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master plan contains the same elements, the same goals, the same processes, all of
which are spelled out in AGENDA 21 and documents produced by the PCSD.” In fact, these
plans often include International Building Codes!!
Page 16, Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom, Henry Lamb, Freedom 21

At minute 75 in this video below you hear the essence of “manufactured consensus” with .2% of the
voters in a county in the planning council determining the direction of the county’s thirty year land
use plan.
http://theolympiareport.com/property-owners-air-grievances-with-growth-management-
act/?fb_comment_id=fbc_463972107001011_4327578_465020453562843#ff9bf2c0852e2

“The “old” process for deciding public policy involved private citizens requesting their elected officials
to adopt a policy, followed by vigorous public debate by those in support of the policy proposal, and by
those who oppose the proposal. Eventually, after all sides had been heard, a public vote by the elected
officials would decide the matter. Citizens who were unhappy with the policy decision could campaign
to have the elected officials defeated in the next election. This is the process by which the governed
give their consent. This is the only way to insure government accountability to the people. This is the
only way to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
Page 18, 19, Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom, Henry Lamb, Freedom 21

“Sustainable development could not sweep the nation if it were left to individuals requesting their
locally elected officials to adopt schemes that deny private property rights to their neighbors and
impose freedom-robbing restrictions that outlaw a back yard tomato patch. Therefore, “…a new,
collaborative decision process” was devised.”
Page 19, Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom, Henry Lamb, Freedom 21

“This new decision process is the consensus process in which voting is not allowed. Consensus is not
agreement; it is the absence of expressed disagreement. Consensus is sometimes declared despite
expressed objection, if the objector can be discredited or marginalized.”
Page 19, Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom, Henry Lamb, Freedom 21

“The “collaborative decision process” embraced by the procedures of sustainable development
deliberately ignores the principle of open debate and recorded votes by elected officials, which is the
decision process established by the U.S. Constitution….Freedom is diminished every time a public
policy is developed by stakeholder consensus, rather than by open debate and a recorded vote by
elected officials.”
Page 22, Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom, Henry Lamb, Freedom 21

“A very good example of how this process works is provided by Florida’s Heartland Rural Economic
Development Initiative (FHREDI), which is an NGO created in 1993 to coordinate the promotion of
Florida’s six county heartland. Their visioning project was initially funded by a grant from the Florida
Department of Community Affairs, which, of course, receives grants from the federal government….It
is no accident that many, if not most, of those “visions” hoped for by the year 2020 were remarkably
similar to recommendations set forth in AGENDA 21, and the PCSD’s Sustainable America.”
Page 4, Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom, Henry Lamb, Freedom 21

QUESTIONS TO ASK THE “VISIONING” FACILITOR

How much is this project costing?
How is it being funded?
Who hired your company and how much are you being paid?
Who owns that land that your plan is affecting?
Are the owners here?
What is going to happen to the local business?
Why are you trying to do this without a vote?