A political shell game: by appealing to patriotism and staging made-for-TV rallies, the UN is attempting to trick Americans into supporting its bid to become the most powerful institution on Earth.(IMAGE VS. REALITY)

"We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war...." So begins the Preamble of the UN Charter. Its drafters carefully chose the wording, of course, to mimic the Preamble of the United States Constitution, which begins: "We the people of the United States in Order to form a more perfect Union...."

The drafters of the UN Charter vividly recalled the bitter fight in the U.S. Senate that had ended with rejection of the League of Nations after World War I. Many senators and their constituents had adamantly opposed the League of Nations Covenant because they recognized in it the potential for serious infringement of U.S. sovereignty and the entanglement of America in more foreign wars. Without U.S. membership and participation, the league withered into a powerless and insignificant shadow of the organization its designers had hoped to establish.

Many of the internationalists who had labored and schemed to build the League of Nations in the 1920s were also active players in the effort to establish the United Nations in the 1940s. In the charter's language and in their promotional speeches, articles and op-eds, they invoked the images of America's Founding Fathers and employed rhetoric that would resonate with Americans who were both war-weary and independence-minded: freedom, democracy, peace, security, and rule of law. They knew better than to advertise their real objective: creating the framework for a nascent world government that could gradually be strengthened with legislative, executive, and judicial powers--backed up by military force.

Propaganda Assault

The UN designers knew also that in order to get the UN Charter ratified they would have to rush it through the Senate quickly, not allowing it to be studied and debated, as had happened with the League's covenant. They were highly organized this time around, with public support groups in place and plenty of allies in the major media organizations to give the appearance of overwhelmingly popular approval. Although the UN Charter created an organization with far more power than did the covenant, the charter was rushed to a vote and ratified less than a week after being introduced, whereas debate over the League of Nations Covenant had raged for eight weeks.

The lessons learned in that opening push for world government have served the UN promoters well, and they have continued to develop their propaganda and deception--skills into an astonishingly effective art. This was plainly manifest at the Millennium Summit in New York City in September 2000, where Secretary-General Kofi Annan released his report, We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, to a clamorous mob composed of UN delegates, foreign dignitaries, and radical activists from the UN-approved nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The invocation of the preamble text, "We the peoples," was intended this time to convey a sense of convergence between the goals of the founders of the U.S. and the founders of the UN, and to elicit support for the idea that world government under the latter is simply the natural and logical evolution of the process that brought about national government under the former.

Secretary-General Annan hailed the throng of NGO militants as "the new superpower" at the UN representing "global civil society." Over the past decade, the UN has built this huge rent-a-mob of radical environmentalists, feminists, homosexualists, socialists, and Communists into a highly effective lobbying force. Hundreds of extremist organizations have been given accredited NGO status at the UN, and many of them have offices at the UN Plaza Building across the street from the UN, so they can always be on hand to push for more funding for UN programs, adoption of more UN treaties, and always more empowerment for UN institutions.