New York City, September 6 - 8, 2000
By Cathie Adams
President, Texas Eagle Forum
Report #1 | Report #2 | Report #3 | Report #4 | Report #5
Report #1
Even before the United Nations Millennium Summit begins on Wednesday (tomorrow), the conclusions are already drawn. The consensus process used at their meetings assures the outcomes of every UN meeting. Let me explain how it works. You have heard politicians say that they want to give you, parents and taxpayers, local control of schools or the environment or health care decisions.
The way such policies are implemented is that the federal government sets goals, and then holds us at the local level accountable. In other words, the federal government controls the local people. The source of the mischief is oftentimes beyond federal control; it originates with UN bureaucrats who set many of the goals and targets that are later considered by our American Congressmen. You would probably be surprised by how many federal and state laws that originated at the UN.
In other words, UN-elected bureaucrats are setting targets or goals for every government around the globe that send shock waves all the way to the local government in your community. Once you understand the corrupt process, the goals and targets of the UN Millennium Summit come into focus. More than 150 heads of state, including President Clinton, will meet tomorrow at the UN in New York City to do two things: adopt an "Earth Charter" and a "Declaration" that will lead to global governance.
The world will probably not look much different on September 9 than it does on September 6, but it will be changed indeed because nations will have come to consensus on those two documents, and they will serve as the authority for the UN to move forward into global governance. And that is not different from global government or world government. Under the guise of UN "reform" into five administrative departments, the 150 heads of state will reach consensus on pre-determined goals and targets that intend to manage the world's economies, persons and properties.
The Earth Charter would destroy the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights. The UN's goal is for nations to ratify more than 25 treaties during the Millennium Summit including the International Criminal Court (forget your right to a trial by jury), the Kyoto Protocol (scale back your standard of living), the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Child (spanking your child becomes an international crime) and the radical feminist international Equal Rights Amendment called the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
The UN will "spare no effort" to "take concerted action
to prevent the illegal traffic in small arms and light weapons…"
There goes our Second Amendment?!
I plan to tell you what I see and
what hear tomorrow. Stay tuned….
Report #2
This is the MORNING of the United Nations Millennium Summit. Staying about five blocks away from the UN building in New York City, there is a constant serenade of motorcycle police, countless NYPD cars and vans, police with their ears wired walking dogs, helicopters flying overhead and streets suddenly closed because "the President" has left his hotel.
One might ask which President because there are about 160 of them in town, instead we join the New Yorkers who simply frown upon the UN and carry on about our business. There are so many Millennium meetings going on in this city that it is difficult to keep them straight. There was the World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders chaired by the "master of UN reform," Maurice Strong that took place last week.
That is when media mogul and keynoter Ted Turner apologized for "God" who says that there is only ONE WAY to heaven. (God has always required a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. He sent His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross to fulfill that law once and for all. Those who believe His requirement and His provision, Jesus, are saved by faith alone.)
The infamous Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs, radical leftists who call themselves "civil society") held a meeting also last week called, "Global Solidarity: The Way to Peace and International Cooperation." They dedicated themselves to their incessant battle for a place at the negotiating table.
They are
interested in LEADING the world, and they have bold ideas about where
they want to take us.
The UN General Assembly meets annually, and
it began meeting this week at the "glass building" on the East
River in NYC that now needs $1 BILLION to renovate and expand. The UN
used to meet only once a year for about three months to speechify and
pretend their importance calling it "diplomacy." Today, they
meet year-round.
IF the police will allow us to leave our hotel, we
are off to the Millennium Summit.
Stay tuned....
Report #3
There is another major United Nations Millennium meeting in addition to the ones I mentioned earlier: the seven-day State of the World Forum created by the head of the former U.S.S.R., Mikhail Gorbachev.
Since 1995, he has been hosting Forums in San Francisco, California, and this year he decided to move to New York City's Hilton Hotel not far from the UN Millennium Summit in New York City. His stated goal of his State of the World Forum is to gather "the creative genius of the human family, its elders and innovators, in search for solutions to the critical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century."
Organizers call it "a powerful common evolutionary enterprise for our species." Americans ought to question each these stated goals in order to determine what these nonsense terms mean. I cannot understand why anyone would give such esteem to a man ousted by his countrymen. Nor can I understand why the American media named him "man of the year." He failed his people and his country, yet he has found favor among our media elites.
That says a lot about both Gorbachev, who has NOT renounced communism (that is why his goals are rhetorical nonsense), and our American media elite. The bottom line is that American must be aware of what ousted communist dictators are up to in OUR country.
Stay tuned....
Report #4
There were 63 speeches by heads of
state this first day of the United Nations Millennium Summit in New
York City. Most of the speeches called for relief of developing
nations' debts (American taxpayers beware), equalization
(redistribution) of natural and economic resources, strengthening the
UN's peacekeeping abilities and finding a cure for
AIDS.
President Clinton was the first speaker immediately following
the official opening of the Summit and remarks by United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan. After the usual platitudes about the
"honor to host in the United States this unprecedented gathering of
world leaders," he told the audience that "our greatest
challenges [utopian dreams] are all unmet: to free humanity from
poverty, disease, and war; to reverse environmental destruction; and
to make the UN a more effective instrument in pursuing all these
aims."
He then focused on "the making and keeping of
peace."
