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SCIENTOLOGY: A SATANIC LINK?
NY Post ^ | 03-16-03 | NY Post - Page Six

Posted on 03/16/2003 8:22:46 AM PST by JCG

SCIENTOLOGY: A SATANIC LINK?

By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON
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THE trendiest religion in Hollywood was founded on the teachings of a Satanist,
a new essay by Camille Paglia claims. The Church of Scientology - which boasts
Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Lisa Marie Presley, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis and
Kirstie Alley among its members - was founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron
Hubbard. According to an article by Paglia in Boston University's Arion journal,
Hubbard got many of his ideas from infamous devil worshipper Alistair Crowley.

"Hubbard had met Crowley in the latter's Los Angeles temple in 1945," Paglia
writes. "Hubbard's son reveals that Hubbard claimed to be Crowley's successor:
Hubbard told him that Scientology was born on the day that Crowley died."

According to the article, Scientologists perform some of the same rites that
Crowley invented, all designed to free practitioners from human guilt.

"Drills used by Scientologists to cleanse and clarify the mind are evidently a
reinterpretation of Crowley's singular fusion of Asian meditation and Satanic
ritualism, which sharpens the all-conquering will . . . Guilt and remorse, in
the Crowley way, are mere baggage to be jettisoned," Paglia says.

She writes that Crowley, a Nazi sympathizer who used opiates and hallucinogens
and called himself "The Great Beast," advocated total sexual freedom, including
orgies and bestiality.

Long after his death in 1947, the diabolist attracted even bigger followers than
Hubbard, who founded Scientology in 1954.

"Crowley's influence fell heavily on the late sixties and seventies . . . The
Beatles inserted Crowley's face (back row, second from left) in the cartoon
cover collage of their landmark `Sgt. Pepper' album," Paglia writes. In fact,
some people say the famous first line of the album, "It was 20 years ago today,"
is a reference to the year of Crowley's demise.

Other Crowley fans include Ozzy Osbourne, who dedicated an entire song to him on
his first solo album. David Bowie refers to Crowley and his cult, The Golden
Dawn, on his early song "Quicksand," and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page bought
Crowley's mansion, Boleskin House, in Scotland.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: hollywood; satanism; scientology
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To: Carry_Okie; Sir Francis Dashwood

That was, more than any single agent, what ushered in the Enlightenment. The hierarchy naturally reacted by mounting the Counterreformation. Blaise Pascal helped destroy it, with ingenious ridicule, by focusing attention on the self-serving hypocrisy of the French Jesuits who tried to dominate the Counterreformation.  (Hey, there's a reason to take heart here. It seems the losing side may be identified with anything the French try to lead or are Quislings to. <G>)

The Age of Reason shortly followed, providing the next ideological shifts that ushered in the American Revolution. Our forces defending America today find themselves fighting a renewed counterreformation. What calls itself the "Progressive" movement has driven that incrementally regressive force.

Seeing it is impossible to thwart free speech for very long in America, the Establishment's not-so-Lamestream-media has taken the next best tact: overwhelming our society with a plethora of choices, many of them counterproductive to Freedom.

Excuse me if I'm wrong, but it seems your self assigned task, C-O, Dash, et al., has been to try to focus more attention on those things which are worthy of attention. But sometimes that means, rather than dealing with our positives, we must show how counterproductive things, like Scientology, are negative.

Now, none of us is Blaise Pascal. None of us have that open and uncluttered field he had. Also, today, the Establishment short-circuits Pascal style ridicule by permitting highly paid jesters to take the heat off them with blanket criticism of all politicos. (Though Mark Steyn occasionally proves me wrong). And maybe most importantly, none of us is permitted the level of anonymity he enjoyed.

So today's Counterreformationists think they've got all bases covered. We believe in better because we see they are NOT the higher Authority. Getting men to respond to their higher and more noble instincts is actually more possible as men, who've known ease, come to see that material gain just isn't the be-all, end-all upon which the Mammonites have tried to get us to focus exclusively. And so these alternatives, manufactured faiths, are naturally aimed at those most at ease -- with the least confidence for beings so -- the highly paid celebs like Cruise, Revolta, et al. And Celebs' involvement there have helped sell the new "faith" to the starstruck.

