
                        Gun Grabbers' Global Gestapo

                            by: William F. Jasper

                          The New American Magazine
                            Volume 10, Number 19
                             September 19, 1994
                                   pp 4-8



That the citizens of the United States of America are being disarmed -- both
as individuals and as a nation-can hardly be questioned. Succumbing to the
siren promises of peace and safety, we are giving up our weapons to Godless
global planners, who in turn are delivering us over to enemies -- both
foreign and domestic who despise the foundations upon which our beloved
nation was rounded.

A major problem for the American people in recognizing the terrible danger
and treachery involved in our disarmament is the fact that it has been
occurring as a gradual process rather than a single, discreet act. Domestic
disarmament ("gun control") and national disarmament ("international arms
control") have been proceeding simultaneously over the past 30 years,
promoted by the same subversive forces. The gun control "movement," if
allowed to succeed, will result in an unarmed American citizenry cowering
before street criminals and completely subject to a totalitarian dictatorship
run by even more dangerous criminals in Washington. The arms control "
movement," meanwhile, is pushing us ever closer, and at an accelerating pace,
toward a global tyranny in which control over our military has been
relinquished to an all-powerful United Nations.

The central problem for the American people, however, in recognizing the
danger before us, is our collective blindness due to the intellectual, moral,
and spiritual disarmament we have already permitted. The popular notions that
guns cause crime and that armies and military weapons cause war -- and that
the solution, therefore, is to disarm completely individuals and nations and
transfer all weapons to a single governing authority -- are frightening
manifestations of the extent of that disarmament. It is a sad reflection of
the abandonment of the Christian world view, which holds that war and crime
are caused by men yielding to the sinful impulses of their fallen nature and
violating the laws of God and society. The solution then, is two-fold: to
work for the increase of virtue through the conversion of sinners, and to
establish and maintain a just social order that recognizes the right, and
allows the means, of both the individual and the nation-state to
self-defense.

Jesus Christ himself taught:

    "When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in peace
    which he possesseth. But if a stronger than he come upon him and overcome
    him, he will take away all his armour wherein he trusted, and will
    distribute his spoils" (Luke 11:21-22).

Obviously, it is important to be armed physically, but trust in material arms
is foolish if we do not also "put on the whole armour of God" (Ephesians
6:13).

If we are to remain a free people, it is essential for Americans to be both
spiritually and physically armed -- as individuals and as a nation.
Unfortunately, we have allowed evil men to sow the seeds of individual and
national disarmament-both spiritually and materially -- for decades.


Global Gun Control

Many Americans undoubtedly were alarmed to read in their newspapers on May
24, 1994 a story by Associated Press reporter Charles J. Hanley on a new
United Nations stealth gun control initiative for the whole world. The AP
article reported:

    So quietly that even the gun lobby hasn't noticed, the United Nations is
    beginning to set its sights on global gun control.

    The U.N. Disarmament Commission has adopted a working paper, a basis for
    future debate, that proposes tighter controls on the gun trade in the
    United States and other member nations as a way of combating
    international arms trafficking.

That same day, the Washington Times, in an article entitled "U.S. OKs study
of U.N. gun control," reported on the same development:

    "The Clinton administration has agreed to participate in a discussion of
    ways for the United Nations to control the manufacture of guns and their
    sales to civilians."

    "This represents the first U.N. effort to foster regulation of the
    multibillion-dollar trade in small arms...."

The U.N. working paper declares that governments individually are "impotent"
to deal with global arms trafficking and proposes "harmonization" of gun
control standards around the world to make trafficking easier to spot and
prevent.

    "The arms permitted for civilian use . .. should be subject to controls
    at all points in the chain, from production and/or acquisition up to the
    time they are sold to an individual. From then on they should remain
    subject to monitoring and control," the paper says.

Any "harmonization" would inevitably men tightening controls on the loosely
regulated U.S. gun business....

Naturally, in the United Nations, where the vast majority of member states
are authoritarian regimes, " harmonization" means that American citizens must
yield their rights for the common "global good." The UN Charter, of course,
like most of the national constitutions of UN member states, recognizes no
God-given individual rights and certainly no individual right to keep and
bear arms.


