Volume 1, Number 4 -- September 1, 1996

THE HAPPY RESIDENTS

This is a model city (hive) designed by the planners at the United Nations. It is the kind of city (hive) they think you should live in. They also are planning the kind of work they think you will be happy doing, and proposing the education system (Goals 2000) that will condition you to accept their choices for you.

Do you think you will be happy living in their hive, working at their choice of jobs, enjoying the recreation they think you should enjoy, worshiping the god they think you should worship? We don't!

You see, the God who created you did not design you to live in a hive. Nor did He design men to conform to a bee-like society. He made you in His image and he gave you free will -- and He made no two of us alike. We are all unique individuals and we can only be happy if we have the freedom to exercise our uniqueness.

That is not the kind of society that the U. N. planners are happy with, for it does not give them the control, the power they crave. They are quite sure they know better than you do what is best for you, and they are hell-bent on seeing that you get it. Nor do they care how many have to perish in order to provide it.

"[the Conference] painted an alarming picture of the 21st century community. The American ways -- free speech, individualism, travel and Christianity are out. A new set of economic, environmental and social guides are in.

"Citizenship, democracy, and education have been redefined. Hand-picked civil leaders will implement U. N. "laws," bypassing state and national representatives to work directly with the U. N.

"Politically correct "tolerance" - meaning "the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism" as well as "appreciation" for the world's religious and lifestyles - "is not only a moral duty; it is also a political and legal requirement.""

And it is already happening in this country. A recent publication issued jointly by the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Public Technology, Inc. (PTI) tells about experiences communities across the country are having with "sustainable development."

The publication, Cities and Counties: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, describes how places like Austin, Texas; Boulder, Colorado; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Chittenden County, Vermont; Metro-Dade County, Florida; Northampton County, Virginia; and others have been working to implement U. N. principles of sustainable development. Of course this publication lauds these efforts and offers them as examples to other communities.

These are not simply efforts toward good stewardship, they border on actual worship of the earth as the goddess Gaia -- but are being sold to the great American public as necessary conservation measures to protect the delicate natural balance so vital to our survival.

This is an easy sell, for we have not been good stewards of our resources. We have polluted our rivers and streams, we have polluted the air of our cities, we have wasted resources with our throw-away mentality. But the idea that we have brought the world to the brink of disaster because of this is founded on a pseudo science that does not hold up under close inspection. It is simply a weapon those who desire to change the world have found effective.

We offer a few quotes from his book:

• ...a growing majority of well known scientists and leaders say environmental leaders are wrong. Why are their voices being ignored? Who's right? Furthermore, Vice President Gore asserts that we must reestablish our spiritual connectedness to the natural world if we are to have any hope of saving it. (29)

• "Some individuals are absolutely convinced from their very limited reading that we are headed for disaster via global warming. Strangely, no amount of evidence seems to shake this crowd. They appear to have a religious attachment to the issue . . . . They are not going to accept anything but the threat of disaster . . . . Any suggestion that some greenhouse effects will be beneficial is absolutely forbidden. They care about their [own version of the] environment more than they care about science." Dr. Robert Balling, Director of Climatology, University of Arizona, in The Heated Debate, 150" (30)

• "Outfits like Greenpeace attack big business as being faceless and responsible to no one. In fact, that description better fits Greenpeace than it does modern corporations that are regulated, patrolled and heavily taxed by governments, reported on by an adversarial press and carefully watched by their own shareholders. There's little accountability for outfits like Greenpeace. The media treat them with kid gloves." Leslie Spenser, et al., Forbes, November 11, 1991, 176 (96)

• "Radical environmentalists make up a very small percentage of the millions of Americans who call themselves environmentalists....it is likely they make up about 5 percent....But these leaders occupy positions of incredible power." (99)

• By using the divide-and-conquer strategy, environmental leadership can play on people's emotional distaste for clear-cutting and the use of chemicals as "unsustainable." The removal of most trees in clear-cutting looks as if it must be destroying ecosystems....what they don't tell the American people is that recent research is beginning to show that these practices may even enhance biodiversity - if done correctly. (113)

• You've heard of spotted owls versus jobs in the Pacific Northwest. Donald Walker, Jr., is one of those victims we read about in the papers who lost his job because of the spotted owl. At fifty-five years old, Walker learned that finding a new job is impossible; logging is all that he has known. Yet he has something that he is very proud of. Walker's family has owned a 630-acre tree farm for three generations. Over the past sixty years they have carefully harvested the trees for income, carefully replanting the harvested area or converting some land to pasture to graze a few cattle. His conservation practices are exemplary.