That brings me back to this issue.
Helping identify this bit of detritis is what this Paglia piece attempts. It's also what we're about, so don't be too critical. It's not that bad if it impels you to improve upon it. Do it. You understand my tagline. <G>

-Av

41 posted on 03/16/2003 12:53:33 PM PST by Avoiding_Sulla (You can't see where we're going when you don't look where we've been.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
As one who has read most of Hubbard's books, I can say that you could have stopped in mid sentence and made perfect sense: No discussion of Hubbard [Scientology] even makes sense....

See what I mean.
42 posted on 03/16/2003 1:35:01 PM PST by CCWoody
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To: CCWoody
Scientology serves the same purpose Mormonism, communism and Harry Potter serve.

Confuse, obscure, mislead, divide, and most of all, deny the truth of God Almighty.

Same as it ever was.

43 posted on 03/16/2003 1:59:50 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
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To: JCG

44 posted on 03/16/2003 8:08:54 PM PST by Coleus (RU-486 Kills Babies)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
I couldn't have said it better

Scientology was started in Elizabeth, NJ, not too far from Newark Airport which is mostly in Elizabeth.

45 posted on 03/16/2003 8:13:53 PM PST by Coleus (RU-486 Kills Babies)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; JCG
The Lucis (Lucifer) Trust of the United Nations seem very innocuous on the front but their agenda is the ruination of souls and the conversion of the world.

The Lucis Trust is on WOR radio, New York, New York City's 2nd-Largest AM Radio Station WOR Radio 710 AM on you dial every Sunday from 7:30 am - 8 am. I happened to stumble on it one morning and have been researching it for a few weeks now. New Age and Satan Worship.

Here are some links

http://www.lucistrust.org/arcane/nasymb.shtml

http://www.oneworld.ru/lucis-rus/lucispub/

Teaching God's children to worship "Divine Nature"
http://getusout.org/un/articles/essay.htm

The Earth Charter
http://getusout.org/earthcharter/

http://getusout.org/earthcharter/index.htm

UNESCO: A Budding Global School Board
http://getusout.org/un/articles/unesco.htm

http://getusout.org/un/articles/newworldreligion.htm

http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/12-16-2002/vo18no25_ark.htm

http://thenewamerican.com/focus/earth_charter/index.htm


Rebutting Rockefeller
http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/11-04-2002/vo18no22_rockefeller.htm

http://getusout.org/earthworship/index.htm

http://getusout.org/un/articles/rockford_ark.htm

http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/12-16-2002/vo18no25_ark.htm

The European Union's Stealth Attack on Religion
http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/07-31-2000/insider/vo16no16_eu.htm

http://thenewamerican.com/focus/religion/index.htm ____________________________________________________

The Catholic Church is against Communism and Socialism, Make sure the socialists do not take over; they are working from within the church and are part of the media and will stop at nothing from destroying the Church.
 
QUOD APOSTOLICI MUNERIS
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO Xlll ON SOCIALISM
DECEMBER 28, 1878
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13apost.htm
 
NOSTIS ET NOBISCUM
ON THE CHURCH IN THE PONTIFICAL STATES
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS IX
DECEMBER 8, 1849
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius09/p9nostis.htm
 
QUADRAGESIMO ANNO
ON RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SOCIAL ORDER
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS Xl MAY 15, 1931
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11QUADR.HTM
 
GRAVES DE COMMUNI RE
Encyclical of Pope leo XIII on Christian Democracy
January 18, 1901
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13grcom.htm
 
MATER ET MAGISTRA
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE JOHN XXIII ON MAY 15, 1961
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/John23/j23mater.htm
 
Part of the 45 Goals of Communism
 
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
 
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
 
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
 
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
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Lucis Trust - The Spiritual Foundation of the United Nations
UN Logo

