LETTERS: NEW WORLD ORDER THREAT

To the editor:

I would like to commend the Southeast Missourian for running the Feb. 9 news article, "Annan: Congress fears U.N. control." The article included comments from an interview with Annan (the new secretary general of the United Nations) broadcast the day before by British Broadcasting Corp. Annan said he had had to reassure some members of Congress (not named) that they need not fear a U.N. takeover of the United States. In the interview, Annan is quoted as saying, "As I said, we don't have the means to take the U.S., and even if we did take it, I wasn't sure we could hold it. Not that we want to do it in any case."

The leader of the U.N. has admitted that the U.N. has considered the takeover of the U.S., concluded it could possibly be done but that the U.N. would not be able to hold it. I am amazed to hear this kind of admission from the leader of an organization that has very quietly been chipping away at U.S. sovereignty since the day it was created.

Most of your readers have probably heard the phrase "New World Order." Most members of Congress, when asked about the New World Order, shrug it off as just a phrase adopted when speaking of the international community. The New World Order really means global government ruled by the U.N. It manes one banking system. It means the end of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It means socialism. If there is any doubt, here is the exact wording of the U.N. World Constitution: "The age of nations must end. The governments of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties into one government to which they will surrender their arms."

Beginning with Jimmy Carter, our own government's leaders have moved to merge the United States into a one-world government run by a powerful few. If you are wondering how a one-world government would affect you as an individual, consider the following consequences of world government:

1. Rather than improve the standard of living for other nations, world government will mean a forced redistribution of all wealth and a sharp reduction in the standard of living for Americans. Henry Kissinger stated recently that NAFTA was the "most creative step toward the New World Order."

2. Strict regimentation will become commonplace. There will no longer be any freedom of movement, freedom of worship, private property rights, free speech or the right to publish.

3. World government will mean that this once glorious land of opportunity will become another socialistic nightmare where no amount of effort will produce just reward.

4. World order will be enforced by agents of the world government in the same way that agents of the Kremlin used to enforce their rule throughout the former Soviet Union.

Readers, now is the time to educate yourself about the United Nations and its objectives. Pressure must be brought to bear on our elected representatives to withdraw all U.S. support from the U.N. and stop this march toward the New World Order dead in its tracks.

MICHAEL W. SPROUSE

Cape Girardeau