THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 26, February 6, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
I PREFER LOCAL TO GLOBAL
By Alan Caruba
THE PLOT TO SUBVERT AMERICA'S NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, DESTROY FREEDOM & SELF-GOVERNMENT, & ENABLE GLOBAL
GOVERNMENT TO RULE ABSOLUTELY & DESPOTICALLY: UNITED NATIONS-SPONSORED PROGRAMS & PROJECTS
PROMOTING VARIOUS FORMS
OF GOVERNMENTAL INTRUSION INTO PEOPLE'S LIVES & CHOICES -- SCHOOL CURRICULA CONTAINING PROGRAMS OF
POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION DESIGNED TO TURN AMERICAN CHILDREN & YOUTH INTO "CITIZENS OF THE WORLD" --
MAJOR ENEMIES OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, LIBERTY UNDER LAW, & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY:
INTERNATIONALISM, ONE-WORLDISM, SOCIALISM, LEFTWING LIBERALISM, ENVIRONMENTAKISM, ISLAMISM, & JIHADISM
FULL STORY:
Perhaps, it is just the product of the times in which I grew up and my experience with the events of the world. Or, perhaps, it
is the spin that has been added to the word “global,” endowing it with an almost spiritual quality.
Mostly, though, I think it is my utter disgust with “global warming,” having spent the better part of three decades striving to
defeat this plot to enable all forms of governmental intrusion into people’s lives and choices.
A bit of personal history: I recall, as a child, riding the train to and from the Jersey shore when it was filled with young men in
uniform, all destined to fight in far-off places whose names even then seemed exotic to me; Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Normandy,
and Sicily. It was the harsh geography of war, but, to a youngster, it only meant someplace far away.
By the time I was a teenager, an older brother was already in Japan at the headquarters from which the Korean conflict was
conducted. There were new names to deal with -- Seoul, Incheon, and the Yalu River. By then, the Cold War was well on its
way.
The 1950s were full of talk of A-bombs and then H-bombs, and then intercontinental missiles. In college, I took scant notice of
events in Cuba, but, a few years later, I would be in full combat gear waiting for orders to invade. Then the problem went away
without ever really going away. It has since spread to Venezuela.
Like many Americans, I learned about the world because we were sending troops somewhere to push back against some form
of aggression or some new oppressive regime. At home, the streets were filled with Civil Rights marchers or anti-war marchers,
both of whom would be replaced by new groups demanding to be heard. It was the era of Woodstock and Watergate.
And then there were no longer trains filled with soldiers, since the U.S. military had ceased to be every young man’s duty to
serve his nation. It became a voluntary military, and, we are told, one that is superior to the former model. It would suffer
casualties in Beirut, wrest Grenada from a Communist takeover, invade Panama to remove yet another corrupt leader, and, then,
in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, go there to set things right. After 9/11, in 2001, the U.S. military would drive the
Taliban and al-Qa'ida out of Afghanistan and, then in 2003, invade Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein.
Is it any wonder Americans are weary of war? Is it any wonder that the word “global” to my generation means some new place
where young, dedicated Americans are battling some new despot, regime, or threat to peace anywhere and everywhere?
All of which brings me to the new meaning of “global” for the generations that followed mine. It is attached to “global warming”
-- the greatest hoax, not merely in the modern era, but in all of history! And it was initiated and implemented by an international
institution that was supposed to end wars, the United Nations.
Some years ago, the UN published a book called Our Global Neighborhood, but we do not live in a global neighborhood.
We live in our own, local neighborhood. The UN is all about global government with, of course, global taxes, a global army, and,
as in the case of every dictatorship, a global restriction on gun ownership.
It is all about a vast matrix of global treaties that involve the surrender of some element of U.S. sovereignty to the UN to oversee
“heritage” sites and our national parks. It is about an educational indoctrination program to turn American children into “citizens
of the world.”
So you will have to forgive me if I look at the world and see places where Americans have continually had to sacrifice blood and
treasure because someone or some nation had ambitions to impose their will on people who just wanted to be left alone.
If something terrible happens in America, I do not expect to see one single other nation on Earth come to our aid.
In America today, the enemy is not always in some far-off place. It is in Washington, D.C., where an out-of-control Congress is
spending and borrowing to the point where we are being warned that our dollar is at risk of being worthless. Led by a feckless
new president, it has imposed huge debts on generations yet to be born.
The White House is trying to expand an “entitlement” program, Medicare -- which is already broke -- for the purpose of
controlling one sixth of the nation’s economy.
The White House is giving money to banks and then threatening to tax them after they have repaid it.
The White House has bought General Motors and Chrysler, instead of letting them go through a bankruptcy process like any
other business.
The White House is squandering billions on “clean energy” and “green jobs” -- both of which are mere fantasies -- while
billions of barrels of oil go untapped, billions of cubic feet of natural gas remains unavailable, and hundreds of year’s worth of
coal is not mined.
Congress is engaged in phony, multi-billion dollar “stimulus” programs, instead of cutting taxes, to jump-start the economy.
“Think globally. Act locally” is the mantra of the environmentalist movement, but the movement itself is a global monster,
determined to decide what you can eat, how you should deal with your garbage, what kind of car or truck you can drive, how
much you should heat or cool your home.
It is despotism, no matter what other name you call it.
And, then, there are those insane followers of Islam who want to inflict more harm on America because they are not content
with killing their fellow Muslims.
I wish I could ignore the world beyond my neighborhood, but it won’t let me.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Nationhood & American National Sovereighty:
The United States of America as a Single Sovereign Nation-State:
Protecting & Preserving American National Independence,
America's Common National Culture & Identity,
& American National Interests
The United Nations, Its Agencies, & U.S. National Interests
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Fiscal Policy: Taxation & Government Spending
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and policy.
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