Liberal Academic Says America’s Founding Document Outmoded

Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 19, 2015 | Cliff Kincaid

[Academiadotorg]

Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the “American idea” of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Sachs, a special advisor to the United Nations and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a media superstar who can always be counted on to pontificate endlessly on such topics as income inequality and global health. This time, writing in a Catholic publication, he may have gone off his rocker, revealing the real global game plan.

The United States, Sachs writes in the Jesuit publication, America, is “a society in thrall” to the idea of unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But the “urgent core of Francis’ message” will be to challenge this “American idea” by “proclaiming that the path to happiness lies not solely or mainly through the defense of rights but through the exercise of virtues, most notably justice and charity.”

In these extraordinary comments, which constitute a frontal assault on the American idea of freedom and national sovereignty, Sachs has made it clear that he hopes to enlist the Vatican in a global campaign to increase the power of global or foreign-dominated organizations and movements.

Sachs takes aim at the phrase, which comes from America’s founding document, the United States Declaration of Independence, that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

These rights sound good, Sachs writes, but they’re not enough to guarantee the outcome the global elites have devised for us. Global government, he suggests, must make us live our lives according to international standards of development.

“In the United States,” Sachs writes, “we learn that the route to happiness lies in the rights of the individual. By throwing off the yoke of King George III, by unleashing the individual pursuit of happiness, early Americans believed they would achieve that happiness. Most important, they believed that they would find happiness as individuals, each endowed by the creator with individual rights.”

While he says there is some “grandeur in this idea,” such rights “are only part of the story, only one facet of our humanity.”

The Sachs view is that global organizations such as the U.N. must dictate the course of nations and individual rights must be sacrificed for the greater good. One aspect of this unfolding plan, as outlined in the Sachs book, The End of Poverty, involves extracting billions of dollars from the American people through global taxes.

“We will need, in the end, to put real resources in support of our hopes,” he wrote. “A global tax on carbon-emitting fossil fuels might be the way to begin. Even a very small tax, less than that which is needed to correct humanity’s climate-deforming overuse of fossil fuels, would finance a greatly enhanced supply of global public goods.” Sachs has estimated the price tag for the U.S. at $845 billion.

In preparation for this direct assault on our rights, the American nation-state, and our founding document, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon told a Catholic Caritas International conference in Rome on May 12 that climate change is “the defining challenge of our time,” and that the solution lies in recognizing that “ humankind is part of nature, not separate or above.”

The pope’s expected encyclical on climate change is supposed to help mobilize the governments of the world in this crusade.

But a prestigious group of scholars, churchmen, scientists, economists and policy experts has issued a detailed rebuttal, entitled, “An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change,” pointing out that the Bible tells man to have dominion over the earth.

“Good climate policy must recognize human exceptionalism, the God-given call for human persons to ‘have dominion’ in the natural world (Genesis 1:28), and the need to protect the poor from harm, including actions that hinder their ascent out of poverty,” the letter to Pope Francis states.

Released by a group called the Cornwall Alliance, the letter urges the Vatican to consider the evidence that climate change is largely natural, that the human contribution is comparatively small and not dangerous, and that attempting to mitigate the human contribution by reducing CO2 emissions “would cause more harm than good, especially to the world’s poor.”

The Heartland Institute held a news conference on April 27 at the Hotel Columbus in Rome, to warn the Vatican against embracing the globalist agenda of the climate change movement. The group is hosting the 10th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, D.C. on June 11-12.

However, it appears as if the Vatican has been captured by the globalist forces associated with Sachs and the United Nations.

Voice of the Family, a group representing pro-life and pro-family Catholic organizations from around the world, has taken issue not only with the Vatican’s involvement with Sachs but with Ban Ki Moon, describing the two as “noted advocates of abortion who operate at the highest levels of the United Nations.” Sachs has been described as “arguably the world’s foremost proponent of population control,” including abortion.

Voice of the Family charges that environmental issues such as climate change have become “an umbrella to cover a wide spectrum of attacks on human life and the family.”

Although Sachs likes to claim he was an adviser to Pope John Paul II, the noted anti-communist and pro-life pontiff, Sachs simply served as a member of a group of economists invited to confer with the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace in advance of the release of a papal document.

In fact, Pope John Paul II had worked closely with the Reagan administration in opposition to communism and the global population control movement. He once complained that a U.N. conference on population issues was designed to “destroy the family” and was the “snare of the devil.”

Pope Francis, however, seems to have embraced the very movements opposed by John Paul II.

Sachs, who has emerged as a very influential Vatican adviser, recently tweeted that he was “thrilled” to be at the Vatican “discussing moral dimensions of climate change and sustainable development.” The occasion was a Vatican workshop on global warming on April 28, 2015, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Roman Catholic Church. Sachs was a featured speaker.

The plan going forward involves the launching of what are called “Sustainable Development Goals,” as envisioned by a Sustainable Development Solutions Network run by none other than Jeffrey Sachs.

“The Network has proposed draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which contain provisions that are radically antagonistic to the right to life from conception to natural death, to the rights and dignity of the family and to the rights of parents as the primary educators of their children,” states the group Voice of the Family.

In July, a Financing for Development conference will be held, in order to develop various global tax proposals, followed by a conference in Paris in December to complete a new climate change agreement.

Before that December conference, however, Sachs says the pope will call on the world at the United Nations to join the crusade for a New World Order.

Sachs says, “Pope Francis will come to the United States and the United Nations in New York on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, and at the moment when the world’s 193 governments are resolved to take a step in solidarity toward a better world. On Sept. 25, Pope Francis will speak to the world leaders—most likely the largest number of assembled heads of state and government in history—as these leaders deliberate to adopt new Sustainable Development Goals for the coming generation. These goals will be a new worldwide commitment to build a world that aims to harmonize the pursuit of economic prosperity with the commitments to social inclusion and environmental sustainability.”

Rather than emphasize the absolute need for safeguarding individual rights in the face of government overreach and power, Sachs writes that the Gospel teachings of humility, love and justice, “like the teachings of Aristotle, Buddha and Confucius,” can take us on a “path to happiness through compassion” and “become our guideposts back to safety.”

Writing elsewhere in the new issue of America, Christiana Z. Peppard, an assistant professor of theology, science and ethics at Fordham University, writes about the “planetary pope,” saying, “What is really at stake in the collective response to the pope’s encyclical is not, ultimately, whether our treasured notions of theology, science, reality or development can accommodate moral imperatives. The real question is whether we are brave enough and willing to try.”

The plan is quite simple: world government through global taxes, with a religious face to bring it about.

Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org

[SatinDoll]

Yeah, damned sickening.

Figure the odds on our House of Reps. impeaching Obama and the Senate trial finding him guilty. Their actions in avoidance would probably never be reported by the MSM.

[wastedyears]

Kinda strange for a pope to be knocking against rights endowed to us by our creator.

[1010RD]

Back in the olden days they used to use an amendment to the Constitution to change it. Even for something as mundane as alcohol consumption. How far we’ve fallen from that standard. Thanks Democrats.

[shibumi]

Interpretations of legalistic esoterica like “chain of custody” are not what makes the governing document valid or invalid.

Ultimately it is the willing compliance of the bulk of the legitimate electorate (as distinct from the general population) that makes The Constitution the Law of the Land.

Just as that Constitution is currently being ignored, vilified and trampled by lawless usurpers, it can be reenforced by a simple show of will by the electorate or (in an extreme case) by the forcible removal of the offending traitors.

Either way, it is the de facto allegiance that the document is given which establishes its de jure validity.

The 10th Amendment is a perfect case in point. It has long been held in de facto contempt by the Federal Government and the passive acquiescence of the States. For this Amendment to have any validity outside of being a de jure oddity, it will take concrete action and defiance - to the point of armed resistance - on the part of the States. In fact this is why the 2nd Amendment calls on every citizen to be armed as a potential militiaman for his respective State.

A large part of the genius behind the Bill of Rights is that the various parts serve to support one another, this being an optimal example.

[bgill]

Lia and typical white granny died at very convenient times for the usurper.

[bgill]

The April 2008 Senate Resolution 511 Committee to vet McCain as a NBC were McCaskill, Leahy, Coburn, Webb, Hillary and the usurper himself. They all, including the usurper, agreed that to be a NBC one must be BORN OF TWO US CITIZENS AND ON US SOIL. They brought in Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff to verify that DEFINITION to which he did indeed agree. The usurper agreed and signed his name to the committee report. Funny thing happened on the way to the Senate floor, the BORN TO TWO US CITIZENS part was discussed on the Senate floor but somehow got lost in the final resolution.

Leahy had the committee discussion of it on his website for years and later included quotes from an interview which looks suspiciously like he knows Obama is ineligible and is CYA: “Because he (McCain) was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,” said Leahy.

EXCERPT OF SECRETARY CHERTOFF TESTIMONY FROM APRIL 2, 2008: Chairman Leahy. We will come back to that. I would mention one other thing, if I might, Senator Specter. Let me just ask this: I believe--and we have had some question in this Committee to have a special law passed declaring that Senator McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal, that he meets the constitutional requirement to be President. I fully believe he does. I have never had any question in my mind that he meets our constitutional requirement. You are a former Federal judge. You are the head of the agency that executes Federal immigration law. Do you have any doubt in your mind--I mean, I have none in mine. Do you have any doubt in your mind that he is constitutionally eligible to become President?