33 Segments surrounded by sprigs of acacia
'Welcome to the United Nations. It's your World'...

By, Atrayu

The Spiritual Foundation of the United Nations

The Lucis Trust

UN Meditation Room The Lucis Trust is the Publishing House which prints and disseminates United Nations material. It is a devastating indictment of the New Age and Pagan nature of the UN. Lucis Trust was established in 1922 as Lucifer Trust by Alice Bailey as the publishing company to disseminate the books of Bailey and Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. The title page of Alice Bailey's book, 'Initiation, Human and Solar' was originally printed in 1922, and clearly shows the publishing house as 'Lucifer Publishing CoIn 1923. Bailey changed the name to Lucis Trust, because Lucifer Trust revealed the true nature of the New Age Movement too clearly. (Constance Cumbey, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, p. 49). A quick trip to any New Age bookstore will reveal that many of the hard-core New Age books are published by Lucis Trust.

At one time, the Lucis Trust office in New York was located at 866 United Nations Plaza and is a member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations under a slick program called "World Goodwill". In an Alice Bailey book called "Education for a New Age"; she suggests that in the new age "World Citizenship should be the goal of the enlightened, with a world federation and a world brain." In other words - a One World Government New World Order.

Luci's Trust is sponsored by among others Robert McNamara, former minister of Defence in the USA, president of the World Bank, member of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Thomas Watson (IBM, former ambassador in Moscow). Luci's Trust sponsors among others the following organizations: UN, Greenpeace Int., Greenpeace USA, Amnesty Int. and UNICEF.

The United Nations has long been one of the foremost world harbingers for the "New Spirituality" and the gathering "New World Order" based on ancient occult and freemasonic principles. Seven years after the birth of the UN, a book was published by the theosophist and founder of the Lucis Trust, Alice Bailey, claiming that "Evidence of the growth of the human intellect along the needed receptive lines [for the preparation of the New Age] can be seen in the "planning" of various nations and in the efforts of the United Nations to formulate a world plan... From the very start of this unfoldment, three occult factors have governed the development of all these plans". [Alice B. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age (Lucis Press, 1955), Vol. II, p.35.]

Although she did not spell out clearly the identity of these 'three occult factors', she did reveal to her students that "Within the United Nations is the germ and seed of a great international and meditating, reflective group - a group of thinking and informed men and women in whose hands lies the destiny of humanity. This is largely under the control of many fourth ray disciples, if you could but realise it, and their point of meditative focus is the intuitional or Buddhic plane - the plane upon which all hierarchical activity is today to be found'. [Ibid. p.220.]

To this end, the Lucis Trust, under the leadership of Foster and Alice Bailey, started a group called 'World Goodwill' - an official non-governmental organization within the United Nations. The stated aim of this group is "to cooperate in the world of preparation for the reappearance of the Christ" [One Earth, the magazine of the Findhorn Foundation, October/November 1986, Vol. 6, Issue 6, p.24.]

But the esoteric work inside the UN does not stop with such recognized occult groupings. Much of the impetus for this process was initiated through the officership of two Secretary-Generals of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld (held office: 1953-1961) and U Thant (held office: 1961-1971) who succeeded him, and one Assistant Secretary-general, Dr. Robert Muller. In a book written to celebrate the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin (and edited by Robert Muller), it is revealed "Dag Hammarskjöld, the rational Nordic economist, had ended up as a mystic. He too held at the end of his life that spirituality was the ultimate key to our earthly fate in time and space". [Robert Muller (ed.), The Desire to be Human: A Global Reconnaissance of Human Perspectives in an Age of Transformation (Miranana, 1983), p.304.]

Sri Chinmoy, the New Age guru, meditation leader at the UN, wrote: "the United Nations is the chosen instrument of God; to be a chosen instrument means to be a divine messenger carrying the banner of God's inner vision and outer manifestation."

William Jasper, author of "A New World Religion" describes the religion of the UN: "...a weird and diabolical convergence of New Age mysticism, pantheism, aboriginal animism atheism, communism, socialism, Luciferian occultism, apostate Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism".

http://www.lucistrust.org

You can find out much more about them and how they're involved with the work of the United Nations by following their link "World Goodwill" at the top of their home page.


