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Originally Posted by seashore
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Here is the website associated with this freedom movement:
Freedom21.org
The website states:
"Freedom21 began in 1999 when its predecessor, the Environmental Conservation Organization, asked the leaders of about a dozen other organizations to assemble in Washington, DC. The purpose of the meeting was to develop a new strategy to counter the explosion of new laws and regulations that ignored private property rights and individual freedom. The meeting was hosted by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. The group quickly agreed that the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, working to implement the recommendations set forth in Agenda 21, was a major source of the freedom-eroding policies being implemented by the government.
The group recognized, and agreed, that the efforts of our various organizations were mostly defensive, working to defeat the proposals and policies advanced by the PCSD, and its proponents. What was needed, the group decided, was to develop a strong offense, to develop a positive strategy to advance the principles of freedom, in addition to defeating the proposals produced by the PCSD."
Here are the principles that the group came up with:
Freedom21
1. People have inherent, natural, unalienable rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness - the foundations of sovereignty.
2. Governments exist expressly to protect these rights.
3. Governments derive power from the consent of the governed, to protect these rights.
4. Public policies which constrain people's rights must be enacted only by representatives elected by the people.
5. Constitutionally limited government is the best form of government.
6. That government is best which governs least.
7. No foreign government shall supersede the authority of the government of the United States of America.
The group is having a conference in Oklahoma August 13 - 15, 2009:
