By Donna Voetee
Member of the Stakeholder Plus Committee of Sustainable Places Project
Introduction
I am Donna Voetee, a woman made in our Father
YHWH Elohim's image and endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable Rights.
I am a sovereign by the grace of God. I am one of the People of the United States of America, the State of Texas, and the City of Lockhart. I am currently a member of the
Stakeholder Plus Committee of the Sustainable Places Project.
It is my moral duty to speak up and warn
others when I see danger or a crime being committed, lest I be held guilty for
others' harm or be complicit in wrongdoing. I see both; therefore, this letter
serves as a warning as well as exculpation.
Background
The Sustainable Places Project is a grant to Lockhart of software that is part of the Agenda 21 plan to bring all cities and communities of the world under regional governance, which is really global in scope.
1. The Sustainable Places Project is
an attempt to unlawfully defraud the people of Lockhart of their sovereign
power and unalienable rights of life, liberty, and property; their right to a
republican form of government; and their right of self-government.
The City of Lockhart's
alliance with Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) violates the Lockhart City
Charter, the Texas Constitution, and the United States
Constitution.
Lockhart City Charter
We, the citizens of Lockhart, Texas, in
order to establish a home
rule municipal government, provide
for the future progress of our City and obtain more fully the benefits of local self-government, do hereby adopt this Home Rule Charter in accordance
with the statutes of the State of Texas;
The Texas Constitution
ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS
That the general, great and
essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and
established, we declare:
Sec. 1. FREEDOM AND
SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE. Texas is a free and independent State, subject only
to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free
institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.
Sec. 2. INHERENT
POLITICAL POWER; REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT. All political power is
inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their
authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of
Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this
limitation only, they
have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their
government in such manner as they may think expedient.
The U.S. Constitution
Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution: “The United
States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.”
Let every Lockhart City Council member call
to mind the day you raised your hand and took an oath to uphold the Law of the
Land, the Constitution of the United States of
America, and the laws of the State of Texas, and the Lockhart City Charter.
2. It is critical to tonight’s
discussion to understand what is meant by a “republican form of government”.
Let us define “Republic.” This is from
Black’s Law Dictionary, 7th Ed.
REPUBLIC. n. A system of government in which
the people hold the sovereign power and elect representatives
who exercise that power. It contrasts on the one hand with a pure democracy, in
which the people or community as an organized whole wield the sovereign
power of government, and on the other with the [sovereign] rule of one
person, such as a king, emperor, czar, etc.
We see that the FORM of the
sovereign power tells us if there exists a republic, a democracy, or a
monarchy.
So what is the SOURCE
of that sovereign power?
For most of history that we know of, the
world lived under the concept of the source of that power coming from a
divinity directly to an earthly representative, called the Divine Right of
Kings. What the king said was law and the king was god, thus the word “divine”;
all life was in his hands.
In England, all power and authority
was presumed to come from the Hebrew God, YHWH Elohim.
In 800 A.D., King Alfred recognized that
God’s Law was the law for all, and he codified the Ten Commandments into what became
known as the English Common Law.
Later on, noblemen in 1066 started to realize
that their lands were their lands, and that even the poor man had
property rights. Article 31 of the Magna Charta: “Neither we nor our
bailiffs shall take, for our castles or for any other work of ours, wood which
is not ours, against the will of the owner of that wood.”
In 1382, John Wycliffe translated the Bible
into English so that the plowman could be as familiar with Scripture as the
Pope and the King.
The printing press came along in 1440 and, to
the disappointment of kings and priests alike, men started reading the Bible
for themselves. They discovered a marvelous truth: That the same God who
gave divine power to the king also gave to each man the power to govern himself.
Just as the king had unalienable rights that came from God that no mortal man
could take away, each man had the SAME unalienable rights that no king or other
governmental force could take away!
By 1644, Samuel Rutherford wrote that not
only do men have the same authority as kings, but the kings are under the Law,
just as the common man. His book, Lex Rex, was loved by
the great-grandfathers of those who would write the founding law for our
nation. They read these words:
“I may here dispute whether the
king be lord, having a masterly dominion both over men and things. But I first
discuss shortly his dominion over his subjects. It is agreed on…that servitude
is a penal fruit of sin, and against nature, because all men are born by nature
of equal condition. The king hath no proper, masterly, or lordly dominion over
his subjects; his dominion is rather fiduciary and ministerial, rather than
masterly.”
