"The bedrock of every country's international relations must be the
mission of using the United Nations system as the machinery for
working and acting together." Shridath Ramphal, co-chairman, UN
Commission on Global Governance
"Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete, all states will recognize
a single , global authority and National sovereignty wasn't such a
great idea after all..." Strobe Talbott, U.S. Deputy Secretary of
State in the Clinton Administration
"It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised
unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful." Maurice
Strong, co-chairman, UN Commission on Global Governance
The United Nation's leadership has made no attempt to hide its contempt
for American independence and national sovereignty. On September 6,
2000, The United Nations convened its Millennium Assembly in New
York City to restructure the UN in preparation for global governance.
On October 1, 2000 the Department of Justice, under Janet Reno, was
scheduled to take control of military forces here in the united
States of America. ( See this URL:
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The Assembly brought together the largest gathering of world
leaders ever to meet under one roof. Their goal is to change the way
governments operate. The UN will be established as the central
operating entity. All governments will be redesigned to operate
through the UN. Independent sovereign states will essentially cease
to exist. They will instead become "partners" in global governance.
The UN's Charter for Global Democracy has been be created to
essentially replace the UN's fifty-year-old Charter. The Charter for
Global Democracy was written to establish the new procedures that will
govern how nations will interact with each other, as well as how they
operate within their own borders.
Republican leaders in the Congress, led by Senator Jesse Helms, have
demanded that the UN reform itself or face losing U.S. support.
Senator Helms' idea of reform was to reduce bloated budgets,
bureaucracies and wasteful paper work. Instead, the UN has used the
term "reform" to mean a stronger UN that is "retooled" to become a
global government. There simply can be no other interpretation of the
Charter.
We and everyone else loses our sovereignty
In September, when literally all of the leaders of the world gathered
in New York City for the UN's Millennium Assembly, they met for
one purpose - to change the world. Global Governance under the
control of the United Nations will be established. World leaders
voted to give the UN oversight of all of the earth's land, air and
seas.
They voted to give the UN oversight of international conflicts.
They gave the UN the power to be judge and jury over violators
of international law.
They gave the UN oversight of financial institutions, commerce,
trade relations, labor relations, education and private property.
Existing national, state and local governments will remain to serve
as conduits to locally carry out UN policy. The Millennium Assembly
is the final act in a UN drive for power that began a decade ago. The
UN has been preparing for global governance over those ten years
through a series of international conferences, treaties and reports.
It's been five years since the UN released its blueprint for global
governance in a 1995 report called "Our Global Neighborhood." That
report detailed UN plans that will now be placed into action through
the Charter for Global Democracy which will be voted on and approved
by the world leaders at the Millennium Assembly. First, the Charter
will change the actual structure of the United Nations. Officially,
it calls for the consolidation of all international agencies to be
placed under the direct authority of the UN.
But Maurice Strong, co-chairman of the UN Commission on Global
Governance, issued a 95 page report in 1997 which outlined the steps
necessary to restructure the UN to fulfill its mission of global
governance. That restructuring would include eliminating the veto
power and permanent member status of the Security Council. Such a
move would almost completely eliminate U.S. influence and power in
the world body.
Second, Strong's report calls for the creation of a new UN body
called the Assembly of the People. This new body is to become the
real power of the UN. It will be populated by hand-picked, non-
government organizations (NGO's). These groups are actually nothing
more than activists representing private organizations with political
agendas. The UN is the only power than can recognize and sanction an
official NGO organization.
They do not represent average people. They answer to no one but their
own agendas. They will not be elected to this post by anyone outside
of the UN structure. Leading NGO's include radical environmental
groups like the Sierra Club and population-control groups like
Planned Parenthood. Once the Assembly of the People is in place,
groups such as these will meet and plan UN policy to govern us all.
Strong's restructuring ideas are represented in the Charter for
Global Democracy and will be voted on by the world leaders in
September.
