MUNCHKIN'S SATURDAY CORNER # 25

Something special for today

Since this is the first day of September, which means the end of summer and back to school, I usually get into a little funk because I love spring and summer, which are the favorite seasons of my daddy also, so I talked my daddy into taking me out to say good-bye to the flowers, birds and bees and the other critters we have around our home. Therefore, instead of me writing any thing today, I will let you watch some Saturday news. I will write again next week.

AL QAEDA UPSET OVER SLOW PROCESS OF REBUILDING AT WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE:





MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS MAY BE HARMFUL TO MONKEYS

Luv to all, have a great week and I will see you all next, God willing and the creek don’t rise.

FREAKY DEAKY FRIDAY: _ K

Thank goodness my problems with Blog Spot have been rectified and I don’t have to say adios to my blogger friends

Here is a little something called “Dial One for English”

Illegal Immigrants

After almost a century, the words of Theodore Roosevelt still address the problems facing our nation today in the area of illegal immigrants. We would do well to heed his advice!

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

Until the U.S. Federal government finds a way in which to make illegal immigration UNATTRACTIVE, both the individual AND the appropriate foreign governments will continue to encourage illegal entry into the U.S. Presently the potential REWARDS greatly exceed the known penalties! (Especially for the foreign government! The illegal immigrant is usually rewarded with eventual legal status or even citizenship.)

Therefore, it is suggest that the citizens of the U.S. both urge and demand that The Federal Congress of these United States consider AT LEAST the following proposals in an attempt to put a stop to this criminal and illegal behavior:

1) Clarify our citizenship laws to bring them into conformity with our Federal Constitution. The 14^th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states: "All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States" (emphasis added). Thus there are two criteria which must be met before a child born in the U.S.A. can be considered a citizen: (a) Birth in the United States and (b) Subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Illegal entrants are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States, and consequently neither are their children. To eliminate the present problem of granting citizenship to infants NOT subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (since the parents are illegal), Congress needs to go on record as legally declaring that the child of an illegal alien inherits the status of his parent; thus, the child, like his parent, should be deemed to be an illegal alien. Our Constitution does not presently declare that everyone born in the U.S.A. is a citizen, to be a citizen the infant must legally be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the U.S.A. Thus ONE of the infant's parents (and if it is the father, this must by PROVED by DNA testing!) must be a U.S. citizen at the time of the child's birth. By automatically granting citizenship to the child of an illegal entrant, we presently reward illegal entrants for violating American law. Congress needs to discourage, not encourage, illegal aliens from violating the laws of the United States.

2) All individuals and businesses which employ illegal entrants to the U.S.A. must be substantially penalized for encouraging and supporting illegal immigration. At a minimum the Fine should equal: (a) DOUBLE the legal hourly minimum wage for all the time the illegal "worked" for the individual/business PLUS (b) an additional amount equal to DOUBLE what should have been paid to FICA. After ONE (two or at most three) "offenses," the individual or business employing an illegal entrant MUST lose any license/permit they hold allowing them to engage in the activity for which they hired the illegal entrants.

3) All illegal immigrants will be treated by the arresting authority as felons and considered to have "contracted" with whomever "assisted" them to enter the U.S.A. If they engaged in illegal entry on their own, then they are solely responsible for their offense. Thus, alone or assisted, they are treated as smugglers and felons themselves.

4) All illegal entrants captured by any Federal, State or local police authority will be jailed as felons and must serve a minimum period of time in jail as specified by Federal law. Such felons can only be released, after serving the required period of time in jail, to the national government where they hold citizenship, after that government has had all expenses incurred due to the illegal entrants entry into the U.S.A., capture and imprisonment deducted from any and all forms of financial assistance given that government by the U.S. Federal government or added to any loan(s) issued by the U.S. Federal government to that foreign government. U.S. Federal assistance and/or loans to other nations may not be increased by the U.S. Federal government to include or take into consideration the fees required due to that foreign government's encouragement or support (active or passive) of illegal immigration into the U.S.A. Such loans may not be forgiven by the U.S. Federal Government.

5) All illegal immigrants captured within the territory of the United States will have their finger prints and photographs taken for future identification purposes. Said felons will be classified as "undesirable" and not allowed to legally enter the United States for a minimum of TEN years.

