From: nancyk@bga.com (Nancy K) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.democrats.d,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.perot Subject: Why Not World Government? Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 02:13:55 GMT Lines: 171 Message-ID: <52f5m1$kq4@news3.realtime.net> WHY NOT WORLD GOVERNMENT? by William F. Jasper World peace through world government and world law. It is an ancient idea that has fastened itself mightily on the minds of men in many ages. Never before, however, has our human race been so close to inaugurating this utopian "ideal", to establishing and empowering government on a planetary scale. But our planet and our age have had more than passing acquaintance with utopias empowered. And without exception, the promises of the utopian dream have yielded to dystopian nightmares. The tens of millions of victims of Lenin, Fidel, Pol Pot, Amin, Lumumba, Qhadaffi, Khomeini, and dozens of other utopic despots cry out to us. They warn us against the utopian siren call. They warn us of the fundamental truth embodied in George Washington's definition of government: Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. World government, of course, would necessitate WORLDWIDE force --- unprecedented power on a global scale. Make no mistake about it, that is what the advocates of "an empowered United Nations" are really after. And what is most disturbing is that they have very nearly succeeded in grasping hold of this power, without most inhabitants of this planet having the slightest idea of what is being planned for them. CALL FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT Since World War II, calls for world government and an end to national sovereignty have proliferated, usually emanating from individuals associated with organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the World Federalist Association (WFA). Below are but a few of many examples that could be cited. * In 1950, a "Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution" authored by CFR globalists Robert M. Hutchins, Rexford G. Tugwell, and others was introduced in Congress by Senator Glen Taylor (D-ID). The submitted World Constitution declared that "iniquity and war inseparably spring from the competitive anarchy of the national states; that therefore the age of nations must end." It held as well that nations must "surrender their arms" to the proposed "Federal Republic of the World." * In 1960, Rhodes Scholar Walt Whitman Rostow (CFR) claimed that urgent imperatives "argue strongly for movement in the direction of federalized world organization under effective international law" and for "effective international control of military power." The real world problem, said Rostow, is "national sovereignty", and "it is therefore an American interest to see an end to nationhood as it has been historically defined." Incredibly, Rostow was given a top spot in the Kennedy State Department. * In 1961, the Kennedy State Department brought forth an official policy entitled "Freedom from War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World (Department of State Publication 7277)". This amazing document proposed a plan of "progressive controlled disarmament" in which all national armaments, including those of the United States, would be transferred to the United Nations". This disarmament "would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force." * On Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Norman Cousins (CFR), the long-time president of the United World Federalists (now the World Federalist Association), proclaimed, "Humanity needs world order. The fully sovereign nation is incapable of dealing with the poisoning of the environment... The management of the planet...requires a world government." FAST FORWARD 25 YEARS The appeals for world government muiltiplied with the approach of the UN's 50th anniversary in 1995. * In a June 22, 1993 letter on White House stationery to the World Federalist Association, President Bill Clinton congratulated the WFA on awarding the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award to the president's longtime friend and No. 2 State Department appointee, Strobe Talbot (CFR). Clinton's letter boasted, "Norman Cousins (CFR) worked for world peace and world government... Best wishes... for future success." * In the World Bank's 1994 Human Development Report, an essay by Nobel Prize-winning economist Jan Tinbergen, entitled "Global Governance for the 21st Century," declares: "Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is a World Government." And this government, says he, should be empowered with a "World Police" and a program for "the redistribution of world income." UNLIMITED POWER KILLS The real problem we face, however, is that these appeals and proposals are now being implemented through United Nations treaties and conventions which are establishing "supranational institutions" with REAL power and force. Lord Acton's famous dictum that "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is a sobering truism acknowledged by all intelligent people. To this maxim should be added what we might call the Rummel Corollary: "Power kills and absolute Power kills absolutely." R.J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, has spent the past eight years of his life in an intensive study of a very grim but important phenomenon of our century: genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls "democide". He has thus far produced four powerful and harrowing books, the latest volume being, "Death by Government" (Transaction, 1994). "The more power a government has," notes Dr. Rummel, "the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide." One graph in his newest book lists the top 15 of "this century's megamurderers -- those states killing in cold blood, aside from warfare, 1 million or more men, women and children." The bloodiest of those criminal regimes -- the USSR and Red China -- were not only invited into the United Nations, but were given special status on the UN Security Council! The UN could (and does) accommodate these megamurderers because "the rule of law," in UN terms, is radically, fundamentally different from the "rule of law" as understood by the American Founding Fathers and as embodied in our Constitution. Whereas the U.S. Constitution is rooted in the traditional Western and Judeo-Christian legal concepts fo divine law and natural law which circumscribe the limits of government power and posit individual God-given rights which it is government's duty to protect, the United Nations Charter is based in the framework of positivist legal theory which virtually guarantees unrestrained, despotic government. All of its empty platitudes about "peace," "justice," "law," and "human rights" notwithstanding, the UN is a lawless organization made up largely of criminal regimes pursuing a malevolent, tyrannical agenda. A global, regimented police state under the UN would mean a grim existence -- if, that is, you are one of the "lucky" ones ALLOWED TO EXIST. One sure thing Dr. Rummel's research points up with unmistakable clarity is this: "Power will achieve its murderous potential." Ponder for a moment then this mind-numbing summary of already "realized" potential: In total, during the first eighty-eight years of this century, almost 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is as though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not of germs. Surely the human mind cannot even begin to conceive the enormity of the global slaughter that would certainly accompany the "Plague of Power" issuing from a world government under any entity other than God Himself. =========================================================== The John Birch Society Appleton, WI 59413-8040 (414) 749-3783 Nancy K ----------- If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making? - Herbert Spencer The New Toryism, 1884