Bureaucratic Runaround

Considering the brazen assault this represents on a fundamental human right
and on American national sovereignty, it is understandable that both the UN
and the Clinton Administration would want to keep this subversive initiative
as quiet as possible and would be reluctant to discuss it. Officials at the
U.S. State Department and the UN rebuffed repeated attempts by THE NEW
AMERICAN to obtain a copy of the working paper or to discuss it in detail.
First we were told that the AP and Washington Times reports were erroneous
and exaggerated, and that concern was overblown. Unconvinced, we insisted we
would like to judge for ourselves by examining the document.

At State after several office transfers, we were informed that Ambassador
Stephen Ledogar, the U.S. representative on the Disarmament Commission, was
out of the country and no one else knew how to obtain a copy of the document
At the IJN, after six departmental transfers, we reached the director of the
UN Disarmament Commission, a Mr. Sohrab Kheradi, who informed us that the
report would not be released until mid-July. However, under our persistent
entreaties, Mr. Kheradi agreed that he would arrange for THE NEW AMERICAN to
receive a pre-release copy forthwith.

Days passed, still no working paper. More calls to the UN and more promises
to send the report. Weeks passed. Finally, we reached the secretary of the
Disarmament Commission himself, Mr. Kuo-chung Lin, who had been away on
vacation. Mr. Lin assured us that the concerns stirred by initial news
coverage of the working paper were "based on a misunderstanding" of the
nature and significance of the report. "This is only the report of the
chairman of the Working Group [on disarmament]" on the group's proposed
agenda "for discussion over the next two years," he explained. "It doesn't
establish any policy or have any binding effect." But is it not true, we
asked, that its Purpose is to encourage the establishment of policy that will
have "binding effect"? "No, no," he laughed. Its purpose is simply to
encourage "debate and discussion."

Of course, as a UN official from Communist China, where debate and discussion
can land you in prison, and where unarmed dissenters are unceremoniously
squashed beneath the tracks of army tanks, Mr. Lin's cavalier attitude toward
attacks on the Second Amendment is understandable, even expected.


High Level Treason

The attitudes of American officials, who have taken an oath of office to
defend and protect the Constitution, are far more troubling. Unfortunately,
it will come as a shock to most Americans to learn that the proposal and
"discussion" of UN gun controls applicable to U.S. citizens is not new. It is
the culmination of a program of national disarmament launched by U.S.
officials over 30 years ago. The program was unveiled at the UN on September
25, 1961 by President Kennedy. Entitled Freedom From War: The United States
Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World, this
document is one of the most revolutionary and subversive proposals ever put
forward by any government official. Incredibly, the program originally
introduced in this document became and remains -- official U.S. government
policy.

In short, Freedom From War is a proposal for the complete surrender of the
United States armed forces to the United Nations. It calls for a three-stage
disarmament process leading to the transfer of all national military forces
 -- including those of the U.S. and the USSR -- to the United Nations, and
the establishment of a UN Peace Force as the unchallengeable global military
power.

In its own words, Freedom From War (pages t 8-19) states:

    In Stage III progressive controlled disarmament ... would proceed to a
    point where no state would have the military power to challenge the
    progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force....

Pages 3 and 4 of Freedom From War list these "specific objectives toward
which nations should direct their efforts":

    * The disbanding of all national armed forces and the prohibition of
    their reestablishment in any form whatsoever other than those required to
    preserve internal order and for contributions to a United Nations Peace
    Force;

    * The elimination from national arsenals of all armaments, including all
    weapons of mass destruction and the means for their delivery, other than
    those required for a United Nations Peace Force and for maintaining
    internal order...."

On the last page (page 19) of this treasonous document we read:

    The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those agreed
    types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those
    required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be
    destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes.

Please note that this puts the U.S. government on record in support of a plan
to make all nations subservient to the UN; and that "all armaments" not
controlled by the UN would be destroyed, leaving the UN as the virtual global
dictator. And since no provision is made for an exemption of arms owned by
private citizens (and since the UN itself is hardly sympathetic to private
gun ownership), it is reasonable to assume that private arms are intended for
destruction under the term "all armaments."

To initiate this program, President Kennedy signed Public Law 87-297 (H.R.
9118), creating the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA).
According to that legislation,

    "as defined in this Act, the terms 'arms control' and 'disarmament' mean
    'the identification, verification, inspection, limitation, control,
    reduction, or elimination, of armed forces and armaments of all kinds
    under international agreement to establish an effective system of
    international control..." (emphasis added).