The foreign government may directly pay to the appropriate U.S. governmental jurisdiction all expenses incurred in the capture and imprisonment of an illegal immigrant to the U.S.A.

“Abouna” Gregori

Wednesday; Aug. 29,2007

“Just Hitting Another Brick Wall”

Today, in place of my usual Wednesday Golden Pig Award, I am posting the following article which was written by Metropolitan Archbishop Karl J. Barwin, one of the Bishops in the Synod of Bishops of the American Orthodox Catholic Church. I feel that this article is important for all to read:

Lying to the American Citizens!

Misapplication of Federal Constitution's 14th Amendment

By Met. Karl J. Barwin, Th.D.
24 May 2007

In view of the recent disaster where Arizona's two Ambassadors to the Federal government in Washington, D.C., both sponsored and apparently continue to support legislation rewarding criminal behavior on the part of aliens purposely stealing benefits and even "rights" otherwise belonging exclusively to the citizens of this Republic, it is time for the Sovereign State of Arizona to step up and fill the void! Washington is obviously incapable of taking the required action to protect its citizens, their rights and property, and its member nations (the States).

Arizona needs to adopt STATE LAW which unequivocally and clearly clarifies the Federal citizenship requirements specified in our National Constitution. (And NO amendment of the Federal Constitution is even required!) The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution clearly states: "All persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States" (emphasis added).

Thus there are two criteria which must be met before a child born in the U.S.A. can be considered a citizen: (1) Birth within the territory of United States and (2) Subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Criminal aliens (i.e., those non-citizens who have broken our laws to enter our country) are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States (nor any member State), and consequently neither are their children. Their illegal physical presence bestows no rights or benefits, either. (But there SHOULD be consequences for them due to their illegal behavior -- such as a minimum period of time in prison; they should not be simply "released" and sent back home in order to once again attempt to repeat their crime against our citizens by illegally sneaking BACK into our nation. Give them something to THINK about the next time they consider breaking our laws -- the certainty of spending MORE time in prison when again caught!)

To eliminate the present problem of unconstitutionally granting citizenship to infants NOT subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (since the parents are illegal), the State of Arizona (and ideally our Federal Congress and the other 49 State governments) needs to go on record as legally declaring that the child of an illegal alien inherits the status of his criminal parent; thus, the child, like his parent, should be recognized as an illegal (and thus criminal) alien. Hospitals within the borders of the State of Arizona should be required by State Law to issue Certificates of Birth which clearly state that the infant is NOT a citizen of Arizona or the U.S.A. List the infant on this mandatory Certificate of Birth as a citizen of the native country of the MOTHER; the child just happened to have been born while Mom was "visiting" the U.S.A. (illegally).

As previously clarified, our Federal Constitution -- no matter how our Washington politicians try to distort the Truth -- does not presently declare that everyone born in the U.S.A. is a citizen, for to be a citizen the infant must legally be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the U.S.A. Thus ONE of the infant's parents (and if it is the father, this must by PROVED by DNA testing!) must be a U.S. citizen at the time of the child's birth. If the only requirement is BIRTH within the territory of the U.S.A., then we have thousands upon thousands (at least!) of children born to legal foreign Ambassadors, etc., stationed here by their governments who should be given this gift of citizenship, too!

By automatically (but unconstitutionally) granting citizenship to the child of an illegal entrant (known in some circles as an "anchor baby"), we presently reward illegal entrants for violating American law. The 14th Amendment originally addressed children born within the territory of the U.S.A. to those who were previously (prior to the Civil War) classified as "slaves." There is no need to AMEND the Federal Constitution for the 14th Amendment does not address the question of GIVING citizenship to a child born within U.S. territory to a criminal alien. We are NOT trying to CHANGE the 14th Amendment, just correctly APPLY it as it was intended and is already enacted.

Our State of Arizonadiscourage, not encourage, aliens from criminally violating the laws and constitution of these United States by clarifying exactly what the requirements for citizenship in Arizona wish they were or erroneously think they are. needs to officially (and thus the Federal government) ARE according to the Federal Constitution -- not what we

And any politician or judge who declares that the 14th Amendment DOES address the current issue of infants born within U.S. territory to criminal aliens because it grants citizenship to them needs to be impeached for mental stupidity and incompetence!