The Aquarian Age Community

http://www.aquaac.org/

This Website is sponsored by the United Nations and the whole NWO philosophy is there. The page which explains the work of the Aquarian Age Community, as they call themselves, has this proud quote at the header of their page at http://www.aquaac.org/about/about.html

Such a grandeur is ahead!
Such a great step awaits a fiery affirmation.
Our teaching and the affirmation of the Higher
Principles will reveal so much that is great to humanity!
A great period is drawing near: Thus we do create together.

Fiery World
Vol. III, par. 149

Amongst the many 'enlightening' pages in this website, you can easily find 'fascinating' articles entitled:

"The New World Order and the Work of the UN" http://www.aquaac.org/un/nwo.html

"The World Spiritual Teacher, the Esoteric Community and the United Nations" http://www.aquaac.org/meetings/rttop.html

Preparing the Way for the Reappearance of the World Spiritual Teacher, the Work of the United Nations and the World-Wide Esoteric Community

http://www.aquaac.org/meetings/RT2001.html and many more articles.

This is not Christian theology but New Age paganism. You can also read the NWO quotes I posted, further down this page. Here's another by Curtis Dall, FD Roosevelt's son in law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father in Law:

"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations One World Money group... Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.

The UN is but a long range, international banking apparatus nearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One World Revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market... The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank."

 

Under the U.N. Gavel
By Sen. Larry E. Craig, R-ID 

At its founding, the mission of the United Nations, as stated in its charter, was "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." It made no claim to supersede the sovereignty of its member states. Article 2 says that the United Nations "is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members," and it may not "intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state."

Since then, the United Nations has turned the principle of national sovereignty on its head. Through a host of conventions, treaties and conferences, it has intruded into regulation of resources and the economy (for example, treaties on "biological diversity," marine resources and climate change) and family life (hyping phoney liberalism while masculinity is scorned and western manhood is amputated - causing untold grief to the family unit) (conventions on parent-child relations and women in society). It has demanded that countries institute racial quotas and laws against hate crimes and speech (while the U.N. itself can jail someone for 30 years without trial). Recently the United Nations tried to undermine Americans' constitutional right to keep and bear arms (with proposed restrictions on the international sale of small arms).

Fortunately, many of these have been dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate, successive presidents have refused to endorse others, and in any case the United Nations had little power of enforcement. But in 1998, one mechanism of global government (there it is in the Washington Post folks) came to life with the so-called "Rome Statute" establishing a permanent International Criminal Court (and abolishing the Magna Carta in Britain). Once this treaty is ratified by 60 countries, the United Nations will wield judicial power over every individual human being -- even over citizens of countries that haven't joined the court.

While the court's stated mission is dealing with war crimes and crimes against humanity (what about their own crimes against humanity when they committed widespread genocide in the Balkans and East Timor? Dare I say they are hypocrites?) -- which, because there is no appeal from its decisions, only the court will have the right to define -- its mandate could be broadened later. Based on existing U.N. tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, which are models for the International Criminal Court, defendants will have none of the due process rights afforded by the U.S. Constitution, such as trial by jury, confrontation of witnesses or a speedy and public trial (that's a communist court system!).

President Clinton signed the Rome treaty last year, citing U.S. support for existing U.N. war crimes tribunals. Many suppose the court will target only a Slobodan Milosevic or the perpetrators of massacres in Rwanda, or dictators like Iraq's Saddam Hussein. But who knows? To some people, Augusto Pinochet is the man who saved Chile from communism; to others he is a murderer. Who should judge him -- the United Nations or the Chilean people?

In dozens of countries, governments use brutal force against insurgents. Should the United Nations decide whether leaders in Turkey or India should be put in the defendants' dock, and then commit the United States to bring them there? How about Russia's Vladimir Putin, for Chechnya? Or Israel's Ariel Sharon? Can we trust the United Nations with that decision (the more evil these premieres are - the more the U.N. loves them)?

The court's critics rightly cite the danger to U.S. military personnel deployed abroad. Since even one death can be a war crime, a U.S. soldier could be indicted just for doing his duty. But the International Criminal Court also would apply to acts "committed" by any American here at home. The European Union and U.S. domestic opponents consider the death penalty "discriminatory" and "inhumane." Could an American governor face indictment by the court for "crimes against humanity" for signing a death warrant?

