G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

All of this, of course, was no mere accident. As we have seen, the men who drafted our
Constitution and set the infant nation on its way knew full well what they were doing. They
were brilliant scholars of history who had closely studied the factors that led previous
nations into misery and slavery. They were determined to spare us the same fate. So
when they drafted the Constitution, they inserted, among other things, Article 4, Section 4,
which states: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican
form of government. . . ." [Italics added.] This means a limited form of government. They
knew that the Union would not last if the individual states of the Federal Government itself
were allowed to become despotic and unrestrained. The Constitution further stipulated:
"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or
disparage others retained by the people."
Compare this with the ideological foundation upon which the United Nations is built.
Instead of insuring that all member states have limited forms of government, the UN
assumes that they have unlimited power over their subjects. The UN is not concerned
about the fact that a majority of its members are governments which rule with police-state
methods. Instead of assuming that any power not specifically mentioned in the
Constitution is reserved to the individual citizens or their smaller governmental units, the
United Nations assumes that the Charter is vague and broad enough so as to authorize it
to do absolutely everything! This concept of unlimited power was made unmistakably clear
when the UN World Court declared:
Under international law, the organization [UN] must be deemed to have
those powers which, though not expressly provided in the Charter are
conferred upon it by necessary implication as being essential to the
performance of its duties. 4
As a result, the United Nations has become a professional politician's paradise. It is a
world forum, world court, world department of education, world welfare agency, world
planning center for industry and commerce, world financial agency, world police force, and
anything else anyone might want--or might not want.
The bedrock for world socialism upon which the United Nations is built can be found in
Articles 55 and 56 of the Charter. Article 56 states: "All members pledge themselves to
take joint and separate action in cooperation with the Organization for the achievement of
the purposes set forth in Article 55." And the purposes set forth in Article 55 are as follows:
". . . the United Nations shall promote: (a) higher standards of living, full employment, and
conditions of economic and social progress and development; (b) solutions of
international, economic, social, health, and related problems; and international cultural
and educational cooperation."
Since the United States is pledged to promote, among other things, the health of the
world's populations, it would be well to take a look at the UN definition of "health." The
constitution of the United Nations World Health Organization states:
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. . . . Governments have a
responsibility for the health of their peoples which can be fulfilled only by
the provisions of adequate health and social measures.
Alger Hiss, one of the original guiding lights of the UN World Health Organization,
expanded the concept even further when he said: