TOMMY THOMPSON HAS A RECORD OF EMBRACING AGENDA 21

WI 9/12 Project: Tommy Thompson’s Record on Property Rights Fails to Match His Rhetoric

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WIS Politics – Kirsten Lombard – 7/19/2012

CONTACT: Kirsten Lombard

(Madison) – On Wednesday, July 18th, former Governor Tommy G. Thompson appeared at a Milwaukee-area candidate event sponsored by the Citizens for Responsible Government. At the event, Thompson was asked directly by an audience member to state his position on the United Nations Agenda for the 21st Century, more commonly known as Agenda 21. Thompson cited Agenda 21 as a non-binding United Nations (UN) plan that threatens property rights. He subsequently voiced strong opposition to Agenda 21 on property rights grounds.

Yet, the Wisconsin 9/12 Project notes a substantial gap between the Governor’s stated position and his actual record on the matter in question.

Regarding the first part of his response, Thompson was essentially correct. According to its own advocates, the 40-chapter Agenda 21 is a comprehensive blueprint intended to effect transformational societal change at the global, national, and local levels, in all areas in which humans directly affect the environment. Accessible on the UN’s website, Agenda 21 makes it difficult to find aspects of society that the UN does not aim to affect. It also reveals the profound threat Agenda 21 indeed poses to property rights, along with true representative government, national sovereignty, and a range of other constitutionally- and economically-related items.

However, as noted, Thompson’s stated opposition to Agenda 21 and his actual record are two different things. An article released on the Wisconsin 9/12 Project’s website today provides details around a little-known but significant memorandum of understanding (MOU) that the former governor signed in 1998 with the German State of Bavaria. Amounting to an agreement between the two states to pursue mutual aims, the MOU makes plain that its foundation is three specific chapters out of Agenda 21.

Moreover, several Wisconsin initiatives that pose a significant threat to property rights have arisen out of Agenda 21 and the Wisconsin-Bavaria MOU. Such initiatives include the state’s 1999 comprehensive planning mandate (more commonly referred to as “Smart Growth”), signed into law on Thompson’s watch. Also arising out of the Wisconsin-Bavaria MOU is the Department of Natural Resources’ increasingly high-profile Green Tier program, which was developed and piloted under the Thompson administration before finally being passed into law under Governor Jim Doyle.

Thompson, then, has a clear record of embracing Agenda 21, not rejecting it.

“The research of the Wisconsin 9/12 Project certainly indicates that Tommy Thompson knew what he was signing in Munich in 1998,” asserts organizer Kirsten Lombard. “We are also keenly aware of the policies he thereafter actively helped to advance—policies that to this day seriously undermine property rights and other constitutional freedoms. Regrettably, the damage didn’t stop when Thompson left the governor’s office. It’s ongoing. We would certainly love to see Thompson openly acknowledge his past actions and the profoundly detrimental effects in which they have resulted.”

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