UN NGO Millennium Forum To Demand Global Governance

Known as the Millennium Forum this year, the embryonic United Nations (UN) People’s Assembly will be held May 22-26 in New York. This assembly is an attempt to cement the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), also known as Civil Society, within the framework of global governance in the UN. NGOs involved with the Millennium Forum boast about being "the voice of the people," stating in a press release about the Forum, that they have solicited, "the best thinking of civil society in all its sectors." In fact, the representation is drawn solely from leadership within UN sanctioned NGOs.

Issues to be discussed in the Forum will parallel those found in Charter 99, A Charter for Global Democracy. In turn, Charter 99 merely echoes the agenda laid out in 1995 by the UN Commission on Global Governance. The leadoff theme of the Forum is Peace, Security and Disarmament, which carries with it the cry of "War No More." The draft writers claim that governments and Civil Society already have the utopian knowledge to "open the road to enduring peace." The idealistic belief that man has the power within himself to achieve peace is as old as time itself. Yet this utopian peace is no closer to reality today in the world than it has been in past millennia. True and lasting peace cannot be achieved apart from the living God. No matter how sugarcoated the utopian vision, it can never overcome the deep-seated hatred, bigotry, selfishness, greed, and thirst for power that repeatedly cause man’s hand to rise in combat.

During the Forum, so-called Civil Society will insist that all governments work to abolish their nuclear arsenals. They will further demand that "national armed forces are drastically reduced and that the right to send forces beyond national borders except at the request of the United Nations is relinquished in actual practice, as well as through signing the UN Charter." Furthermore, they will insist that governments man and support a UN global peacekeeping force. In effect, this agenda item seeks to place control of all weapons, from privately owned hunting rifles, all the way to our strategic defenses in the hands of the UN. No longer would the United States be allowed to defend itself or its interests.

Human rights will provide another major focus for the Forum. NGOs attending the Forum will assert that in order for human rights to truly be protected, nations must ratify all of the rights-related conventions originating from the UN. As with Annan’s Millennium Report issued on April 3, NGOs will put tremendous pressure on governments to "ratify the core human rights conventions without reservations, withdraw any reservations made, and fulfill all obligations under such conventions, including bringing national law and practice into line with international standards"; and they must "ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), support existing international criminal tribunals, and ensure against all forms of impunity." (Bold added) The "Star Chamber" group of judges resulting from the ICC will have unchallenged authority to define what actions are crimes against humanity and who is violating them. Once arrested, the suspect is guilty until proven innocent. It is the ultimate weapon of coercion.

As was made clear by the riots in Seattle during the WTO meeting last December, and at Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum meeting in January, big business is seen as an enemy to global progress. Civil Society NGOs want to see corporations controlled by the UN, claiming that "the United Nations is the forum that can best regulate the practices of corporations and assist member states in controlling them."

A repeating component that runs through all of the themes of the Forum is that of education. Conveners of the Forum want to see their enlightened version of peace, rights, and governance taught at all levels of education, from adults to the youngest students in our schools. They insist our children be committed global citizens.

Other agenda items of the Millennium Forum will be to seek global implementation of sustainable development principles, and the redistribution of wealth. It is nothing less than socialism on a global scale. The sobering fact is we may have passed the point of no return. The global agenda is already being implemented throughout our nation. Our government has sold our sovereignty piece by piece through programs like Sustainable America, the American Heritage Rivers Program, Clean Water Action Plan and many more on which DTT has reported. We will never regain the ground we have lost. Our only hope is complete withdrawal from the UN. Tragically, unless God intervenes, that will never happen.

The ultimate purpose of the Millennium Forum is to put enormous pressure on the world leaders at the Millennium Summit to revise or create a new UN Charter to make the UN the seat of global governance. If these things come to fruition, absolutely nothing will remain that is not controlled by the UN. Nothing. Once the UN has the muscle it needs to assert its power, and once we are reeducated as global citizens, we will become the Peoples of the World. No longer will we be concerned with national heritage or sovereignty. Patriotism, freedom and God-given inalienable rights will hold as much significance for the next generation as the fireside chat and the rumble seat hold for our generation. And, Bible-based Christianity will be outlawed and despised by most. V ks