| By Henry Lamb
2000 WorldNetDaily.com
Rarely is the term "global governance" heard on the evening
news. When it does appear, the term "conspiracy theory"
is usually in the context. While America is watching the political
circus, the international community is bringing together all the
elements of global governance in preparation for the big event scheduled
for September. A full calendar of events has been prepared.Americans
don't care what the United Nations is doing, in the belief that
nothing the U.N. does can affect us anyway. This may have been true
in the past, but no more. The magnitude of societal change that
is underway is almost beyond comprehension. These changes are already
affecting individual Americans, but rarely is the impact recognized
as the result of United Nations influence.
We are already deeply into the era of global governance. It is
a process that began many years ago. The events scheduled for this
year, culminating in the September World Summit, will put in place
all the international mechanisms necessary to insure that there
is no turning back. It is important to realize that global governance
will not be imposed suddenly, upon adjournment of the World Summit.
After the summit, implementation of global governance will accelerate,
but it will still take several years to International law will be
the supreme law of the planet. Individual nations will be required
to conform their laws to international norms. For those who say
"never in America," wake up and smell the roses. The World
Trade Organization already has the power to require conformance
of national law to WTO policy. And it has the power to impose financial
penalties upon those nations that fail to do so in a timely manner.
The U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, though not fully negotiated, will have
similar power to set strict, legally enforceable limits on the use
of fossil fuel in America. The Convention on Biological Diversity,
even though it was not ratified by the U.S. Senate, is being implemented
under the guise of the President's "Land Legacy" initiative.
The published goal of the treaty is to return "at least 50
percent" of the total land area to wilderness and manage most
of the rest of the land for conservation objectives.
We are seeing global governance at work when policies that originate
with the U.N. are implemented in America, despite the absence of
Senate ratification, Congressional authorization, or even the awareness
of local elected officials. The rash of national monument designations
and the "roadless" initiative, which closes access to
public lands, has the effect of converting land to wilderness --
precisely as prescribed by the Convention on Biological Diversity.
We are moving to a system of global governance in which national
governments are transformed into administrative units to implement
U.N. policies. State governments are being transformed into administrative
units to implement national policy, and local governments are being
transformed into administrative units to implement state policies.
This transformation has accelerated dramatically under the Clinton/Gore
administration, which is one of the strongest proponents of global
governance in the international community. International policies
that affect land use and energy are most visible. Less visible are
the international policies that affect education, technology development,
the flow of information, transportation, and security.
International policy already exists in all these areas and is in
various stages of implementation around the world. The entire plan
for global governance was published by the Commission on Global
Governance in 1995.
Many of the changes called for in their report have already been
implemented. For example, the creation of the International Criminal
Court, and the establishment of a new "Peoples' Assembly"
that will hold its inaugural meeting May 22-26, 2000.
Other recommendations, such as the elimination of the veto and
permanent member status in the Security Council; a standing world
army; the authority to impose global taxation; and dozens of others,
are being systematically implemented throughout the United Nations
system. The consequences of this shift to global governance are
incomprehensible to those who have not followed its progress. The
society resulting from this transformation, though called "democratic,"
is socialist. Under the published vision of global governance, policy
decisions are made by non- elected, carefully selected individuals.
All sources and means of production are controlled by the central
authority. The flow of information, too, is to be regulated by the
central authority, as well as the educational curriculum. Enforcement
of policy decisions will be at the hands of the International Criminal
Court, and the U.N. standing army. And there will be no hope of
rebellion. Central to the objective of global governance is control
by the U.N. of the manufacture, sale and distribution of all firearms.
Possession of a firearm will be legal only when licensed by the
United Nations. The recent call by the president to license all
gun owners in America fits quite nicely into the United Nations'
plan.
The painful reality is that many Americans see nothing wrong with
global governance. The United Nations Association in America boasts
hundreds of thousands of members who lobby their elected officials
to allow international policies to be implemented.
Non-government organizations such as the Sierra Club and the Audubon
Society claim millions of members who actively support this transformation.
School children, even the Boy Scouts, have been taught that global
governance is the answer to the world's problems. Those who challenge
the globalist vision are immediately labeled as "right-wing
extremists."
The treaties, agreements and other documents required to bring
about global governance have all been prepared, and many are being
implemented.
When the World Summit convenes in September, there is little doubt
that the body will adopt the concept and usher in the era of global
governance officially.
The only way to avoid this tidal wave of global socialism is the
withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations. Should
we fail to withdraw and continue to yield our sovereignty to this
international body, it will, in relatively short order, drain our
economic capacity to the point that we will no longer be able to
chart our own course. The coming election may be the last opportunity
we have to send people to Washington who value our sovereignty or
our freedom.
Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental
Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.
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