Of course, this will never happen. We (or at least our Washington politicians), for some strange reason, seem to be intentionally undermining our own form of government -- as if we are TRYING to become just another Third World Nation. Sadly, it seems to be working, too.

Ideally, those traitors sponsoring and supporting the recent Bill introduced in the U. S. Federal Senate to undermine our government and the rights of its citizens by allowing from 12 to 20 million criminal aliens to REMAIN within our borders and continue to be treated as if they were already full citizens should be IMPEACHED for such betrayal -- betrayal of both the State of Arizona and its citizens!

Now the following for your amusement

“Abouna” Gregori

TUESDAY LESSONS IN CIVICS-#14

LESSONS IN CIVICS & THE CONSTITUTION – K Part C

The Federal Reserve: Continued

S. W. Adams uses the Federal Reserve’s own published figures, in a reprint of the book “The Federal Reserve System – Its Purpose and Function,” to give us an example of how lucrative this no risk scheme is to the Federal Reserve: This pauper (The Federal Reserve System) with assets of only $52 billion with no productive know-how, no production of goods, and fewer than 100,000 stockholders, loaned the poor man (The United States of America) with a trillion in productive capacity and know-how with well over $600 billion in assets and 170 million stockholders, including the aforementioned 100,000 bank stockholders, $250 billion to fight World War II.

Can you imagine, the greatest corporation on earth, the Government of the U.S. with 170 million alert full-of-know-how stockholders, and assets running well over $600 billion, turning to a small segment of its population, with fewer than 100,000 stockholders and assets of only $52 billion to borrow money?

Now picture this, Rockefeller says to his chauffer, “Tom, I am transferring my personal bank account which is well over $1 billion, to your bank account. You may spend it as you please; provided that as often as I ask for money, you will let me have it. Of course, I will give you my note for cash I receive, and try to rustle from my children enough money to pay you interest on the money I borrowed.” Does that make any sense to you? Well, that is exactly what Congress did in 1913 when it passed the Federal Reserve Act.

To fight World War II, we gave the bankers of the United States $250 billion in U.S. Bonds that we might use our own (the Nation’s) credit. By using the reserve multiplier, this gave them $1 Trillion 250 billion bank credit. Credits are to the bankers what your deposits are to you. They can lend them, or us them to buy investments – it is cash to the bankers.

Thus, here is what happened: by adding the $250 billion in U.S. Bonds our government absolutely gave to them with their $1trillion 250 billion bank credit, we find that the bankers (the then paupers) came out of World War II $1,500 billion richer, and the (then rich man) the United States Government came out $250 billion in debt to the bankers (the paupers) thanks to the gross stupidity and/or venality of our Congressmen, newspapers, journals, and educated people of the nation. You can clearly see, by their own testimony, the Federal Reserve, as a maritime lender or insurer, not only has nothing to risk, but can only gain on a scale that is almost unconceivable, just like the tontine insurance schemes, and just like the George Rapp Harmony Society.

You will see the significance of all this when I apply the law to the fact. These same people who were given control of our public money system, for the so-called purpose of evening out the economy, using Professor List’s formula for a “National Economy”, caused a recession in 1921—and precipitated the stock market crash of 1929 by increasing the member bank reserve requirements from 15% to 20% -- thereby forcing a hugh liquidity squeeze. This paved the way for what was to follow in 1933 by way of bankrupting the treasuries of the States and Federal governments. They could no longer pay their debts at law to the Federal Reserve, thus drastic measures were necessary -- we had a “National Emergency” on our hands!

In March of 1933, President Roosevelt had Congress pass an Emergency Measures Act. The text used in this act was the “Trading with the Enemies Act” of 1917 which revoked the constitutional rights of Germans and allies of Germany living in the U.S.A. These people were forbidden to carry on trade with Germany and were subject to fines and/or imprisonment for showing any anti-U.S.A. sentiment. The Emergency Powers Act of 1933 eliminated section five of the Trading with the Enemies Act. This section exempted U.S. citizens from the act; thereby the CITIZENS of the United States were put on status as enemies of the United States.