Do these ideas sound familiar? Of course they
do!
They were the foundation for those truths
expressed in 1776 and 1789 in the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution, respectively.
Here we have seen the principles
- that government is to be our servant, not our
master, and
- that the role of the ruler’s power is to maintain
and guard the sacred trust of the sovereigns also called We the People;
- that rights come from God,
- that they are given to each man when he is born,
because men are not born collectively but individually;
- that these rights cannot be taken away because
they are not given by man, but by God Himself who gives them to men made
in His image;
- that these rights are given because Man is the
crowning glory of God’s handiwork and has a responsibility to exercise
stewardship over God’s earth;
- and that sovereign men organize in representative
governments for the sole purpose of protecting those rights, the basics of
which are Life, Liberty,
and Ownership of Property. These were radical ideas 300 years ago, ideas
for which many men thought worthy enough to give their lives.
This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the definition
of a Republican Form of Government.
3. How does the Sustainable Places
Project and CAPCOG, its source, deny this republican form of government?
According to its Bylaws, CAPCOG was created
to further REGIONAL GOVERNANCE, an idea that comes from the United Nations.
From CAPCOG's Bylaws, Article 1, Section
1.1.d~~~
(d) The Council's goal is to combine the
total resources of its members for regional planning beyond the capabilities of
the individual members.
Regionalism denies the right of
representative government, and can be traced to 1945 and the United Nations,
which was founded by Communists with money from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Regionalism requires the destruction of
home-rule and self-government, and the elimination of cities, counties, and
states into Regions and Metropolitan areas. The entire nation is divided
into six regions, with Texas
being in Region 6. Texas
is further divided into 24 regions, with CAPCOG being Region 12. As Americans,
we expect to be able to attend City Council and County Commissioner
meetings. Sorry, only elected office holders are welcome at regional meetings.
These soviet-style councils have no right in making rules and regulations
for sovereign Americans who are guaranteed a Republican Form of Government.
Regionalism is Communism. Communism is based
on true democracy, because a democracy has NO sovereign individuals. The
sovereign power is in the collective, and the collective is called the State.
Thus, in Regionalism, the State is sovereign. Men have no individual rights but
those that the collective determines. That’s why there is no God in Communism
or Regionalism.
Regional agencies acting in governmental
capacities are unlawful creations:
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ARTICLE
IV, SECTION 3, PARAGRAPH 1:
"New States may be admitted by the
Congress into this Union; but no new State
shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of two or more States; or
parts of States without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned
as well as the Congress."
Neither Congress nor the State legislatures
created CAPCOG.
Let us look at specific examples of how the
good citizens of Lockhart have been deceived into this trap.
All the letters that were attached as
Appendix D to the original Grant Application for the SPP and signed by 11
members of the community contain the following words:
“…[Sustainability] software…will
allow each selected demonstration site to evaluate the consequences of various
land development and infrastructure investment scenarios from environmental
quality, mobility, economic development, and social justice perspectives.”
What a tragic day we live in when most of
those prominent signatories are ignorant of the crime they committed.
Yes, I said crime.
Let’s examine those terms: “environmental
quality, economic development, and social justice.” You have just heard the
Three E’s of Agenda 21: Environment, Economy, and Equity.
Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development are
different terms for the same ideas.
What is “Environmental quality”?
This pagan idea requires man to be equal to
the animals, not above them. It humiliates Mankind into being nothing but a
biological resource. Man is to abandon all the progress of modern society and
leave Nature alone. The big plan is to return America to the status of a
Wildlands, with man stacked and packed in high rises, living in small shoebox
apartments, with little electricity and water, ostensibly so that all nations
in the world can have bigger houses, and electricity and water. The single
family home, with its gardens and pets and large land usage, is “not
sustainable”.
Nor is the family car or pickup used to
commute to work. Vehicles that use fossil fuel are to be exchanged for bicycles
and sidewalks. Restricted mobility is exactly
what SPP has planned for Lockhart. CAMPO’s Commute Solution Report admits that
changing people’s “travel behavior” is what they have in mind.
