Tea party fixation with UN Agenda rears its ugly head again, this time in Missouri.

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Missouri Republican Pushes To Override Governor's Veto, Ban UN Program Agenda 21

A Republican Missouri state legislator with ties to the birther movement has joined forces with an activist who uses a Glenn Beck video as "proof" that the United Nations wants the elderly to kill themselves. Their alliance is aimed at overriding a veto from Gov. Jay Nixon (D), who this year killed a a bill that would enact a statewide ban on the U.N. program known as Agenda 21.

Missouri state Rep. Lyle Rowland (R-Cedarcreek) has emailed his colleagues to push for a vote that would override Nixon's (D) veto. The correspondence includes a letter from Todd Isaac Skelton, the leader of Missourians Against Agenda 21, who claims the program would allow governments to start taking private property.

Skelton's website prominently features a video in which conservative pundit Beck makes specious claims about the U.N.'s sustainability program, strongly implying that its intended effect would be population control by euthanizing the elderly. Skelton says the video is evidence of the true ill intentions of the program.

Glenn Beck has admitted that the video played into conspiracy theories and he used it in order to promote interest in a fiction book he wrote on Agenda 21.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/missouri-agenda-21_n_3677778.html

I am glad that Missouri's Democratic governor had the good sense to veto this crazy, RW conspiracy bill. It looks like there may be enough kooks (read - republicans) in the state legislature to pass this over his veto.

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1. Why aren't they all over the TPP?

Too much Koch in their diet?

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2. I suspect they will be. It just takes them a little longer to figure out what is happening.

They hate the UN, the WTO, the IMF and practically every other international organization the US belongs to on the grounds that they detract from our national sovereignty. I suspect the TPP will be no different once they figure it out.