings” are the source “of all problems in the schools from 1962 onward.

The National Education Association became the “most powerful institution in America’s schools.” He cited  a teacher initiative in which the goal was “dumbed-down students to be compliant global citizens led by elites.”

As supporting examples of the dumbing-down process, he cited the Careaus Act in 1995 and President George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” from 2001.

In the aftermath, the crowd cheered as Coffman urged, “If you have kids in public schools, get them out ... I know it’s hard to homeschool kids. But, if you want your kids to be sane and educated, get them out of public schools and homeschool them.”