It cannot be stressed too strongly that just as domestic gun control does not
mean the total elimination of all firearms, neither does international
disarmament mean the total elimination of all armies, armaments, and nuclear
weapons. It is no more possible to eliminate all guns than it is to put the
nuclear genie back in the lamp. In both cases, what really is being proposed
is the transfer of control over all weapons to a central government,
resulting in the concentration of force and the creation of a monopoly of
power. In the case of domestic gun control, that means an all-powerful police
state. In the case of international disarmament, it means an all-powerful
global police state.


            +---------------------------------------------------+
            | U.S. THREE-STAGE                                  |
            | DISARMAMENT PLAN                                  |
            |                                                   |
            | STAGE I         US 47%      USSR 47%      UN 6%   |
            |                                                   |
            | STAGE II        US 32%      USSR 32%      UN 36%  |
            |                                                   |
            | STAGE III       INTERNAL    INTERNAL      UN 100% |
            |                 SECURITY    SECURITY              |
            |                 FORCES      FORCES                |
            +---------------------------------------------------+
               [Approximate facsimile of picture in article.]


In its Second Annual Report to Congress (February 1963), the ACDA presented a
simple graphic depiction (see above) demonstrating its proposed three-stage
disarmament process. Observe that in Stage III, as explained in Freedom From
War, the U.S. armed forces cease to exist and only "internal security forces"
 -- i.e. those to be used against American citizens -- are permitted. Of
course, under this scheme, the UN "peacekeeping machinery" will be superior
to the "internal security forces" and will be able to dictate the "laws" that
will be enforced.


CFR Connection

How is it possible that such a patently treasonous and suicidal proposal
could become official U.S policy, embedded in U.S. laws and U.S.-ratified
treaties? As with so many other treacherous acts, policies, and programs of
the past several decades, the trail leads to the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR), a group Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (who was himself a
CFR member and a special assistant to President Kennedy) has called the
"front organization" for "the heart of the American Establishment." Former
CFR member Admiral Chester Ward charged the organization with "promoting
disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence
into an all-powerful one-world government."

Official responsibility for developing and initiating the disarmament program
outlined in Freedom From War goes to President Kennedy and his Secretaries of
State (Dean Rusk) and Defense ( Robert S. McNamara), all three of whom were
members of the CFR. The real authors of Freedom From War and Public Law
87-297, however, were John J. McCloy, the chairman of the CFR, and Arthur H.
Dean, a CFR director.

McCloy, Kennedy's chief disarmament adviser and negotiator with the Soviets,
entered the Establishment through the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine
and Moore, and later became a senior partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and
McCloy, a firm closely tied to the Rockefeller family. He served as an
Assistant Secretary of War under FDR and as U.S. High Commissioner to
occupied Germany. He headed the World Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Ford
Foundation, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was an adviser to nine
Presidents and sat on the board of directors of many corporations. Few would
dispute journalist Richard Rovere's characterization of McCloy as "chairman
of the American Establishment."

McCloy's blue-chip resume, however, included a few red flags. While serving
in the War Department, McCloy approved an order permitting Communist Party
members to become officers in the U.S. Army. He defended identified communist
John Carter Vincent and supported pro- communist atomic scientist J. Robert
Oppenheimer. In 1946, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover warned President Truman of an
"enormous Soviet espionage ring in Washington," and expressed concern over
the "pro-Soviet leanings" of McCloy, Dean Acheson, and Alger Hiss. Hiss, of
course, was later exposed as a Soviet agent. He was also a member of the CFR
and one of the main architects of the United Nations.

Assisting McCloy in drafting Freedom From War and the statute for the Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency was Arthur H. Dean. Dean was also chairman of
the U.S. delegation for two years to the UN disarmament conferences in
Geneva. Following the death of John Foster Dulles (CFR), Dean became the
senior partner in the Insider law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He was vice
chairman of the Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR), the communist-run
outfit most responsible -- together with our State Department -- for turning
China over to the communists in 1949. When IPR member Alfred Kohlberg tried
heroically to expose the treason within IPR, it was Dean who scuttled the
investigation. In 1952 the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee issued a scathing
report on the IPR, citing it as "an instrument of Communist policy,
propaganda and military intelligence." The Senate report also concluded:

    Members of the small core of officials and staff members who controlled
    IPR were either Communist or pro-Communist....

    The effective leadership of the IPR used IPR prestige to promote the
    interests of the Soviet Union in the United States....