Secretary Chertoff. My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen.

Chairman Leahy. That is mine, too. Thank you.

[Cheerio]

Obie has 19 months of nation wrecking still ahead.

[WildHighlander57]

SvenMagnussen wrote:

” Barack Hussein Obama II naturalized as a US citizen in 1983, Los Angeles,CA.
I notified the FBI Director, James Comey,of this fact ....
...An FBI investigation ensued...
Contact FBI Director Comey for confirmation.”

OK, when I write the Director for confirmation, who do I tell him who sent me?

Freepmail welcome!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Jeffrey Sachs is outmoded.

[SatinDoll]

Yes, I know.

Lia was going to travel to Washington, D.C., to check out this fellow for herself. She maintained that the brother she knew walked with a permanent limp due to his injuries but she unfortunately met the same end as Andrew Breitbart. What a coincidence!

As for Maddy Payne Soetoro, I suspect she was murdered. The behavior of FLOTUS was so flagrant at the result, I could not otherwise deduce that action.

[TBP]

No, he isn’t affiliated with the UN.

Sachs, a special advisor to the United Nations

[GregNH]

Sven has been making claims for years without backing up a single one. Case in point, taken from here. And trust me there are many of the same references all over FreeRepublic.

In 1971, there were only two contractors with HHS to administer the Federal Foster Care program. The two contractors were Catholic Social Services of Connecticut and Lutheran Social Services. Lutheran Social Services primarily focused on Ports of Entry along the East Coast in 1971. Catholic Social Services of Connecticut administered the program throughout the U.S. Consequently, Catholic Social Services of Connecticut was the only provider of the Federal Foster Care program to take custody of an unaccompanied minor with foreign nationality at a Port of Entry in Hawaii.

Obama’s only connection to Connecticut is his SSN filed on his behalf by his case manager at Catholic Social Services of Connecticut. Only foreign nationals could enter the Federal Foster Care program in the 70’s.

I finally dug in and came up with this email exchange. Read emails from the bottom up. Taken from here.

Hi Greg,

I checked with our immigration services director who said that Catholic Social Services (one of our former names) did not provide services for unaccompanied refugee minors during the 1970s. She suggests that you check with Child and Family Service to see if they provided this specialized service. Great question!

Celeste Imamura
Development Coordinator
Catholic Charities Hawai‘i
1822 Keeaumoku Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 527-4821
cimamura@catholiccharitieshawaii.org

The information in this e-mail is confidential and is legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorized and may lead to civil and/or criminal penalties. If you have received this message in error, please delete all electronic copies of this message (and the documents attached to it, if any); destroy any hard copies you may have created; and notify Catholic Charities Hawaii immediately at 524-4673.
________________________________________
From: Greg
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:16 AM
To: Celeste Imamura
Subject: RE: Website Inquiry

Thank you very much for the reply.

I am doing some research and am being told that “Catholic Family Services” would have been the organization who would take custody of an unaccompanied minor arriving from a foreign shore. The time frame was about the 1970’s. Is this something that you would have been involved in?

Greg

From: Celeste Imamura [mailto:celeste@catholiccharitieshawaii.org]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 8:15 PM
To: Greg
Subject: Website Inquiry

Aloha Greg,

Thank you for your email.

Catholic Charities Hawai‘i was chartered in Hawai‘i in 1947. There’s also some history on our website at: http://www.catholiccharitieshawaii.org/site/371/about_us.aspx

Thanks again for your message.

Celeste Imamura
Development Coordinator
Catholic Charities Hawai‘i
1822 Keeaumoku Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 527-4821

113 posted on 06/18/2013 1:08:28 PM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)

These CFS of Hawaii claims then stopped. He has claimed may times that Zippo naturalized in St Louis, I looked into that and couldn't find anything. Now he says LA....I don't have the time or the html space to show all of rebuttals that go unanswered by Sven.

[GregNH]

Hi Greg,

I checked with our immigration services director who said that Catholic Social Services (one of our former names) did not provide services for unaccompanied refugee minors during the 1970s. She suggests that you check with Child and Family Service to see if they provided this specialized service. Great question!

Celeste Imamura
Development Coordinator
Catholic Charities Hawai‘i
1822 Keeaumoku Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 527-4821
cimamura@catholiccharitieshawaii.org

The information in this e-mail is confidential and is legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorized and may lead to civil and/or criminal penalties. If you have received this message in error, please delete all electronic copies of this message (and the documents attached to it, if any); destroy any hard copies you may have created; and notify Catholic Charities Hawaii immediately at 524-4673.
________________________________________
From: Greg
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:16 AM
To: Celeste Imamura
Subject: RE: Website Inquiry

Thank you very much for the reply.

