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ASSOCIATION OF BAY AREA GOVERNMENTS ATTEMPTS TO MEET SECRETLY WITH ACTIVISTS
If you've been following our actions at the ONE BAY AREA meetings with other groups, including East Bay Tea Party, 9-12 groups, property rights groups, and other Tea Parties, you know that we have deeply upset the game the Government (Association of Bay Area Governments--ABAG, and Metropolitan Transportation Commission--MTC in league with their public/private partners, Silicon Valley Partnership and Greenbelt Alliance) is playing.  The Delphi game is to pretend, and get you to believe, that your input is solicited to craft the plan when in fact it is already set up before you show up.  This is a Regional Plan, a stepping stone to Mega Regions and then to Global Government.  We haven't been going along to get along.

So out of the hundreds of people who attended their 'workshops,' in the 9 county Bay Area, out of the 7.5 million people in the Bay Area who would have questions about this plan if they knew about it, just four of us have been invited to a private meeting with ABAG-MTC.

Who are we?  Heather Gass, East Bay Tea Party Leader; Mimi Steel, 9-12 Leader; Carol Tomlinson, Tea Party Leader; and me.

Here's the email they sent:
Ms. Koire:
 
The Executive Directors of MTC and ABAG are extending an invitation to meet with them at the MetroCenter to discuss issues and matters brought up at the Winter 2012 PlanBayArea workshops. There are three possible meeting times - one will be selected based on availability of invitees. Please reply to accept the invitation and indicate your preferred meeting date.
 
Thursday, Feb 16, between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm
Friday, Feb 17, between 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm
Friday, 3/2/12, between 9:00 am 11:00 am
 
regards,
JoAnna Bullock
Senior Grant Administrator, Urban Planner
 JoAnna Bullock JoAnnaB@abag.ca.gov 
 
Association of Bay Area Governments
MetroCenter 101 Eighth Street
Oakland, CA  94607       
  
I had been checking into the American Planning Association propaganda and saw that they have now put out a seminar on how to handle us.  That's you and me. So this is what I sent back:
 
You must have gotten this guide from the APA.

"Preparation
Second, be proactive
 Reach out to groups likely to oppose
 Request a meeting with them to listen to 
concerns and ideas
 Do not try to change their minds –collect 
their input
 Encourage them to provide you with 
materials (books, websites, etc.)
 Research local activist networks"

But Heather wanted to get more information.  I'm glad she did.  Here's her exchange:
Ms. Bullock,

I have several questions about this invitation that need to be cleared up before I consider attending.  Will this be a publicly noticed meeting subject the Brown Act and open to the public, Executive Session or an informal (private) meeting not subject to the Brown Act?  Who are the invitees? Is this open to the public or to just a handful of people? Which MTC/ABAG Executive Directors will be in attendance? Also, I am unclear as to the purpose of this meeting? What “Issues and Matters” will be discussed. I would like an agenda for the meeting.

Heather Gass
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Ms. Gass,
 
This is a invitation to meet informally with the executive director of MTC, Steve Hemminger and the executive director of ABAG, Ezra Rapport. The invitation was extended to the following attendees of the PBA public workshops:
Carol Thomlison
Rosa Koire
Mimi Steele
This will be an informal meeting, not a public meeting - no elected officials will be present so it is not subject to the Brown Act. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity to those that expressed issues and dissent at the PBA workshops to speak directly with the executive directors. The executive directors prefer no agenda - this is opportunity for open dialogue.
 
regards,
JoAnna Bullock
Senior Grant Administrator, Urban Planner


How bout that, folks?  Now they want an 'open dialogue' outside of the eyes and ears of the public and for the sole purpose of finding out about us.
      FORGET ABOUT IT.  
      NO GOOD GERMANS.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR EMAIL LISTS--It's important.

