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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus2/21/2012 8:00:43 pm PST

The JBS-esque fear of “Agenda 21” is brewing in the Tea Paryting cauldrons… and doesn’t seem to be abating.

A simple Google search for news items on it from the last 24 hours gives several examples:

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For example this:

Jesse Helms’ nephew continues family’s anti-civil rights legacy in North Carolina

The board of commissioners in Wake County, N.C. voted yesterday to endorse a constitutional ban on gay marriage in an effort led by Chairman Paul Coble, the nephew of former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a pro-segregationist and gay-rights opponent who died in 2008. Coble is running for the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat.


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While Coble does not engage in the same hateful public speech toward gay people as his uncle, he has taken his uncle’s issues with the United Nations to a whole new level of tinfoil hattery. In 2000, Helms — then chair of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee — became the first legislator from any member state to address the U.N. Security Council as part of an effort to get the body to undertake reforms in order to continue receiving U.S. funding […]

This anti-“Agenda 21” fervor brews in the usual community of neo-confederates and throwbacks… which have not gone away quietly.