VOLUME 5, NUMBER 8 - AUGUST 14, 2000

The UN Millennium Assembly

Representatives of United Nations sanctioned NGOs (non-governmental organizations) met in May of this year to draft a statement to help guide the September scheduled Millennium Assembly meeting that will set the direction for the United Nations in the 21st Century.

"We, 1,350 representatives of over 1,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society organizations from more than 100 countries, have gathered at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York from 22 - 26 May 2000 to build upon a common vision and the work begun at civil society conferences and the UN world conferences of the 1990's, to draw the attention of governments to the urgency of implementing the commitments they have made, and to channel our collective energies by reclaiming globalization for and by the people."

"We wish to put forward a series of concrete steps to strengthen cooperation among all actors at the international, national, regional and local levels to make this vision a reality. Our Agenda for Action includes steps that should be taken by civil society, governments, and the United Nations."

Some of the concrete steps put forward:

The forum urges the united nations to:

"2. To introduce binding codes of conduct for transnational companies, and effective tax regulation on the international financial markets, investing this money in programmes for poverty eradication."

Global Taxation!

The Forum urges governments to:

"7. To provide universal access to "education for all," prioritizing free basic education and skills training for poor communities to improve their productive capacities. We call on governments to increase budgets for education, to reduce the technology gap, and to restructure educational policy to ensure that all children (girls and boys) receive moral, spiritual, peace and human rights education, while acknowledging, through programmes for families, adult literacy and the elderly, that education is a lifelong process. Special attention must be paid to the girl child. And higher education must be attainable on merit and not only on ability to pay."

Notice that schools are to furnish moral, spiritual, peace and human rights education. This is not education! This is indoctrination into the globalist system established in accord with UN principles and is not based on Christian morality or spirituality. Notice the lifelong learning process. This is the process now called for under Goals 2000 and the School to Work Act, both of which were enacted in compliance with UN dictates. We are already a long way down the road!

"B. PEACE, SECURITY, AND DISARMAMENT"

The Forum urges the United Nations to:

"8. To expand the UN Arms register in order to show production and sale of small arms and light weapons. It should include specific names of their producers and traders.

And we bet you thought all the gun control legislation was coming out of Washington. Try New York or Stockholm (or perhaps Moscow). You see, an armed citizenry can fight back when the oppression becomes excessive...as it will!

11. To establish ready police and peacekeeping forces. Sensitivity and respect for civilians, especially women and children, should be included in the training of all peacekeepers.

If you really want to understand the sensitivity of UN peacekeeping forces examine their record in Katanga, and more recently the Sudan, where photos show a couple of peacekeepers holding a Sudanese man over an open fire while others look on. Perhaps they think the best way to keep the peace is to make pieces of the citizens.

The Forum urges governments to:

7. To establish peace education, including coping with domestic conflict, covering all ages from young children to older adults, at all levels from pre-school through university and non-formal community education. Education for peace and conflict avoidance is essential for moving toward sustainable peace. Implementation of this obligation of each national government should be assured by an appropriate treaty.

From young children to older adults we are all to be taught how to deal with conflict the UN way. If we are poor learners...what happens? Note also they would make this a treaty obligation binding on all nations.

"C. FACING THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION:"

"EQUITY, JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY"

"Before us is an emerging new consciousness worldwide that affirms shared values of peace, equity, social justice, democracy, and human rights."

The Forum urges civil society

"2. To support the development of a concept of globalization defined from a polycentric and pluri-cultural perspective, assuming and respecting, preserving and developing the cultural diversities."

Do you know how they homogenize milk? They must first break its components down. Once everything is broken down you no longer have the diversities they speak of preserving.

The Forum urges governments

"5. To endorse the Earth Charter in the UN General Assembly."

Refer to our newsletter Vol. 5, No. 3 for an analysis of the Earth Charter.

"10. To adopt comprehensive, integrated development policies and strive to enable local communities to achieve self-sufficiency and management of local natural resources, achieving sustainability through land use control and through measures that reduce resource-intensive forced consumption."

Why, in a country like the United States that has developed a system of highways and river and rail traffic that ties communities together for the quick and easy transport of goods and services, should we be striving to achieve self-sufficiency of local communities? Do they know something we don't?

"2. To make the Security Council more representative of the world. Permanent membership in the Security Council is problematic because it blocks change and fails to accommodate evolving realities. Thus, the UN should begin to phase out the existing permanent membership in favor of a more flexible and accountable system. The Council should be immediately enlarged with newly elected members drawn from the member states from different regions of the world on a rotational basis."