THIS IS WHAT A REVOLUTION LOOKS LIKE

You are witnessing a plan that is being implemented all across the United States NOW.  It has many names but it's the same plan. UN AGENDA 21/SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Sustainable  Cities Strategy. It is a regional plan that creates unelected boards of elected officials who are engaged in erasing the boundaries between cities, counties, and states.  You are losing your ability to influence your government policies at the same time that you are being solicited for your opinion. It's a tactic to silence you. This is the Delphi method of manipulating groups and controlling populations that may protest. By 2050, or sooner, there will be 11 Mega-Regions in the United States that include parts of Mexico and Canada.  This is not a delusional rant.  This is a fact.  Go to www.America2050.org 

What are these plans called?  Your government is using similar names for all of these plans and they are all the same: Regional.  They are being rolled out NOW.  The adoption date is MID-2013.  ALL OVER THE US.  Most of us are unaware that the plan we are fighting is the same plan, with minor variations, being imposed in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, expanding public transportation, and funding low-income housing.  All plans include Smart Growth--high density housing with restrictions on personal space and car usage.  All plans support high speed trains--the building block of Mega-Regions.  All plans give power to regional transportation and planning boards (MPOs and COGs) through federal and state fund disbursements.  In all plans housing and transportation are now linked.  In all plans population projections are hugely inflated.  All plans will go forward as planned regardless of your input.  This is a planning revolution.

Here are just a few places around the country using the word "VISION" a UN Agenda 21 buzz word.  There are many others with similar names using the sustainability jargon. These are just a few of the thousands in the US and around the world (for example, the Hanoi Center Regional Plan is exactly the same)

• One Valley One Vision (you'll find this in Santa Clarita Valley, CA; Montana; and Dona Ana County/Las Cruces New Mexico
• Nine Counties, One Vision (Tennessee)
• One Region One Vision (New York, Indiana)
• Our Florida Our Vision
• One Bay Area (SF Bay Area--9 counties)
• Six Towns One Vision (Lycoming County)
• Five Counties One Vision (Minnesota)
• Four States One Vision (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas)
  

We need to use civil disobedience.  Refuse to accept these plans.  They are not YOUR plan.  They are destroying your cities.  This is UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.  Educate yourself and others.  This is war.  Join us at Democrats Against UN Agenda 21 in fighting for our freedom. 

Not on our watch.  
Awareness is the first step in the Resistance.  
Action is the second step.

• DEMAND THAT SANTA ROSA TERMINATE ITS MEMBERSHIP IN ICLEI--International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
  

NOTICE
YOU ARE BEING DELPHI’D

This meeting is designed to manipulate and direct public opinion to approve the
One Bay Area Plan

The Delphi Method is being used to create the illusion that this is your plan and that you have some part in crafting the outcome.  This is a technique developed by the RAND Corporation in the 1960’s which is used by meeting facilitators to block opposition and discard opinions that do not support their plan.  This propaganda
method uses peer pressure to shame and silence you.

ONE BAY AREA is being used to regionalize the SF Bay Area and erase the city, county, and ultimately, State boundaries.  Your transportation tax dollars will be used to build apartments and condos in designated areas of your city---and nowhere else.  Your money will directed to favored developers building stack and pack housing.  You are losing the ability to direct your elected officials through this plan to destroy local representation.  This is happening across the US.  There are now 11 Mega Regions designed to replace States.  Northern California is one of the Mega Regions (it includes part of Nevada), with over 48,000 square miles and 15 million residents.

ONE BAY AREA is UN Agenda 21
ATTEND THE MEETING: FINLEY CENTER, W. COLLEGE AVENUE 5:45 PM
NOTICE

YOU CANNOT BE DENIED ACCESS TO THIS MEETING

 

OPEN MEETING LAWS IN CALIFORNIA:

THE BROWN ACT

 

Meetings of public bodies must be ‘open and public,’ actions may not be secret, and action taken in violation of open meeting laws may be voided.  (Section 54953(a), 54953(c), 54960.1(d)

 

 

WHO IS COVERED?

