Here is the press release from Gov. Walker’s office.
Gov. Walker: Signs Green Tier executive order
5/23/2012
Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303
Madison–Today Governor Walker signed Executive Order 69 which directs the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to enhance its already existing Green Tier program to meet both environmental and economic development goals.
Green Tier is a voluntary program that recognizes and rewards environmental performance that exceeds legal requirements resulting in continuous improvement in Wisconsin’s environment, economy, and quality of life. Since its inception in 2004, the Green Tier program has been providing real benefits to businesses by allowing the Department the regulatory flexibility for companies to pursue creative ways to enhance productivity and profitability.
“This program has produced enhanced, voluntary collaboration with businesses to yield environmental and economic gains aligned with their business plan as opposed to prescribing inefficient and burdensome actions that impede a productive business model,” said Governor Scott Walker. “The next step is to increase program participation.”
Due to the high degree of expertise needed in order to comply with the program’s requirements, not all businesses are able to take advantage of its unique offerings. Following EO #69, DNR will increase access to the program by providing ready-to-use models for specific business sectors. Also, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the DNR will proactively reach out to Wisconsin’s businesses in order to effectively communicate the benefits of the program.
For more information regarding DNR’s Green Tier program, contact Mark McDermid, Bureau Director of Cooperative Environmental Assistance, at mark.mcdermid@wisconsin.gov.
See the executive order:
http://wispolitics.com/1006/large/120523_EO__69__Green_Tier_Progam_.pdf
Here is a response from one of our members about why this “voluntary” program is so bad, and the “myth” of self regulation.
Green Tier is Agenda 21. Agenda 21 in any form is total iron fist control. It is sort of like making socialism voluntary. Socialism by nature is totally incompatible with individual liberty. Once it takes hold in the mind and heart it works like an infecting disease that will eventually destroy all vestiges of liberty.
Agenda 21 is even more dangerous than socialism because it has a powerful and malevolent spiritual element at its core. Agenda 21 is totally and completely illegal under the Constitution. To allow it, even on a voluntary basis, is nothing short of a treasonous act. And yes, treason is a kind word when you understand Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is the certain death of freedom and the Republic.
Just as voluntary abortion is still murder when chosen, so Agenda 21 is the murder of the Republic. Once it enters the body politic in any form, it takes hold, begins to multiply, and ultimately will do what it is intended to do, subjugate and destroy. It is the sum of all evil, and voluntary evil or mandatory evil, is evil.
There are many presentations and information that explains what this is and how it works, and it ALWAYS begins voluntary. We have a presentation that exposes the true spiritual nature of it. That begins with Blavatsky and Bailey, and is summarized succinctly in Lucis Trust.
Just as murder is a high crime and illegal, so to is Agenda 21 a high crime against the constitution and freedom. A politician, who offers a criminal act as a “choice” is no champion of freedom. No shepherd would offer a wolf in sheep’s clothing as a choice to the sheep, unless he too is one.
Finally, here is a letter to Gov. Walker about this issue from one of our members. (This does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate. The RRP do not endorse candidates.)
Dear Gov. Walker,
We are your strong supporters, Voice of the People folks, and Walker for Walkers. We are praising The Lord like you for your re- election as gov.
We are MOST DISTRESSED with your recent Executive Order on the Green Tier. We have to believe if you truly understood what’s behind this, you would be running away from it full steam. This is DANGEROUS for all Americans and will only create more unnecessary regulations, expense and control over the citizens of Wisconsin.
PLEASE you need to become VERY educated on Green Tier and Agenda 21. Tom DeWeese did an excellent talk radio on Crosstalk VCY 107.7 FM which I have attached below. I will also be sending you a flier a bunch of us “pro Walker” people passed out in conjunction with your re election activities. This flier has been passed out to thousands of people in Wisconsin and is live for electronic passage. Here is the flier link: Danger – U.N. Agenda 21
http://www.vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/06/11/rio-20-summit
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Air Date: June 11, 2012
Host: Jim Schneider
Guest: Tom DeWeese
Jim began this edition of Crosstalk by noting that the U.S. Senate will be proceeding today on an executive session regarding the nomination of Andrew David Hurwitz (the architect of Roe v. Wade) to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence.He is the Founder and President of the American Policy Center and editor of The DeWeese Report.He’s been a leading researcher and authority on the United Nation’s planned Agenda 21.
Next week, June 20th thru the 22nd, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development otherwise known as the Rio +20 Summit will be held at the Riocentro Convention Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The United Nations is counting on this to be the final one to enforce Agenda 21.
Agenda 21 is a blueprint to transform human society with “top down” control all under the excuse of protecting the environment. It moves into many facets of our lives including the economy, the kind of homes we live in, the kind of cars we drive, how much energy will cost and many other societal factors.
According to Tom, a key factor of the Rio +20 Summit is that it seeks to push for the creation of a 100 billion dollar global fund paid for by the industrial nations of the world. This is part of a larger redistribution of wealth scheme with the 100 billion being in essence a penalty on those nations that have allegedly damaged the environment through their industrialization. The problem with this socialistic plan is that the industrialized nations of the world are having economic difficulties, a factor that threatens to derail the goals of this summit.
From redistribution of wealth to overpopulation, vaccines, the rationing of healthcare and government surveillance of farmland, find out what secular forces are up to as they attempt to provide their own version of ecological and economic stewardship through activities like Agenda 21.
While I applaud Walker and his win against big unions, his refusal to repeal the property rights robbing smoking ban and now EO69 tells me he should have stayed away from TEA rallies. Just last month, the state of Alabama adopted the first official ban on Agenda 21!
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/06/alabama-adopts-first-official-state-ban-on-un-agenda-21/
“Alabama became the first state to adopt a tough law protecting private property and due process by prohibiting any government involvement with or participation in a controversial United Nations scheme known as Agenda 21. Activists from across the political spectrum celebrated the measure’s approval as a significant victory against the UN “sustainability” plot, expressing hope that similar sovereignty-preserving measures would be adopted in other states as the nationwide battle heats up.
The Alabama Senate Bill (SB) 477 legislation, known unofficially among some supporters as the “Due Process for Property Rights” Act, was approved unanimously by both the state House and Senate. After hesitating for a few days, late last month Republican Governor Robert Bentley finally signed into law the wildly popular measure — but only after heavy pressure from activists forced his hand.
Virtually no mention of the law was made in the establishment press. But analysts said the measure was likely the strongest protection against the UN scheme passed anywhere in America so far. The law, aimed at protecting private property rights, specifically prevents all state agencies and local governments in Alabama from participating in the global scheme in any way.
“The State of Alabama and all political subdivisions may not adopt or implement policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to ‘Agenda 21,’ ” the law states, adding a brief background on the UN plan hatched at the 1992 “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro.
The people of Alabama acting through their elected representatives — not UN bureaucrats — have the authority to develop the state’s environmental and development policies, the official synopsis of the law explains. Therefore, infringements on the property rights of citizens linked to “any other international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the State of Alabama” are also prohibited under the new measure.
Of course, as the law points out, the UN has enlisted a broad array of non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations in its effort to foist Agenda 21 on the world — most notably a Germany-based group called ICLEI, formerly known as the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives. But the new measure takes direct aim at that problem, too: “the State of Alabama and all political subdivisions may not enter into any agreement, expend any sum of money, or receive funds contracting services, or giving financial aid to or from” any such entities, as defined in Agenda 21 documents.
“This bill, that would bar the state from taking over private property without due process, is intended to shelter Alabamians from the United Nations Agenda 21, a sustainable development initiative that some conservatives see as a precursor for the creation of a world government,” explained Alabama GOP Executive Director T.J. Maloney when announcing that it had been signed into law. The Republican National Committee (RNC) adopted a resolution earlier this year blasting the global scheme and urging policy makers to oppose it, and state parties have followed suit.
Public support for the Alabama law was overwhelming and bipartisan as citizens who had been terrorized by Agenda 21-linked schemes targeting their private property spoke out. But according to analysts and state Republican Party officials cited in press reports, Gov. Bentley was originally hesitant to sign the bill — almost certainly due to concerns over the potential loss of some federal funding.
