Agenda 21 Bill Leads To Tea Party Threat Against State Senat

Oklahoma Agenda 21 Bill Leads To Tea Party Threat Against State Senator

An Oklahoma tea party leader has threatened to turn a Republican state senator into a "laughing stock" and "dig into" his family members and associates unless he backs a bill blocking the United Nations' sustainability agenda.

State Sen. Cliff Branan (R-Oklahoma City) referred a March 26 email from Al Gerhart, co-founder of the Sooner Tea Party, to the state Bureau of Investigation, newsok.com reported. The email attacks Branan for not holding an immediate hearing on a bill to ban local governments in Oklahoma from implementing parts of the U.N. sustainability agenda, better known as Agenda 21.

“Get that bill heard or I will make sure you regret not doing it," Gerhart wrote in the email. "I will make you the laughing stock of the Senate if I don't hear that this bill will be heard and passed. We will dig into your past, your family, your associates and once we start on you there will be no end to it. This is a promise.”

Agenda 21, drafted in 1992 but not ratified by the U.S. Senate, encourages sustainable development, including bike paths, mass transit and walkable communities. The plan does not contain the force of law in the U.S.

Conservative groups, led by the John Birch Society, have denounced the plan, falsely claiming it would take away private property rights and force people to live in urban centers. They have also wrongly maintained that it would end golf courses, scuba diving and floor tiles. The John Birch Society has advocated for people to pressure state and local officials to pass legislation rejecting Agenda 21, enlisting PTA presidents and milkmen in the effort.

Oklahoma state Sen. Patrick Anderson (R-Enid), sponsor of the anti-Agenda 21 bill, said in December that he wanted to preserve private property rights.

States around the country, most of them Republican-led, have taken up legislation to either prohibit the enactment of Agenda 21 by local governments or to pass resolutions opposing the plan. Democrats have largely dismissed the Agenda 21 criticism as tinfoil hat madness.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/0 ... f=politics

Wow...It's not enough that the John Birchers in Teabagistan are bat-sh*t-crazy, they're going to go after the families and friends of anyone else that doesn't put on the "tinfoil-hat" (read: aluminum), and drink the :Koolaid: with them.....

You can't make this stuff up... (But it IS Oklahoma, so I guess you have to put it in context....)

UPDATE:

Tea Leader Charged u]with TWO FELONIES[/u Over Agenda 21 Threats[/url]
Posted: 12 Apr 2013 04:33 AM PDT

A tea party leader in Oklahoma has been charged with two felonies after threatening to turn a Republican state senator into a "laughingstock" if he did not push a bill to block the United Nations sustainability plan known as Agenda 21. Local prosecutors charged Al Gerhart, the head of the Sooner Tea Party, with blackmail and violating Oklahoma's Computer Crimes Act following an email he sent to state Sen. Cliff Branan (R-Oklahoma City), in which he also threatened to start investigating Branan's family and friends. Gerhart wanted Branan to hold a hearing on the anti-Agenda 21 bill and later claimed that Branan didn't hold the hearing because he didn't want details of an extramarital affair coming out. Branan responded that he hasn't had an affair, and Gerhart admitted that he had no proof of any affair.

Two Felonies?.... Wow, that's almost as good as the RMGO lobbyist who's being charged for threatening Cheri Gerou...Inside the Capitol building...