Oh Jeebus!!
The Gadfly is, dejectedly, confronted yet again with the conundrum of what it is that our society can do when it is demonstrably clear that a sizable segment of it's populace is just plain and simply batshit fucking insane?
Case in point:
The Missouri House of Representatives on Monday passed a ban on the United Nations sustainability plan Agenda 21 after a spirited discussion of space aliens and how Walmart could avoid zoning laws to build more stores.
The Republican-controlled House voted 110-40 to ban local governments from adopting the Agenda 21, a broad outline of planning goals and sustainability targets. Agenda 21 was passed by the U.N. in 1992, but has not been ratified by the U.S. Senate and does not contain the force of law in the U.S.
Agenda 21 has for years been a popular target of conservatives -- led by the John Birch Society -- with Republican lawmakers pushing bans in several states. Alabama banned Agenda 21 last year, which Rowland said was his inspiration. Agenda 21 opponents argue the U.N. document would seize private property and force people to live in walkable communities with a potential end to golf and scuba diving.
Rowland said U.N.-affiliated groups are giving local governments free lawn mowers to support zoning laws suggested in Agenda 21.
House Minority Leader Jacob Hummel (D-St. Louis) questioned how the state could ban something that is not law. "Do you think we should waste time on a mythical thing?" Hummel asked Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick argued that lawmakers "absolutely" should be discussing the bill and that local government executives may try to implement Agenda 21 through executive orders.
Hummel asked if the state Legislature should consider other bans. "Could we talk about space aliens coming down? That could happen," Hummel said.
"If you believe space aliens exist, then you are welcome to introduce a bill," Fitzpatrick shouted back.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/agenda-21-vote-missouri_n_3040436.html
Allow The Gadfly to break this lunacy down for you - the dear reader:
1. In 1992, the U.N., after a meeting of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, of which the United States (under GHW Bush's leadership at the time), issues a NON-BINDING, VOLUNTARY plan, known as Agenda 21, for addressing the growing issue of worldwide sustainable development - meaning smartly and efficiently dealing with the conservation and management of resources for development - primarily targeting DEVELOPING NATIONS. The plan, while supported by all four Presidents prior to Obama, has never been ratified by the U.S. Senate and contains absolutely zero force of law in the United States.
2. The John Birch Society (aka - Commies are under my bed! EEK!!) claimed the U.N. plan is a sinister effort by the U.N. to unilaterally seize private property in the U.S. and to force all Americans to congregate and live in communities where walking and biking are the predominant transportation method. They also claim that the plan, even more so puzzling, aims to eliminate golf courses and scuba diving. Wingnut TV evangelist and (The Gadfly believes) closeted LSD addict, Glenn Beck, claimed that Agenda 21 is some kind of Dr. Evil plan to "centralize control over all human life on planet Earth." Zoinks!! (Sadly - The Gadfly is not making this shit up.)
3. Then - along comes the election and reelection of the socialist, Muslim, Kenyan, terrorist appeasing negro. That earth shattering event is then followed almost immediately by the rise of the Looney Toons Teabagger Party to acceptable company in the arena of political discourse. In the world of U.S. political movements, the Teabagger Party can most generously be described as the demented, drunk Archie Bunker uncle living in the garage in the back yard. And so the Teabaggers go apeshit and as a result, everything that Obama agrees with, even if it is an issue that the GOP has agreed with in the years prior to Obama, is now suddenly a nefarious commie pinko plot to hand over the reigns of U.S. power to The Black Helicopter Brigades of the United Nations.
4. And now all of that batshit buffoonery has come full circle with Republican led legislatures in various states spending the people's time and money debating the tinfoil ass-hattery of the Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs crowd as evidenced in this HufPo article.
I mean just look at that exchange above between the Democratic rep. and one of the Republican reps. who is supporting this foolishness:
House Minority Leader Jacob Hummel (D-St. Louis) questioned how the state could ban something that is not law. "Do you think we should waste time on a mythical thing?" Hummel asked Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick argued that lawmakers "absolutely" should be discussing the bill and that local government executives may try to implement Agenda 21 through executive orders.
Hummel asked if the state Legislature should consider other bans. "Could we talk about space aliens coming down? That could happen," Hummel said.
"If you believe space aliens exist, then you are welcome to introduce a bill," Fitzpatrick shouted back.
These fucking fruitcakes don't even realize it when they are making an open, public admission that they are using the levers of government legislating power in a campaign against something that has no basis in earthbound reality whatsoever. They are just plain bonkers!
And thus The Gadfly returns to the mind-boggling question of what the sane people of a country are to do when dealing with all of these mental institution escapees - and more importantly - how do we move the country forward without just simply designating them all as dangerous psychopaths and herding them in to a landlocked state and putting a 500 foot tall wall topped with concertina wire around it and letting them inbreed their demented DNA in to extinction?
The Gadfly jokes about the solution of course but the stark reality of the situation is, as we watch these nutcases turn back the clock of human social advancement, no laughing matter in the least.
----TFG
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