A WEEKLY COMMENTARY
Year Twenty-Seven ... Number Fifty-One ... December 19, 1980
THE DEVELOPING COMMUNITY OF NATIONS
In today's venacular, have we blown it? Are we allowing political retreads from former administrations to foul up a golden opportunity to save our Republic? Has a beast we thought wounded unto death risen up again to complete the destruction of a once proud and independent Nation? Millions of Americans -- a voters' landslide that implied a mandate -- had hoped and prayed for a clear and positive turn to the right on the part of the newly elected federal administration. But, after their loss of November 4th, the enemy regrouped and is recouping its losses. His supporters reluctantly accepted Reagan's choice of George Bush as a running mate. But as the President-elect began to announce the names of his selected advisers and assisstants, shocked backers began to realize that the same old Eastern Establishment Elitists were still in command and that mere variations on the same old political theme could be expected. Reagan was proposing for Senate approval even more members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderbergers than Carter had on his starting team four years earlier. Those who had led the campaign to get Reagan elected were being bypassed, ignored, their advice rejected. A December 22 Newsweek item was headed, "The Reverend Jerry Who?" It read: "Fund raiser Richard Viguerie, a leading light of the New Right, is complaining to anyone who will listen in Washington that the Reagan Administration has already abandoned its archconservative friends -- the very folks who put the California governor in the White House. It's gotten so bad, Viguerie says, that the Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader of the militant Moral Majority, hasn't been able to get a phone call returned by the Reagan camp since the election ... Unless things improve, Viguerie predicts, Reagan and the New Right leadership will be estranged completely in six months to a year."
Sensing that Reagan was starting to turn his back on those who put him in the White House, one of our subscribers wrote, protesting the trend, to Senator Paul Laxalt, who was supposedly a firm supporter of the New Right. The Senator answered, saying in part: "While I am not at liberty to discuss specific appointments, I can say that Ronald Reagan is now President-elect of all the people. To govern effectively, he will reach out, as he should, to a wide spectrum of Americans to assist him in his awesome task ...." Our correspondent replied, stated in part:
| "I have your letter telling me that Mr. Reagan is going to become 'President of all the people,' presumably implying that I have to expect a number of Trilateralists and CFR members (in addition to Mr. Bush) in Mr. Reagan's administration. The memberships of these two organizations constitute only about 0.001 of one percent of the population of the united States. The recent election expressed in large part the resentment of the majority that these elitists have been allowed to exercise many times more than 0.001 of one percent of the government's power. Their abuse of this power generated the November 4th landslide ... Mr. Somoza also considered himself the 'President of all his people,' and it cost him the Republic of Nicaragua and, later, his own life. If anything should happen to Mr. Reagan, will Mr. Bush expect to become President of all the people?" (Underlining added in preceding paragraph).; |
We don't know how, or if, Senator Laxalt answered this letter. But it is known that similar letters of protest have had no effect. The President-elect's most important appointments, which will probably be approved by the new Republican-controlled Senate in due time, show that the self-chosen Elites are not merely represented, they are in control. William Casey of the CFR and of the pro-Soviet wartime Office of Strategic Servicves, is to direct the CIA, an organization that will become of crucial importance if there is to be any real change in our Nation's foreign policy. Malcolm Baldridge of the CFR, nominee for Commerce Secretary, was Connecticut chairman for Bush in the primaries and then followed Bush into the Reagan camp after the latter's win in the primaries. Caspar Weinberger is a Trilateralist, CFR member, and a Nixon retread who seems dangerously misplaced as a Defense Secretary. But the real shocker to those who are concerned about 20-plus percent prime rates, about double-digit inflation and increasing taxation, was the selection of the Merrill Lynch manager, Donald Regan to be Secretary of the Treasury. Human Events has been a strong supporter of Ronald Reagan ever since he began campaigning for national office. But it spoke out sharply against Regan, wrote:
