As a Christian, I can pray for him and his loved ones, and offer what forgiveness it is my part to give. Vietnam Veterans and others will follow their consciences and accept this in their own way, and I will not impart judgement on them.
But it is important to know what kind of man he was, and this speech that he gave in 1999 when receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award tells more about him than all the nightly news broadcasts.
I work with a young man, a pretty intelligent guy in his mid-twenties, and he asked me yesterday in all honesty: "With all the problems in the world, wouldn't it be better to go to a single currency and a single government for the entire world?"
I explained some of the reasons why not, but it was clear he had the idea, and I wasn't going to dissuade him. The point of this story is, there are more liberals out there who believe this, Americans, who are willing to surrender our sovereignty to the likes of the United Nations. This includes our current President and many, MANY holding public office at all levels.
They cannot come straight out and say it as Walter Cronkite did, and I think he only did so because he was getting a bit soft in the head. Most liberals understand they can all feel this way and discuss it at their cocktail parties, but they know they cannot tell Americans how they really feel about this.
There is a generation of liberals who worship Walter Cronkite. We can let him pass without uttering maledictions, and as Christians, pray for him and his family.
But we should also keep in mind who he was, the power he wielded, and what he really thought about America. This speech of his says it all.
It was shameful that one man with a comforting voice could read lines before a camera and cause this country to skew to his line.
Yeah wall to wall coverage for this liberal. Contrast that to Tony Snowe’s death and insults he recieved after death by the liberals.
I remember reading that speech. It started out eloquent enough, but quickly devolves into cheap point-scoring and straw-man religion-bashing.
Cronkite tries to make it look like the only people who would disagree with him are selfish politicians and religious Neanderthals. As opposed to more reasoned disputants.
He’s stuck in the mindset of 1946, when all right-thinking, war-weary people, fed up with nationalism, thought the U.N. and an eventual World Government was the natural destiny of mankind. With a religious fervor equal to that of any millenialist.
He remained blissfully oblivious to what the U.N. turned into. Not to mention the more recent scandals, incompetence and misadventures of the unaccountable Eurocrats.
The problem with the World Government model in reality is that the bigger the government gets, the less representative it becomes and the less accountable to individual citizens. Mark Steyn put it best in one of his columns; showing how politicians who don’t have to worry about local and regional constituents inevitably go rotten.
But ol’ Walter seemed to believe in philosopher kings to the last.
He paid homage to the puppeteer, the man behind the curtain, the money guy:
"Let me make three suggestions for immediate action that would move us in a direction firmly in the American tradition of law and democracy...
...#3 Consider, after 55 years, the possibility of a more representative and democratic system of decision making at the U.N.
This should include both revision of the veto in the Security Council and adoption of a weighted voting system for the General Assembly. The World Federalists have endorsed Richard Hudson's Binding Triad proposal.
George Soros, in "The Crisis of Global Capitalism," has given serious attention to this concept which would be based upon not only one-nation-one-vote but also on population and contributions to the U.N. budget.
Resolutions adopted by majorities in each of these areas would be binding, enforceable law. Within the powers given to it in the Charter, the U.N. could then deal with matters of reliable financing, a standing U.N. peace force, development, the environment and human rights..."
Communist Traitor Mole since 1949.
“In your world now of modernism and humanism, socialism, communism, secularism—all of this, My children, is leading to the unification of man into a one-world religion, a one-world church, and a one-world government to the enslavement of mankind, creating a form of mass atheism in the world.” - Our Lady of the Roses, July 25, 1977
Cronkite is what us old timers used to call a PINKO. I’m glad the old SOB is not around anymore.
Go to YouTube and watch the FULL video of Walter on the day of JFK’s assassination. He is putting his own opinion out there that it was probably the work of right wingers! How come most people never see this footage? We only see him taking his glasses off to shed a tear. Go back and watch from the beginning and you’ll see a clearer picture of Walter’s politics. It was there if you had the eyes to see.
How they had egg on their faces when it turned out to be a commie who killed him.
NWO ping.
Wise words my FRiend.
Thank you for posting this showing Walter was a World Federalist ala George Soros. The thinking that getting all people of the world into one organized government is below the pre-school level. Sadly, there are many in positions of power throughout the world who strongly hold these same desires. The last thing we need is to give our sovereignty over to ANY OTHER BODY.
Good riddance, he is where he belongs now and there isn’t any air conditioning.
soros / cronkite / World Federalist Association ping