FTAA plans fit 200-year-old design.(The Last Word)(Editorial)

In 1798, British scholar John Robison authored an expos6 of the machinations of a well-organized cabal whose goal was nothing less than ultimate control of the world. His Proofs of a Conspiracy supplied copious evidence about the Order of the Illuminati, its role in the disastrous French Revolution, and its tightly organized plot against mankind. George Washington was only one of several influential Americans who, after reading Robison's book, warned of the presence of the Illuminati within our shores. Simultaneously in Europe, the Abbe Augustin Barruel supplied an even more detailed analysis of the sinister brilliance of Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt and his designs in a monumental 1798 study entitled Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism.

Other historians, most notably England's Nesta Webster, Scotland's Monsignor George Dillon, and librarian of Congress James H. Billington, have chronicled the continuous progression of this determined conspiracy's drive toward world control. The efforts of such groups as the Italian Carbonari, the Anarchist followers of Michael Bakunin, and the Socialist and Communist descendants of Karl Marx gained impetus from the Illuminati and have sought to achieve Weishaupt's goal.

One of Weishaupt's top lieutenants, the German Baron von Knigge, gave his great energy and considerable talent to the efforts of the Illuminati soon after it had been created. Eventually disenchanted with the his superior, Knigge broke away from the Illuminati in 1784 and, according to Robison, "published a declaration of all that he had done in it." Of particular interest is Robison's pithy summation of Knigge's revelations: that "the aim of [the Order] was to abolish Christianity, and all state-governments in Europe, and to establish a great republic." In short, the Order sought to overturn society and establish a totalitarian world government.

In 1920, the Christian Science Monitor identified Weishaupt's Illuminati as the source of that period's world unrest and pointed to Robison's assessment of the Order's goals. In a remarkable summation, the newspaper's editorial listed current perils as "the obliteration of Christianity; the deification of sensuality; the proscription of property; the abjuration of all religion and morality; the repudiation of marriage, and as a necessary corollary the state adoption of children; universal license; and the wrecking of civilization and giving over of society to general plunder."

Jump ahead to our own times and note that the European Union, deceitfully paraded before its unsuspecting victims as a mere association of nations for the purpose of spurring ...