Part 4 (2/2)
The idealized concept of one-world government has been kicking around for a long time. Its genesis is deeply imbedded in socialist principles. Currently disguised in contemporary United Nations globalspeak, it relies on ”sustainability” as the unifying theme.
Sustainability purportedly means that planetary growth and development must only advance if it does not impair the sustainability of the planet. But sustainability is really just a buzzword for a ma.s.sive redistribution of wealth from democracies like the United States-where hardworking people are productive and build a.s.sets-to third world countries whose leaders are often corrupt dictators who ignore the dire conditions of their fellow countrymen, who often neither work nor produce.
Recently, there has been a frenetic push by the ”international community” to make this unwise and undemocratic policy come true.
Even the Vatican has weighed in, recently calling for a one-world government: ”Globalization, despite some of its negative aspects, is unifying peoples more and prompting them to move towards a new 'rule of law' on the supranational level, supported by a more intense and fruitful collaboration.”31
This view of the need for a ”supranational” level of government is, unfortunately, shared by many. These are the people and organizations who want us to surrender our national ident.i.ty, change our lifestyles, provide reparations for what they view as our excesses, and surrender to a new order of international inst.i.tutions that will tell us what to do, when to do it, and how much to pay for it.
How will they be able to transfer our wealth? By imposing mandatory foreign aid to underdeveloped countries and by enacting international taxes aimed at the United States, including carbon taxes, airline taxes, and Internet taxes. And we'll have no way to stop them.
And that's not all. They also want to require us to hand over our technology-our valuable intellectual property-to countries who don't have either the brain power or the financial resources to develop their own.
All of this is called social justice. More like economic injustice.
They want to take major decision making away from the Congress and Executive Branch and replace it, instead, with a one-world governing system.
And the Obama administration is helping them do it by rus.h.i.+ng through a series of treaties that will transfer sovereign power and control to global agencies.
Barack Obama believes in it. Think about it: We have a president who goes to the United Nations to ask for permission to bring a military action in Libya, but claims that he isn't required to seek the approval of the United States Congress under the War Powers Act-even when his own Department of Justice advises him that he is required to do so.
There's no doubt about it: President Obama embraces the one-world global view. So does his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.
Obama showed his hand even before he was president. On July 24, 2008, thenUS senator Barack Obama spoke to the largest crowd of the presidential campaign in Berlin, Germany. More than two hundred thousand people thronged into the park in front of the site where the Berlin Wall, separating East and West Germany, communism and freedom, had once stood. All were anxious to hear the young senator who was stirring the American electorate and who might be an antidote to President George W. Bush, who was detested by Europeans.
The spectators got what they came for. Obama talked the talk, walked the walk. He spoke their language. Playing to the crowd, he told them that he came to Berlin not as a presidential candidate, but as a ”citizen of the world.” His rhetoric soared as he repeatedly spoke of ”global cooperation,” ”global partners.h.i.+p,” ”global commitment,” and the ”burden of global citizens.h.i.+p” ... that continue[s] to bind us together.”32
”I speak as a citizen of the world,” he told the crowd.33
Those few words, emphasizing Obama's obvious embrace of globalism and global governance over nationalism, foretold his vision of a new world order. In this new paradigm, America is just one part of a worldwide decision-making process, instead of an independent-and, yes, nationalistic-country with historic political and cultural roots set deep in democracy that are often at odds with some of the rest of the world, including Europe.
This book is a wake-up call to all Americans who value our democratic traditions and culture, who still believe in the fundamental tenets of liberty and freedom that are the cornerstones of our great nation, and who applaud the uniqueness of America.
WHY GLOBAL GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY AMERICANS
David Brooks of the New York Times cited five reasons why Americans will never accept what he calls the ”vaporous global-governance notion.”34
We'll never accept it, first, because it is undemocratic. It is impossible to set up legitimate global authorities because there is no global democracy, no sense of common peoplehood and trust. So multilateral organizations can never look like legislatures, with open debate, up or down votes, and the losers accepting majority decisions.
Instead, they look like meetings of unelected elites, of technocrats who make decisions in secret and who rely upon intentionally impenetrable language, who settle differences through arcane fudges. Americans, like most peoples, will never surrender even a bit of their national democracy for the sake of multilateral technocracy.
Second, we will never accept global governance because it inevitably devolves into corruption. The panoply of UN scandals flows from a single source: the lack of democratic accountability. These supranational organizations exist in their own insular, self-indulgent aerie.
We will never accept global governance, third, because we love our Const.i.tution and will never grant any other law supremacy over it. Like most peoples (Europeans are the exception), we will never allow transnational organizations to overrule our own laws, regulations and precedents. We think our Const.i.tution is superior to the sloppy authority granted to, say, the International Criminal Court.
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