G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

When the UN finally topples, it will be the result of a ground swell of renewed patriotism
and a rebirth of the American spirit of victory over tyranny--a return to the traditional
American principles which made this country great.
Instead of looking to the rest of the world for collective security, we will rely on our own
strength and vigilance.
Instead of trying to finance the expansion of socialism in every country around the world,
we will encourage, by example, the spread of free enterprise capitalism.
Instead of coddling agents of our sworn enemy within the top echelons of our own
government, we will replace them and their sympathizers with men who are loyal only to
the United States. And unless this very important first step is taken we are not going to
even come close to getting out of the UN. Until we disconnect this end of the Washington-
Moscow "axis," our government will continue to support and promote the UN, as it has
from the very beginning.
Instead of coexistence with the evil thing called Communism, we will direct our energies
toward ultimate victory.
Instead of continuing to build a welfare-socialist system here at home, we will move once
again in the direction of reducing government restrictions on our daily lives and, thus, in
the direction of increasing personal freedom.
Instead of trying to buy friendship around the world, we will offer the sincere qualities of
mutual respect and good will. American investment abroad by private citizens and
business enterprises will create far more prosperity in foreign lands than foreign aid ever
could; and the commerce that springs from such investment will do more to bring our
peoples together than all the Peace Corps and other government programs put together.
In short, the United Nations will be replaced with freedom--freedom for all people,
everywhere, to live as they please with no super-government directing them; freedom to
succeed or to fail and to try again; freedom to make mistakes and even to be foolish in the
eyes of others. Americans will, once again, be free to work where they please, employ
whom they please, buy and sell what they please, and, in an infinite number of ways, do
what they please-with only one government restriction upon them: that they not interfere
with anyone else's access to the same freedom.
This is the meaning of a republic; a limited government. This is what we Americans once
had until the socialists, Communists and other collectivists turned back the clock to the
ideas that dominated the political systems of the Dark Ages. Many Americans today,
thinking that collectivist ideas are new, argue that we must place more and more power
into the hands of the Federal Government so that it will be strong enough to cope with the
challenges of the modern world. But, as Thomas Jefferson stated in 1801:
I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a Republican
government cannot be strong, that this Government is not strong
enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of a successful
experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and
firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's
best hope, may, by possibility, want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. 6