The Totalitarians: SCAG Communist Central Planning Called Regionalism
AGENDA 21 RADIO
BY PAUL PRESTON
Agenda 21 Radio has been covering SCAG and other regional governance systems for over 10 years. Now there is renewed interest in them from all over the country because the many programs these regional agencies have put into place years ago are starting to come into play. Inshort they have matured and people are waking up to their totalitarian design.
We are taking another look at the Southern California Association of Governments known as SCAG because it is the most matured in many ways. We lookHasan Ikharta, the executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments who is a Muslim from Russia who was with the Soviet Union’s Central Planning agencies! If you thought it felt like communsim you’re right!
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) of six of the ten counties in Southern California, serving Imperial County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and Ventura County. San Diego County‘s MPO is the San Diego Association of Governments, which is an unrelated agency.
SCAG is the largest MPO in the United States, representing over 18.5 million people in an area covering over 38,000 square miles (98,000 km2). As the designated MPO, SCAG is mandated by the federal government to research and draw up plans for transportation, growth management, hazardous waste management, and air quality. Additional mandates exist at the state level.
SOVIET PLANNER BEHIND CALIFORNIA’S PAY-PER-MILE SCANNER AND TAX
“This really is a must for our nation. It is not a matter of something we might choose to do.”
The California bureaucrat behind a big brother plan to track vehicles and “tax by the mile” worked as a government transportation planner in the former USSR.
Hasan Ikhrata, Executive Director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), who told the Los Angeles Times “This really is a must for our nation. It is not a matter of something we might choose to do,” worked for the Moscow Metro Corporation, according to his official SCAG biography.
Ikhrata’s former employer Moscow Metro announced plans in July to track the movements of individual passengers on subways by tracking the SIM cards in their mobile phones, even if the phones are powered off, according to RT. Police operations chief of the Moscow metro, Andrey Mokhov argues that the tactic is legal because “By law, we are not allowed to trace a person without appropriate sanctions…but we can keep track of the property of companies, which is exactly what SIM cards are.”
Although Ikhrata no longer spends his days working as a Moscow planner, he appears to have imported into California’s sprawling bureaucracy an instinct which runs unchecked inside the iron machinery of the world’s most authoritarian governments: track, surveil, and ultimately control everything citizens do.
According to his SCAG biography, “Mr. Ikhrata holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Civil and Industrial Engineering from Zaporozhye University in the former Soviet Union”.
It’s not entirely clear if Hasan Ikhrata was a Soviet Muslim or one of the many people from Arab countries friendly with the Soviet Union who went to study there. His profile lists him as speaking Russian, Arabic and English and he appears to be related to a Jordanian family.
But either way he seems to have made a smooth transition from Soviet technocracy to California technocracy with equal amounts of planning.
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