    The IPR was a vehicle used by the Communists to orientate American far
    eastern policy toward Communist objectives.

Yet Dean and McCloy, with the help of their CFR associates in the
Establishment media, passed themselves off as Republicans, and conservative,
anticommunist Republicans at that.


"Shock Treatment"

Another important influence on the Kennedy-CFR disarmament plan was
Establishment Wall Street lawyer Grenville Clark. McCloy had worked closely
with Clark in the Military Training camps Association. Clark was vice
president of the globalist United World Federalists and co-author with
Professor Louis B. Sohn (CFR) of World Peace Through World Law (1958).

    "It has been well said," averred Clark, "that in our modern age the
    obdurate adherence to national sovereignty and national armed forces
    represents a form of insanity which may, however, be cured by a species
    of shock treatment."

He spelled out that "shock treatment" in World Peace Through World Law, a
detailed plan for socialist world government through a revised UN Charter.
This text, venerated by all "world order" advocates, proposes a global
superstate in which a "world police force" known as the United Nations Peace
Force would be invested with

    "a coercive force of overwhelming power." "This world police force,"
    wrote Clark and Sohn, "would be the only military force permitted
    anywhere in the world after the process of national disarmament has been
    completed."

But, say the authors,

    "it must be recognized that even with the complete elimination of all
    military forces there would necessarily remain substantial, although
    strictly limited and lightly armed, internal police forces and that these
    police forces, supplemented by civilians armed with sporting rifles and
    fowling pieces, might conceivably constitute a serious threat to a
    neighboring country in the absence of a well- disciplined and heavily
    armed world police."

Accordingly,

    "the United Nations Peace Force shall be regularly provided with the most
    modern weapons and equipment," and with special provision being made "for
    the use of nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances."

Moreover, Chapter 3, Article 14 of the Clark/Sohn UN scheme orders strict
controls on the possession of arms and ammunition by police and private
citizens:

    "No nation shall allow the possession by its internal police forces of
    any arms or equipment except of the types permitted by the regulations
    adopted by the General Assembly ... and in no case shall the number of
    revolvers and rifles combined exceed one for each member of the internal
    police forces, the number of automatic rifles one for each hundred
    members of such forces, and the ammunition supplies 100 rounds per rifle
    or revolver and 1,000 rounds per automatic rifle. No nation shall allow
    the possession by any public or private organization or individual of any
    military equipment whatever or of any arms except such small arms as are
    reasonably needed by duly licensed hunters or by duly licensed
    individuals for personal protection."

The plan also would eliminate the "problem" of private citizens' access to
ammunition by providing that

    "No nation shall produce or allow the production of any explosives except
    in so far as the General Assembly may authorize...."

Moreover,

    "every nation shall obtain a special license from the [UN]
    Inspector-General for: ... The operation by it or by any public or
    private organization or individual ... engaged in the production of any
    light arms, ammunition ... or of tools for any such production."

And what if you fail to turn in or register, say, your .22 rifle, your .38
pistol, or your gun powder and reloading equipment, and you are charged with
unlawful possession of "military equipment" under the UN General Assembly's
ever-changing regulations? A UN tribunal will be your judge and jury. Clark
and Sohn say:

    "In order to provide means for the trial of individuals accused of
    violating the disarmament provisions of the revised Charter or of other
    offenses against the Charter or laws enacted by the General Assembly ...
    provision is also made for regional United Nations courts, inferior to
    the International Court of Justice, and for the review by the
    International Court of decisions of these regional courts."


The Hour Is Late

The diabolical plan for total national and individual disarmament spelled out
by Clark and Sohn in 1958 was initiated by the CFR coterie in the Kennedy
Administration and has been carried forward by CFR one-worlders in each
successive Administration. This conspiracy for empowering the United Nations
with unprecedented and unparalleled force, if allowed to succeed, would
establish a global tyranny so monstrous that the murderous regimes of Hitler,
Stalin, and Mao would pale by comparison.

Our Founding Fathers provided us with the tools to fight this Godless drive.
But for too long good Americans have allowed a state of slumber to overtake
them, until now "the night is far spent." Though the hour is late, with
diligent effort we can yet reclaim our heritage of freedom.

--

This article (under a different title) and the infamous Freedom From War
document have been added to our new Fall/Winter 1994 edition of "Toward a
Police State."

WILLIAM F. JASPER
THE NEW AMERICAN
SEPTEMBER 19, 1994

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