| "Conservatives can probably live with most of the President-elect's nominees, but the one name they still seriously question is the choice of Donald Regan for Secretary of the Treasury .. What particularly bothers them about Regan, who was apparently pushed through at the last minute by .. William Casey, is that he has never been much of a conservative supporter, had made few public pronouncements of significance and has allowed Merrill Lynch's six-man political action committee -- of which he is a member -- to back leading liberal Democrats .. The number of liberals underwritten by Merrill Lynch for the 1980 election seems awesome .. Sen. Alan Cranston (ADA rating 79%), Sen. Gaylord Nelson (ADA rating 89%), Sen. Patrick Leahy (ADA rating 89%), Rep. Thomas Downey (ADA rating 89%) - each receiving a political care package from Donald Regan's outfit. The Merrill Lynchers, moreover, appeared to move heaven and hell to polish off the President-elect during the primaries. Thus, on Feb. 14, they donated $1,000 (legal maximum) to George Bush ... So, the question is, how did he get his job? Bill Casey .. secured his appointment before any thorough check was done on his background." (unquote). |
It isn't just his appointments, but his change of direction, which causes consternation, frustration and even anger, among true conservatives. No longer is there hope of a quick liquidation of the Department of Education. There is a growing question about the Department of Energy which was slated for almost instant dismantling. A straw-in-the-wind that would seem to indicate the way the political wind is really blowing, was Reagan's voiced support of a salary increase for Congressmen and top-level bureaucrats, a measure that was defeated by the retiring 96th Senate. And "iron butterfly" Nancy's impatience at not being able to start immediately in White House refurbishing -- at considerable taxpayers' expense at a time when all expenses are supposedly being curtailed -- has not set well with conservatives. Also, there is growing talk of a great need for the declaration of a national emergency as soon as the inauguration ceremonies are concluded; this because of the state of the Nation's economy. We keep remembering a statement made by one of the self-chosen Elite (we can't remember which one), that when a really important new and radical policy is to be put into effect, the Republicans can do what the Democrats wouldn't dare to do (like the recognition of Red China and the removal of strategic trade bans with the Soviet; which Nixon and Kissinger arranged because JBL could never have gotten away with such moves).
But, more importantly, we keep remembering Executive Order 12148, of July 20, 1979, regarding "Federal Emergency Management." This EO provides for the take-over of government operations by a bureaucratic dictatorship, whenever a President of the United States gives the word. A "Federal Emergency Management Agency" would become the governing body and it "shall establish Federal policies for, and coordinate, all civil defense and civil emergency planning, management, mitigation, and assistance functions of the Executive agencies" (Section 2-1 of Executive Order 12148). Under this order -- which is the "law of the land" whenever a President so declares, since Congress has approved it by inaction -- each Federal agency has its particular part in the bureaucratic dictatorship which will operate through the Ten Federal Regional Councils that already are established and operating from the Ten Capitol Cities of the Ten Federal Regions. We are not saying that this will happen if and when President Reagan might declare a national emergency; but we say that it could happen. And, if the new Reagan administration is to be composed of the same old Eastern Establishment crowd that has been running things at the federal level -- especially at the level of foreign and economic affairs -- for some fifty-odd years, then the declaration of a state of emergency could be far more disastrous to the Nation than was FDR's infamous "100 Days" when all banks were closed, mortgages foreclosed, and the New Deal installed.
