Regionalizing Global Governance

On July 7, 1999, the Toronto Star reported that a Joint Command for America, Mexico and Canada should be formed, complete with an active "North American peacekeeping force." The proposed regional military effort is outlined in a report written by Lt.-Col. Joseph Nunez for the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Such a plan would further globalize the U.S. military and weaken U.S. sovereignty.

Note the NATO equipment (shield) being used by this Modesto, California Swat Team. The drive to divide the emerging world government into military-economic regions requires the militarization of our police and reorganization of our military into regional forces like NATO, all under a harmonized command structure.

A military "organization that reflects regional economic and security concerns is a better strategy," contends the report, "particularly considering our burgeoning trade through NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and the growing threat of terrorism that can penetrate through our borders.’’

This follows the June, 1999, Bilderberger meeting in Sintra, Portugal ,where the replacement of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) with a Western European Army for the European Union (EU) was discussed according to Portugal’s weekend newspaper The News Weekly on May 29th. A plan for the creation of an American Union, patterned after the European Union and its Western European Army, was also reviewed.

The move to regionalize armies and economies represents key recommendations in the United Nations’ (UN) Commission on Global Governance’s report, Our Global Neighborhood. The Commission’s recommendations are being systematically implemented for the purpose of creating global governance, a euphemism for world government. According to the Commission, in order for global governance to work, "military force is not a legitimate political instrument, except in self-defence or under UN auspices.... The international community should make the demilitarization of global politics an overriding priority." Regionalization is one method for weakening sovereign nations and their armies.

"Military force is not a legitimate political instrument, except in self-defense or under UN auspices"

Regional military governance bodies would be under direct UN control. "One way to deal with certain conflicts could be to delegate the actual implementation of an operation to a regional organization or arrangement, but to maintain Security Council control over enforcement action and its overall political leadership," claims the Commission. In such a plan, "political authority must be maintained at the global level," they assert, "to ensure international control over any given situation.

UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali notes in his 1995 "Supplement To An Agenda for Peace" that the UN/NATO arrangement in Bosnia exemplifies this relationship. Ghali states, "In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Security Council has authorized Member States, acting...through regional arrangements, to use force to...support the United Nations forces in the former Yugoslavia in the performance of their mandate.... Much effort has been required between the Secretariat and NATO to work out procedures for the coordination of this unprecedented collaboration."

Washington Times writer Frank Murray wrote on July 8, 1999, that the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations meeting in Tokyo also "advocated a stronger peacemaking role for the UN, specifically endorsing Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali’s vision of a UN army." The G-7 joint communique called for "preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peace-keeping and post-conflict peace building in the context of the Secretary General’s [1992] Agenda for Peace."

The integration of command structures is critically important for the UN to maintain control of local military and police units. "Standing arrangements between the UN and regional organizations...as well as harmonization of command procedures should be initiated or further strengthened," claims the Commission. Such an effort, asserts Ghali in his 1992 Agenda for Peace, requires "training peace-keeping personnel - civilian, police, and military."

It should surprise no one that President Clinton has been providing federal funds to "harmonize" domestic police training using UN and NATO training tactics. The September 9, 1999, Washington Times reported, "The Defense Department has provided everything from tanks for the 1993 siege at Waco, Texas, to explosives experts to blow out a prison door, to special forces training for the FBI and small-town cops. One military organization alone, Joint Task Force Six (JTF-6)...based in southwest Texas, provides 500 training missions to local law enforcement each year."

A study by two Eastern Kentucky University instructors, "Militarizing American Police: the Rise and Normalization of Paramilitary Units," has found that of 459 rapid response SWAT teams in the United States, 43 percent received training from active-duty military experts in special operations. Such training not only blurs the role of domestic police to protect the citizens, with that of the army to make war, it also establishes a common command language from the UN through regional military forces to local police.

The establishment of regional governance focuses on more than military integration. "We advocate the design of a long-term global plan of action that would address the economic and social as well as the military aspects of demilitarization," asserts the Commission. "Regional co-operation and integration," they continue, "should be seen as an important and integral part of a balanced system of global governance."

Regional economic governance is taking form in a new UN report entitled "Towards a New International Financial Architecture" released on January 21, 1999. Regional governance, the UN report states, "can play a significant role, in terms of both the stability of the world financial system and the balance of power relations at the international level." This new international architecture, the UN report continues, will require "the surrender of more economic autonomy and powers of intervention in national policies."

Economic regionalism is to be based on the European Union (EU) model. The Commission claims that, "spectacular success of regionalism in Europe and more recently in North and South America is inspiration to all who strive towards a world beyond frontiers [national borders]. The EU has not only fostered cooperation between states, but has also contributed to stability within states, thus being a force for conflict prevention. The EU continues to be a strong pole of attraction to countries outside it...."

Likewise, the International Financial Architecture report also praises the EU model, "The experience of Western Europe...suggests that regional financial organizations and arrangements can play an essential stabilizing role."

Clinton’s weakening of the U.S. military (see August, 1999 DTT), the blurring of purpose between the military and the police by harmonizing their command structure, the creation of NAFTA and perhaps soon an "American Union" all work together to decimate American sovereignty. In its place, unaccountable regional governance kingdoms are being created, answering only to the UN, not the American people. Tyranny will be the result, unless this agenda is exposed with your willingness, prayer and God’s help. V ms