From: Dave Champion Subject: Quality info enclosed Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:01:36 -0800 Many people hear that the United Nations is a "menace" to our American = way of life, but that is often said in the heat of rhetoric and = generally is not accompanied by facts. The information below should = help clear up any questions or misconceptions Dave _________________________________________________________ "FACT LIST" FACT # 1 Alan Cranston was the president of the United World Federalists from 1949-51, and he helped convince 111 members of the House of Representatives and 22 members of the Senate (along with 25 State Legislatures) to "sponsor" resolutions designed to initiate executive action to completely disarm the world and open Article 109 of the UN Charter and transform the United Nations into a world federation with the powers to enact, interpret, and enforce world law. SOURCE: (U.S. Congress, Senate, Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations. "Revision of the United Nations Charter." Hearings, 81st Cong., Feb. 2-20th, 1950) RELEVANCE: Today, Alan Cranston is the Chairman of the Board of the Gorbachev Foundation USA. In May of 1992, Gorbachev called for a world government. (May 7, 1992, L.A. Times) FACT #2 Article 109 of the UN Charter allows 2/3 of the General-Assembly and 8 members of the Security Council to hold a Charter review conference (world constitutional convention.) SOURCE: (See UN CHARTER) RELEVANCE: During the Cold War, Article 109 was never opened because of the bipolar stand-off between the EAST-WEST. Today, this rivalry has been considered deceased. FACT # 3 In 1950, the Committee on Foreign Relations REFUSED to allow these resolutions out of committee. (Cold War) SOURCE: (U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations. "Revision of the United Nations Charter." Report, 81st Cong., September 1, 1950) FACT # 4 Sen. John W. Bricker introduced SJR 102 in 1951 that eventually evolved into S.J.R. 1 in 1954, in order to safeguard the Constitution from proponents of world government who planned on utilizing treaty and executive power to form a world federation. Here is the text of S.J.R. 1: Section 1. A provison of a treaty which denies or abridges any right enumerated in this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect. Section 2. No treaty shall authorize or permit any foreign power or any international organization to supervise, > control, or adjudicate rights of citizens of the United States within the United States enumerated in this Constitution or any other matter essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. Section 3. A treaty shall become effective as internal law only through the enactment of appropriate legislation by the Congress. Section 4. All executive or other agreements between the President and any international organization, foreign power, or official thereof shall be made only in the manner and to the extent to be prescribed by law. Such agreements shall be made only in the manner and to the extent to be prescribed by law. SOURCE: (U.S. Congress, Senate, Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary. "Treaties and Executive Agreements: on SJR 1." Hearings, 84th Congress, April/May, 1955) RELEVANCE: If S.J.R. 1 amended the U.S. Constitution in 1954, the U.S. Congress could not have surrendered a portion of our sovereignty to the World Trade Organization. S.J.R. 1 was defeated in 1954 along with the "George" resolution that failed by only 1 vote! FACT # 5 In 1961, President Kennedy called for the complete disarmament of the world and the establishment of the international machinery to create a just and lasting peace throught the rule of law in front of the General-Assembly. SOURCE: (Kennedy, John. "Let Us Call a Truce to Terror." Address before the UN General Assembly, September 21, 1961, State Department document 7282.) FACT # 6 Department of State Publication 7277 was released in 1961 after President Kennedy's speech and offered a 3 step plan for the complete disarmament of the world. FACT # 7 In 1972, around 160 members of the House of Representatives and around 69 Senators co-sponsored (HCR 258--introduced by Congressman Hungate/SCR 45--introduced by Sen. Alan Cranston) resolutions designed to create and Commission on U.S. participation in the UN and called for article 109 to be opened before 1974. (Rep. Dellums and former Speaker of the House Foley were sponsors.) [Walter Hoffman, president of the World Federalists USA testified.] SOURCE: U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. "Review of U.N. Charter and Establishment of a Commission on U.S. Participation in the United Nations." Hearings, 92nd Cong., 2nd Sess., April 27 and May 1, 1972. FACT # 8 Rep. Hungate tried again in 1975 with H. Con. Res 206. This time, Luther Evans (former Director of the U.S. Commission to UNESCO) testified as president of the World Federalists USA. SOURCE: U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations. "United States Policy on Review of the United Nations Charter." Hearing, 