THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VI, Issue # 217, October 13, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE 2004 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:
LEFTIST GROUPS CALL FOR UN INTERVENTION
THE FULL STORY:
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Alan Caruba @ (973) 753-6392
THE MOVEMENT CALLING FOR THE UNITED NATIONS TO SEND INTERNATIONAL MONITORS TO OVERSEE THE NOVEMBER 2,
2004, U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION -- THE DETERMINED DRIVE ON THE PART OF ASSORTED RADICAL, LEFTWING GROUPS TO
PUT AMERICA'S DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL PROCESS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF UNACCOUNTABLE, INTERNATIONAL
BUREAUCRATS & THEREBY UNDERMINE & DESTROY AMERICAN NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of State has opened a Pandora’s box by inviting international monitors to oversee our
Election Day process, says the American Policy Center (APC). The Center cited news that seven Leftist organizations recently
petitioned the United Nations to monitor the November, 2004, U.S. presidential election.
Tom DeWeese, the President of the American Policy Center, a grassroots activist organization located in suburban Washington,
D.C., is warning that, “a foreign election monitoring debacle could spell the end of our democratic process as we know it.”
The seven organizations, a hodgepodge of “welfare rights” groups and international war protesters, have asked the UN’s
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for U.N. intervention in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The groups claim that,
by funneling their request through ECOSOC, all that’s required for U.N. observers to invade the U.S. electoral process next month
is the approval of the 54-nation ECOSOC.
Earlier, the American Policy Center warned that, when the U.S. State Department invited the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the U.S. election in November, it opened the door for international intrusion into our
democratic process.
Since the OSCE invitation, the Far-Left pressure group, Global Exchange, announced that it too would be disbursing handpicked
international observers to monitor polling stations in five key battleground states. “With this third group entering the fray,” says
DeWeese, “it is clear that the drive to put our nation’s electoral process under the purview of some international authority is a
serious goal of the Left.
“The American people deserve to know where their elected officials stand on this unprecedented abdication of our national
sovereignty,” declared DeWeese. He noted that this is the first time in our nation’s history that international observers will
monitor and scrutinize our presidential election, with the potential for “actively trying to influence its outcome.
“Thanks to the State Department, the global Socialists now smell blood in the water and will not stop until unaccountable,
international bureaucrats become a fixture in our electoral process,” said DeWeese.
“What started out as a ludicrous request by 13 Leftist Congressmen has turned into a bona fide movement,” said DeWeese,
referring to a letter that U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and a dozen congressional colleagues sent to Kofi
Annan, asking him to send UN monitors for this year’s election. Annan replied that the UN could only respond to a U.S. State
Department invitation.
Even this is in dispute. U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) has said that any foreign monitoring of the U.S. election as a
whole will violate American sovereignty, citing Article II of the Constitution that specifically assigns the conduct of elections to
the member-states of the American federal union. Thus, says Representative Paul, the State Department invitation was improper.
DeWeese stressed that the seven groups calling for U.N. monitoring want the global body to preside over U.S. elections because
it carries the force of international law. “By calling for international law to govern our democratic process, these seven
organizations essentially want the United Nations to certify our election results.
“Every American who is concerned with our right to conduct our own democratic elections, free from foreign intervention, must
speak up. A major pillar of our national sovereignty is at stake.”
The American Policy Center is calling on American citizens to contact their local and state electoral boards and demand that
international election monitors not be permitted access.
American Policy Center
50A South Third Street, Suite 2
Warrenton, Virginia 20186
Contact: Tom DeWeese @ (540) 341-8911
apcmail@americanpolicy.org
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
American Government & the U.S. Presidency
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Tom DeWeese is the Publisher and Editor of The DeWeese
Report and President of the American Policy Center, a grassroots activist think tank. Headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia,
the Center maintains an Internet site at www.americanpolicy.org. Mailing Address:
American Policy Center, 50-A South Third St. (#1), Warrenton, VA 20186. Telephone: (540) 341-8911.
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center
(www.anxietycenter.com). A compilation of his past columns, entitled Warning Signs, is published by Merril Press. In addition
to Warning Signs, Caruba is the author of A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam and The United Nations vs. the United States,
both of which are available from the National Anxiety Center, 28 West Third Street, Apartment 1321, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079.
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