I am doing some research and am being told that “Catholic Family Services” would have been the organization who would take custody of an unaccompanied minor arriving from a foreign shore. The time frame was about the 1970’s. Is this something that you would have been involved in?

Greg

From: Celeste Imamura [mailto:celeste@catholiccharitieshawaii.org]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 8:15 PM
To: Greg
Subject: Website Inquiry

Aloha Greg,

Thank you for your email.

Catholic Charities Hawai‘i was chartered in Hawai‘i in 1947. There’s also some history on our website at: http://www.catholiccharitieshawaii.org/site/371/about_us.aspx

Thanks again for your message.

Celeste Imamura
Development Coordinator
Catholic Charities Hawai‘i
1822 Keeaumoku Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 527-4821

[azishot]

Lia and typical white granny died at very convenient times for the usurper.

How true. If memory serves me, Lia was preparing to come to the U.S. to see him sworn in. Then poof! poor thing "died". When jug-ears went to see granny before she died I'll bet he made sure there was NOTHING in her apt. that would be "embarrassing" to him.

[GregNH]

Start HERE and read to end of thread. His replies to me speak volumes.

[SvenMagnussen]

The Articles of Confederation required all states to ratify an amendment to the Articles of Confederation. The Founders decided to repeal and replace the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution. To facilitate repeal and replacement, Article VI stated nine of thirteen states were needed to ratify the US Constitution. Two states ratified the US Constitution after President Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States.

Constitutional law requires all law to be authenticated, published and archived as evidence of the existence of law. Without evidence of law maintained by an executive officer in compliance with the law, the law is voided.

Currently, the people have elected a unitary executive to manage the affairs of the union. As a consequence, the Congress, the Federal courts, and the Executive Branch federal officers acquiesce to maintain continuity of operations until a replacement document is ratified by the majority.

[Brown Deer]

Slight problem though, since 0bama left Occidental College two years earlier and moved to New York City. He was living at 142 W. 109th in Apartment #3E with Phil Boerner and in 1983 moved to Apartment #6A at 339 E. 94th where he lived until after his graduation in 1983. He then moved to Chicago in 1984, where he lived until 1988, when he moved to Massachusetts and lived in Apartment #B1 at 365 Broadway in Somerville.

Sven posts nonsense and ignores every single question posted to him. See for yourself HERE.

On September 16, 1983, Arnold Schwarzenegger stood with 2,000 others in a naturalization ceremony at L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium, raised his right hand, and swore allegiance to his adopted country, which was now his own. With Maria by his side, and waving a tiny American flag, he sang the national anthem and then told reporters, "this is the realization of the dream I have had ever since my childhood, to come to America and become an American. I really am convinced, after traveling all over the world and having seen all the place there are to see, that this country is #1 in the world. It's like joining a winning team."

[SvenMagnussen]

Rather than attempting to verify factual statements I swore to be true to the FBI, why don’t swear a statement to the FBI you know to be true and request an investigation. For example, you know you have read numerous statements posted on the internet that Obama naturalized as a US citizen in 1983. As a US citizen, you are very concerned and would like to verify Obama’s current citizenship status with an FBI investigation.

The FBI investigates criminal activity based on tips provided by individuals. Ask the FBI to investigate and swear out a statement of facts you know to be true.

[SatinDoll]

Barry Soetoro was in Pakistan for a while.

That is the reason our government paid for his education in Hawai’i, California (Occidental College) and NY (Columbia).

The government was desperately concerned over the nuclear program the Pakis were developing. Also the Russians invading Afghanistan didn’t help. It is difficult to find an agent who can fit in culturally with others who practice Islam, can speak a number of different languages, and is a homosexual like so many of the Pakis attending Occidental College in the early 1980s. Barry had the arrogance and confidence to pull it off.

Barry Soetoro was rewarded for his exploits in Pakistan with a college degree (unearned), a job in a CIA front company (which he quit), and a naturalized U.S citizenship.

[rxsid]

Contact FBI Director Comey for confirmation.

Geez, come on now.

Whats in it for you at this late stage? All of these non provable teasers.

The guy is a usurper. Anyone who has studied the issue knows this.

Yet, no on has the evening news proof to remove him. Why continue to bother with Barry? What are you hoping for Sven?

[SvenMagnussen]

Obama filed a notice to naturalized in 1981 with the US District Court, Central District of California. It is not uncommon for applicates for naturalization to move after filing a notice. Some applicants choose to notify the USCIS of their change of address, but maintain their application process in the city they orginally filed their application. Some do it for personal reasons; such as, family and friends are located in the city they orginally applied and wish to maintain that location to be with family when their petition for naturalization is granted. Others may be CIA ops stalking a a well known celebrity on behalf of the State Department.

All I know is that Obama’s petition for naturalization was granted on September 16, 1983.