Entangling Alliances:
George Washington vs. Kofi Annan

Address To the
Conservative Political Action Conference
January 31, 2003

By Tom DeWeese

There are a lot of people in this country who don't believe that the United Nations is a threat to American sovereignty and independence.

And the big shots on Capitol Hill will tell you that there is not a single word in a single UN document that says the UN will control land in this country.

Technically that's true. In fact, most UN documents take great pains to include language to specifically state that each nation will maintain its own sovereignty.

So let me tell you very quickly why the UN is indeed a threat and how it all works.

Sovereignty is the answer to the question: "who's in charge?"

And you have to answer that question before you can answer the parallel question: "who's responsible?"

Because to have sovereignty over our land we must be in charge of decisions over it and we must have the responsibility to carry out those decisions.

And keep in mind, you can voluntarily give up both control and responsibility. And even if it is voluntary - it's still loss of control.

The United States has been taking that path of voluntary surrender of control for several years through acceptance of a number of United Nations treaties and agreements.

Consider just a few of the UN treaties and agreements that the United States has already signed on to, including the World Heritage Sites Treaty, through UNESCO, Agenda 21, the Convention on Climate Change, and The Man and the Biosphere program.

Each of these is part of an agenda called Sustainable Development which calls for changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of national zoning and a whole lot more.

Sustainable Development combines social welfare programs with partnerships between business and government, using environmental issues to make it all sound urgent.

The environmental agenda is driven by the United Nations through two specific UN organization including, the United Nations Environmental Program and the International Union of Conservation and Nature.

Would it surprise you to learn that six agencies of the United States government are active members of the International Union of Conservation and Nature, including the Departments of State, Interior, Agriculture and the Fish and Wildlife service. And these agencies send representatives to all meetings of the UN Environmental Program.

This kind of intergovernmental cooperation with UN policy led to a showdown over the issue of control in 1995 when radical environmentalists and the Department of Interior wanted to stop the building of a gold mine on private land, several miles from Yellowstone, whereupon the committee declared the park to be the world's first endangered heritage site.

That designation was enough to stop the building of private enterprise and clearly establish who was in control.

Webster's defines "sovereignty" as "undisputed political power." Does that sound like we still have such a thing?

Through all of the treaties, agreements and meetings, there grows an interlocking web of policy that takes root through these federal agencies, even driving down into state and local community governments. {Even Richland County Council in SC?}

The treaties are the roots of the Clean Air Act, the clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. For Congress to back out of these laws or even to consider reducing some of the regulations that are destroying industry or private property rights would simply be putting the United States in violation of UN treaties.

And we're not just talking about environmental policy. There are equally binding UN treaties and agreements, covering education programs, child welfare, women's rights, even gun control. {The latest incursion is to attack the US regarding obesity}

Most recently, the UN abandoned all pretense of respecting sovereign independence.

The International Criminal Court was approved when only 60 nations ratified it.

But according to UN policy, the court has jurisdiction over all nations - whether they ratified it or not.

Never in the history of international relations has such a policy even been proposed - let alone adopted.

Now, many of you rightly complain that you keep electing politicians who promise to corral the size and scope of government and reinstate the rule of the Constitution.

But it never seems to happen. Why?

Because we are bound by UN treaties that say we can't - and by a Federal government that says we won't.

Now ask yourselves the question again: Who's in charge? And who's responsible?

I cannot believe that George Washington or any of the Founding Fathers would ever have put their names to the United Nations Charter - or agree to any of these intrusive, interlocking treaties and agreements for the simple reason that they diminish American control, American responsibility and in turn, American sovereignty.

It is for these reasons that I personally believe the only solution to the problem is for the United States of America to get out of the United Nations.

Addendum: Things that must be banned in a "sustainable world".

Sustainable Development is the new catchword for global socialists to control the world economy. It is the blueprint for the international plan to change the world economy away from free markets and private property to a fully managed economy operating under a strong central government (global governance). The process to bring about that change is what former Vice President Al Gore called a "wrenching transformation". To help the reader begin to realize just how "wrenching" it will be to Americans, below is a list of items now found in American society that are deemed "unsustainable." The list comes from the UN's Global Biodiversity Assessment Report.

Unsustainable
According to the UN's Global Biodiversity
Assessment Report

Page #                  Non-Sustainable items
337  Ski Runs
350  Grazing of Livestock: Cows, sheep, goats, horses
350  Disturbance of the Soil Surface (plowing); fencing of pastures and Paddocks
728  Agriculture; Modern Farm Production Systems; Chemical Fertilizers, Herbicides, Building Materials;
        Fossil Fuels (your car's fuel)
730  Industrial Activities;
730  Human-made caves of brick and mortar, concrete and steel - homes and office buildings
730  Paved and tarred roads; Highways; Trails; Railroads; Floor and wall tiles
733  Technology, Rangelands; Pastures; Fish ponds; Plantations
738  Harvesting of Timber; Modern Hunting
749  Logging Activities
755  Dams, Reservoirs, Straightening of Rivers
757  Power Line Construction
763  Economic systems that fail to set a proper value on the environment (Capitalism, Free Markets, the American system!)

Under these broad categories are the provisions for the banning of suburban housing, fast foods, golf courses, scuba diving, synthetic drugs, land-use that serves human needs, cemeteries, sewers, private property and population growth. There are even chapters on creating "Modern attitudes towards nature for Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions."

As the Sustainable Development programs are being implemented in communities across the nation, Americans are slowly beginning to awaken to the "wrenching transformation" and learning why The DeWeese Report has said for ten years that "Sustainable Development" is your enemy.