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     BLUEPRINT FOR U.S. DICTATORSHIP PLACES INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AT RISK&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                               By Mike Blair&lt;br /&gt;
                        Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Washington, DC -- During the Persian Gulf war and the military buildup&lt;br /&gt;
leading to it, President George Bush began using the term &amp;quot;New World&lt;br /&gt;
Order,&amp;quot; often suggesting that the commitment of so-called multinational&lt;br /&gt;
forces involved in the military effort was the beginning of this alleged&lt;br /&gt;
worldwide utopia.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Supposedly using the vehicle of the United Nations, Bush&amp;#039;s New World&lt;br /&gt;
Order would be the arbitrator of all world problems and the apparatus to&lt;br /&gt;
enforce globalist dictates through the use of armed forces combined from&lt;br /&gt;
the armies of member nations.  The UN law would be, regardless of the&lt;br /&gt;
nationalist interests of individual countries, the final word.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Actually, even the mention of a New World Order would normally be&lt;br /&gt;
anathema to thinking Americans and, in particular, conservative political&lt;br /&gt;
leaders and civil libertarians.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                            SINISTER TECHNOLOGY&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     It is also surprising to many critics of the move toward one-world&lt;br /&gt;
government that Bush would even dare choose the term &amp;quot;New World Order&amp;quot; to&lt;br /&gt;
define his globalist schemes.  However, most Americans alive today were&lt;br /&gt;
born after World War II, when propaganda of the so-called Allied powers&lt;br /&gt;
used the terms of &amp;quot;New Order&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;New World Order&amp;quot; to describe in a&lt;br /&gt;
sinister way the military efforts of Japan and, in particular, Germany&lt;br /&gt;
under Adolf Hitler.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Few, it seems, have taken the time to analyze just what Bush has in&lt;br /&gt;
mind for his New World Order, of which America is to become an integral&lt;br /&gt;
part, starting with supplying about 90 percent of the muscle, and young&lt;br /&gt;
lives, that tackled and defeated Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein&amp;#039;s Arab&lt;br /&gt;
legions.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     However, patriotic Constitutional scholars know that Bush&amp;#039;s New World&lt;br /&gt;
Order is the worst attack ever on America as a sovereign, independent and&lt;br /&gt;
free nation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                             BEGAN WITH WILSON&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Efforts to form a global government are certainly nothing new.&lt;br /&gt;
American political leaders, who were concerned with America first, were&lt;br /&gt;
able to overcome the internationalist, one-world government machinations of&lt;br /&gt;
President Woodrow Wilson following World War I.  Wilson was prevented from&lt;br /&gt;
realizing his visions of a New World Order, through the League of Nations,&lt;br /&gt;
by a powerful Senate opposition, which refused to rubber-stamp for Wilson&lt;br /&gt;
U.S. membership in the world body.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     A few decades later, however, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,&lt;br /&gt;
near the end of World War II, was able to get his one-world plans under way&lt;br /&gt;
by laying the groundwork for today&amp;#039;s United Nations, which was completed&lt;br /&gt;
under his successor, Harry S. Truman.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     A few years later, that membership in an UN-mandated war in Korea cost&lt;br /&gt;
America 35,000 young lives.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     The problem that one-worlders have always encountered, of course, is&lt;br /&gt;
the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as a bulwark against any globalist&lt;br /&gt;
schemes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Nevertheless, American presidents since Roosevelt have insidiously&lt;br /&gt;
chipped away at the great powers of the people, written into the&lt;br /&gt;
Constitution by America&amp;#039;s immortal Founding Fathers, with the use of so-&lt;br /&gt;
called executive orders.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                              CAUSE FOR ALARM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Americans should be deeply alarmed that those presidents have signed a&lt;br /&gt;
series of executive orders (EOs) which, under the guise of any national&lt;br /&gt;
emergency declared by the president serving at the time, can virtually&lt;br /&gt;
suspend the Constitution and convert the nation into a virtual&lt;br /&gt;
dictatorship.  Dissent, peaceful or otherwise, is eliminated.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Those backing efforts to circumvent the Constitution may have gotten&lt;br /&gt;
the idea from President Abraham Lincoln, whose use of various extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;
powers of his office -- which many Constitutional scholars still insist was&lt;br /&gt;
illegal -- suspended various civil rights to curb such problems as draft&lt;br /&gt;
riots during the Civil War.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     In 1862, Congress enacted the Enrollment Act to allow the drafting of&lt;br /&gt;
young men for the Union Army.  The act was rife with inequities, such as&lt;br /&gt;
the provision which allowed a man to pay $300 or hire a substitute to take&lt;br /&gt;
his place.  This hated &amp;quot;Rich Man&amp;#039;s Exemption,&amp;quot; as it was called, angered&lt;br /&gt;
the average American of military age and in particular young Irish&lt;br /&gt;
