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Global Gun GrabIt's open season on the right to keep and bear arms as UNglobocrats gear up for international gun controls.

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by Thomas R. Eddlem

T he United Nations is very troubledthat the United States has retainedits Second Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution, which guarantees that "theright of the people to keep and bear arms ,shall not be infringed." Radical new UNproposals treat free people with the meansto effect their own self-defense as a vitalthreat to the United Nations and its questfor what it calls the "peace-buildingprocess."

More troubling still is the fact that forthe first time this radical UN agenda rep­resents a clear and present danger to ourright to keep and bear arms. This is in partbecause the Clinton State Department iscollaborating with the UN and its propos­als. But another, perhaps more dangerous ,prong of the UN attack on the right to keepand bear arms comes from an insidiousquasi-private institution heavily funded bysocialist Northern European governments.This little-known, UN-backed organizationcharges itself with developing "messagestrategies" and "campaigning and advoca­cy strategies" to obtain a UN-managedglobal ban on the private ownership offirearm s.

Anti·Gun AgendaThe United Nations "Report of the Groupof Governmental Experts on Small Arms"issued on August 19th bitterly complainsthat "there are wide differences amongStates [nations] as regards which types ofarms are permitted for civilian possession,and as regards the circumstances underwhich they can legitimately be owned, car­ried and used. Such wide variation in na­tional laws raise difficulties for effectiveregional or international coordination."That the UN "experts" are complainingmainly about the United States is madeclear from the concluding recommenda­tions in the report. Among the "coordina­tion" proposals adopted by the panel ­enthusiastically seconded by UN Secre­tary-General Kofi Annan in his forewordto the report - are the following :

• "All States should ensure that theyhave in place adeq uate laws, regulationsand administrative procedures to exerciseeffective control over the legal possessionof small arms and light weapons and overtheir transfer...."

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Annan: The "collective interest" mandates thatAmericans and others should not own firearms.

Affairs Specialist Herbert L. Calhoun.State Department ass istance to the UN

global gun grab agenda dates back to atleast 1994, when the Washington Times re­ported in its Ma y 24th edition that "theClinton administration has agreed to par­ticipate in a discussion of way s for theUnit ed Nations to control the manu factureof guns and their sales to civilian s.... TheUN working paper declares that govern ­ments indi vidu ally are 'impotent' to dea lwith global arms trafficking and proposes'harmonization' of gun control standardsaround the world to make trafficking easi­er to spot and prevent." The Times reportnoted that "any 'harmonization' would in­evitably mean tightening contro ls on theloose ly regulated U.S. gun busi ness."

State Department officials have ex­pre ssed general sympathies with the cur ­rent UN proposals without mentioning thespecific attack on citizen firearms owner­ship. Secretary of State Madeleine Al­bright told the first-ever UN SecurityCouncil Small Arms Ministerial on Sep­tember 24th that "the United States strong­ly supports these steps," that we "welcomethe important precedent which the UN hasset," and that the U.S . would work to"commit to finishing negotiations on afirearms protocol to the UN TransnationalOrganized Crime Convention by the end of2000."

'T he United Nations ' call for gun con­trol is an affront to our way of life and ourcon stitutional government," Representa-

Clinton Administration AssentMore troubling than the fact that a corruptUnited Nations is seeking to attack theU.S. Bill of Rights and confiscate firearmslegally owned by American citizens is thefact that the Clinton administration hasbeen actively conspiring with the UnitedNations to accomplish this subversive goal.UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan em-

phasizes in his foreword to the "Re­port of the Group of GovernmentalExperts on Small Arm s" that it was"prepared, and adopted by consen­sus" and was the product of "una­nimity" among the "expert" mem­bers of the group. Based upon An­nan' s statement, we can pre sumethat none of the "experts" object tosuch a naked attack on the right tobear arms. Yet among the "experts"who drafted the report was U.S .State Department Senior Foreign

UN is no longer concerned withlegal niceties. Annan explained inhis September 22nd address be­fore the UN General Assemblythat "state sovereignty, in its mostbasic sense, is being redefined....A new, broader definition of na­tional interest is needed in the newcentury [where] the coll ective in­tere st is the national interest." InAnnan's view, the "collective in­tere st" mand ates that Americansand other peoples of the worldshould not own firearms and thatthe UN should be the key organcharged with collecting them. An­nan emp hasized in a Sep tember24th speech that "controlling theeasy availability of small arms isa prerequisite for a successfulpeace-building process," which iswhy the "United Nations has played aleading role in putting the issue of smallarms firmly on the international agenda."

UN control over a global movement toban private firearms ownership has al­ready begun. According to a September23rd UN press rele ase, the United Nationsconvened a two -da y workshop to set up atest arms register and "database" main­tained by the UN for the entire continentof Africa. There have already been callsto make this regional database binding onall nations.

• "States are encourag ed to integratemeasures to control ammunition "

• "States should work toward the pro-hibition of unrestricted trade and privateownership of small arm s and lightweapons...."

The UN report defines small arms to in­clude just about every category of firearm sthat exists: "The category of small arms in­cludes revolvers and self-loading pistol s,rifle s and carbines, sub-machine guns, as­sau lt rifle s and light machine guns." TheUnited Nations call for banning even hunt­ing rifles and antique revolvers from civil­ian possession demonstrates the radicaland groundbreaking nature of the report.

Though the current United Nations at­tack on the Second Amendment fails totake aim at civilian possession of shot­guns , shotgun owners should find no se­curity in the current UN focu s. The UNreport in no way limits global firearms re­strictions to "military" -re la ted firearmssuch as "revolvers" and "rifles ." The UN"experts" explain that the United Nationsmu st deal with firearms on social as wellas military criteri a: "Virtually every partof the United Nations system is dealingin one way or another with the con se­quences of the armed conflicts, insecuri­ty, violence, crime, social disruption, dis­placed peoples and human suffering thatare directly or indirectly associated withthe wide availability and the use of the seweapons."

To implement their gun control mea ­sures, UN officials plan to ignore the reser ­vation of national sovereignty guaranteedin the UN Charter the same way that theU.S. Congress often ignores the l OthAmendment to the U.S. Constitution. TheUN Charter bans UN intervention in "mat­ters which are essentially within the do­mestic jurisdiction of any state," but the

"The United Nations' call for gun controlis an affront to our way of life and ourconstitutional government. Mixing guncontrol with internationalism is certainto result in an assault on Americanrights and liberties."

- Representative Ron Paul (R-TX)

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Clinton-Albright State Department: Supporting UN power grab.

tive Ron Paul (R-TX) told THENEW AMER­ICAN. "Mix ing gun control with intern a­tionalism is certain to result in an assa ulton American rights and liberties." Rep re­sentative Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) pointedout to THE NEWAMERICAN that the UN 'sescalating gun confisca tion campaign "fitsthe pattern of a UN that 's become a refugeand a foundation for promotingsocialism and undermining na­tional sovereignty and individualfreedom ." The eage r involve­ment of the Clinton/A lbrightState Department in that cam­paign illu strates anew the ad­min istration 's contempt for theConstitution, the rule of law, andour national independence.

NGO AdvocacyConspiring officials wit hin theClinton administrat ion do notconstitute the only prong of theUN assa ult on the right to keepand bear arms. The UN has es­tablished within its Departmentfor Disarmament Affair s a de­partment of Coordi natin g Ac­tion on Sm all Arms (CASA) .Accord ing to an August 14thUN press release , CASA wouldbe charged with coordinat ing allUN sma ll arm s control effo rts ,including a responsib ili ty "toencourage civi l society involve­ment in building soc ietal resis­tance to vio lence." The refer­ence to "civil society" sugges tsthat the UN is trying to mobi ­lize private sector Non-Gove rn­ment al Organi zat ions (NGOs)and citize n pressure on beha lf of itsagenda .

The attempt to generate pressure frombelow as well as from above has alreadyobtained results. In Nove mber 1998 theUNESCO Courier suggested that "the po­litical tides may be changing. An interna­tional campaign is now underway withnon-governmental organiza tions of allstripes and colours - disarmament andgun control gro ups along with deve lop­ment and human rights assoc iations in theNorth and South - building commonground with the active support of govern­ments like Mali , Canada, Norway andJapan."

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Thi s yea r the internat ional campaig nsought by the UNESCO Courier acquiredan organizat iona l face , although there isvery little "non-governmental" about it.Annan specifically cited this new organi­zation, as well as the UN-generated "rno­mentum" ju stifying this impending powergrab, in his September 24th address on

small arms: "The momentum for com bat­ing small arms prolifera tion has also comefrom civil society, which has been in­creasi ngly active on this issue. The estab­lishment early this year of the Internation­al Action Network on Sm all Arms[IANSA] has helped to sharpen public fo­cus on small arms , whic h has helped usgain the publ ic support necessary for suc­cess." IANSA is intended to "prov ide atransnational framework" for the mobi ­lization of a broad citize n movement in fa­vor of gun control , according to the orga­nizational goa ls posted on its website . Theservices IANSA inte nds to prov ide theUN-led global gun control movement in-

elude "ca mpaig ning and advocacy strate­gie s," "developing culturally appropriate'message' stra tegie s," "information shar­ing" among NGOs, and "constituencybuilding."

Funding for this incipi ent propagandacampaign comes from the publi c trough ofthe taxpayers of the European socialist na­

tions. IANSA notes on its websitethat its eight most significant fi­nancial donors include five gov­ernment agencies: The BelgianMinistry for Development Cooper­ation; the Swedish Ministry of For­eign Affa irs; the Netherlands Min­istry of Foreign Affairs; the UnitedKingdom Department for Interna­tional Developm ent ; and theFinnish Ministry of Foreign Af­fairs. (The remai ning three aresmall, pacifist, U.S .-based tax-ex­empt foundations.)

Clinton's "Buy-back" InitiativeOn September 9th, Bill Cl intonunveiled a proposal that representsyet another pron g of the UN­directed globa l gun grab: A $ 15millio n federal gun "buy-back"initiative to be implemented by theDepartment of Housing and UrbanDevelop ment (HU D). Thro ughsubsidies from HUD, loca l policedep artment s wi ll be awarded upto $500,000 to co llec t an d de­stroy an est imated 300,000 fire­arms. Th e UN Centre for Disar­mam ent Affa irs (UNCDA) refersto such "buy-backs" as a "practi­ca l method of micro-di sarma­ment," which has been field-tes ted

by municipal gove rnmen ts in the U.S. ­and by UN "peacekeeping" forces inHaiti, EI Salvador, Nicaragua, and othercountries . A 1995 UNC DA paper by Dr.Edwa rd J. Laur ance, a consultant to theUN Register of Conventional Arms since1992, notes that the UNCDA has studiedboth "buy-back programs as practiced inmany America n cities" and those "con­ducted by the U.S. Army in Haiti" - thelatter being part of a "peacekeeping" mis­sion carried out on orders fro m the UNSecurity Council.

Acco rding to Dr. Laurance, government"buy-backs" of small arms "must be con­ducted in parallel with other effor ts," such

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Armed and dangerous: U.S. policy would phase out our military infavor ofUN "Peace Force ."

Both individual and national disarmament schemes are part of adecades-old master plan to build , step by step , a global police state .

In Stage III progressive controlled dis­armament .. . would proceed to a pointwhere no state would have the militarypower to challenge the progressivelystrengthened U.N. Peace Force....

The manufacture of armamentswould be prohibited except for thoseagreed types and quantitie s to be usedby the U.N. Peace Force and those re­quired to maintain internal order. All

tion 7277") is a proposal for the compl etesurrender of U.S. armed forces to the Unit­ed Nations. It calls for a three-stage disar­mament process leading to the transfer ofall national milit ary force s - includingthose of the United States - to the UnitedNation s, and the establi shment of a UNPeace Force as the unchallengeable globalmilitary power.

In its own words, Freedom From Warstates:

Gun Grabbers'Global Gestapo

by William F. Jasper

I t undoubtedly will come as a shock tomost Americans to learn that the lat­est Clinton administration and UN

schemes for individu al and national disar­mament are part of an unfolding treasonousprogram that was formally launched byU.S. officials almost 40 years ago. The pro­gram was unveiled at the UN on Septem­ber 25, 196I by President John F. Kennedy.Entitled Freedom From War: The UnitedStates Program fo r General and CompleteDisarmament ill a Peacef ul World, this doc­ument is one of the most revolutionary andsubversive prop osals ever put forward byany government official. Incredibl y, theprogram originally introduced in this doc­ument became - and remains - officialU.S. government policy.

In short, Freedom From War (alsoknown as "Department of State Publica-

as "seizure programs." He also point sout that "buy-backs" have a propagan­da benefit, in that they focus "attentionon the link between weapons availabil­ity and crime" - thereb y preparing thepublic for more aggressive civilian dis­armament measures. To illustrate a UN­supervised civilian "micro-disarma­ment" program that worked, he refersto El Salvador 's "new laws outlawingpossession of military weapon s and re­quiring all citizens to register hand gunsand persona l weapons. A new policeforce was created [and] trained underUN supervision . . . [whic h] receivedspeci alized training in searching for,confiscating and destroying .. . military­style weapon s...."

Sami Faltas of the Bonn Internation ­al Centre for Conversion, an interna­tional "think tank" that has advised UNofficials on civilian disarmament pro­grams around the world (and for whichDr. Laurance serves as a consultant),has laid out the program with stunningcandor:

A subtle mix of rewards andpenalties is needed for a weapons[confiscation] program to succeed.Ultimately, the ownership of armsshould not be left to the personalchoice of individuals. The stateneeds to preserve its monopol y ofthe legitim ate use of force. Sosanctions again st the illegal pos­session and use of arms are neces­sary and should be imposed . How­ever, during a weapons collectionprogram, an amnesty is needed ,and the emphasis should be onvoluntary compli ance and positiveincentives.

The equa tion is qu ite eas y to und er­stand: Gun "buy-backs" prep are thepublic for uniform gun registrati on ,which leads to uni versal gun confis­cation and a state monopoly on leth alforce . Thi s was the process that led tomass murd er of subject popul ations inSoviet Russia, National Socialist Ger­many, Communist China, and otherdespoti sms. With the covert aid of theClinton administration, the UN is nowimpl ementing this process on a glob­al basis. •

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This diagram appeared in the U.S. Arms Control and DisarmamentAgency's Second Annual Report to Congress (1963). Although the labelfor the Russian helmets is dated , this three-stage disarmament plan

is still official U.S. policy and is beinggradually implemented.

u.s. THREE-STAGEDISARMAMENT PLAN

armament process. Observe that in Stage1II, as explained in Freedom From WarandBlueprint fo r the Peace Race, the U.S.armed forces cease to exist and only "in­ternal sec urity forces" - i.e. those to beused against American citizens - are per­mitted . Of course, under this scheme, theUN "peacekeeping machinery" will be su­perior to the "internal security forces" andwill be able to dictate the "laws" that willbe enforced.

CFR ConnectionHow is it possible that such apatently treasonous and sui-cidal proposal could becomeofficial U.S. policy, embed­ded in U.S. laws and U.S.-rat­ified treaties? As with somany other treacherous acts,policies, and programs of thepast several decades, the trailleads to the Council on For­eign Relations (CFR), a groupHarvard historian ArthurSchlesinger, Jr. (who was him­self a CFR member and aspecial assistant to PresidentKennedy) has called the"front organizat ion" for "theheart of the American Estab­lishment." Form er CFRmember Admiral Che sterWard charged the organiza­tion with "promoting disar­

mament and submergence of U.S. sover­eignty and national independence into anall-powerful one-world government."

Official responsibility for develop ingand initi ating the disarmament programoutlined in Freedom From War goes toPresident Kennedy and his Secretaries ofState (Dean Rusk) and Defense (Robert S.McNamara), all three of whom were mem­bers of the CFR . The real authors of Free­dom From War and Public Law 87-297 ,however, were John J. McCloy, the chair­man of the CFR , and Arthur H. Dean , aCFR director.

McCloy, Kenned y's chief disarmam entadviser and negotiator with the Soviets, en­tered the Establishment through the WallStreet law firm of Cravath, Swaine andMoore, and later became a senior partnerat Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy,a firm closely tied to the Rockefeller fam­ily. He served as an Assistant Secretary of

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INTERNAL INTERNALSECURITY SECURITYFORCES FORCES

a formal treaty propo sal entitled Blueprintfor the Peace Race: Outline ofBasic Pro­visions ofa Treaty on General and Com­plete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.This document, which comports with theearlier Freedom From War plan, remains tothis day the acknowledged blueprint forU.S. arms control policy. It unequivocallystates that the UN "Peace Force" would beprogressively strengthened "until it hadsufficient armed forces and armaments so

that no state could challenge it."It cannot be stressed too strongly that

just as domesti c gun control does not meanthe total elimination of all firearms, neitherdoes international disarmament mean thetotal elimination of all armies, armaments,and nuclear weapons. It is no more possi­ble to eliminate all guns than it is to put thenuclear genie back in the lamp. In bothcases, what really is being proposed is thetran sfer of control over all weapons to acentral government, resultin g in the con­centration of force and the crea tion of amonop oly of power. In the case of domes­tic gun control, that means an all-powerfulpolice state. In the case of international dis­armament, it means an all-powerful glob­al police state.

In its Second Annual Report to Congress(February 1963), the ACDA presented asimple graphic dep iction (see below)demonstrating its proposed three-stage dis-

STAGE III

STAGE I

STAGE II

other armam ents would be destroyedor converted to peaceful purposes.

• The disbanding of all nationalarmed forces and the prohibit ion oftheir reestablishment in any form what­soever other than those required to pre­serve internal order and forcontributions to a UnitedNations Peace Force;

• The elimination fromnational arsenals of allarmaments, including allweapons of mass destruc-tion and the means for theirdelivery, other than those re­quired for a United NationsPeace Force and for main-taining internal order....

Freedom From War lists these "specific ob­jectives toward which nations should directtheir efforts" :

Please note that this puts theU.S. government on record insupport of a plan to make allnations subservient to theUN; and that "all armaments"not controlled by the UNwould be destroyed, leavin gthe UN as the virtual glob aldictator. And since no provi­sion is made for an exemptionof arms owned by private cit­izens (and since the UN itself is hardlysympathetic to private gun ownership) , itis reasonable to assume that private armsare intended for destruction under the term"a ll armaments."

To initiate this program, PresidentKennedy signed Public Law 87-297 (H.R.9118 ), creatin g the United States ArmsControl and Disarmament Agency(ACDA). Accordin g to that legislation , "asdefined in this Act, the term s 'arms con­trol' and 'disarmament' mean 'the identi­fication, verification, inspection, limita­tion, control , reduction, or elimination, ofarmed forces and armaments of all kindsunder international agre ement to estab­lish an effective system of internationalcontro!....' " (Emphasis added.)

On April 18, 1962, the Kennedy admin­istration reiterated its commitment to a UNmonopoly on weaponry by submitting, toa UN disarmam ent committee in Geneva,

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War under FDR and as U.S. High Com­missioner to occupied Germany. He head­ed the World Bank, Chase ManhattanBank, the Ford Foundation, and the Coun ­cil on Foreign Relations. He was an advis­er to nine Presidents and sat on the boardof directors of many corporations. Fewwould dispute journalist Richard Rovere 'scharacterization of McCloy as "chairmanof the American Establishment."

McCloy 's blue-chip resume, however,included a few red flags. While serving inthe War Department, McCloy approved anorder permitting Communist Party mem­bers to become officers in the U.S. Army.He defended identified Communist JohnCarter Vincent and supported pro-Com­munist atomic scientist J. Robert Oppen­heimer. In 1946, FBI head J. Edgar Hooverwarned President Truman of an "enormousSoviet espionage ring in Washington," andexpressed concern over the "pro-Sovietleanings" of McCloy, Dean Acheson, andAlger Hiss . Hiss, of course, was later ex-

posed as a Soviet agent. He was also amember of the CFR and one of the mainarchitects of the United Nations.

Assisting McCloy in drafting FreedomFrom War and the statute for the ArmsControl and Disarmament Agency wasArthur H. Dean . Dean was also chairmanof the U.S. delegation for two years to theUN disarmament conferences in Geneva.Following the death of John Foster Dulles(CFR), Dean became the senior partner inthe Insider law firm of Sullivan &Cromwell. He was vice chairman of the In­stitute for Pacific Relations (IPR), theCommunist-run outfit most responsible ­together with our State Department - forturning China over to the Communists in1949. When IPR member Alfred Kohlbergtried heroically to expose the treason with ­in IPR , it was Dean who scuttled the in­vestigation. In 1952 the U.S . Senate Judi ­ciary Committee issued a scathing reporton the IPR, citing it as "an instrument ofCommunist policy, propaganda and mili-

tary intelligence." The Senate report alsoconcluded:

Members of the small core of officialsand staff members who controlledIPR were either Communist or pro ­Communist. ...

The effective leadership of the IPRused IPR prestige to promote the in­terests of the Soviet Union in theUnited States....

The IPR was a vehicle used by theCommunists to orientate Americanfar eastern policy toward Communistobjectives.

Yet Dean and McCloy, with the help of theirCFR associates in the media , passed them­selves off as Republicans, and conservative,anti-Communist Republicans at that.

"Shock Treatment"Another important influence on theKennedy-CFR disarmament plan was Es-

The Root Causeof Crime and Warby William F. Jasper

"From whence come warsand fightings among you? ..Ye lust, and have not;ye kill and desire to have,and cannot obtain;ye fight and war.... "

- James 4:1-2

That the citizens of the United States of America are being dis­armed - both as individuals and as a nation - can hardly bequestioned . Succumbing to the siren promises of peace and

safety, we are giving up our weapons to Godless global planners, whoin tum are delivering us over to enemies - both foreign and domestic- who despise the foundations upon which our beloved nation wasfounded.

A major problem for theAmerican people in recogniz­ing the terrible danger andtreachery involved in our dis­armament is the fact that ithas been occurring as a grad­ual process rather than a sin­gle, discrete act. Domesticdisarmament ("gun control")and national disarmament("international arms control")have been proceeding simul­

taneously over the past four decades, promoted by the same subver­sive forces. The gun control "movement ," if allowed to succeed, willresult in an unarmed American citizenry cowering before street crim­inals and completely subject to a totalitarian dictatorship run by evenmore dangerous criminals in Washington. The arms control "move­ment," meanwhile, is pushing us ever closer, and at an acceleratingpace, toward a global tyranny in which control over our military has

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been relinquished to an all-powerful United Nations.The central problem for the American people, however, in recog­

nizing the danger before us, is our collective blindness due to the in­tellectual, moral, and spiritual disarmament we have already per­mitted. The popular notions that guns cause crime and that armiesand military weapons cause war - and that the solution, therefore,is to completely disarm individuals and nations and transfer allweapons to a single governing authority - are frightening manifes­tations of the extent of that disarmament. It is a sad reflection of theabandonment of the Christian worldview, which holds that war andcrime are caused by men yielding to the sinful impulses of their fall­en nature and violating the laws of God and society. The solutionthen, is two-fold: to work for the increase of virtue through the con­version of sinners, and to establish and maintain a just social orderthat recognizes the right, and allows the means, of both the individ­ual and the nation-state to self-defense.

Jesus Christ Himself taught: "When a strong man armed keepethhis court, those things are in peace which he possesseth. But if astronger than he come upon him and overcome him, he will take awayall his armour wherein he trusted, and will distribute his spoils" (Luke11:21-22). Obviously, it is important to be armed physically, but trustin material arms is foolish if we do not also "put on the whole armourof God" (Ephesians 6:13).

If we are to remain a free people, it is essential for Americans to beboth spiritually and physically armed - as individuals and as a na­tion. Unfortunately, we have allowed the would-be subverters of ourmoral and political order to sow the seeds of individual and nationaldisarmament - both spiritually and materially - for decades. •

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In orde r to provide means fo r thetrial of indiv iduals acc used of vio­lating the disarmament provisions ofthe revised Ch arter or of other of­fenses agai nst the Charter or lawsenacte d by the General Asse mbly ...provision is also made for reg iona lUnited Nations co ur ts, inferior tothe Intern at ional Court of Justi ce,and for the review by the Int erna­tional Court of dec ision s of these re­gional courts.

Asse mbly may authorize ... ." Moreover,"every nation shall obtain a specia l licensefrom the [U ] Inspector-General for : . ..Th e operation by it or by any publ ic orpr ivate organiza tion or individual . .. en­gage d in the production of any light arms,ammunition . .. or of tools for any suchproduction ."

"fo r the use of nucl earwea pons in extreme cir­cumstances."

Moreover, Chapter 3, Ar­ticle 14 of the Clark/SohnUN scheme orders stric tcontrols on the possessionof arms and ammunition bypolice and private citizens:

No nation shall allow thepossession by its internal

police forces of any arms or equip­ment except of the types permitted bythe regulations adopted by the Gen­eral Assembly .. . and in no case shallthe num ber of revolv ers and rifle scombined exceed one for each mem­ber of the internal police forces, thenumb er of automatic rifles one foreach hundred members of suchforces, and the ammunition supplies

The plan also would eliminate the "prob­lem" of private citizens' access to ammu­nition by providin g that "no nati on shallproduce or allo w the production of anyexplos ives except inso far as the General

Then and NowIt is important to recognize that the currentUN drive for civi lian disarmament is un­mistakably a continuation of both theClark/Sohn scheme and the Freedom fromWar and Blueprint for the Peace Race pro­posals. In langu age very similar to thatused by Clark and Sohn, the August 19,1999 UN "Report of the Group of Gov­ernmental Experts on Small Arms" lists, aswea pons to be banned and ultimatel y (ifnecessary) confiscated, "revolvers andself- loading pistols, rifles and car bines,

submac hine guns, assault rifles andlight machin e-gun s." Furth ermore,the August 19th docum ent is cap­tioned as "Item 76 (f) of the provi­sional age nda" for "General andcomplete disarmament" - a phrasethat figures promin ently in the sub­tit les of Freedom from War andBlueprint fo r the Peace Race. Suf­fice it to say the UN has a very lit­eral understanding of the phrase"general and complete disarm a­ment ."

And what if you fail to turn in orregister, say, your .22 rifle , your .38pistol , or your gunpowder and re­loading equipment, and you are

McNamara and Kennedy: Advanced treasonous plan for the charged with unlawful possession ofsubmergence of U.S. sovereignty inglobal government. "military equipment" under the UN

100 rounds per rifle or revolver and General Assembl y's ever-changing regula-1,000 round s per automatic rifle. No tions? A UN tribunal will be your judgenation shall allow the possession by and jury. Clark and Sohn say:any publi c or private organiza tion orindividual of any milit ary equipmentwhatever or of any arms except suchsma ll arms as are reasonably neededby duly licensed hunters or by duly li­censed individu als for personal pro­tection.

Just as domestic gun control does not meanthe total elimination of all firearms , neitherdoes international disarmament mean thetota l elimination of all armies, armaments ,and nuclear weapons. It is no more possibleto eliminate all guns than it is to put thenuclear genie back in the lamp.

tab lishment Wall Street lawyer GrenvilleClark. McCl oy had worked closely withClark in the Military Training Camps As­sociation. Clark was vice president of theglobalist United World Federalists and co­author with Professor Louis B. Sohn (CFR)of WorldPeace Through World Law (1958)."It has been well said," averred Clark, "thatin our modern age the obdurate adherenceto national sovereignty and national armedforces represents a form of insanitywhich may, however, be cured by aspecies of shock treatment ."

He spelled out that "shock treat­ment" in World Peace ThroughWorld Law, a detailed plan for so­cialist world government through arevised UN Charter. This text, ven­era ted by all "world order" advo­cates, proposes a global superstatein which a "world police force"known as the United Nations PeaceForce would be invested with "a co­ercive force of overwh elmin g pow­er." "This world police force," wroteClark and Sohn , "would be the onlymilitary force permitted anywhere inthe world afte r the process of na­tional disarm ament has been com­pleted ."

But, say the authors, "it must be recog­nized that even with the complete elimina­tion of all military forces there would nec­essarily remain substantial, although strict­ly limited and lightly armed, inte rnal po­lice forces and that these police forces,supplemented by civi lians armed withspo rting rifles and fowling pieces, mightconceivably constitute a serio us threa t to aneighb or ing country in the absence of awell-disc iplined and heavily armed worldpolice ." Accordingly, "the United NationsPeace Force shall be regularly providedwith the most modern weapons and equip­ment ," with special provi sion being made

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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan promotes worldwide civilian disarmament.

The dia bolica l plan for total national andindividual disarmament spe lled out byClark and Sohn in 1958 was initiated bythe Kennedy administration and has beencarried forward by the globalist coterie ineac h successive U.S. administra tion andat the United Nations. In 1995, the UN's50 th anni versary year, the UN-fundedCommission on Global Govern anc e(CGG) re leased Our Global Neighbor­hood , its much-heralded repor t for UNreform . But the CGG 's recipe for "re­form" is in realit y a watered-down regur ­gitatio n of Clark and Sohn 's deadl y brew- with the notable exception that worldpeace through world law could now sup­posedly be achieved through global "gov­ernance" instead of global gove rnment."[Gjlobal gove rnance is not global gov­ernment," the CGG report emphaticallystated, ignoring the fact that the dictio­nary definiti on of governance is govern­ment. But no dic tionary is need ed to de­cipher the message in Our Global Neig h­borhood; the CGG's own proposed re­forms are clear enough.

Targetin g America's heritage of gunownership, the CGG warned, "Widespreadcriminalization can threaten the very func­tioning of a state. In the United States, theeasy availability of weapons goes with astartling level of daily killings." "What isneeded ," according to the CGG 's globo-sa­vants, "is demilitarization of internationalsociety." The report explained:

Militarization today not only involvesgovernments spending more thannecessary to build up their military

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arsenals. It has increasingly becomea global societal phenomenon, as wit­nessed by the rampant acquisition anduse of increas ingly lethal weapons bycivilians - whether individuals seek­ing a means of self-defe nse, streetgangs, criminals, political opposi tiongroups, or terrorist organizations.

In the view of these globalists, the mandefendin g his family and his home againstrobbers and gangsters , or the woman de­fending her person and her virtue against arapist, have no more right to a firearm thando the rapists, robbers, gang bangel's, andother vicious predators causing the "wide­spread crimin alization" the CGG is decry­ing. Accordingly, the eGG statists "strong­ly endorse community initiatives . . . to en­courage the disarming of civilians."

As was to be expected, the internation­alist-minded establish ment media and theentire liberal-left mena gerie of pacifists,peaceniks, disarmament crusaders, Marx ­ists, and profession al cause-of-the-weekactivists applauded Our Globa l Ne igh­borhood when it appeared on the scene.But even before that time the UN wasmakin g strides toward global "gover­nanc e," inc luding on the domestic guncontrol fro nt. And the Clinton adm ini s­tration, in cont radiction of our constitu­tionally protected right to keep and beararms, was cooperating with the plannedglobal gun grab.

The Hour Is LateOn September 24th of this year, during itsfirst-ever ministerial-level meeting to dis-

cuss the "problem" of privately ownedsmall arms, Secretary-General Kofi Annanproudly announced that "the General As­sembly decided to convene a confere nceon all aspects of illicit arms trafficking nolater than 200 I. ..." In the same meeting,Secretary of State Madeleine Albr ight ex­pressed the Clinton administration 's com­mitment to "promoting disarmament inpeacekeeping operations, and improvingthe enforceme nt of small arms embar­goes." Significantl y, she also stated thatUN member states - including the U.S.- "should all commit to finishing negoti­ations on a firear ms protocol to the UNTransnational Organized Crime Conven­tion by the end of 2000."

The protocol to which Albright referre dwas originally proposed by Japan at the1995 UN Congress on Crime Prevention inCai ro, Egypt. Its purp ose, acco rding todocuments produced at that meeting, wasto crea te "a common strategy for effectivecontrol of firearms at the global level ." Ac­cording to the Japanese represe ntative atthe conference, "in democrati c countriespeople 's lives and safety should be assuredby the government," and therefore "citi­zens should not need to possess handgunsfor self-protection." Of course, from theAmerican perspective, personal possessionof firearms is intended not only to protectthe law-abidin g from private-sector preda­tors, but also against the depredations ofthe predatory state - and, in the fashionof predatory statists throughout history, theUN's commissar iat is laying the ground­work for a total global state by seek ing todisarm its potential victims worldwide.

The conspiracy for empoweri ng theUnited Nations with unprecedented and un­paralleled police-state powers, if allowed tosucceed, would establish a global tyrannyso monstrous that the murderous regimesof Hitler, Stalin, and Mao would pale bycomparison. For too long good Americanshave allowed a state of slumber to overtakethem, until now "the night is far spent."Fortunately, our Founding Fathers provid­ed us with the constitutional means to fightthis Godless drive. Though the hour is late,with diligent effort we can yet reclaim ourheritage of freedom. •

This article is a substantially updat ed version of a

report, published under the same title. in our Sep­

tembe r 19. 1994 issue.

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FIREARMS

If the intent is to prevent mass shootings and other deadly acts,then gun control laws need to be eased not strengthened.

Deterrent to CrimeBenefits of FirearmsFrom 1994 to 1995, the Medical Associa­tion of Georgia published seminal researchdocumenting the health and safety benefitsof gun ownership. That research is exten­sive ly corroborated by the works of Dr.Gary Kleck of Florida State University and

More recently, Professor John R. Lott,in his book More Guns - Less Crime: Un­derstanding Crime and Gun Control Laws(1998), made readily available extensiveresearch confirming the beneficial aspectsof gun ownership by ordinary citizens inreducing crime. He also found, in his ex­tensive analysi s of data from all 3,054 U.S.counties for the period 1977-94, that stateconceal-carry laws have reduced murderby 8 percent, rapes by 5 percent, aggravat­ed assaults by 7 percent, and robberies by3 percent.

"Conventional wisdom" notwithstand­ing, criminals regularly make risk-ver­sus-benefit assess ments. Empirical ev­idence and criminologic studies consis­tent ly revea l that the know ledge thatone in five or six citize ns in a publicplace could be armed can deter crimesand avert massacres . This has beenshown to be the case in Israel, Switzer­land , and even those parts of the U.S.with conceal-carry laws. In Switzer­land, for example, where gun owner­ship is nearly universal, there was not asingle report of armed robbery in Gene­va in 1993!

Based on the empirical and statisticaldata, laws governing concealed carrypermits should be liberalized, not mademore restrictive. More states should ex­tend reciprocity to each other so thatlaw-abiding citizens may be able to pro­tect themselves and their families whenthey travel outside their own states. Andcitizens with firearm permits should be

"' allowe d to carry their concealed guns~" more libera lly - so that they will be~~ able to respo nd effec tively to criminalZ acts, and so crim inals will not be able

Buy-back programs: Reducing thenumber of guns in to assume that they will not encounterthe hands of the law-abiding will notreduce crime. armed resistance.

other scholars. In his momentous books, Criminals are emboldened to break thePoint Blank - Guns and Violence in Amer- law by a permissive society that absolvesica (1991) and Targeting Guns (1997 ), individuals of responsibility for their ac­Kleck reported that in the U.S. guns are tion s, and that shifts the blame to inani ­used more frequently by law-abiding citi- mate objects such as bullets and guns. Ac­zens to deter crimes than by criminals to cording to the opinion cartel, the merecommit crimes . Kleck found that defensive availability of guns can enable otherwiseuses of firearms by citizens total two to 2.5 normal, law-abiding citizens to transformmillion times per year and that betwee n 25 from "Dr. Jekyl ls" to "Mr. Hydes," makingto 75 lives are saved by a gun for every life nearly anyone a potential monster likely tolost to a gun . Medical costs saved by guns commit a crime of passion. Fortunately,in the hands of law-abiding citizens are 15 this imaginative caricature of the typicaltimes greater than costs incurred by crim- murderer is not borne out by the crimino-inal uses of firearms . logic literature.

byMiguel A. Faria, Jr. , M.D.

[After the Maalot incident] teachersand kindergarten nurses now startedto carry guns. Schools were protect­ed by parents (and often grandpar­ents) guarding them in voluntaryshifts . No school group went on ahike or a trip without armed guards.The police involved the citizens in avoluntary civil guard project Mis h­mar Esrachi that even had its ownsniper teams . The army taught fire­arm safety and shoo ting techniques.

Thi s new policy had the intended effect.The PLO's premeditated school shootingshad become so costly and ineffectual thatthis terror tactic was abandoned by the ear­ly 1980s. This episode illustrates a lessonrelevant to our own recent rash of schoolshootings. Namely: Allowing law-abidingcitizens to carry concealed weapons canreduce terrorist attacks and save lives.

D,: Faria is editor-in-chief of Medical Sentinel, the

journal of the Association of American Physicians

and Surgeons (see the ad on the opposite page).

During the early 1970s, the PLOwaged a nefarious war of terror­ism against Israel that included at­

tacking schoolc hildren on playgrounds. Arampage of terrorist attacks culminated inthe Maalot massacre, in which Arab ter­rorists, who had taken about 100schoolchildren hostage, responded to anassault by Israeli rescue forces by blow­ing up explosives and firing upon theirhapless victims, killing 25 peop le andwounding 66 others.

Following this hideo us massacre, theIsraeli government changed its stringentgun control policies (which it had in­herited from the British Mandate) andissued personal arms and concealed car­ry permit s to law-abiding, ordinary Is­raelis in the settlements.

Writing in the June 13, 1998 H)'omingStar Tribune, Charles Curley observed:

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FIREARMS Irelatively little interest in atrocities that donot involve firearms. Last May, StevenAbrams wreaked dead ly havoc at a CostaMesa, California day-ca re center play­ground, killing two toddlers and injuringfive people. After his barbaric act, he thensat calmly and waited for police. Needlessto say, this tragic incident did not receivethe saturation coverage the Pearl, Missis ­sippi; Edinboro, Pennsylvania; or Littleton,Colorado shootings did . The difference:The weapon used in the Costa Mesatragedy was an automobi le, not a firearm .

What Is at Stake?Aided and abetted by the Establishmentmedia's anti-gun bias, the Clinton ad­ministration is proceeding with its ef­forts to erode our constitutionally pro­tected right to keep and bear arms. OnDecember 5, 1998 the adm inistrationunveiled its plan for instituting a na­tional waiting period for all handguntransfers in additio n to the national in­stant check sys tem (NICS) that wentinto effect last year. The administrationhas also exploited tragic mass shootingsto coerce Congress to pass more dra­conian gun control laws - laws thatwill "harmonize" the federa l code withimpending UN-managed global guncontrol.

Gun control opponents are correctwhen they point out that incremental in­

~ creases in the regulation of the right tou~ keep and bear arms will take us down a~ slippery slope to registration and even­I tually confiscation. This author has wit­>-- nessed the tragic consequences of j ust

such a slippery slope. As a 13-year-oldboy escaping from the island prison of

Co mmunist Cuba, the tragic lesson thatgun control leads to tyranny was etched in­delibly in my mind. Before 1958, dictatorFulgencio Batista had all citizens registertheir firearms . After the sweep of the rev­olution, Raul and Fidel Castro had theirCommunist thugs, aided by the newlyformed Committees for the Defense of theRevolution (CDR), go door to door and,using the regis tration lists of the oldregime, confiscate all firearms. In the end,Illy Cuban brethren lost not only their gunsbut theirfreedom.

We must never permit the loss of theright to keep and bear arms in my adoptedcountry. Never! •

teac her, and woundedanother teacher and twoclassmates . Wurst 'sshoo ting rampage washalted by merchantJames Strand, who usedhis shotgun to force theyoung criminal to halthis firing, drop his gun,and surrender to police.

Not surprisingly, in its coverage of thetragedy the major media gave short shriftto Strand's armed intervention.

• In a largely unreported incident in San-

Since Lexington and Concord , Americans haverecognizedthe va lue of an armed citizenry.

ta Clara, Californi a, earlier this year,Richard Gable Stevens rented a rifle fortarget practice at the National ShootingClub, but instead bega n a shoot ing ram­page, herding three store employees into anear by alley and stating his intent to killthem. When Stevens became momentarilydistracted, a shooting club employee, whohad a AS-caliber handgun concealed underhis shirt, drew his weapon and fired.Stevens was hit in the chest and criticallywounded. He was then held at bay until thepolice arrived . A massacre in the makingwas prevented - but the major mediawere not interested.

In like manner, the prestige press shows

Media CoverageBut the media is not interested in re­porting any fact s that conflict with itsanti-gun agenda. Consider these casesin which citizens have used guns to pre­vent or minim ize bloodshed:

• In Pearl, Mississippi, in 1997, 16-year­old Luke Woodham used a hunting rifle tokill two students and wound seven others.Assistant Principal Joel Myrick retrievedhis handgun from his automobile and heldWoodham at bay until police arrived. (Lat­er it was discovered that Woodham hadalso used a knife to stab his mother todeath earlier that morning.) While Wood­ham's shooting spree was widely reportedby the media, Myrick's armed intervention- which likely prevented additional fatal­ities - was wide ly ignored.

• In Edinboro, Pennsylvania, in 1998,another deadly incident took place when14-year-old Andrew Wurst killed one

The fact is that the typica l murderer hasa prior criminal history with four felony ar­rests before finally committing murder.FBI statistics also reveal that 6 percent ofcriminals commit 75 percent of all vio­lent crimes. One study of police recordsin Detroit and Kansas City revealedthat, in "90 percent of domestic homi­cides , the police had responded at leastonce during the prior two years to a dis­turbance," and that in over 50 percent ofthe cases, the police had been calledfive or more times to that dysfunction­al domicile. Surely, these are not crimesofpassion consummated impulsively inthe heat of the night by ordinary citi­zens, but the result of violence in high­ly dysfuncti onal families in the settingof repeated alcohol or illicit drug use.Obviously, because of prior convic ­tions, these deranged individuals capa­ble of murder have already forfeitedtheir right to have a conceal-carry per­mit issued to them.

Professor John LoU found , in his extensiveanalysis of data from all 3,054 U.S. countiesfor the period 1977-94, that state conceal-carrylaws have reduced murder by 8 percent, rapesby 5 percent, aggravated assaults by 7 percent,and robberies by 3 percent.

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