Milosevic was delivered to a U.N. court (largely at U.S. insistence) for offences occurring entirely within his own country. Some say the Milosevic precedent doesn't threaten Americans, because the U.S. Constitution protects them. But for Milosevic, we demanded that the Yugoslav Constitution be trashed and the United Nations' authority prevail. Why should the International Criminal Court treat our Constitution any better (they're already destroying the 2nd amendment with their gun grab and the 1st with their phoney 'hate crime' nonsense)?

Instead of trying to "fix" the Rome treaty, the United States must recognize that it is a fundamental threat to American sovereignty. The State Department's participation in the court's preparatory commission is counterproductive. We need to make it clear that we consider the court an illegitimate body, that the United States will never join it and that we will never accept its "jurisdiction" over any U.S. citizen or help to impose it on other countries.

46 posted on 03/16/2003 8:16:07 PM PST by Coleus (RU-486 Kills Babies)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
"Every child is our child."
-- Motto of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

"To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national identification."
Brock Chisolm, when director of UN World Health Organisation

1948 -- UNESCO president and Fabian Socialist, Sir Julian Huxley, calls for a radical eugenic policy in UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy. He states: "Thus, even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy of controlled human breeding will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable."

• "In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." - Oceanographer Jaques Cousteau Published in the Courier, a publication of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Bush Says YES to UNESCO
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/9/19/153742.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,791354,00.html

United Nations: Don't Smack Your Child
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2297821.stm
Your UNICEF dollars at work
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27627
The New World Religion
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/09-23-2002/vo18no19_religion.htm
U.N. land grab in the works
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29260

http://www.seidata.com/~neusys/colm0036.html

Speak Up for Sovereignty and Patriotism!http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1997/jan97/psrjan97.html

The UN has always chosen socialist one-worlders for leaders. The Secretary-General at the UN founding conference was Soviet spy Alger Hiss. He was followed as Secretary-General by Norwegian socialist Trygve Lie, Swedish socialist Dag Hammarskjold, Burmese Marxist U Thant, Austrian former Nazi Kurt Waldheim, Peruvian socialist Javier Perez deCuellar, and Egyptian socialist Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Each has consistently used the full resources of the UN to promote Communist and socialist causes around the world. The Socialist International (which proudly traces its origins to the First International headed by Karl Marx) today claims tens of millions of members in 54 countries. At its 1962 Congress, it declared: "The ultimate objective of the parties of the Socialist International is nothing less than world government ... Membership of the United Nations must be made universal ..." Almost all of the UN's "independent" commissions for the last thirty years have been headed by members of the Socialist International.

Dueling Vetoes

John L. Perry
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2003

"Veto" is Latin for "I forbid."

Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States each may forbid any United Nations action. Now, countervailing vetoes loom.That is another way of saying the United Nations is at long last well on its way to the ash heap of history.Which is another way of saying all of this is good news, not calamity, for the United States, for the entire Free World and for those peoples struggling under the yokes of dictatorships to become members of the Free World.

Enforce or Ignore?The present veto issue is over whether the U.N. Security Council will adopt yet another resolution - requiring once and for all time Iraq's forthwith compliance with a long string of 17 previous resolutions - demanding full disclosure and destruction of weapons of mass destruction.As it is now shaping up, the United States, in close cooperation with the United Kingdom, is expected to sponsor such a resolution within the 15-member Security Council, whose five permanent members enjoy the power of veto.One of those five, France, with the connivance of non-veto-toting Germany, is poised to sponsor a resolution aimed at preventing just such a compliance resolution. Those two will have the support of recently communist Russia and currently communist China, both of which have veto power.

Greed and AggrandizementThey are that determined, for their own reasons of selfish economic and political enhancement, to keep the regime of Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq.A historic collision is about to occur. Consider the implications:

If the Security Council takes up the U.S.-U.K. resolution first, the factotums of France and Germany - with those of Russia and China dog-trotting alongside - are confronted with three options:
(a) Go along with a "yes" vote, which would cause them to have to execute a hairpin reversal of course with all the attendant embarrassing consequences domestically and internationally;
(b) Abstain, which would cost them equivalent humiliation at home and elsewhere, since even the bumfuzzled value a certain degree of constancy in their leadership, or
(c) Veto the U.S.-U.K. resolution, which would place them irreconcilably at odds with America and its allies, who far outnumber them.