This action allowed the President to rule by decree (executive order) as under Marshall Rule. Thus, on April 5, 1933, President Roosevelt issued an executive order calling for the return of all gold in private hiding to the Federal Reserve by May 1^st, under the pain of ten years imprisonment and $10,000 fine. Those who refused were hunted and prosecuted. The then Attorney General Cummings declared: “I have no patience with people who follow a course that in war time would class them as slackers. If I have to make an example of some people, I’ll do it cheerfully.”

The California Assembly and Senate, on May 12, 1933, adopted the Assembly Joint Resolution No. 26. This resolution stated in part: “Whereas, it would appear that, with proper use and control of modern means of production and distribution, it would be possible for practically all persons to have and enjoy a fair share of material goods in return for services; and whereas, such use, control and appropriate economic planning are not feasible except through the direction and supervision of a single, centralized agency and the removal of certain constitutional limitations; now, therefore be it resolved by the Assembly and Senate, jointly, that the Legislature of the State of California hereby memorializes the Congress to propose an amendment to the constitution of the United States reading substantially as follows:”

“The Congress and the several States, by its authority and under its control, may regulate or provide for the regulation of hours of work, compensation for work, the production of commodities and the rendition of services, in such manner as shall be necessary and proper to foster orderly production and equitable distribution, to provide ruminative work for the maximum number of persons, to promote adequate compensation for work performed, and to safeguard the economic stability and welfare of the nation; resolved that the Legislature of California respectfully urges that, pending the submission and adoption of such amendment, the Congress provide such economic planning and regulation as may be necessary and proper under present economic conditions and legally possible under the existing provisions of the Constitution;

And be it further resolved, that the Chief Clerk of the Assembly is hereby instructed forthwith to transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, and to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and each of the Senators and Representatives from California in the Congress of the United States.” May 12, 1933.

Next Week, September 4th, LESSONS IN CIVICS & THE CONSTITUTION – L Pennsylvania General Assembly Act III

“Abouna” Gregori

MONDAY MADNESS #10

This first item should make you first laugh and then cry.

Teen beauty queen gives new meaning to “Dumb Blond” on national TV

Many Americans have been expressing their concerns about the state of education in our public schools and the video shows that they may have good reason for their concerns.

Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina, suffered and apparent “extreme blond moment” during Friday night’s NBC broadcast of the Miss Teen USA Pageant held in Pasadena, California.

Well, I guess it is true what a neighbor boy told me a couple of days ago. The boy said; “One of the great benefits of having a blond girlfriend is that you get to park in the handicap parking spots.”

Nigerian archbishop: Anglicans must not sacrifice Bible for unity:

Here is one Anglican Archbishop who has a common sense and a belief in the Bible as it was written.

Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola stated that the Anglican Communion’s future of either unity or division is nearing the moment of decision. He said that the theological conservatives cannot stand by as the Episcopal Church of the U.S., and the Anglican Church of Canada move toward full acceptance of homosexual relationships.

Click on the Anglican symbol to read the story.

“Abouna” Gregori

SUNDAYS TWO-CENTS WORTH- #8

Breaking News on the Religious Front:

Televangelist and Faith Healer Exposed as Fraud

THE TACOMA FREE PRESS - Pastor Benny Hinn doesn’t even

have the spiritual ability to start his own car, claims an eye

witness.

Mr. Schmart Alec, 43 of Tacoma Washington, says that he had just attended one of Hinn’s faith healing services where dozens of so-called disabled folks were “healed”. Upon leaving the auditorium, Mr. Alec states that he witnessed Pastor Hinn, who was seated behind the wheel of his gas guzzling SUV, slamming his hands against the steering wheel in an irate manner. Schmart states that this went on for several minuets. Finally, a furious Hinn exited his vehicle, screaming invectives at the SUV and then placed both of his hands on the hood of his auto, screaming “HEAL” and “START DAMN YOU”. Then after a few moments in silent prayer with his eyes closed, Mr. Alec states, Hinn screamed “START!” and then pushed violently against the vehicle’s grill, causing Hinn to fall flat on his butt when the large SUV failed to budge. Hinn then stood up, brushed himself off and used his cell phone to call a tow truck.

