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514 THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND<br />
living than their parents did. In spite of two incomes, the real net<br />
worth of the average household is falling. The amount of leisure<br />
time is shrinking. The percentage of Americans who own their<br />
homes is dropping. Tne age at which a family acquires a first home<br />
is rising. The number of families counted among the middle class is<br />
falling. The size of the family savings is smaller. The number of<br />
people living below the officially defined poverty level is rising.<br />
The rate of personal bankruptcy is triple of what it was in the 1960s.<br />
Over 90% of all Americans are broke at age 65.<br />
THE NEW WORLD ORDER<br />
None of this is happening by accident. Chapters five and six<br />
documented the currently unfolding plan to create a functional<br />
world government within the framework of the United Nations,<br />
Often referred to as Tlie New World Order by its advocates, the<br />
proposed global government is designed upon the principles of<br />
socialism. It is the dream-come-true for the world's socialist<br />
theoreticians, politicians, and technicians who see it as the ultimate<br />
laboratory for their social experiments upon mankind.<br />
There are two weapons of control now being readied at the UN.<br />
One is a world military command which eventually will control all<br />
national armies and super weapons. That is being accomplished<br />
under the slogans of peace and disarmament. The other is a world<br />
central bank, now called the IMF /World Bank, with the ability to<br />
issue a common money which all nations must accept. That is being<br />
accomplished under the slogans of international trade and economic<br />
growth.<br />
Of the two weapons, monetary control is the most important.<br />
The use of military force is viewed as a crude weapon in the arsenal<br />
of world government to be used only as a last resort. The effect of<br />
monetary control is more powerful than mega-tons of atomic<br />
energy. It reaches into every shop and home, a feat that could never<br />
be accomplished by standing armies. It can be used with precision<br />
against one nation, one group, or even one person while sparing or<br />
benefiting all others. Military force may be irresistible but it causes<br />
resentment and political unrest that can smolder for decades. Since<br />
monetary manipulation is seldom understood by its victims, it does<br />
not incur their wrath. In fact,<br />
the manipulators enjoy high social<br />
status and financial reward. For these reasons, monetary control is<br />
the weapon of choice in The New World Order.<br />
DOOMSDAY MECHANISMS 515<br />
A future world parliament based upon the concept of minimum<br />
coercion and maximum freedom could be a wonderful advent for<br />
mankind. Without trying to cram all nations into a centrallydirected<br />
beehive, it would welcome cultural and religious variety.<br />
Instead of trying to place the world into a collectivist straight-jacket<br />
of rules, regulations, quotas, and subsidies, it would encourage<br />
diversity and freedom-to-choose.<br />
Instead of levying ever-larger<br />
taxes on every conceivable economic activity and destroying<br />
human incentive in the process, it would encourage member<br />
nations to reduce the taxes that already exist and thereby stimulate<br />
production and creativity.<br />
A world parliament, dedicated to the concept of freedom,<br />
would have to withhold membership from any government that<br />
violated the basic rights of its citizens. It could be the means by<br />
which totalitarian governments would be encouraged to abandon<br />
their oppressive policies in order to obtain the economic and<br />
political advantages of acceptance in the world body. It could<br />
become the greatest force for peace and prosperity and freedom we<br />
have ever known.<br />
But The New World Order that is now incubating at the United<br />
Nations is an entirely different creature. Its members represent just<br />
about every dictator and warlord in the world. Its philosophy is<br />
built upon the socialist doctrine that all good flows from the state.<br />
Those who do not conform must be bent to the government's will<br />
or be eliminated. It<br />
reason that it is totalitarianism.<br />
cannot oppose totalitarianism for the simple<br />
AMERICA IS THE TARGET<br />
The New World Order cannot become a functional reality so<br />
long as the United States remains able to go it alone. America is<br />
viewed as a potential bull in the china shop. Right now, it is safely<br />
under control, but the world planners are worried it might break<br />
loose in the future. If the American people were to awaken to the<br />
realities of world politics and regain control over their government,<br />
they still would have the military and economic power to break<br />
away. Among the world planners, therefore, it has become the<br />
prime directive to weaken the United States both militarily and<br />
economically. And this directive has come from American leaders,<br />
not those of other countries. CFR members sitting in the White<br />
House, the State Department, the Defense Department, and the