On the other hand, if the French and Germans are the first to offer their resolution, which would litter the Iraqi landscape with U.N. "inspections" bureaucracies and dot the sky over Iraq with French and Russian "surveillance" aircraft, here are the options confronting the United States and the United Kingdom:
(a) President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair could approve its adoption, about as likely as either one resigning from office, which is what a complete reversal of their positions would honorably call for;
(b) Abstain, a posture leaving those two as emasculated impotents adrift on the world scene, at the whim of the likes of France, Germany, Russia, China, Syria and on and on, or
(c) Exercise the veto, which would cut the American alliance free of the baleful influence of Old Europe, but also thrust it face to face with the loonies of radical Islam and the always-sinister and rapidly developing People's Republic of China - an inevitable confrontation incalculably more expensive later on.

Those consequences range far beyond the immediate issue of how to treat with Iraq's malevolent tyrant. They will cast the mold for the reconfiguration of economic relationships, political alignments and military deployments of world powers for decades to come.This a most-sobering reality. Either way the cat jumps, it constitutes nothing less than the most fundamental upheaval since the onset of the Cold War in the wake of World War II.Nothing like this has come along since the now-defunct Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin gambled on possible nuclear annihilation to subjugate the United States and all it represents.

The Threat Was Well Known
That came at a time when the United States was victorious in World War II and there was widespread appreciation among the American people of the mortal danger the Soviet Union represented.The greatest peril implicit in this present crisis - which neatly fits the Japanese dual ideogram for danger combined with opportunity - is that millions of Americans still don't get it.Much of that disconnect from reality can be laid at the door of American elitist, leftist mass communications and eight years of unethical leadership and neglect by the Clinton administration that those media so gleefully celebrated - and now so vengefully mourn.

Blind Self-AbsorptionA staggering number of Americans remain, even post-Sept. 11, in a combination state of denial of the horrific danger pressing upon them and smug preoccupation with personal pleasures and distractions.That is many times more unsettling than whether the latest surveys of opinions purport to show that most of the rest of the world's population is not on America's side in this time of peril.The courageous leadership of Bush and Blair, who have not allowed opinion polls to blind their perception of their duty, will go down in history alongside that of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

Train Wreck AheadSo what happens if, as seems likely, the two headlong opposing resolutions work their way up to a vote in the Security Council after every other U.N. member state has been given face time on world television to do its posturing?Despite strenuous efforts now being made to mush together some sort of face-saving compromise resolution, it seems humanly impossible that, in the end, the two opposing camps can avoid having to split. Each side has gone too far to double back on itself.As Bush has promised, should the Security Council chicken out on its responsibility, the United States will lead a Coalition of the Willing - impressive in number and strength - to liberate the people of Iraq and destroy Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

Taking the Time to Ramp UpAny passage of days between now and then will be occasioned not by the grant of more time for U.N. inspectors but by the arrival on station of that fourth U.S. carrier battle group and the ominous thud of the final platoon's boots hitting the ground.At that point, there goes the United Nations. Why is that?The answer lies in the history behind the founding of the United Nations as World War II was coming to a close.That awful conflict was won by the wartime unity of the Big Three - as Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States were known then. The concept was that post-war peace could be maintained only if the Big Three remained in effective unanimity.

