Conservation Easements and the Urge to Rule
Conservation and environmental groups openly advocate conservation easements as the answer to saving farmland, but in fact, farmers lose their property rights. ...
About: Tom DeWeese
Posts by Tom DeWeese
Exxon Funding? Nope, Never Got The Check!
The radical left “Progressives” see our victories over their well-orchestrated plans to restructure America via Agenda 21 and global-warming legislation, and they just can’t understand how it’s happening. Their...
The Smoking Gun: The Direct Link Between Agenda 21 and Local Planners
In the face of growing opposition, proponents of Sustainable Development are attempting to deny their links to Agenda 21. But there are documents that prove direct links. ...
The Growing Threat of Smart Meters
Smart Meters are designed to provide government with detailed information on your energy use, your movements in your home, the way you use your personal private time, and even...
Sustainability Marxism
Sustainable development is really just a disguised Marxism, with its top-down control of economic decisions, violation of private property rights, and emphasis on Social Justice. Here we let them...
The Equator Principles and Sustainable Poverty
Believe it or not, there is a worldwide Sustainable Development policy not to fund development projects in Third World countries if the projects don’t meet the political agenda. It’s...
The Real Root of School Violence
In the brave new world of the very near future, children will enter their public schools passing police checkpoints, surveillance cameras, metal detectors, X-ray scanners and warrantless physical searches....
Why the Founding Fathers Matter
It has become typical in school textbooks and elsewhere to diminish the words and actions of America's Founding Fathers. But consider the warnings of Thomas Jefferson and their relevancy...
Private Property Ownership Is the Only Way to Eradicate Poverty
Eradication of poverty in the world won’t come from endless aid designed for mere existence, nor will it come from simply providing jobs. The answer to poverty in the...
Private Property Rights Defined
As the battle to stop Sustainable Development grows, it is important that activists have clear definitions of their points as they deal with elected officials and planners who are...
Lies and Doublespeak of American Planning Association And How to Fight Back
I don’t know about you, but when I take on a cause or a project I’m proud of what I do. I support it against all detractors and naysayers...
Sen. Rand Paul Defends Property Owners from Federal Agencies
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has just introduced legislation designed to rein in out-of- control federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of...
2011 Was an Incredible Year as Agenda 21 Becomes a Major Issue
After hiding under the radar for more than 19 years, Agenda 21 became the cause of 2011 as thousands of concerned Americans began to study United Nations documents side-by-side...
Major New Weapon in the Fight Against the UN
Immediate Action Needed To Drive Home A Victory! Those who are working to enforce Agenda21 operate from a three-pronged attack; Social Justice, which dictates that community needs take precedent...
An Effective Campaign to Eradicate Poverty
There are many efforts underway to focus attention on world poverty. In a world of massive government spending that is supposed to be used to help the poor (at...
“Progressives” and the Art of Civility

When concerned Americans objected to Obama's health care scheme and turned out at town hall meetings in strong opposition, they were called racists and fringe radicals. The Department of...
Sustainable Development Means a Wrenching Transformation of Your Life
Recently W. Cecil Steward, dean emeritus of the UNL College of Architecture (Lincoln, Nebraska), launched what can only be described as a diatribe against a talk I gave recently...
The Freedom “Brain Trust” That
 Sparked an Agenda 21 Revolt
A little over one year ago I sponsored the Freedom Action National Conference at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania on August 12-14. It turned out to be an historic gathering, because...
E-Verify Is a Threat to Liberty!
I don’t know Peter Gadiel, and he apparently knows absolutely nothing about me. But that hasn’t stopped him from attacking me in a recent article (Influential Conservative is Dangerously...
E-Verify and the Emerging 
Surveillance State
The rush is on to force into law mandatory use of the E-Verify system that will mandate that all businesses use this hand-me-down from the Social Security Administration in...