This is the transcript of a speech given by John F. McManus on November 26, 2001 at the Mut Zur Ethic ("Courage To Take A Moral Stand") conference held in Switzerland, November 24-30, 2001.

The UN, the EU, and America
by John F. McManus
President, The John Birch Society

I don't believe a full appreciation of the danger inherent in the United Nations can be had without some history of the determination of a powerful group to establish their rule over mankind. I say this because the United Nations is the culmination of more than a century of intrigue that involves the willingness of conspirators to work for the destruction of their own nations. No one would do such a thing without a sinister goal in mind. And that goal, as history has shown is unimpeded and tyrannical world rule.

America's Experience

U.S. experience as a member of the UN had begun. Only five years after the UN had been launched, American forces became involved in military action in Korea. This was a war our own President Truman refused to call a war. It was a United Nations operation from its outset,

The European Union

The European Union, of course, grew out of the 1951 European Coal and Steel Community called the "Shuman Plan" though it was mainly the work of France's Socialist millionaire, Jean Monnet. Possessing sovereign powers, it was the first step toward the abolition of national independence in those European nations that participated. It was followed in 1957 by the creation of the six-member European Economic Community, a product of the Treaties of Rome. This was known as the "Common Market." Other nations soon joined and in 1986, Europe approved the Single European Act that actually called for the elimination a national boundaries. Henceforth, the European Economic Community (more commonly known then as the Common Market) began now to be referred to as the European Union. The change from just economic ties to political ties was being accomplished

Just last year, England's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard would write in the London Telegraph of his discovery that Americans had funded and organized much of what has happened to Europe via the European Union. As far back as 1959, Britain's Reginald Maulding warned about the loss of his nation's sovereignty because of these ties. In 1991, Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne said it was "a lie" to say that the European movement would not cost nations their sovereignty.

In 1991, the Treaty of Maastrict committed the European Union to a single currency and a central bank. And the EU's court in Strasbourg began to order member nations to rewrite or cancel some of their laws - which nations are dutifully accomplishing

More recently in January 2000, current UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said: "... state sovereignty, in its most basic sense, is being redefined by the forces of globalization and international cooperation."

The European Union is a major step toward what these people advocate.

There is so much more that can be said but time allows only a brief glimpse at the plans of this centrally coordinated conspiratorial drive to rule the world. The United Nations is to be the seat of power for these globalists. But it would be a huge mistake to believe that the UN itself is the engine for all of what is happening. The UN is the tool of the conspirators, not the generator of all of these attacks on freedom.

National sovereignty is essential - for my nation and for others. As history has shown, it is true that some nations fall into the hands of bad men who use their acquired power and authority to create war, attack neighbors, and provoke widespread misery. But bad men in a single nation can be defeated and removed, as has happened frequently. If bad men seize power over the entire world, removing such power from them would be extremely difficult

It was encouraging to learn recently that Ireland had rejected the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights approved in Nice a year ago. It is also encouraging to know that resistance to portions of the EU has surfaced here in Switzerland, and in Austria, Denmark and Germany. I know Karl Albert Schachtschneider's book The Euro Illusion: Is it Too Late to Save Europe has awakened many to the globalist threat.

All of you should be encouraged to know that members of our John Birch Society are busily working at the campaign to withdraw our nation from the United Nations. If we are successful, I believe the plans of the globalists worldwide will suffer a tremendous defeat. I expect that all of you in this audience wish us speedy success. And for that I thank you very much.

Also posted today ( December 5, 2002 ) at:

http://www.getusout.org/un/articles/un_eu_us.htm

Excerpt Below from:

The New Alliance
- Fighting For Britain

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