Antiquated VetoThe veto was grafted into the U.N. Charter to make that _expression of Big Three unity possible, by ensuring the impotence of the United Nations if any one of the Big Three was willing to precipitate its collapse through exercise of the veto.That made sense only if Big Three unity persisted, which of course it didn't. Even before World War II ended, even before the United Nations came into being, Big Three unity was falling apart.In actuality, the United Nations as an effective instrument of international cooperation and peacekeeping was stillborn.
Disunited From the Get-GoWhat did emerge and has hung on by a thread ever since is not a United Nations, but a hopelessly Disunited Nations - as illustrated by the numerous vetoes cast by the Soviet Union.An effective, relevant United Nations has been flat-line brain-dead these nearly 60 years, and what the world is now witnessing are the terminal twitchings of its prolonged state of artificially suspended animation.The very idea of the United States, or any country, thinking it had to go to such a United Nations with hat in hand and obtain approval to do what has to be done to protect its own people's vital national interests has been a dirty joke all these long years.So now, in the impending Shootout at the East River Glass Corral, two principals on the misnamed Security Council are about to fire veto bullets at each other. The current world economic, political and military realities are such that America and its allies will win that duel.

A Demise to CelebrateThe United States and the United Kingdom will walk away. France and Germany will not perish, although they will be grievously wounded, lingering as cripples for generations.But lying lifeless on New York's East Side, in form as well as in substance, will be what once had the presumption to call itself the United Nations.No need for grieving over that. The Free World will be the better for it.

John L. Perry, a prize-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House staffs of two presidents.

The UN is Communist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/763809/posts

Flower Child Fascism
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ac3d9b55fec.htm

The UN Plan For Your Mental Health
http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/MentalHealth2-99.html

The UN's Global Malfeasance
http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/deweese/20030219.htm

Kofi Anan, Bigot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/801874/posts

UNICEF
United Nations International Children's Fund
http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/unicef/index.html

List of Communist Organizations Operating in US.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828445/posts

Let's Quit the UN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/837196/posts

UNICEF and Halloween--Vatican Halts Payment
http://www.knightsite.com/kc9496/unborn25.htm

UN charter deserves the dustbin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710421/posts

Ushering One-World Religion, CBN News
http://www.cbn.org/cbnnews%2Fnews%2F021023a%2Easp

Child Sex Book Given out at UN Summit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/681145/posts

What's UNESCO Good For?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/754948/posts

Who Created the United Nations? Communists!
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a00f5fb38b0.htm

New World Order Rising? - Thoughts on the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743512/posts

United Nations-Sustainable Development
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21text.htm

A U.S. Senator Rebukes the U.N. - WHY?
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/jun00/helms.htm

Erasing Our Boarders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/671826/posts

A Choronological History of the New World Order
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b2aa8747413.htm

"STATE OF THE WORLD FORUM" TO ADVANCE "GLOBAL GOVERNANCE" FOR EVERYONE
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3991067719db.htm
Bilderberg group wants vigorous Atlantic alliance / REUTERS IN A RARE INTERVIEW http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b11d27a10c5.htm
Deliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3846d8ab444a.htm
History of the New World Order in the 20th Century http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a39a999294ef9.htm
Info on the FED - Rockefeller Shadow Government http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3806a2f37c94.htm
MASTERLINK TO FREE REPUBLIC EDUCATION THREADS (#6) http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a385bf3644986.htm
The United Nations’ Grab for Power http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a39cab9547190.htm
Who Is Running America?
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a392ef408565b.htm
POPE COULD FACE CHARGES UNDER INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/feb/02021201.html
RADICAL FEMINISTS LAUD INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/mar/00030905.html
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SAYS POPE GUILTY OF "WAR" AGAINST WOMEN
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/jun/00063005.html
Global Criminal Court Starts March 14, 2003
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030311/80/dv535.html


"The National United Nations-free Zone Committee"
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/un_freezone.htm
The truth about the United Nations!
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/un.htm
CHRISTIANITY UNDER SIEGE, TOWARD A ONE WORLD RELIGION
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/christianity.htm

The New International Criminal Court
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/international.htm

Al Gore - FOR a One World Church and UN Dictatorship
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/dictatorship.htm

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WCC.htm

The slide into dictatorship
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/dictatorship2.htm

United Nations Children's Fund Seeks to Usurp Parental Rights
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/children.htm

The Adams County Patriot's League: Parental Rights in America
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/viar.htm
The Federal Reserve Is A privately Owned Corporation
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/fed_reserve.htm
Government has its eye on your money !
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/gov_eye.htm
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/global_governance.htm

The United Nations plans to CONFISCATE your profit and ---.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/united_nations.htm
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International Criminal Court Index

http://getusout.org/icc/index.htm

Don't say that we weren't warned.

