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- From: harty@westford.ccur.com (Kevin Harty)
- Subject: Re: Globalist Influence in US Government
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.193934.737@westford.ccur.com>
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- Reply-To: harty@westford.ccur.com (Kevin Harty)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:39:34 GMT
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- Kevin, post as follow up to article by dbt@cellar.org (Marquis de Freud)
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- Posted for pat daly daly@ptltd.com who can not post from his site.
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- > I can't really understand why groups like the John Birch Society and their
- > followers are so upset about globalism. The JBS claims to be "Americanist",
- > or at least very patriotic toward the USA. From every post I've seen about
- > the Evil CFR / Trilateral Commission, assuming the *very worst* about the
- > groups, the One World Government would have its capitol in Washington, DC.
-
- The JBS was founded to combat world government (New World Order).
- A OWG under the UN will be socialist, authoritarian, and freedom limiting.
- The American system of government is the complete opposite in principle
- from the United Nations:
-
- The American system is libertarian based: rights are inherent.
- The Declaration of Independence states that it is "self-evident" that
- we are endowed by the "Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
- For the non-religious libertarian, he/she might prefer to say that these
- rights are "natural". Either way, the basic idea is that Americanists do
- not recognize rights as government-granted. The Bill of Rights in this
- view, therefore, does not grant rights. It was designed to be a formal
- recognition of inherent rights. Thus the authors believed "Congress shall
- make no law" concerning these rights.
-
- The American system was created with the idea that there exists a Creator,
- granting rights to individuals. This much at least was assumed by the
- Founders as evident in the text of the Declaration of Independence. The first
- amendment indicates, however, that government should go no further in defining
- any particular religion to be established. A hierarchy exists in this
- perspective: God->Individual->Government. Government is subservient to the
- individual and exists to protect rights of the individual (and mainly for
- this reason).
-
- Consider now the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The UN view is something
- completely different. The difference is fundamental. There is no mention of
- God anywhere, nor is there is no alternative non-religous recognition
- of natural rights. The hierarchy in this perspective: Government->Individual.
-
- The preface does say that "these rights belong to you", but this is not
- the same as saying the rights are granted by an authority higher than the UN.
- One has to assume that it is the UN granting the rights.
-
- Indeed, as you read on you will see that article 29 paragraph (3) blows
- all guarantees of rights to the winds by a blanket clause that states:
- "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary
- to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."
-
- (Perhaps my negative comments on the UN are against its principles...)
-
- Likewise, the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is riddled
- with escape clauses that destroy rather than secure rights.
- In the act of "granting" a right, it qualifies it out of existence.
- The parallels between such UN documents and a Soviet style constitution
- ("we'll tell you what rights you have") are very strong.
-
- For example, Article 22:
- "Everyone shall have the right to freedom or association
- with others"
-
- "No restriction may be placed on the exercise of this right
- other than those which are prescribed by law..."
-
- So, in the UN scheme, a government can pass laws to restrict this right
- out of existence. Compare this with the American Constitution which
- states "Congress shall make no law..."
-
- Gun owners should be aware that there is not even a hint of a right to
- bear arms in any UN document anywhere. Go to the UN plaza and you will be
- confronted by a large and obnoxious sculpture of a revolver having its
- barrel tied in a knot. Somebody recently posted the State Department
- publication 7277 which outlines a plan for disarming national armies
- and handing over the military to control of the UN. This plan has not been
- withdrawn and will proceed only as fast as globalists dare push it along.
- Now think about the future chances of survival for the individual RKBA in a
- New World Order that wants to disarm national armies.
-
-
- > Personally, I don't think these groups are much more than social clubs with
- > a civic/academic bent. C. Wright Mill's *The Power Elite* seems to have come
- > closer to the point -- that "conspiracies" are just cliques in a political
- > culture.
-
- Government officials, including our President, belong to these groups.
- The CFR does not allow disclosure of its meetings and may dismiss a member
- who does so. Considering the high powered officials who belong, I think
- the meetings should be on C-SPAN. After all, what they discuss and come
- to consensus on affects us all immensely. If they had no power to set
- plans in motion, then I would agree that it would be a "social club".
-
- However, when you have the President, Secretary of State, CIA Director,
- National Security Advisor, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Treasury,
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many others belonging to an
- an organization such as the CFR having a closed-door meeting policy,
- meeting with similarly high-ranking government officials, then I worry.
-
- The JBS views this organization as a de facto stand-aside government
- advocating destruction of our sovereignty which would mean great loss
- of freedom. Here's an infamous quote by a State Department veteran and
- CFR member Richard Gardner from the CFR journal "Foreign Affairs", April 1974
- (article entitled "Hard Road to World Order"):
-
- "An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece,
- is likely to get us to world order faster than the old-fashioned
- frontal attack."
-
- Gardner is now a Clinton advisor. He was a former Deputy Assistant
- Secretary of State, and a former Ambassador to Italy.
-
-
- > I'm sure there are plenty of things to worry about from the circles of power
- > throughout the world. I greatly doubt "globalism" is one of them.
-
- In One World Government, where do you run and hide when the government
- becomes abusive? With individual nation-states, at least you can seek
- refuge in a freer country. Even as things stand today, we have seen that
- a government can hold a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, perform
- mass murder of its citizens, including running over them with tanks, and
- then get granted Most Favored Nation trade status. Imagine how much worse
- OWG can be when political dissenters have no place to escape.
-
- > ------
- > dbt@cellar.org (Marquis de Freud)
- > The Cellar BBS - (215) 539-3043
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