Devout Roman Catholic Women Sees Vision of the Lord in a Tortilla Shell

MEXICO CITY NEWS – Senora Maria Orosco, a 78-year-old mother of seven and grandmother of thirteen, had just finished making herself a homemade tortilla shell when she claims she saw the face of Jesus appear in the shell along with three paragraphs of what seemed to be Hebrew text. Orosco says she then covered the holy vision with beans and ate it.

Nobody would have known about this miracle had not Maria been overcome by guilt and confessed the whole thing to her local priest, Father Jose Colon, who advised her to go public.

When asked by her parish priest why she didn’t save the “Blessed Image”, Maria stated, “I was hungry and this is Mexico. Food doesn’t exactly grow on trees around here.”

The reaction from Biblical scholars around the world was one of anger. Professor Ian Rothchild of the Association of International Bible Scholars, angrily stated, “There's no telling what this message could have been—clarification of the book of Revelation, an answer to predestination versus free will or even a clear message to the Amish to stop living in the past. This woman should be thrown in jail."

However, Alberto Cardinal Maria-Hernandez, Mexico's Archbishop, was much more forgiving when he said, "God knew this woman was hungry when he created the vision. We can't pretend to know the ways of the Father. Why does God allow suffering? Why do so many willfully live excommunicate from the one true Church? And what's the deal with airline food? These are questions that only God can answer."

"I've learned my lesson," said a penitent Orosco. "The next time God appears to me in my food, I'm definitely going to take a picture before I eat it.”

“Abouna” Gregori

MUNCHKIN'S SATURDAY CORNER # 24

Welcome to

Oh Boy, Here We Go Again:

No wonder my daddy is having daily apoplexy!

Here is another example of the judicial system of the United States suffering from Brain Farts. The following is from John Gibson’s “The Big Story” show on the Fox News Channel today.

An illegal immigrant, Nicholas Martinez, was arrested for dealing drugs in Kansas. Not only was he here in the country illegally, dealing illegal drugs, but he was using his own young child to deliver the drugs.

When he came before the trial court judge, the judge refused to give the illegal immigrant probation because if given probation, the moment he stepped outside the court room, Martinez would immediately be in violation of the probation since he was already in violation of the immigration laws of the United States by being here illegally.

The illegal immigrant took the case to the Kansas Court of Appeals, before Appeals Court Judge Patrick McAnany who over ruled the trial court judge declaring:

“While Congress has criminalized the illegal entry into this country, it has not made the continued presence of an illegal alien in the United States a crime. . . .”

Isn’t this kind of like saying that if an intruder breaks into your home, then since he managed to get in your home then he has the right to stay and do what he wants?

In other words, if the illegals can make it into our country without being caught at the border, then they are “Home Free”.

Excuuuuse Me! I may be just a dog, but this sounds totally stupid to me. How can any one in their right mind accept this grossly asinine thinking?

See ya all next week, Lord willing and

the creek don’t rise.

FREAKY DEAKY FRIDAY: _ J

Oh my God! What the heck is happening to America?

Can someone please tell me what the hell is happening to America? It is becoming more and more evident every single day that the United States has totally lost it freakin’ mind and the whole damn country is turning into one great big lunatic asylum.

I absolutely believe that the drug culture of the 1960’s and 70’s is finally manifesting itself in the actions of the wacko liberals of today. Here is a sample of what I am talking about:

We have all heard of the “zero tolerance” rules that our so-called educators keep coming up with such as, “zero tolerance for drugs”, which has ended up meaning that students aren’t even allowed to bring even aspirins or Midol to school without being suspended or expelled. “Zero Tolerance for weapons”, now means that students are not allowed to even have fingernail clippers on their person in school, nor can they even bring a plastic knife to cut a birthday cake. If they do, they will be suspended or expelled. One eight year old boy was expelled because he had little plastic toy soldiers on his hat, which he had put there in honor of his older brother who was serving in Iraq. Now we have this:

Arizona School Suspends 13-Year-Old Boy for Drawing Gun

Yup, you read that right. School officials at an Arizona school suspended a 13-year-old boy for committing the horrible crime of sketching a picture of a gun on the margin of a homework paper he turned in. Believe it or not, the school officials are actually claiming that the drawing (shown in the picture to the left) “posed a threat to his classmates.” If you ask me, these school officials are too mentally unstable to run the men’s room at the local YMCA.

