Some of the books on the table were old and musty-smelling, as though they'd been kept for a couple of decades in an attic with an ill-maintained roof. Their subjects were old and musty-smelling as well; William F. Buckley: Pied Piper of the Establishment was one of them. There were also tomes from ancient lost souls like Medford Evans and Dan Smoot. There was a creationist tract of indeterminate age. It was the early evening at the Endicott Estate, a lordly old pile here just outside Boston, and the John Birch Society had come to call.
Next to the old, musty-smelling books was a pile of new pamphlets and newsletters and flyers. These dealt with Agenda 21, a 20-year old plan for sustainable growth that came out of the United Nations, and out of the Rio Conference on the environment, in 1992. The program was a non-binding set of resolutions aimed at encouraging nations toward conservation of their resources and preserving their open spaces, and promoting what became known as "sustainable growth." In Agenda 21, however, the Birchers, and an increasing number of more mainstream conservatives — including Fox News, Newt Gingrich, and, rhetorically anyway, the Republican National Committee which, in January, called Agenda 21 "destructive and insidious" — see a worldwide plot to destroy private property rights and force upon us all a one-world government of "the elites" through radical environmentalism, forcing us all to live in the regimented hellholes of our cities. The other Republican candidates, alas, are seen by many people in the movement as being squishy on the subject.
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