Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward

issues. Gorbachev has never denounced socialism, only the label of a particular brand of socialism called Communism. His real interest is not ecology but world government with himself assured a major position in the socialist power structure. In a public appearance in Fulton, Missouri, he praised the Club of Rome, of which he is a member, for its position on population control. Then he said: One of the worst of the new dangers is ecological.... Today, global climatic shifts; the greenhouse effect; the "ozone hole"; acid ram; contamination of the atmosphere, soil and water by industrial and household waste; the destruction of the forests; etc. all threaten the

stability of the planet.1

Gorbachev proclaimed that global government was the answer to these threats and that the use of government force was essential.

He said: "I believe that the new world order will not be fully realized unless the United Nations and its Security Council create structures ... authorized to impose sanctions and make use of other measures of compulsion."

Here is an arch criminal who fought his way up through the ranks of the Soviet Communist Party, became the protege of Yuri Andropov, head of the dreaded KGB, was a member of the USSR's ruling Politburo throughout the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and who was selected by the Politburo in 1985 as the supreme leader of world Communism. All of this was during one of the Soviet's most dismal periods of human-rights violations and subversive activities against the free world. Furthermore, he ruled over a nation with one of the worst possible records of environmental destruction. At no time while he was in power did he ever say or do anything to show concern over planet Earth.

All that is now forgotten. Gorbachev has been transformed by the CFR-dominated media into an ecology warrior. He is calling for world government and telling us that such a government will use environmental issues as justification for sanctions and other "measures of compulsion." We cannot say that we were not warned.

1. Michail Gorbachev, "The River of Time and the Necessity of Action," 46th JohnFindley Green Foundation Lecture, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, May 6,

1992, transcript from Westminster College Department of Press Relations, p. 6.

2. Ibid., p. 9.

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The use of compulsion is an important point in these plans.

People in the industrialized nations are not expected to cooperate in their own demise. They will have to be forced. They will not like it when their food is taken for global distribution. They will not approve when they are taxed by a world authority to finance foreign political projects. They will not voluntarily give up their cars or resettle into smaller houses or communal barracks to satisfy the resource-allocation quotas of a UN agency. Club-of-Rome member Maurice Strong states the problem:

In effect, the United States is committing environmentalaggression against the rest of the world.... At the military level, theUnited States is the custodian. At the environmental level, the UnitedStates is clearly the greatest risk.... One of the worst problems in the

United States is energy prices—they're too low....

It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of theaffluent middle class ... involving high meat intake, consumption oflarge amounts of frozen and 'convenience' foods, ownership ofmotor-vehicles, numerous electric household appliances, home andwork-place air-conditioning ... expansive suburban housing ... are notsustainable.1

Mr. Strong's remarks were enthusiastically received by world environmental leaders, but they prompted this angry editorial response in the Arizona Republic.