immigrants in New York City.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     A riot erupted in New York in 1863, and it resulted in Lincoln using&lt;br /&gt;
some extraordinary powers of his office to keep the Union from falling&lt;br /&gt;
apart from within.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     But over the years, presidents have used these powers for purposes&lt;br /&gt;
never intended by the Founding Fathers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                            INDIANS VICTIMIZED&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     President John Tyler used such powers in 1842 to round up Seminole&lt;br /&gt;
Indians in Georgia and Florida and force-march them -- men, women and&lt;br /&gt;
children -- to Arkansas.  This was probably the first use of internment in&lt;br /&gt;
America to deal with unpopular minorities.  It was not the last.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     In 1886, the Geronimo Chiricahua Apache Indians surrendered to U.S.&lt;br /&gt;
troops in the West, were rounded up by order of President Grover Cleveland,&lt;br /&gt;
and shipped to internment in Florida and Alabama.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Earlier, during the War Between the States, Sioux Indians in&lt;br /&gt;
Minnesota, when there was a delay in paying them their yearly allowance,&lt;br /&gt;
began attacking nearby white settlements.  Lincoln sent in a hastily raised&lt;br /&gt;
force of volunteers under Col. H. H. Sibley.  Little Crow, leader of the&lt;br /&gt;
Kaposia band, was decisively defeated by the Union troops on September 23,&lt;br /&gt;
1862, and more than 2,000 Sioux were taken captive, although Little Crow&lt;br /&gt;
himself and a few followers escaped.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Through the process of a military tribunal, sanctioned by Lincoln, 36&lt;br /&gt;
Sioux leaders were  publicly hanged.  Whether the Sioux executed were&lt;br /&gt;
innocent or guilty was apparently immaterial.  The revolt was quelled, and&lt;br /&gt;
the Minnesota Sioux were all moved to reservations in Dakota.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     These instances of the nation&amp;#039;s executive branch taking extraordinary&lt;br /&gt;
measures to confine, or intern, American Indians are just a few of many&lt;br /&gt;
examples.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     More recent examples of interning minorities by executive order&lt;br /&gt;
occurred during World War I and World War II.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     During World War I, an unknown number of German-Americans were rounded&lt;br /&gt;
up by federal authorities and interned until after the war.  In addition,&lt;br /&gt;
regardless of the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees&lt;br /&gt;
freedom of speech and of the press.  German-language newspapers, published&lt;br /&gt;
within German-American communities in the United States, were banned.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
                             WW II INTERNMENTS&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, within&lt;br /&gt;
days the FBI rounded up tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans, guilty&lt;br /&gt;
only of being of Japanese ancestry, under the authority of an executive&lt;br /&gt;
order issued by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  The lists of those to&lt;br /&gt;
be apprehended had been drawn up months earlier, before the war.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Held in concentration camps, the perimeters guarded by U.S. soldiers&lt;br /&gt;
armed with machine guns, the mostly innocent and patriotic Japanese-&lt;br /&gt;
Americans were not released until after the war.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Congress has recently passed legislation extending the nation&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
apologies to the Japanese-Americans and extending them compensation for&lt;br /&gt;
their years of confinement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     However, no apology or compensation has ever been extended to the more&lt;br /&gt;
than 8,000 German-Americans who were confined in dozens of jails and camps&lt;br /&gt;
across the United States, also by order of Roosevelt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Many were not released until 1947, a full two years after the end of&lt;br /&gt;
the war, in total violation of the Geneva Conventions.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     &amp;quot;What happened to me and thousands of others is old history,&amp;quot; said&lt;br /&gt;
Eberhard Fuhr of Cincinnati, who was interned at 17 years of age, &amp;quot;but the&lt;br /&gt;
next time it could be any other group, which is then not politically&lt;br /&gt;
correct, or out of favor for any other reason (SPOTLIGHT, May 20, 1991).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Fuhr&amp;#039;s warning, of course, had already been proved correct just&lt;br /&gt;
several months earlier when, under orders of Bush, the FBI hounded&lt;br /&gt;
thousands of innocent Arab-Americans as the U.S. prepared for the Persian&lt;br /&gt;
Gulf conflict.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
     Only the efforts of a handful of irate U.S. Congressmen halted the&lt;br /&gt;
harassment but not until after a number of U.S. military bases were&lt;br /&gt;
selected as sites of internment camps for Arab-Americans and war&lt;br /&gt;
dissenters.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,&lt;br /&gt;
May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement&lt;br /&gt;
to The Spotlight appears, including this address:&lt;br /&gt;
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                               The SPOTLIGHT&lt;br /&gt;
                        300 Independence Avenue, SE&lt;br /&gt;
                           Washington, DC  20003&lt;br /&gt;
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