After acknowledging that most wars today are internal
wars, he called for a "stark, collective challenge" to deal with
them (forget about national sovereignty). The UN record is abysmal as
there were no victories of any of the wars he mentioned: in Bosnia,
Iraq, Burma, Burundi, East Timor, Sierra Leone or Columbia.
He
said the UN needs "better machinery to ensure UN peacekeepers can
be rapidly deployed, with the right training and equipment, the
ability to project credible force, and missions well-defined by a
well-functioning headquarters.
To meet this challenge, we must also
more effectively deploy civilian police to UN missions." He is
calling for a UN standing army! And for feeding a failed UN system:
the Beast!
Clinton said that in order to "prevent" conflicts,
that the UN must recognize "the iron link between deprivation and
war." And he asked that the UN build on "our initiative to
provide free meals for 9 million children around the world." Just
like "midnight basketball" was supposed to prevent crime,
Clinton believes that taxpayer funded global meal programs will
prevent wars.
He also called for intensifying our work to develop
drugs and vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. The first
politically protected disease, AIDS, is pandemic in many nations, yet
the UN refuses to condemn the behavior that causes it.
"These
efforts come with a price tag," said Clinton, and he described what
would be required to pay the bill. "All nations, including my own,
must meet our obligations to the UN. And those with the capacity to
increase their support must do so. Reform of the UN's financial
structure must be made if the organization is to meet the demands we
make of it.
Those who believe we can either do without the UN, or
impose our will upon it, have not learned from history and do not
understand the future."
Concluding, he admonished us to send our
children a message that, "we came together in a moment of
choice…and chose to change the world." Like his other
"choices," they are sure to propagate human death as well as
destruction of American sovereignty.
Report #5
The New York City sirens are still blaring and city streets are
still blockaded, but the United Nations Millennium Summit is almost
over. It was announced on the opening day of that the heads of state
would reach consensus on a "Millennium Declaration" on the final
day, September 8. Behind-the-scenes negotiations have supposedly
watered down an original draft, but the UN is unwearied and
incrementalism is its normal operating procedure. They will remain
relentless in their quest to achieve global governance, a.k.a. global
government.
A few had also expected the Earth Charter to be discussed during
the Millennium Summit, and in a way it was. Let me explain. Once you
understand that every UN document, whether it is the Earth Charter or
the Millennium Declaration, has the same Marxist theme, the label
makes no difference. The Marxist theme is why the UN itself is
dysfunctional and beyond reform. That is why any person or
organization that claims real victories within the UN system is to be
pitied; Marxism is unfixable. (I hope my friends will forgive me for
my boldness in that statement, for it is undeniably true.)
The theme of every UN document is Marxist to its very core. Even
though the Communists failed to make Marxism work in their 70-year
experiment, there are new, power-hungry leaders willingly being
prodded like cattle going to the slaughter by the likes of
UN-repentant Communist Mikhail Gorbachev and the leader of UN reform,
Maurice Strong, during this week's activities in New York City.
Yesterday, for example, the UN Security Council's five permanent
members met at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Any casual observer should
recognize each of them as socialist Marxists: Tony Blair of Britain,
Vladimir Putin of Russia, Jacques Chirac of France, Jiang Zemin of
China and President Clinton. No one could read their speeches
presented during this Millennium Summit and conclude otherwise.
Their consensus agreement of the Millennium Summit's Declaration
is consistent with the theme of Marxism. The Declaration affirms
"faith in the Organization," and every speech by every head of
state did that. We should marvel at the ease in which despots place
their "faith" in "the Organization," and the same leaders
in their own countries persecute Christians for placing their
"faith" in the one true God.
Every head of state also endorsed the Marxist statement for
"equality and equity." President Clinton said that there is an
"iron link" between poverty and war, which is also in keeping
with his record of checkbook diplomacy.
They also endorsed their own version of the Marxist scheme "from
each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
declaring that "those who suffer, or who benefit least are entitled
to help from those who benefit most." They really believe the lie
that wealthy nations became wealthy by abusing other countries with
colonialism and slavery. Oh how I wish they understood that the
"fear of God" is the beginning of wisdom, and that God is big
enough to bless them too, if they would humble themselves before
Him. As for Americans, we must revive our fear of Him or suffer the
consequences.
There is no "fixing" the Millennium Declaration. It, like the
UN itself, should be thrown into the East River that borders the UN
compound in New York City. The Declaration calls for "managed"
development by the UN rather than free enterprise and free markets. It
embraces the International Criminal Court that would subject YOU to
its purview as it obliterates your right to a trial by jury. It calls
for a UN standing army that was advocated by President Clinton in his
speech to the world body on Wednesday. It calls for UN control of the
manufacture, sale and distribution of all firearms, and licensing by
the UN. The Declaration calls for the ratification of the Kyoto
Protocol that is the instrument for global wealth redistribution. It
and most of the speeches by developing country heads of state call for
elimination of the veto and permanent member status of the five
permanent members of the Security Council. And to pay for all their
mischief, they want global taxation to replace UN dues.
The UN sees great value in the Millennium Declaration because it
gives them a MANDATE to "manage the worldwide economic and social
development and threats to international peace and security" even
if it must be incrementally accomplished. And ratification by member
states will NOT be necessary; instead, they will implement as much of
the Declaration as possible, "administratively," through
processes and procedures.
The Marxists at the UN will NEVER become weary; will you?
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