• In spite of this laudable witness of good stewardship, he and two hundred of his neighbors received a caustic four-page letter from the Forest Conservation Council, an environmental organization, threatening that if he "cut any more timber on [his] land it would sue [him] for violating the Endangered Species Act." The lawyer who wrote the letter proclaimed that what Walker and his family had been doing on their private land for sixty years is no longer legal. (emphasis added)

• The spotted owl is actually found by the multiple thousands from Mexico to Canada. When the so-called crisis first started in the mid-1980s, only 600 owls were known to exist in Oregon and Washington. . . .new evidence suggests that there may be 8,500 owls in northern California alone.

• . . . as research continues on this issue, the greatest concentration of spotted owls is found, not in "ancient forests," not even in "old growth forests," but in cut-over forests on a privately owned tree farm in eastern Washington, where the oldest trees are forty years old. As a species, the spotted owl was never in any danger of becoming extinct. (123-125)

• Lester R. Brown, who heads the highly influential Worldwatch Institute. . . . says of the Earth Summit's mission, "Building an environmentally sustainable future requires nothing short of a revolution . . . restructuring the global economy, dramatically changing human reproductive behavior, and altering values and lifestyles." (199)

• Maurice Strong (UN secretary general of the Earth Summit) calls for such an expanded role of the UN to be enforced by "International Law" and to be funded through "global taxation." But Strong laments, "This will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched." The institution of such international law and taxation can only be a "response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives," concludes Strong. In other words, the desired globalization can only be achieved if the citizens are terrified into believing that giving up national sovereignty is the only alternative. (200-201)

There is, of course, much, much more, and it is all well documented.

While Mr. Coffman's book does show the definite involvement of the U. N. in the "green movement," his principle concern is to refute the claims of the radical environmentalists and to show how the movement is being used to get Americans to accept assaults on constitutional rights and on American sovereignty.

Let us offer a quote or two from her booklet The United Nations and its agenda for the environment, economy and family:

• I found the world government in Cairo in the form of the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. While this was only one of the shocks in Cairo, watching the U. S. State Department orchestrate the response they wanted from the Third World Countries, which coincides with that of the UN, was another. Our government is actively participating in the evolution and strengthening of world government. This means that our Constitution is in the process of being replaced. If our Constitution is replaced, our way of life, values and our UNLIMITED freedoms which come from God and not government, such as speech and religion, will also be replaced. In short, we will go into bondage and have no rights -- only those accorded to good "global citizens." (emphasis added)

• Since attending the UN International Conference on Population and Development, my life has not been the same. In much the same way as Esther [the Biblical heroine] I have been shocked in such a way that the "scales of unreality" have fallen from my eyes and I now see and understand, know and perceive exactly who these global bodies are and what their agenda is. I cannot put it in delicate terms for the virgin ear to hear, I must be as plain and perhaps as blunt, since the hour is late and our freedoms are at stake. I have studied very hard since Cairo and have read and read and read. Because I am a visual in my understanding, I have drawn charts to piece together very complex ideas and concepts so that the new eye reading this booklet will be able to put the dots together and understand what is happening on the global level and how it fits into what is going on, not only in the United States, but in our towns, cities and states. (Introduction)

• Since its birth fifty years ago, the United Nations has been expanding and increasing in dominance and strength. [Referral to a flow chart.] ...With regard to the regional commissions, the world is divided up into regions -- Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific and Western Asia, for example. Currently the regional commissions are making decisions, but they still need the approval of the respective nations. When the government is up and fully functional, it is the regions which will govern.

• America is divided up into ten regions. This action was taken by President Richard M. Nixon and is known as Executive Order No. 11647. ....

• International law is the glue for all of what the United Nations is doing and hopes to do with regard to world government.. Just as each country has its own set of laws . . . so too, does the United Nations.

• . . . The UN has been directly responsible for the conclusion of more than 465 multi-lateral agreements covering virtually every area of state interaction and human endeavor from the Law of the Sea to narcotic drug control, from the environment to international trade and copyright law, from arms control to the advancement in women's rights. . . (Chapter One)

This booklet contains a wealth of material, and would be a good resource for anyone who wants to be able to discuss the danger that the United Nations poses to our American way of life. (Veon Financial Services, Inc. address is: P. O. Box 1323, Olney, MD 20830-1323)