·        Local agencies, including counties, cities, school and special districts (Section 54951)

·        Legislative bodies of each agency—the agency’s governing body plus ‘covered boards,’ that is any board, commission, committee, task force, or other advisory body created by the agency, whether permanent or temporary (Section 54952(b))

 

 

WHAT MUST HAPPEN?

Under the Brown Act an agency must:

·        Post notice and an agenda

·        Notify the media

·        Hold meetings in the jurisdiction of the agency in places accessible to all, with no fee (Section 54961(a))

·       Not require a ‘sign-in’ or registration for anyone

·       Allow non-disruptive recording of the meeting

·       Allow the public to address the covered board

I visited Texas speaking about UN Agenda 21 and how it is implemented.  I wish I could say that it's better in Texas but it's all the same programs and projects with slightly different names all over the nation.  One thing I can say for Texans in Houston and Dallas:  They don't appear to be as brainwashed as our Sonoma County residents.  Once they get the big picture they're ready to take action against local elected officials who won't KICK ICLEI OUT and clean Sustainable Development out of their General Plans.

Sonoma County is a sad case but that doesn't mean that we can't wake up and shake up our fellow liberals to see that the environmental movement has been hijacked by people like Michael Allen, Lisa Maldonado, and Norman Soloman.  And what about Alan Strachan and Dennis Hunter?  Global Legacy?  PACE Loans?  $5 TRILLION IN GREEN LOANS?  These manipulators use all the right jargon to get you going.   But, my friends, as anyone who has been abused knows, the rhetoric is just talk.  You have to look at their actions. 

As I've said before, being a Sociailst is ok in America but don't put 'Democrat' under your name when you're running for office.  Progressives are Socialists.  Oh, I don't mean you.  You think it's cool to be progressive.  You like the IDEA of sharing the wealth, just not your own.  Right?  Are you honest?  Willing to have a couple of families move into your house permanently?  Willing to give up half of your pay?  Or have you lost your job due to a total manipulation of our economy and you're now willing to promote socialism?  It doesn't work.  Utopia is a lovely idea.  Everyone has lots of everything, no one has to do what they don't want to do, lots of smiling people, bikes, and blue skies.  Does the Stalin experiment ring a bell or haven't you heard?  What about Mao?  Great idea, right?  Take the wealth away from the princes and give it to the people.  What happened?  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.  Won't get fooled again. 

So the Texans are looking at UN Agenda 21 in the form (besides Smart Growth, Comprehensive Plans linked to Metropolitan Planning Organizations in a regional brew that steals their sovereignty, just like yours) of TTC--the TransTexas Corridor, Highway 35.  Enters the nation in Texas, exits at the Canadian border, and links the North American Union.  You don't care about sovereignty, you say?  You have faith that you'll be taken care of, that government is good and you'll live happily ever after?  What about WTO?  Have you forgotten the Battle of Seattle?

Oh, you think government is great?  What about those slimeballs at SMART?  Or do you like the idea that THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS?  Only when you like the ends, right?  And who says that the 'end' is what you think it will be?

What is happening with the OCCUPY thing?  Have you stopped to ask yourself why you think it's cool that anyone would OCCUPY the center of your city?  Are you playing with the idea that you're at WAR WITH THE MAN?  It's stupid.  The government has allowed itself to be taken over by mega corporations.  The only concrete thing I've heard from the whole movement is that you should move your money to a credit union.  What is this?  A credit union backed occupation?  It's a BANK WAR.  And you're in your tent.  Doing your obedient call and response--yes, master, hear and repeat, master.   I urge you to think about all of this--it is a manipulation, a distraction.  YOUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY MEGA CORPORATIONS AND YOU ARE LOSING YOUR CIVIL LIBERTIES.  NOW.

KICK ICLEI OUT.  STOP AGENDA 21.  NAME THE PROGRESSIVES SOCIALISTS AND MOVE ON FROM THERE.  Get up, Stand up.