Accomplishing political goals through psychological manipulation is the
stuff of mentally deranged dictators, or Regional directors of Metropolitan
Planning Organizations.
Smart Meters have been installed against the
strong outcries of those who know their dangers. The egregious imposition of
Smart Meters onto the property and homes of unwilling people and the bad faith
and loss of trust that is created between the people and their elected leaders
should be an omen of the political hot button that even further invasion of the
people's rights with an “analytical tool” will bring to Lockhart.
The "Environmental quality" leg of
Agenda 21 is based on the spurious science of Global Warming.
The fact that Global Warming has been proven
a fraud and the planet does not need saving are the real inconvenient truths,
because when truth is known, All Things Sustainable that have been based on
lies blow away like popcorn in a dry, west Texas wind. Developers, bond
brokers, attorneys, and consultants ~~ the real beneficiaries of such fraud ~~
are left jobless and powerless; elected officials are left red-faced and embarrassed
at being taken for such a scam.
Of course, the U.N.’s involvement is not
disclosed to the community, because there are still too many [armed] patriots
and [armed] veterans who have not been convinced that America needs
to surrender her national sovereignty to an international cabal.
Therefore, we are not told that the goals of the United Nations, Agenda
21, and the federal office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Dept of
Transportation, and the Environmental Protection Agency are all working in a
synchronized effort (some would call it conspiracy) to accomplish the goal of
centralization of all government under the U.N. Charter.
Environmental quality is, in actuality,
regional governance by force, a denial of our rights to life, liberty, and
property; a denial of the people’s right to self-government and a Republican
Form of Government. CAPCOG is, therefore, in violation of Lockhart law, Texas law, and United States law.
What is “Economic development”?
This is not referring to the economic
development of Lockhart! This term refers to the Communist plank of
redistribution of the wealth through the merger of private corporations with
government. The new chimera is called a Public-Private Partnership.
PPP’s bring businesses desiring the
protection offered by government’s legalized force together with government
agents that want the power that comes with economic control. When government
and business are combined, they no longer serve to balance each other, but
create tyranny. Free enterprise is lost among subsidies, incentives, tax
breaks, and insider privilege. Customer satisfaction is no longer the driving
force behind good business; it’s the game of landing government contracts.
Small businessmen and family-run businesses
who have a dream to make a living doing what they know and love are at a
disadvantage in this system and are the true victims of discrimination.
Economic development is theft. It is theft of
our tax dollars for the purpose of corporate welfare and re-distribution of the
wealth. This is a crime because the people are denied a Republican Form of
Government, and the right of self-rule. This is a violation of the Lockhart
Charter, Texas Constitution and the United States Constitution.
What is “Social justice”?
Social justice is also referred to as
“Equity” in the Sustainable Development literature. Here is where the
landowners on the Committee need to wake up and listen.
Social justice means the ABOLITION OF PRIVATE
PROPERTY.
“Social justice is described as
the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit equally from the resources
afforded us by society and the environment.” http://americanpolicy.org/2011/03/31/agenda-21-in-one-easy-lesson/
The Republican Form of Government guarantees
Equal Justice, but under Agenda 21 and United Nations law, there is Social
Justice. Society cannot have some property owners and some non-owners. That is
not just. So property must be surrendered, or held in trust for, the
collective, also called the State. If you remember your high school civics
class, this is called Fascism.
Think you “own” something? Think again. You
do not own your homes, your gardens, your guns, your cars, even the food in
your refrigerator. “Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the
collective,” says one well-versed Agenda 21 clerk.
The Sustainable Places Project is a tool for
bringing fascism to Lockhart. Those on the Stakeholder Committee who are
property owners are implored to do due diligence. There will be no second
chances.
Social justice is injustice. In essence, it
is a claim, once again, that Man Is An Animal because animals cannot own
property; it is calling God a liar and declaring spiritual war against Him and
His people.
As a Stakeholder Plus Committee
member, I highly urge the City Council to re-think this grant and involvement
with the NGO Consortium called CAPCOG, and to consider the loss of Lockhart's
right to home rule that will be gone forever. The best option is to tell CAPCOG
to take their Corporatism and Regionalism elsewhere. Good riddance.
[Note: the vote last night, Aug. 16, 2012 was 3-2 in favor of advancing Communism in Lockhart.]