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The rallying cry at the UN Millennium
Forum held from May 22-26 at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New
York City was for global equality and democracy. Yet, the agenda the
conveners of the Forum pushed is nothing less than global control of
everything from money, arms and education, to basic needs such as food,
water and shelter. Their brand of globalization is a threat to the
sovereignty of every nation and the freedom of every citizen on earth.
The recommendations and demands accepted
during the Forum are published in a document entitled, We the Peoples
Millennium Forum Declaration and Agenda for Action Strengthening the
United Nations for the 21st
Century. As expected, the issues that have come
out of this meeting 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. Both call for a
complete, top to bottom restructuring of the UN into what is called global
governance, but in fact is an absolute, totalitarian world government.
Only fully UN accredited
Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) were permitted to attend the Forum.
Called civil society, the NGO vision is one of a human-centered world with
a common homeland. Because these NGOs view free market economics as the
root of poverty, the Forum wants to eradicate corporate driven
globalization. In this new globalized world, "a strengthened and
democratized United Nations and a vibrant civil society" are to
be the guardians of global justice, with nation states answering to them "as
guarantors of this accountability." Lost within this mind-numbing
arrogance is the realization that there is no mechanism of accountability
of these "guarantors" of global justice to the people of
the world. They are setting themselves up as gods over planet earth,
accountable to no one.
Although the root of most poverty and
hunger in the world today can be found within corrupt governments and
rampant civil war, the grand NGO vision blames the wealthy for the
suffering of the poor and the hungry. Hence, global socialism is at the
core of this new global "democracy." Poverty is seen as a
violation of basic human rights. Redistribution of wealth is a top
political goal, and seems to be nothing more than global welfare. The UN
Millennium Forum has called on governments to "provide safety nets
and basic livelihood allocations as a right." Debt cancellation
is a key element of this redistribution, with the wealthier nations,
specifically the U.S. taxpayer as well as the vilified corporate world,
left holding the bag.
Emerging as a top priority from the
Forum is education. The Forum calls upon governments to restructure policy
to "ensure that all children (girls and boys) receive moral,
spiritual, peace and human rights education..." Clearly, however,
this moral and spiritual training will exclude the beliefs of those who
hold to one Creator God who became flesh and dwelt among us as a poor
young man from Nazareth.
Another fundamental goal of civil
society represented at the Forum is the utopian myth of a war-free world.
Underlying this fantasy is the humanistic belief that man is basically
good, and that if people simply have equality in education, wealth and
resources, they will no longer seek violence. Those who understand that
man apart from God will destroy himself, realize that greed and the thirst
for power will make war and conflict an inevitability until God chooses to
rule the earth through his Son, Jesus Christ. Until then, the only hope we
have against tyranny from the outside is a strong military. Yet, the NGO
Forum, which professes to speak for the huddled masses, demands
disarmament. No matter how hard they try to filter the reality of the
fallen nature of man, however, tyranny and conquest is not a thing of the
past. Had disarmament been a reality 60 years ago, our nation would have
stood emasculated and utterly helpless against the onslaught of the Nazis.
The Forum’s brand of disarmament
reaches beyond military weaponry and includes small arms through the
utilization and expansion of the UN arms registry. In other words, global
gun control. And, to be sure the masses accept this version of global
peace, it is to be taught at all levels from "pre-school through
university." No one will be left out.
The Forum’s report also urges that the
UN phase out the veto power of the permanent Security Council members and
eventually eliminate the permanent member status entirely. Such action
would leave the U.S. with the same vote as the weakest, most anti-U.S.
third world nation on the Council. The Forum also wants compulsory
jurisdiction of the World Court to be accepted by all states and, "in
the absence of voluntary compliance, the Security Council should enforce
ICJ [International Court of Justice] decisions and other
international obligations under Article 94 of the UN Charter."
Article 94 essentially empowers the UN to force compliance upon member
states.
Finally, the Forum expressed frustration
over the slow progress or non-implementation of commitments by nations
with regard to sustainable development. Incredibly, the Forum has not only
directed governments to meet requirements of Agenda 21, the Convention
on Biological Diversity, and the Convention of Climate Change,
but has urged the UN to actually require compliance with these global
mandates. Furthermore, the Forum is urging nations to endorse the Earth
Charter in the UN General Assembly. The Earth Charter is an NGO/UN
document that, when fully implemented, would require every person in the
world to accept and apply an earth-centered ethic system based in the
polytheistic belief of pantheism.
The Millennium Forum’s report is not
just another UN meeting destined to be relegated to the dusty halls of
history. According to the UN, the Forum’s recommendations and demands
will "contribute to the Millennium Assembly and the Millennium
Summit." The NGOs within the Forum are doing all that they can to
put enormous pressure on the world leaders at the Millennium Summit to
implement their demands by garnering public attention and support through
protesting and rioting against globalization around the world. These same
NGOs have organized five protests and riots around the world since late
last year which have catapulted the issue to the centerpiece of
international discussions. The first was in late November in Seattle at
the WTO meeting, the second was in late January in Davos, Switzerland, at
the World Economic Forum, the third in mid-February in Bangkok, Thailand,
at the UN Conference of Development, the fourth in mid-April in
Washington, DC, at the IMF-World Bank meetings, and the fifth in early
June at the World Petroleum Congress in Calgary.