A key issue of UN leaders is the need for more money. Almost every
paper, report and statement by UN leaders lament its lack of funding
to pay for its massive new roll in global governance. Of particular
concern is the desire for independent funding that does not rely on
donations and dues from member nations.
In 1996, then-UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali publicly
suggested a global tax to fund the UN. The idea was met with strong
opposition from the United States. The UN retreated from the idea and
indicated that it wasn't really serious. Yet again, the idea is
included in the Charter for Global Democracy.
Specifically, the Charter would give the UN domain over all of the
earth's land, air and seas. In addition it would give it the power to
control all natural resources, wild life, and energy sources, even
radio waves. Such control would allow the UN to place taxes on
everything from development; to fishing; to air travel (that tax is
already collected); to shipping. Anything that could be defined as
using the earth's resources would be subject to UN use-taxes.
The Charter also calls for the regulation by the UN of all
transnational corporations and financial institutions. In this way
the UN would control international markets and monetary policies. A
massive tax called the "Tobin Tax" has been suggested. This amounts
to a tax or "fee" on every international financial transaction. This
one tax would generate an estimated $1.5 trillion for UN coffers. For
the average American it would have a direct effect on pension funds,
IRA's and personal investment transactions.
Such taxes would be collected by the establishment of a global IRS.
Taxpayers in the United States well know the massive power held by
our own IRS. But with the establishment of such a global power there
would be no appeal to elected representatives. There would be no
chance of public hearings to hold the agency accountable. There would
be no control.
Clearly, implementation of the Charter for Global Democracy would
produce massive wealth for the UN, resulting in the concentration of
massive power. Such power would be controlled by the establishment of
an international UN army. The army would answer to no nation. It
would have the power to take action in any nation the UN directed it
to. The UN would have the power to force nations to house the
soldiers on their own soil. An international police state would
replace national defense forces. The UN army is one of the main
points to be voted on in the Charter for Global Democracy.
Finally, the Charter sets up a series of international rules based on
radical environmentalism that will control property and commerce. It
will require the enforcement of all UN "Human Rights" treaties, some
of which even dictate how parents will raise their children. To
assure that these international laws are obeyed, the Charter also
calls for the establishment of an International Court of Justice that
will be compulsory for all nations.
The United States Constitution guarantees every American the right to
a trial by jury; the right to face our accusers and the right to full
disclosure of the charges against us. Under the UN rules for the
Criminal Court, none of these are guaranteed. Most Americans believe
that such a court is being established to bring international outlaws
like Sadam Hussein to justice. That is not the case however. Under
this new UN court, even private citizens are subject to trial. Will
the United States fall for the UN's trap? Will our elected leaders
allow the Charter for Global Democracy to usurp our own Constitution?
The fact is many in Congress fail to see the UN as a threat. Ask your
elected representatives if any of this is possible and most will deny
it as simple paranoia from the "black helicopter" crowd. But every
word of this report has been taken from UN documents. The Millennium
Assembly will take place in September. The world leaders will be
there. And the Charter For Global Democracy will be voted on. What
other conclusion can be drawn? Others will count on the Congress to
refuse to ratify such a Charter. That is probably true. But there is
another danger. President Bill Clinton has already stated his support
for the Charter. He has a history of ignoring Congress and
implementing his agenda through the use of Executive Order. See the
following URL's:
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Treason 103
Treason 104
Treason 105
Several UN treaties have gone unratified by Congress, including the
Biodiversity Treaty and the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. Yet, Bill
Clinton has already begun to enforce their provisions through
Executive Order - and Congress has taken no action to stop him. In
1776, with the stroke of a pen, the Declaration of Independence
marked the beginning of the greatest experiment in national
government ever conceived. Today, however, unless Congress stands
united - determined to block not only the UN Charter, but also every
effort to implement it - it will take only the stroke of Bill
Clinton's lame-duck pen to change our nation, and history forever.
Tom DeWeese is the president of the American Policy Center, an
activist think tank headquartered in Herdon, Virginia. The Center
maintains an Internet web site at American Policy Center