The parents of the boy say that the drawing was nothing more than a harmless doodle. The drawing showed no blood, no bullets, nor did it depict any target, human or otherwise, and it contained no message of any kind. Yet, school administrators of Payne Junior High School in Chandler, suspended the boy on Monday for five days, but later reduced it to three days. Chandler spokesman, Terry Locke, stated that the crude sketch was, “absolutely considered a threat, and that threatening words and pictures need to be punished.” I think Locke needs to take a couple of Valium and go lie down.

When the boy’s father, Ben Mosteller went to the school to discuss his son’s situation, school officials compared his son’s drawing of the gun to the 1999 Columbine massacre. Give me a break!

So, let me see if I am understanding this whole zero tolerance, political correctness B.S. correctly:

A.) If a student brings a bottle of or has a one or two aspirin in his/her possession in school, or if a female student has some Midol to control menstrual cramps in her possession in school. They need to be suspended or expelled.

B.) If a student has the audacity of placing little toy soldiers on their hats, or God forbid, draws or doodles a gun on their homework paper, they are considered a “THREAT” and must be punished.

C.) If a little boy dares to hug or kiss a little girl in school, or if they playfully swat the butt of another student, they must be arrested and charged with sexual abuse or assault,

But, it is not considered a threat to students when:

A.) The schools indoctrinate our children with all sorts of liberal lunacy and ideology?

B.) The schools escort pregnant teen girls to abortion clinics without the knowledge or consent of their parents?

C.) Teachers are sexually molesting our sons and daughters on a regular basis?

The morally bankrupt mental midgets that are running our schools and our country, feign all of this concern for OUR children and for the safety of the country by enacting all sorts of asinine rules and procedures to keep us and our children “SAFE”, while at the same time, they will protect and offer sanctuary and amnesty to illegal immigrants, allowing them to run amok among us, committing one violent crime after another, raping our mothers, sisters and daughters, peddling drugs to our children, killing our family members, friends, and neighbors on our highways by driving while illegally and while intoxicated.

These same brain dead twits refuse to secure our borders, allowing all kinds of people to sneak into our country by the thousands, not knowing, or even seeming to care if some of them may be terrorists or even to what kind of diseases they be bringing in to the country, which could very well be a threat to us and our children. But god have mercy on the child in school who draws a picture of gun, or who brings aspirin or Midol to school, or the child who is celebrating a birthday and brings a cake along with a plastic knife to cut it, to school. God help the student who playfully swats the butt of another student. These kids are a danger to a well ordered society and they MUST be punished to fullest extent of the law.

Click on the picture of the school house to read the whole story:

“Abouna” Gregori

THURSDAY STUFF: AWAKE YOU WHO SLEEP -VI: Part A

“Just Hitting Another Brick Wall”

AWAKE VI:

The United Nations’ Plans for the Future

of the World

PART A

On September 5-9, 2000, following the United Nations Millennium Conference of Religious and Spiritual leaders, the U.N. General Assembly held their 55^th annual meeting in New York City, called the Millennium Assembly and Summit. Their agenda was to discuss some very far reaching plans that would steer the world away from sovereign, independent nation-states to a world of disparate peoples in subjugation to the Supreme Authority of the United Nations.

To bring about this goal, the U.N. planned to consider two actions, by consensus instead of the usual formal vote: adoption of the EARTH CHARTER, a document which had undergone several drafts since the first Earth Summit of 1992, and adoption of a Declaration authorizing a new U.N. commission to implement recommendations to bring about global governance. Global governance means World Government through incremental steps, chipping away at national sovereignty one treaty at a time, one world conference at a time, and one UN commission at a time.