Had such a proposal been hinted at when we were asked to join the United Nations we would have told the founders of this socialist monster where to go in a hurry. With our present socialists masquerading as Democrats and Republicans in the Congress we may find it a little more difficult. You need to watch how your Congressmen vote on such issues very carefully. We are paying 25% (actually more) of the cost of this organization and they want to give us less than 1/100th of the voting power? Take a hike, buster!

"3. To limit and move toward eliminating the use of the veto. The UN must move towards veto restriction First could be an enlargement of the area of "procedural votes" for which the Charter excludes the veto. The veto must be restricted to Chapter VII peace issues only. It is unacceptable that the veto would apply to matters such as election of the UN Secretary-General. Complete veto abolition should be sought as a step towards the elimination of permanency."

We should insist on a hands-off the veto or take our marbles and send the UN packing. Actually, that's what we should do anyway...should have done it long ago but we were too busy watching Sunday night football to look at what was happening in the less important areas like individual liberties and freedom.

4. To develop more effective means not requiring the use of force to prevent the outbreak of war and other threats to the peace and security of people This will require a far more institutionalized and analytical approach to the causes of war and the ways to prevent conflict Among other things, the Security Council must take more action to prevent conflict over raw materials and other basic resources A greatly expanded Secretariat office on prevention and resolution of conflict is required, as is a fund that can quickly be deployed to mitigate conflict-producing social and economic crises.

In other words Big Brother is going to find more-and-more ways to watch (over) you and me and every one else on the face of this old globe. If we even look like we might want to differ with a UN (god) established policy we'll be gone before you can say that proverbial "scat!"

"5. To make the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the locus of a more effective, integrated system of international justice. The compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court must be accepted by all states. In the absence of voluntary compliance, the Security Council should enforce ICJ decisions and other international legal obligations under Article 94 of the UN Charter."

Now our legal protections under the Constitution will no longer be available. The International Law will take precedence over national law and if we (for example) abuse the environment we are to be subject to an international tribunal that does not provide for trial by jury and presumes you guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

"13. To strengthen the United Nations' contact with citizens by providing increased resources for NGO relations offices throughout the UN system and by enhancing the United Nations network of information centers, as an indispensable resource in mobilizing support for the United Nations among the world's peoples."

When the UN speaks of opening things up to the people it is not speaking of you and me. It is speaking of the NGOs and other Civil Society organizations that have satisfied its screening process and are in agreement with its policies. When it speaks of democracy it is the kind of democracy one finds in communist countries...you may vote just as long as you vote for the candidate selected by the party. Here we still have a choice of candidates...of course both of them have been selected by the party...socialist party D or socialist party R.

"1. To increase substantially the regular and peacekeeping budgets of the United Nations The UN cannot carry out its many urgent tasks without substantially more resources and more staff. This budget could be doubled immediately, to very good effect. The UN's budget problems have had a serious negative effect on peacekeeping Additionally, the budgets of UN agencies should be increased to better support their work."

Have you ever seen a government yet that did not think money was the answer to all problems? Why should a world government be any different?

"2. To pay UN dues on time, in full and without conditions. UN discussion of global taxes and fees has been stifled by the threat of a funding cutoff by a single member state. This blackmail must be rejected, and the UN must vigorously explore the possibilities of alternate funding from such sources."

"3. To move towards creation of alternative revenue sources for the United Nations. The UN should set up expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions (i.e. the Tobin Tax), and a tax on the carbon content of fuels."

The call for an International Tax continues. There have been some in our Congress who have expressed sympathy for this.

"4. To ensure that a gender perspective is integrated at all remaining stages of the process to establish the International Criminal Court and at all stages of the proceedings of the functioning Court and that the particular needs of children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities are considered."

The International Criminal Court would give the United Nations jurisdiction over you if you (for example) failed to allow your child the rights the UN says he/she is due, which could be the right to pornographic materials or the right to associate with groups you would prefer he/she not associate with. You also would not have the right to inflict corporal punishment on a disobedient child. If you should pollute the environment in some way the UN could impose jurisdiction and send their police to arrest you.

The Forum urges Civil Society to:

"1. To support the creation and funding of a Global Civil Society Forum to meet at least every two to three years in the period leading up to the annual session of the General Assembly, provided that such a forum is conducted democratically and transparently and is truly representative of all sectors of civil society and all parts of the world."

This Global Civil Society Forum would not be composed of people like us. It would be made up of the NGOs and special interest groups that think you are simply one of the resources to be used. If you are not a productive resource...it costs more to maintain you than you produce...well, you figure it out.

How many hundreds or thousands of man hours go into the development of such recommendations we cannot know, but probably much of the funding to pay for those man hours comes right out of your pocket and mine. NGOs are largely financed by tax free foundations and government grants with some contributions from major international corporations (the costs of which are borne by the consumers of their products or services). Do you really think all this money is being spent on an exercise in futility? Or do they plan to implement their proposals?

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