Moreover, if the Reagan administration is to be controlled by the same crowd of the in-again-out-again civil servants of the Unelected Supregovernment, it is important that we understand what the real program of the Triliteral-CFR-Elitists amounts to. The reason for the founding of the Trilateral Commission was stated quite clearly in Zbigniew Brzezinski's book, "Between Two Ages -- America's Role in the Technocratic Era," published in 1971. He wrote:
| "A community of the developed nations must eventually be formed if the world is to respond effectively to the increasingly serious crisis that in different ways now threatens both the advanced world and the Third World. Persistent divisions among the developed states, particularly those based on outmoded ideological concepts, will negate the efforts of individual states to aid the Third World; in the more advanced world they could even contribute to a resurgence of nationalism. Accordingly, an effort must be made to forge a community of developed nations that would embrace the Atlantic states, the more advanced European communist states, and Japan ... Movement toward such a community will, in all probability, require two broad overlapping phases. The first of these would involve the forging of community links among the United States, Western Europe and Japan .. The second phase would include the extension of these links to the communist countries." |
If there were nothing more than a One World plan blueprinted by Brzezinski and financed by the Rockefeller Clubs, and since it seemed to fail with Carter, we might hope that a new administration could mean the end to any such plan. But what Brzezinski wrote was really an updated restatement of a policy that had been pursued by the Supragovernment, through both Democrat and Republican administrations for many years. For examples, Dwight Eisenhower was President of the United States in 1953. In that year Rep. Carrol Reese was head of a House Committee investigating the operations of tax-exempt foundations, and Dr. Norman Dodd was research director for the committee. Dodd was invited to visit the New York Office of the Ford Foundation by Roman Gaither, president of the foundation at the time. As Dodd tells the story, Gaither opened the conversation:
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"Mr. Dodd, we invited you to come because we thought that, perhaps, off the record, you would be kind enough to tell us why the Congress is interested in the operation of foundations such as ourselves.' Before I could think of how best to reply, he volunteered this: 'Mr. Dodd, we operate here on directives .. which emanate from the White House. Would you like to know what the substance of their directives is?' My answer was, 'Yes, Mr. Gaither, I would like very much to know.' Whereupon he said: 'The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant-making power to alter life in the United States so that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.' Needless to say, I nearly fell off the chair.. "I said, 'Mr. Gaither, legally you are entitled to use your grant-making power for this purpose but I do not think you are entitled to withhold this information from the American people to whom you are beholden for your tax exemption. So why do you not tell the American people what you have just told me?' His answer was, 'Mr. Dodd, we would not think of doing that.'." |
This directive, "so to change the political, economic and social structure of the United States in order to gain a comfortable merger with the USSR," also was the guiding principle when Henry Kissinger propounded the concept of the Triangular Constellation, which proposed to bring Red China into the equilateral power triangle with the USSR and the USA. The same theme was made a principal policy of the Carter administration by Henry Owen of the Brookings Institute and the Trilateral Commission who became Carter's Special Representative for Economic Summits with the title of Ambassador at Large. Owen wrote in 1973: "The United States should persist in the effort to find and act on interests that it shares with the Soviet Union and (Communist) China. Success will hinge on our ability to keep at it over a long period of time, despite the tendency to vacillate between extremes of hostility and euphoria. Progress in building a working community of developed nations, in which the USSR could eventually play some role, may hasten success in this effort if we do not allow ups and downs in the East-West relations to divert attention from this central task."
Such has been the policy of the CFR-controlled White House and State Department for the past four decades. The possibility of its continuance is strengthened by the fact that Trilat-CFR operators still control the next administration, and especially by the fact that Alexander Haig who is about to become the Secretary of State, is a disciple and proselyte of Henry Kissinger. In "Kissinger on the Couch," by Phyllis Schlafy and Chester Ward, page 550, we are informed that "neither Krushchev, at the pinnacle of his power, nor Brezhnev, after his total consolidation of power, could have gotten away with the appointments accomplished by Kissinger: appointments he carried out without even a ripple of congressional interest or public concern. Neither Krushchev nor Brezhnev could have promoted an inexperienced Army Colonel (such as Alexander Haig) to the rank of four-star general, and then appointed him Vice Chief of Staff on the Army over the heads of scores of far more experienced and proven general officers (parenthesized phrase is in the original - Ed.)"
The existence of this policy of "seeking comfortable merger with the USSR" is a matter of record, but few Americans know about it. Nor do they know that we have been weakened economically and militarily so that we will not be able to resist the final compromise of our liberty and sovereignty when it is time to merge us into this new "Community of Nations." Reagan was given a landslide victory because he was expected to alter the course of our Ship of State. And he promised to do just that. Can we force him onto the new course?
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