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- Sen. Jesse Helms has been calling for the United Nations
to reform itself and reduce its bloated budgets, but the U.N. reform agenda
now being implemented is very different from what Helms has in mind (www.millenniumforum.org).
The apparatus for U.N.-style reform consists of the Millennium Forum,
a gathering of accredited Non-Government Organizations, a U.N. Millennium
Assembly of U.N. delegates, and a Millennium Summit attended by heads
of state from more than 160 nations. These events get under way Sept.
6, and the "reforms" will be presented under six headings.
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- Using the rubric Peace, Security and Disarmament, the
U.N. "reformers" want to establish a U.N. standing army under
the command of the U.N. secretary-general, with the ultimate goal of disarming
national armies. The U.N. reformers want to eradicate national sovereignty
as a barrier to U.N. action and use the shibboleth "security of the
people" to rationalize U.N. action inside sovereign countries (as
in Kosovo).
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- The plan is to transform sovereign countries into administrative
units assigned to carry out U.N. policies. The United Nations even wants
disarmament of personal guns, with the United Nations controlling the
manufacture, sale, distribution and licensing of all firearms.
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- In the area called Eradication of Poverty, the United
Nations wants debt cancellation for poor countries, plus Western-financed
social development. This means forcing the United States to turn over
our wealth to U.N. bureaucrats to distribute to Third World dictators.
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- Under the do-good caption Human Rights, the United Nations
plans to enforce its version of global human rights through a series of
U.N. treaties, each of which has its own international compliance commission.
These include the U.N. treaties on the Rights of the Child, on Discrimination
Against Women, on Civil and Political Rights, on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights and on the International Criminal Court.
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- The heading Sustainable Development is designed to facilitate
total U.N. control of the environment. In addition to bootstrapping power
to the globalists under the Biodiversity Treaty and the Kyoto (Global
Warming) Protocol, the plan is to use the U.N. Trusteeship Council to
control the "global commons," which is U.N. terminology for
the atmosphere, outer space, nonterritorial seas and the related environment
that supports human life.
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- Globalization to Achieve Equity, Justice and Diversity
is a catch-all phrase to achieve any other power-grabbing goal the U.N.
bureaucrats may dream up in the future. They want the authority to equalize
rich and poor economies and pretend that redistribution of wealth is equity.
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- Strengthening and Democratizing the United Nations is
double talk for wiping out all power and influence that the United States
might ever exercise in the United Nations. This goal calls for eliminating
the veto and permanent member status in the Security Council and giving
the United Nations the power to tax so that it will no longer depend on
governments' appropriating funds to pay their dues.
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- U.N. bureaucrats are salivating over the prospect of
passing the Tobin Tax, a proposal that has been gaining momentum since
the U.N. conference in Copenhagen in 1995. This is a plan to tax all international
financial transactions, which would funnel an extraordinary $1.5 trillion
a year to the United Nations.
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- These grandiose plans to achieve global governance through
the United Nations originated in a 410-page report called "Our Global
Neighborhood," published by the U.N.-funded Commission on Global
Governance in 1995. Ever since, the U.N. bureaucrats have been working
on a "Charter for Global Democracy" to build the framework for
a restructured United Nations.
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- The Charter has been incorporated into the recommendations
being advanced by the NGO Forum, precursor to the People's Assembly, a
body of unelected pressure groups with left-wing political agendas that
is supposed to be formally attached to the United Nations during the Millennium
Assembly.
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- Pompously calling themselves the "civil society,"
they claim to be the voice of the people, in contrast to the General Assembly,
which consists of the representatives of national governments.
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- The lobbyists for these dramatic changes in the mission
and structure of the United Nations are those NGOs accredited by the United
Nations, of which there are currently 1,603. Most of the NGOs are also
members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which
originated many of the global environmental policies set forth in the
Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Climate Change and
Agenda 21.
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- The most prominent NGOs are the radical environmental
groups such as the Sierra Club and population-control groups such as Planned
Parenthood. The head honcho of this dramatic restructuring of the United
Nations is Executive Coordinator of U.N. Reform Maurice Strong, who was
secretary-general of the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
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- The best first step to bring all these global government
pretensions to a screeching stop is to pass the Jesse Helms bill, the
American Service Members Protection Act. It would cut off U.S. military
aid to any country that ratifies the ICC treaty and authorize the president
to undertake any means "necessary and appropriate" to free U.S.
soldiers from ICC captivity.
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- ©2000 Copley News Service Posted August 9, 2000
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