With No Apologies:Memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater

In the Bible story of David and Goliath we are told that David’s brothers, who were older and bigger than he, ordered David to stay home while they went into the valley to confront the enemy. When David joined them a day or so later, they rebuked him. He replied with a question: “Is there not a cause?”

To my mind there is a cause. That cause is freedom. We stand in danger of losing that freedom- not to a foreign tyrant, but to those well intentioned but misguided elitist utopians who stubbornly refuse to profit from errors of the past.

If I am right, if the Republic is in danger, then time is short. I must take this opportunity to share what I have seen and experienced as a member of the U.S. Senate, as my party’s nominee for the presidency, as a man whose only aspiration has been to serve the cause of freedom.

If I am wrong, time will display my error and reprimand me. If what I say strikes a response in the hearts and minds of other Americans, perhaps they will enlist in the cause to keep our country strong and to restrain those who seek to diminish the importance and significance of the individual. (Page 14)

I believe the Council on Foreign Relations and its ancillary elitist groups are indifferent to communism. They have no ideological anchors. In their pursuit of a new world order they are prepared to deal without prejudice with a communist state, a socialist state, a democratic state, monarchy, oligarchy—it’s all the same to them.

Rear Admiral Chester Ward, USN (Retd.), who was a member of the CFR for sixteen years, has written, “The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common—they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the United States.” Their goal is to impose a benign stability on the quarreling family of nations through the merger and consolidation. They see the elimination of national boundaries, the suppression of racial and ethnic loyalties as the most expeditious avenue to world peace. Their rationale rests exclusively on materialism. They believe economic competition is the root cause of international tension. This approach dismisses as insignificant the form of government or the political ideology expressed by that form.

It may be that if the CFR vision of the future could be realized, there would be a reduction in wars, a lessening of poverty, a more efficient utilization of the world’s resources. To my mind, this would inevitably be accompanied by a loss of personal freedom of choice and the reestablishment of the restraints which provoked the American Revolution.

In your heart, you know he's right.

The final paragraph of that Trilateral Commission report is an admission of the commission’s true aims: “Close Trilateral cooperation in keeping the peace, in managing the world economy, in fostering economic development and alleviating world poverty will improve the chances of a smooth and peaceful evolution of the global system.”

What the Trilaterals truly intend is the creation of a world wide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved. They believe the abundant materialism they propose to create will overwhelm existing differences. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future.

With No Apologies
Barry Goldwater

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050418-112650-9501r.htm

Power pact meets quietly

By Joseph Curl
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 19,2005

The Trilateral Commission, a secretive association of the world's most powerful private citizens, met behind closed doors in Washington over the weekend with top Bush administration officials, discussing the rise of China, global currency conflicts and the pending referendum before nations of the European Union.

As usual, the press was not allowed in any of the meetings, which included speeches by Vice President Dick Cheney, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, World Bank President-designate Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

But snippets of their discussions were revealed, including a combative exchange on France and its May 29 referendum on the EU constitution. "Everyone's beating up on France because of the coming referendum," Francois Sauzey, the European press officer for the commission, was overheard to say about commission discussions.

Nearly a dozen national polls in France indicate the referendum would fail. If just one European nation votes against it, the constitution dies. Although the commission does not release information on its discussions, The Washington Times obtained "Trilateral Memorandum No. 8," which deals with the ongoing skirmish between Japan and China.

The memo, topped with the name Akira Kojima, a commission member and chairman of the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo, weighed in on the clash between Japan and China, which boiled over when Japan issued revisionist textbooks to students.

"Japan still has a history textbook approval system, and this misguided system is at the root of these unnecessary misunderstandings and must be abolished," the memo said.

The memo also took aim at Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, "a peculiar character in that he is basically stubborn. If he is criticized for one thing, he intentionally sticks to it and repeats it."

None of the group's members spoke to the press after the meetings. Members include former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, Kennedy administration Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, a national security adviser in the Carter administration.

Far less luminary members refused to talk to a reporter in the hallway of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Maryland Avenue in Southwest, waving off questions and walking hurriedly.

The Trilateral Commission's annual meetings, held in Warsaw in 2004, Seoul in 2003, Washington in 2002 and London in 2001, have inspired conspiracy theories of powerful puppeteers who secretly pull the strings of world powers as they seek to establish a new world order.

The theories are based partly on fact. Mr. Brzezinski once asserted that the commission came up with the idea to create the Group of Seven industrial nations. The commission boasts three U.S. presidents once among its ranks: Bill Clinton, George Bush and Jimmy Carter, who joined in 1973 and moved into the White House three years later.

I own that book, believe it or not, despite it being older tha me and out of print. I thought that it was an often brutally honest, brilliantly written memoir of the man who defined the conservative movement in America in the 50's and 60's and set the stage for the Reagan Revolution. Barry was one of our political heroes, and the causes he stood for then (strong national defense, anti-communism, broad-based tax cuts, minimal government intrusion in American lives) still sound pretty good to me. The chapters on the savage Republican infighting over the 1964 Presidential nomination remind us how dangerously close the 'Pubbies once came to letting the big-spending left-wingers take over the party (Rockefeller, Javits) and how Goldwaters massive defeat in the general election may have been beside the point since his obtaining the NOMINATION actually saved te party from self-destruction (by keeping the "R"'s from turning into exactly the kind of people that we oppose).

I liked it so much that I actually stole that book from my HS library on the last day of my Senior year.
Ah, the memories!

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