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Introduction
America and the world stand on the brink of one of the most perilous epochs in this planet’s history.
According to the purveyors of conventional
wisdom, communism
is dead, the Cold War is over, and the
greatest threats to world peace and security are rampant nationalism, inequitable wealth distribution,
overpopulation, and environmental degradation. Yet the threat to a just world peace and comity among
nations
and
peoples
comes
not
from
political
fragmentation,
ozone holes,
greenhouse
gases,
an
over-
abundance
of
people,
a
shortage
of
natural
resources,
or
even
from
the
frequently offered
scenarios
of
"rogue" elements in the former USSR acquiring control of nuclear weapons.
The true, imminent danger to America and to all nations seeking peace and good will stems from
widespread acceptance of the monstrous falsehood that in order to live
in an "interdependent" world, all
nation-states must yield their sovereignty to the United Nations. This lie is given dignity by other lies,
chief
of
which
is
that
Soviet
totalitarianism
has been
buried
forever.1
A
too wide
acceptance
of
these
dangerous
falsehoods
is
resulting
in: 1) a
massive transfer of wealth
from
the
taxpayers
in the West
to
the still-socialist
governments of
the
East that remain under the control of
"former"
communists; 2) the
gradual but accelerating
merger or
"convergence" of the U.S. and
Russia
through
increasing economic,
political,
social,
and
military
agreements
and
arrangements;
and
3) the
rapidly
escalating
transfer
of
power —
military, regulatory, and
taxing — to
the UN.
Unless the
fiction
underlying these
developments is exposed, national
suicide and global rule by an all-powerful world government are
inevitable.
"The Bush Administration," Time magazine
noted on September 17, 1990, "would like to make the U.N.
a
cornerstone
of
its
plans
to
construct
a
New
World
Order."2
That
observation
merely
stated
the
obvious.
In
his
speech
to
the
nation
and
the
world
on
September
11,
1990,
Mr.
Bush
stated:
"Out
of
these
troubled
times,
our
fifth objective
—
a
new
world
order
—
can
emerge...."
He
proceeded
to
announce
his
hopes
for
"a
United
Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders."3 It became
abundantly clear to veteran
students
of
"world
order"
politics
that
a
major
new
push
for
world
government
had begun. Only a
few
years ago, any such attempt would have flopped miserably. During
the
1970s
and
80s,
the
UN’s
record
as
an
enclave
of
spies,
a
sinkhole
of
corrupt
spendthrifts,
and
an
anti-American propaganda forum for terrorists, Third World dictators, and Communist totalitarians,
had
thoroughly tarnished its carefully manufactured image as mankind’s "last best hope for peace."
From
1959,
when
the
UN
could
boast an
87
percent
approval
rating,
the
annual
Gallup
Poll
showed
a
continuous decline in popularity for
the
organization.
By
1971,
a
Gallup survey reported that only 35
percent of the American people thought the
UN was doing a good job. By 1976, Gallup claimed that the
support
had dropped to 33 percent. In 1980,
it declined
further
to an all-time
low of 31 percent.
"At
no
point since [1945]," said Dr. Gallup referring to his latest figures, "has satisfaction with the overall
performance of the world organization been as
low as
it is
today."4 The John
Birch Society’s
long
and
frequently lonely billboard, bumper sticker, petition, letter-writing,
and
pamphleteering
educational
campaigns to "Get US out! of the United Nations" had made good sense to many Americans.
In the early years of the Reagan Administration, UN-bashing became positively respectable, even
fashionable.
U.S.
Ambassador
to
the
UN
Jeane
Kirkpatrick
could
be
seen and heard almost daily
denouncing the world body’s anti-Americanism, tyranny promotion, and fiscal profligacy. Editorials
opposing
UN
actions
and
the
organization
itself
began
appearing
with frequency
in
local
and
regional
newspapers, and occasionally even in major national news organs.
Anti-UN sentiment had already reached the point in 1981 that veteran UN-watcher Robert W. Lee could
report
in
his
book,
The
United
Nations
Conspiracy:
"Today
the
UN
is
increasingly
regarded
not
as
a