94th Congress, 1st Session, July 17, 1975. FACT # 8 On OCTOBER 24, 1994, the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs conducted the "United Nations at 50" hearing and invited Tad Daley (Campaign for a New UN Charter to testify and he advocated the use of ARTICLE 109) [Tad Daley is a member of the World Federalist Association.] SOURCE: (U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. "United Nations at 50." Hearing, 103th Cong., November 24th, 1994.) RELEVANCE: The key organizer for this hearing was George Shultz (Chairman of the Board of Advisor, Gorbachev Foundation USA). Shultz recommended that Ernst Haas, Professor Smith, and Tad Daley testify. This means that the Gorbachev Foundation has direct access to the U.S. Congress. 1) According to Tad Daley, in the spring of 1993, the Americans Talk Issues Foundation conducted a poll and found that 62% of Americans would support a U.S. role in a world conference to review the UN Charter. 2) According to Tad Daley, Robert McNamara and Jimmy Carter have endorsed the Commission on Global Governance. FACT # 10 Today, George Shultz, Alan Cranston, Sen. Dick Clark, Sen. Gary Hart, Rep. Mel Levine, Sen. Charles Mathias, and Sen. Nagle are advisors for the Gorbachev Foundation. SOURCE: Gorbachev Foundation USA Our own government is surrendering power to the UN. The U.S. government is officially committed to a comprehensive disarmament program that calls for disarming all nations while arming the U.N. The program was originally submitted to the UN in 1961 as Freedom From War: The United States Program For General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World. The final stage of the three-stage program states that disarmament "would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force." Now called Blueprint for the Peace Race, the program has never been formally withdrawn. President George Bush has already used the U.S. Military improperly for UN objectives. He sent troops to the Persian Gulf in 1990 to enforce UN sanctions against Iraq. When Iraq resisted, he went FIRST to the U.N. Security Council, NOT to the United States Congress, for the authority to go to war. This unconstitutional use of our nations military has now been extended to include the assignment of some U.S. forces in the Middle East to a permanent U.N.. command. President Bush has repeatedly linked his vision of "a new world order" with the U.N. On January 16,1991, for instance, he said in a televised address: "When we are successful [in the Persian Gulf], and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the UN founders." THE UN IS A WORLD GOVERNMENT IN THE MAKING. In 1952, the Saturday Review revealingly editorialized: "If UNESCO [an adjunct of the UN] is attacked on the grounds that it is helping to prepare the world's peoples for world government, then it is an error to burst forth with apologetic statements and denials..... When faced with such a 'charge' let us by all means affirm it from the housetops." The UN General Assembly in 1978 adopted a disarmament plan that would give the organization the military clout needed to enforce world law. Known as the Final Document, the plan calls for an international military force that can "effectively deter or suppress any threat or use of arms in violation of the purposes of the United Nations." In 1990, the influential Council on Foreign Relations published a study that identified the U.N. charter, not the U.S. Constitution. as "law of the land." If the internationalists succeed in making the UN all powerful, U.S. laws will be subject to UN dictates. AN ALL-POWERFUL UN WOULD SPELL THE LOSS OF FREEDOM. An organization powerful enough to enforce world peace would also be powerful enough to enforce world tyranny. No organization should be granted that amount of power --- but especially not the UN. The UN's undersecretary for political and Security Affairs is responsible for the organization's "peace-keeping" functions. Since the UN's founding, 14 persons have held this post: All of them have been communists, and all but one have been communists from the Soviet Union. The U.S. was born on the thunderous assertion that men "are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights," while the UN and all socialist governments operate on the contrary assertion that rights come from government. The difference is fundamental. Under the American system, the purpose of government is to protect rights that are GOD given; under the other system, government assumes the power too grant "rights" that can later be withdrawn. Should our country become completely subservient to a UN world government,, we would have scrap our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and look to the UN for whatever "rights" we are allowed to possess. The UN is not a good idea gone bad; it has been bad from the beginning. The UN's founders included a U.S. delegation led by a communist agent Alger Hiss, 15 other secret communist agents, and 43 members of the World-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations.