Global Tyranny ... Step by Step - By William Jasper ( 1992 )

Introduction
America and the world stand on the brink of one of the most perilous epochs in this planet’s history.
According to the purveyors of conventional wisdom, communism is dead, the Cold War is over, and the
greatest threats to world peace and security are rampant nationalism, inequitable wealth distribution,
overpopulation, and environmental degradation. Yet the threat to a just world peace and comity among
nations and peoples comes not from political fragmentation, ozone holes, greenhouse gases, an over-
abundance of people, a shortage of natural resources, or even from the frequently offered scenarios of
"rogue" elements in the former USSR acquiring control of nuclear weapons.
The true, imminent danger to America and to all nations seeking peace and good will stems from
widespread acceptance of the monstrous falsehood that in order to live in an "interdependent" world, all
nation-states must yield their sovereignty to the United Nations. This lie is given dignity by other lies,
chief of which is that Soviet totalitarianism has been buried forever.1 A too wide acceptance of these
dangerous falsehoods is resulting in: 1) a massive transfer of wealth from the taxpayers in the West to
the still-socialist governments of the East that remain under the control of "former" communists; 2) the
gradual but accelerating merger or "convergence" of the U.S. and Russia through increasing economic,
political, social, and military agreements and arrangements; and 3) the rapidly escalating transfer of
power — military, regulatory, and taxing — to the UN. Unless the fiction underlying these
developments is exposed, national suicide and global rule by an all-powerful world government are
inevitable.
"The Bush Administration," Time magazine noted on September 17, 1990, "would like to make the U.N.
a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order."2 That observation merely stated the
obvious. In his speech to the nation and the world on September 11, 1990, Mr. Bush stated: "Out of
these troubled times, our fifth objective — a new world order — can emerge...." He proceeded to
announce his hopes for "a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders."3 It became
abundantly clear to veteran students of "world order" politics that a major new push for world
government had begun. Only a few years ago, any such attempt would have flopped miserably. During
the 1970s and 80s, the UN’s record as an enclave of spies, a sinkhole of corrupt spendthrifts, and an
anti-American propaganda forum for terrorists, Third World dictators, and Communist totalitarians, had
thoroughly tarnished its carefully manufactured image as mankind’s "last best hope for peace."
From 1959, when the UN could boast an 87 percent approval rating, the annual Gallup Poll showed a
continuous decline in popularity for the organization. By 1971, a Gallup survey reported that only 35
percent of the American people thought the UN was doing a good job. By 1976, Gallup claimed that the
support had dropped to 33 percent. In 1980, it declined further to an all-time low of 31 percent. "At no
point since [1945]," said Dr. Gallup referring to his latest figures, "has satisfaction with the overall
performance of the world organization been as low as it is today."4 The John Birch Society’s long and
frequently lonely billboard, bumper sticker, petition, letter-writing, and pamphleteering educational
campaigns to "Get US out! of the United Nations" had made good sense to many Americans.
In the early years of the Reagan Administration, UN-bashing became positively respectable, even
fashionable. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Jeane Kirkpatrick could be seen and heard almost daily
denouncing the world body’s anti-Americanism, tyranny promotion, and fiscal profligacy. Editorials
opposing UN actions and the organization itself began appearing with frequency in local and regional
newspapers, and occasionally even in major national news organs.
Anti-UN sentiment had already reached the point in 1981 that veteran UN-watcher Robert W. Lee could
report in his book, The United Nations Conspiracy: "Today the UN is increasingly regarded not as a sacred cow, but rather as a troika composed of a white elephant, a Trojan horse, and a Judas goat."5 The
supermarket tabloid Star, while not exactly a consistently reliable heavyweight in the news and analysis
category, expressed the sentiments of a large and growing segment of the American people with a
November 3, 1981 article by Steve Dunleavy entitled, "Rip Down This Shocking Tower of Shame."
In March of 1982, syndicated columnist Andrew Tully authored a piece headlined: "[Mayor] Koch
Should Chase UN Out of Town."6 Many similar articles and editorials could be cited, but perhaps one of
the most surprising was the August 24, 1987 cover story by Charles Krauthammer for The New
Republic, entitled "Let It Sink: The Overdue Demise of the United Nations."
But the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev’s "new thinking" in the late 1980s coincided with the beginning of
a remarkable rehabilitation in the public’s image of the UN. First Gorbachev, and then Boris Yeltsin,
won plaudits for reversing the traditional Soviet (or Soviet surrogate) practice of using the UN as a
venue for strident anti-American diatribes. Yassir Arafat and his PLO terrorists dropped their regular
anti-Israel philippics. And the UN’s "peacekeepers" won a Nobel Prize and worldwide praise for their
roles as mediators in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Central America, Southern Africa, and the Middle East.
Then came Operation Desert Storm, the holy war against the aggression of Saddam Hussein. And
mirabile dictu, the United Nations was once again the world’s "last best hope for peace." Suddenly UN
"peacekeepers" began to appear almost everywhere — with more than 40,000 troops in the field in
Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America, and the Middle East7 — and every new day now brings new
appeals for the world body’s intervention and "expertise."
On United Nations Day 1990, a new Gallup Poll indicated that "American support for the United
Nations ... is higher than it has been in over 20 years." According to the national polling organization,
"Fifty-four percent of Americans now think the United Nations has done a good job of solving the
problems it has had to face...." The poll cited the "rapprochement between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.,
and the dissolution of the Iron Curtain," as well as the developing Persian Gulf situation, as major
factors contributing to the enhancement of the UN’s image.8
Gallup reported that "almost six out of ten Americans think that the U.N. has been effective in helping
deal with the current [Iraq-Kuwait] crisis, with only 8% saying that the U.N. has not been at all
effective." Even more disturbing, if accurate, is the poll finding that 61 percent of those surveyed
thought it a good idea to build up the United Nations emergency force to "a size great enough to deal
with ‘brush fire’ or small wars throughout the world."9 The euphoria following the Persian Gulf hostilities temporarily boosted George Bush’s approval rating
to an all-time high for any president. Rude economic realities and an accumulating number of political
problems then caused his star to plummet just as rapidly as it had risen. The UN’s gains, however,
appear to have been more durable. As reported by Richard Morin ("U.N. Real Winner After Gulf War,"
Salt Lake Tribune, January 24, 1992), a survey by the Americans Talk Issues Foundation "found that
approval for the United Nations actually increased from 66 percent in June to 78 percent in November
[1991], a period when other measures of war-induced euphoria were sinking fast."