Letters to the Jonesboro Sun: Public Transportation is Communist

The citizens of Jonesboro should be up in arms about what the Jonesboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) wants to implement. I attended a public meeting on Nov. 15 and was in total shock when I was told in answer to a question that these planners envisioned that in the near future our children, grandchildren and even older adults will be walking, riding bikes and buses rather than driving cars.

Across the nation cities are jumping on the "Sustainable Development" bandwagon, and Jonesboro has jumped into the fray. The United Nations cooked up this scheme, and it all is designed to sound nice and wonderful and make people "feel good" about their stewardship of the Earth. However, it is not a grassroots effort from local people. It is top-down central planning to control our lives.

I saw an ad in the newspaper for an MPO meeting and noticed there would be information on bike trails. At that point I became suspicious. I have read enough about this subject to know that the plan starts out innocently enough with bike trails, but the ultimate goal is a "carless" society. Eventually, the plan is to move everyone into densely populated urban areas commonly seen in Europe or Communist countries. One of the code words for this movement is "Sustainable Development."

Jonesboro's transportation study director, Amin Ulkarim, and Steve Ewart, director of the JETS bus system, conducted the meeting. They both were forthcoming about Jonesboro's MPO plan being connected to Smart Growth and Agenda 21. Smart Growth advocates the movement from cars to mass transit, bikes and walking. Agenda 21 is the U.N. plan that oversees all the global, national and local plans on global warming.

This plan will take away a tremendous amount of individual freedom. It is most definitely not about protecting the environment but rather about a political agenda straight from the U.N.

The Jonesboro MPO is gathering public comments. It would be well worth your time to research this for yourself and let the Jonesboro MPO know your feelings.

Joyce Jaynes

Jonesboro

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My analysis of Ms. Jaynes' letter:

A recent letter stated the Jonesboro MPO is a hometown agent in a grand and spooky conspiracy. To paraphrase the conspiracy: The United Nations is out to take away your freedoms by encouraging and planning alternative means of transportation like bike trails and mass transit.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The letter spoke of the writer's suspicions of the MPO's loyalties and motivations. I was immediately suspicious of the originality of the "warning" posited by the writer. The notion of "sustainable development" is "code language" for "Communism and Europe" is all thrust and no vector with scary sounding language that creates a bogeyman in need of slaying. Damn those Communist bike trails and subways! This drivel is nothing more than "code talk" of the Clown Prince of Fox News, Glenn Beck, and is more deserving of a tin foil hat than any serious regard. The writer also failed to state completely Beck's hare-brained idea of sustainable development being part of Fabian Socialism's goal of depopulating the world because then it would just be crazy talk.
Fabian socialism was created in Britain and I can only assume this is why the writer muddled both Europe and Communism in the same sentence. It was denounced by ACTUAL communists like Leon Trotsky. Glenn Beck is historically disingenuous and cannot be mired in facts when he needs to warn every one of "potential dangers" which is unabashed fear-mongering and demagoguery. He thrives by providing false or misleading knowledge to those lacking the academic rigor to see right through his nonsensical and conspiratorial charade. In Hell, a round of applause can be heard coming from Joseph Goebbels.
I can't wait until Beck and the corporations take over the world so I can have a longer growing season, due to climate change, on my subsistence farm to stave off starvation. There won't be any urban commuters riding on the evil Marxist JETS system in Jonesboro. Plus, the Communists and the Liberals won't be out to get me anymore. In closing, only REAL® Americans drive inefficient SUV's and mass transit is for effeminate liberal-fascist-socialist-Nazi-Communists who eat children.