The U.S. Senate, of course, has never formally ratified Agenda 21. But the executive branch — in conjunction with accomplices at the international, state, and local levels — has for two decades been quietly attempting to impose the plan on Americans by stealth, mostly using deceptive terms like “Smart Growth” and “Green.” And proponents of the global scheme consistently threaten that states seeking to protect citizens from the UN plot could end up losing some federal funds.
“Every time you take a dollar of federal money, there’s strings attached,” explained Ken Freeman, chairman of the Alabama-based group Alliance for Citizens Rights (ACR), an organization that fought hard to ensure that the Governor signed the bill into law. “We were originally walking soft on this issue, to tell you the truth, because when things were going our way, why change anything?”
But when Gov. Bentley did not immediately approve the bill, Freeman told a reporter, ACR turned the activism up a notch, urging citizens to contact the Governor’s office and express their support for the measure. The grassroots pressure paid off: Alabama became the first state to be officially shielded by law from UN-linked anti-property rights scheming.
“It seems that Agenda 21 does actually bring people together in communities — just not in the way the U.N. had hoped for,” remarkedJustice Gilpin-Green in a column for the conservative site Townhall, citing Freeman and other instrumental supporters of the effort. “Hopefully other states can mirror Alabama’s determined nature in passing their anti-Agenda 21 legislation. It was citizen awareness and direct action that finally brought about the needed changes last week and that same awareness and action will be needed for the future of every other state.”
Legislative analysts said the bill, sponsored by GOP state Sen. Gerald Dial, was extremely well crafted: protecting citizens and individual rights from UN decrees in a simple, straightforward manner that Agenda 21 advocates would have a hard time criticizing. Liberty-minded organizations and lawmakers are already examining the measure for potential use as a model in other states currently struggling to expel the global scheme and its myriad tentacles.
“Alabama House Bill 618 [SB 477] is a large step towards protecting Alabamians against UN meddling. It protects the due process rights of Alabamians. It keeps Constitutional Law above International Law,” noted Jason Baker, a Montgomery-based conservative pundit with the Examiner. “Now state after state awakens to the threat it poses to freedom and sovereignty.”
Across America, Tea Party groups, liberty-minded Democrats, libertarians, and a broad coalition of activists have been turning up the heat on Agenda 21. Tennessee, for example, adopted a bipartisan state resolution slamming the UN scheme as an “insidious” and “socialist” plot that is completely at odds with American traditions of limited government, individual freedom, private property, and self-governance under the Constitution. Numerous other states are pursuing similar measures.
A bill similar to Alabama’s seeking a complete ban on Agenda 21 and unconstitutional UN “sustainability” efforts in Arizona wasapproved overwhelmingly in the state Senate. The legislation died in the state House even after clearing several hurdles, however, when the legislative session ended before a final vote could be taken. New Hampshire is reportedly working on a bill to ban Agenda 21 that sailed through the state House last month.
Meanwhile, local governments across America — under intense pressure from citizens and activist groups — are slowly awakening to what critics call the “dangers” of the UN scheme. Dozens of cities and counties have withdrawn from ICLEI in recent years, and as awareness continues to grow, that trend is expected to accelerate.
The UN, however, is doubling down on its controversial plan. In June, governments from all over the world will be meeting in Rio de Janeiro for the so-called “Conference on Sustainable Development” — known as Rio+20 for short. According to official documents released by the global body, the summit, headed by Chinese Communist Sha Zukang, will be seeking to dramatically transform human civilization under the guise of environmentalism.
Production, education, consumption, individual rights, and even people’s thoughts will all be targeted under the global plan to create a so-called “green economy,” the UN admitted. But with the tidal wave of opposition in America growing stronger every single day, analysts expect fierce U.S. opposition — if not from the Obama administration, at least from the increasingly outraged citizenry.”
Excellent post. Let’s hope he sees and understands what this is and does the right thing.
If he already knows what it is and did it anyway it would be beyond disturbing.
The dangers of this MUST be more than told to everone is must be unerstood by Agenda 21 and do what the Alabama House and be officially shielded by law from UN-linked anti-property rights scheming.
The statements of Marlene Bakken, are very correct. WE CAN NOT allow the federal government to take control of any private property. Regardless of the reason! If we do not read or understand history We are doomed to repeat it!!!!
One world government and Monetary control was predicted 2000 years ago. Now we are seeing the fact take place