Put "ICC" in the Search Engine and see what comes up.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/website/search.htm

http://www.sovereignty.net/un-treaties/ICJ-STATUTE.txt
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/8/164319.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1719224.stm
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27196
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,783175,00.html
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2002/09/05/0000166838
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_zastrow_121902_icc.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/836765/posts

"If instant world government, Charter review, and a greatly strengthened International Court do not provide the answers, what hope for progress is there? The answer will not satisfy those who seek simple solutions to complex problems, but it comes down essentially to this: The hope for the foreseeable lies, not in building up a few ambitious central institutions of universal membership and general jurisdiction as was envisaged at the end of the last war, but rather in the much more decentralized, disorderly and pragmatic process of inventing or adapting institutions of limited jurisdiction and selected membership to deal with specific problems on a case-by-case basis ... In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than f rom the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault."
Richard N. Gardner, in Foreign Affairs (April 1974)
The Lucis Trust and the United Nations seem very innocuous on the front but their agenda is the ruination of souls and the conversion of the world.
47 posted on 03/16/2003 8:20:31 PM PST by Coleus (RU-486 Kills Babies)
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To: JCG
Here's the whole Paglia paper on cults, Cults and Cosmic Consciousness, ten short chapters long and quite interesting.
48 posted on 03/16/2003 8:51:11 PM PST by beckett
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To: JCG
Who would you trust more a Scientologist or a muslim?
49 posted on 03/16/2003 8:56:11 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ad Astra!)
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To: JCG
I find it laughable that after 50 years the media still refers to Crowley as a Satanist when he didn't even believe Satan exists. I'll probably get heckled, but what the hell, not like anyone here hasn't already made up their minds.

Regardless of what people think of Crowley, the premise of this article is dead wrong. Crowley greatly disliked Hubbard and publicly stated so to at least 3 different people. Here is one example:

"About J.W.P.[Jack Parsons] - all that I can say is that I am sorry - I feel sure that he had fine ideas, but he was led astray firstly by Smith, then he was robbed of his last penny by a confidence man[conman] named Hubbard."
- Aleister Crowley, October 1946
50 posted on 03/16/2003 9:13:54 PM PST by thedugal
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To: KevinDavis
Muslim. I have neighbors who are Palestinian, Egyptian and one of my doctors is Syrian; I have no problem with them.
I don't trust Satanists.
51 posted on 03/16/2003 9:14:07 PM PST by Coleus (RU-486 Kills Babies)
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To: gcruse
Satanim can't be any worse than the cultist programming that goes on in Scientology. Trying to link one to the other is akin to comparing the white stuff from the black stuff in chicken excrement. It's all chicken sh!t. Why bother?

Actually the white stuff is urine. But your point is very correct.

52 posted on 03/16/2003 9:45:23 PM PST by MattAMiller
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To: MattAMiller
Ack. I almost made it through life without knowing that. I blame myself. :)
53 posted on 03/16/2003 9:48:27 PM PST by gcruse (When choosing between two evils, pick the one you haven't tried yet.)
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To: Avoiding_Sulla
That was, more than any single agent, what ushered in the Enlightenment.

Luther's doctrine of "the Bible alone" would have been practically impossible without the invention of the printing press.

54 posted on 03/17/2003 8:45:11 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: JCG

55 posted on 03/17/2003 8:51:16 AM PST by Liberal Classic (Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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To: strela
I will never forget the first time a Scientologist came to my door. I had never heard of L Ron Hubbard or his new religion at the time. The person at my door had the book Dianetics in his hand, and when I opened the door, he looked at me and said, "Do you know how to know?"
That was enough to tell me that I wanted nothing to do with this new religion! I never thought anyone would fall for this nonsense, but I was wrong.
56 posted on 03/17/2003 2:11:52 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: Lisa Ruby

Thanks, welcome to the fr.

How is Scientology involved with Terri?

The Lucis Trust is on 7:30 am EST on Sunday Mornings
http://www.wor710.com/listen.shtml


59 posted on 06/22/2004 12:05:39 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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