By Henry Lamb - 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
- December 9, 1999 - Where was the mainstream news media when Hillary
Clinton introduced Walter Cronkite to the World Federalist Association
on Oct. 19? Television cameras focused on Hillary's baseball cap; it is
far more important that voters know where she stands on the issue of
national sovereignty. Not until WorldNetDaily
reported the Cronkite speech Nov. 30, did Americans discover that both
Hillary and Walter are avid advocates of world government.
Cronkite says, "democracy,
civilization itself, is at stake," unless the "basic structure
of our global community" is changed in the next few years.
Cronkite's appeal for world government came only five days before the
release of the Charter for Global Democracy which embodies the version
of world government preferred by the United Nations Association.
Both the UNA and the WFA have been
promoting world government for years. Cronkite's group, the WFA, prefers
a "federalist" system which would create a weighted system of
voting in the U.N. General Assembly to create a legislative body roughly
akin to the American Congress. The UNA prefers a "consensus"
process that takes into account recommendations offered by civil society
(non-government organizations accredited by the U.N.).
Both organizations want to elevate the
U.N. to world government status and empower the U.N. to enforce all
international law. In fact, in 1986, the WFA filed suit against the
United States over U.S. foreign policy, arguing that Article VI of the
U.S. Constitution made the U.N. Charter as well as other U.N. treaties,
the "supreme law of the land." The courts ruled against the
WFA in 1989.
Hillary's presence at the WFA meeting,
and her introduction of Cronkite, directly aligns her with the world
government movement, and particularly with the WFA's world government
aspirations.
Cronkite called for the
"revision" and limitation of the veto power of permanent
members of the U.N. Security Council. The Commission on Global
Governance and the Charter for Global Democracy call for the elimination
of both the veto and permanent member status on the Security Council.
This latter recommendation will be presented as the needed
"reform" to the Millennium Assembly next September. Cronkite's
more timid approach, as well as his "federalism" ideas have
been overwhelmed by the U.N.'s "consensus" process now on a
fast track toward adoption.
Cronkite called for the immediate
ratification of a laundry list of U.N. treaties, including the infamous
Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Convention on the Elimination
of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); and, "most
important," Cronkite says, the International Criminal Court, which
empowers the U.N. to prosecute American citizens whether or not it is
ratified by the Senate.
Hillary made her support for these
positions clear when she attended the U.N. Beijing Conference on Women
in 1995.
Cronkite said in order to achieve world
government, "Americans will have to yield up some of our
sovereignty." He said, "the notion of unlimited national
sovereignty means international anarchy."
Under the world government scheme
embodied in the Charter for Global Democracy, any individual nation
could wield only the power assigned to it by the U.N. National armies
would be disarmed to the level of a national police force. The U.N.
would maintain a "directly recruited" standing army under the
direct authority of the U.N. Secretary-General. Private citizens would
be disarmed, and the U.N. would control the manufacture, sale, licensing
and distribution of all firearms.
To finance this expanded world
government, the U.N. would be given the authority to impose taxes on the
exchange of currency, on the use of resources, including the air, outer
space, and the seas. Taxing authority is seen not only as the source of
unlimited revenue, but also as a way to force a reduction of natural
resources, especially fossil fuels, water, trees, and minerals.
Like the Clinton administration, and
other world government advocates, Cronkite demeans opponents. He says
that like America's rejection of the League of Nations, current
opposition to world government is "led by a handful of willful
senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives
at the cost of our nation's conscience."
He goes even further to single out the
"Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing"
as the culprits who have kept the world in a state of sovereign anarchy
and prevented the emergence of a "civilized force of law"
administered by the United Nations.
The fact that people of the stature of
Hillary Clinton and Walter Cronkite are now willing to publicly advocate
world government is an indication of their confidence that the world is
now ready to accept their plan. World government is no longer the
exclusive domain of the "black helicopter crowd." Finally, the
sinister plans to rule the world are being exposed by those who expect
to rule.
The timeline is, indeed, short. After
decades of silent and denied preparation, the United Nations has made
public the millennium year agenda which is crowned by the largest
gathering of heads of state in the history of the world next September.
World government, called "global
governance" by the U.N., will not occur on any certain day. It is a
process that has been underway for years. The
Millennium Assembly and summit next September, with the adoption of
the Charter for Global Democracy, is seen to be the point from which
there is no turning back.
The only way to stop world government
at this late date, is for the American people to send a government to
Washington in the next election that can muster the courage to just say,
"No."
Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental
Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty
International.