A portion of the Millennium Assembly was designated as the Millennium Summit and was attended by President Bill Clinton and 160 other heads of state which made it the largest gathering of heads of state in history. Meeting at the same time, a short distance away, at the New York Hilton was Mikhail Gorbachev and his State of the World Forum, hoping to help induce heads of state to concur in the Millennium Assembly’s historic actions. Gorbachev had been pushing for a One World Government ever since his 1992 speech at the Churchill Memorial in Fulton, Missouri, where he called for a “global structure”, a “democratically organized world community”, a “restructured United Nations with an armed forces” and “substantial funding”, and “some mechanism tying the UN to the world economy”. (An interesting side note: After the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Communist Leader of the Soviet Union, was allowed to live in the United States where he was given an apartment and large complex for his staff and aids at what used to be the former Marine Corps base, The Presidio. He then was hired to give speeches at colleges and universities around the U.S. and the world, pushing for the One World Government. Also, every October, heads of state from every country in the world, including the United States, would come to San Francisco to attend Gorbachev’s World Forum meetings. One of the ways in which the UN has been considering financing a UN standing military, is to impose a separate UN tax on all of the workers in the world. In other words, we here in the U.S. would have to pay our Federal Income Tax, our State and local taxes plus a United Nations tax, on top of all the other taxes that we are forced to pay.)

To listen to the Earth Charter advocates, one would think that the Earth Charter was the ‘Magna Carta’ of a new regime, but not a regime of freedom from tyrannical rulers. It is a charter that would submit the United States and her citizens to global dictators possessing unprecedented powers.

The Earth Charter demands that we "demilitarize national security systems" (i.e., eliminate our armed services and their weapons). The Charter proclaims that its "Way Forward" requires "a change of mind and heart" as we move toward "global interdependence and universal responsibility."

The Charter demands that we adopt "sustainable development plans and regulations" (i.e., to subordinate human needs to global fads enforced by environment dictators), and that the UN "manage the use of renewable resources such as water, soil, forest products, and marine life . . . [to] protect the health of ecosystems" (i.e., not the health of mere humans).

The Charter demands that we "act with restraint and efficiency when using energy" (i.e., reduce U.S. energy use and lower our standard of living). The Charter requires that we "eradicate poverty," "promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations," and "relieve them of onerous international debt" (i.e., redistribute U.S. wealth around the world and cancel the debts owed by recipients of U.S. foreign loans).

The Charter exhorts us to affirm "gender equality" and "eliminate discrimination in ... sexual orientation" (i.e., adopt the feminist and gay agendas). The Charter demands that we "integrate into formal education [i.e., assign a UN nanny to monitor our schools] ... skills needed for a sustainable way of life [i.e., indoctrination in how we must subordinate sovereignty to the UN dogma of sustainability]."

The Charter affirms that "all beings are interdependent" (i.e., personal freedom is irrelevant) and "every form of life has value regardless of its worth to human beings" (i.e., animals, plants and insects, but not unborn babies). The Charter demands that we "ensure universal [i.e., global] access to health care that fosters reproductive health [i.e., abortion and contraception] and responsible reproduction [i.e., UN-dictated population control]."

The Earth Charter won't be a treaty that the U.S. Senate can accept or reject. It will be "soft law," a policy document like the UN Declaration on Human Rights, which has no legal standing but gives globalists such as Bill Clinton and global environmentalists such as Al Gore the perch from which they exhort us to "fulfill our international obligations" (even though Americans never accepted such obligations).

The Declaration and Agenda for Action, subtitled "Strengthening the United Nations for the 21st Century," was also considered by the Millennium Assembly and Summit. This lengthy document, which fleshes out the global plans in more detail, was developed by the UN-accredited Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who call themselves the Millennium Forum.

The Declaration demands the disarmament of all conventional and nuclear weapons, the prohibition of "unilateral deployment of nationwide missile defense by any country," and a "standing Peace Force" (i.e., a UN standing army). It calls for a "UN Arms register" of all small arms and light weapons (there goes our Constitutional Right to keep and bear arms), and "peace education" covering "all levels from pre-school through university."

The Declaration calls for "eliminating" the veto and permanent membership in the Security Council so that the United States will be merely one of 160 nations. This would reduce the influence of the United States in the UN to that of Cuba or Haiti even though we pay the lion's share of the budget.

