National Conference 2000

Ideas for the SI Board to ponder

Purpose: To devise a strategy and program to counter momentum toward global governance.

Objectives:

1. Identify the problem(s)
2. Enlist cooperating organizations
3. Present a national strategy
4. Present a national campaign

Plan of action:

1. Schedule teleconference with SI board to discuss this proposal ASAP
2. Schedule meeting of Advisory Board in Washington to solicit their support and ideas.
3. Schedule National Conference

a) develop agenda
b) develop promotional campaign

Discussion:

The problem, of course, is the mounting momentum toward global governance. Specifically, the creation of a "Peoples' (Millennium) Assembly" scheduled for September, 2000, and more specifically, the presentation of the Charter for Global Democracy and the Earth Charter, both of which will be overwhelmingly adopted and presented to the UN General Assembly for action.

I expect the Earth Charter to be adopted pretty much as it is, and advanced for ratification as the "Principles Document," similar to the Declaration on Human Rights. I expect the Charter for Global Democracy to be incorporated into a slate of amendments to the UN Charter, where necessary, and incorporated by decree or treaty where possible. There could well be other strategies at work of which I'm unaware, to achieve the more objectionable features such as the elimination of veto power and the Tobin Tax. We'll have to watch closely.

We need to develop a national campaign that can be easily understood, and accepted as a positive alternative, rather than simply being against the UN, and all the wonderful things promised by their literature.

"America First," was the theme that defeated the League of Nations. If there was a theme in opposition to the UN, it was not successful. We need a similar slogan, or theme, that will immediately identify our entire campaign. It should also be the theme of our National Conference.

(C-FACT is working toward the development of a document to counter the Charter for Global Democracy. I am recommending the title: "Declaration of Universal Freedom," in which the virtues of individual freedom are extolled as values greater than those promised by the Charter.)

We might expand on these ideas for the theme of our national campaign.

Strategy:

1. We must involve as broad a spectrum of organizations as possible.
2. We should target state and local officials whose authority is being usurped.
3. We should target Congress for a Resolution expressing our position.
4. We should make private ownership of land a keystone principle
5. We should stress local governance by elected officials.
6. We should stress free markets as opposed to regulated markets
7. We should insist on national security under our exclusive authority.
8. We should present self-determination expressed through elected representative governments as the best hope for the future of the world.

These ideas obviously need development and expansion.

Campaign:

Ideally, organizations will work on selected strategic objectives under the umbrella of our national campaign theme. For example, I would expect the Property Rights Congress to take the lead in promoting the private ownership of land objective, along with the various property rights organizations. They are already considering programmatic activities to this end.

Perhaps we can get People for the USA and Citizens for a Sound Economy to work on state and local officials with very specific objectives in mind. Cliff Kincaid's groups might take the lead recruiting veterans organizations to support the national security objective.

Our task, as Sovereignty International, and its advisors, is to map out the overall campaign and suggest programs in which individual organizations will want to participate to achieve the common objective of avoiding world government.

We have never confronted such a challenge as an organization. If we do not step up to the plate, I don't know who will. The individual efforts of the hundreds of organizations that share our objectives are no match for the concerted, coordinated efforts of the global community. We have to do something different from what we have been doing. Perhaps this is a start.

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