The Declaration calls for the UN to impose direct taxes such as a "currency transfer tax," a "tax on the rental value of land and natural resources," a "royalty on worldwide fossil energy production -- oil, natural gas, coal," "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 Declaration calls for "a fair distribution of the earth's resources" (from the United States to the rest of the world, of course), and for the "eradication of poverty" by "redistribution [of] wealth and land." It demands that we "cancel the debts of developing countries." The Declaration demands UN "democratic political control of the global economy so that it may serve our vision" (i.e., control by 160 nations with the U.S. having only one vote). It calls for UN monitoring of U.S. implementation of Agenda 21 and the Copenhagen Declaration.

The Declaration demands that we "integrate" the World Trade Organization under UN control. All the talk we hear from politicians about "free trade" is just pap for the gullible; the goal is managed trade -- managed by UN bureaucrats. The Declaration calls for implementing UN treaties that the United States has never ratified, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (which refuses to recognize the right to private property).

The Declaration calls for the unratified International Criminal Court (ICC) to exercise "compulsory jurisdiction" over all states, enforced by the UN Security Council. The ICC is so dangerous to the constitutional rights of Americans that even Bill Clinton declined to sign it after his Administration had spent years participating in writing and negotiating it. The ICC has been signed by a hundred countries, and now the ICC and the UN are impudently asserting jurisdiction over the United States even though we did not sign it.

These radical UN Plans, which originated with the UN-funded Commission on Global Governance, are promoted by the NGOs, the hundreds of private Non-Government Organizations that have attached themselves to the United Nations like leeches. The UN now accredits 1,603 NGOs. Accreditation is dependent on the organization declaring that its primary purpose is to "promote the aims, objectives, and purposes of the United Nations."

The NGOs are energetic lobbyists for dramatic changes in the mission and structure of the UN to achieve global governance. The most prominent NGOs are the radical environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and the feminist and population-control groups such as Planned Parenthood. The leader of the UN's restructuring plans is a Canadian named Maurice Strong, who was Secretary General of the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 and has built his power base among the NGOs. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed him Executive Coordinator of UN Reform.

Maurice Strong and the NGOs publicized their extraordinary plans to achieve global governance through the UN in a 410-page report called Our Global Neighborhood, issued in 1995 by the Commission on Global Governance. This document states (p. 359) that the plans to "strengthen" the UN into global government originated with former West German Socialist Chancellor Willy Brandt. The NGOs work the corridors of the United Nations headquarters in New York like typical corporate lobbyists. Persistent lobbying has made the NGOs very influential at the various UN conferences, including the Children's Summit in New York in 1990, the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Human Rights Conference in Vienna in 1993, the Population Conference in Cairo in 1994, the Social Summit in Copenhagen in 1995, the Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul in 1996, and the World Food Summit in Rome in 1996.

The UN bureaucrats and NGOs have been working ever since on a Charter for Global Democracy to build the framework for a restructured UN, and the plans are now being crystallized in the Earth Charter and the Declaration described above. The NGOs worked for several years under the name NGO Forum and are now becoming the People's Assembly, as recommended by the Commission on Global Governance. This body of unelected pressure groups with leftwing political agendas is supposed to be formally attached to the UN during the Millennium Assembly. Pompously calling themselves the "civil society," they claim to be the voice of the people, in contrast to the General Assembly, which consists of the representatives of national governments. The NGOs dream of becoming the real power in the UN, bypassing the official representatives of nations. (All rather scary stuff, wouldn’t you say?)

Clinton Administration representatives at the United Nations were always very supportive of expanded UN powers. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrook says that "the United Nations must transform its civilian-run peacekeeping department into a larger and more effective military-style operation ..." (New York Times, 6-14-00)

The UN bureaucrats and NGOs are skillful with semantics, and their goal of world government is waffled with words that have specialized meanings but may appear non-threatening. Their jargon words used in a positive connotation are sustainable (their favorite word), global, interdependent, civil society, environmental, inclusive, diversity, common good, demilitarize, fair distribution, international, and universal responsibility. Among the jargon words always used negatively are production and consumption. Forbidden words include independence, freedom and sovereignty.

Much of what has been proposed sounds very nice and Christian, kind of “warm fuzzy”, but the cost to our freedoms, our national sovereignty and our safety would be too high a price to pay. Not only would we be signing away our rights and freedoms, and our souls, but we would also be signing away these same rights and freedoms of our children and grandchildren.

Next Week, August 30^th: I will continue with Part B

“Abouna” Gregori