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FOLLOW UP: The reporter’s name is Diane Francis. She work(ed) for the Financial Post in Toronto. A very good reporter, she is (was?)

I avoid Canadian news now: it is too depressing to watch my own country float around in such corruption…

No. He is not the godfather of the environmental movement. He is a UN bureaucrat. Period.

This article is full of inaccuracies, assumptions, and flat out poor journalism.

Hats off, gentlemen!: Ms. Rosett has captured lightening in a bottle again with her courageous report about the ways and means of the elusive Maurice Strong. Heaven thanks for Ms. Rosett, Mr. Russell, and Fox News! In one sudden stroke, we see the shadowy pancrator of the entire UN web in the spotlight. More, please!
Mr. Strong was a very busy man indeed in the 1990’s. While massively engaged in all the activities Ms. Rosett describes in her Fox article, he still found time to serve as the moving force on the Commission on Global Governance, a 28-member panel (not officially part of the UN, but working for the expansion and apotheosis of its powers) that set itself the not inconsequential task of drawing up a plan for the future of the world. The fruit of their labors, “Our Global Neighborhood”, was published in 1995 by Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/International/?view=usa&ci=9780198279976
Mr. Strong tells us, The Way It’s Gonna Be:
Remarkably, Mr. Strong and his colleagues have not been shy about elucidating their plans for our ever so collectivist future in detail, and at length (OGN runs to 435 pages!). We can’t say that they haven’t given us ample warning of their intentions. Here are a very few very general low points that distinguish the plan. You could read this thing in perpetuam and find a new enormity each day.
One central feature of their blueprint, beneath all the bland verbiage, calls for an “equalization” of wealth. This turns up in many guises and formulations, but the end result is the same. You got it, redistribution of wealth so as to get a nice even, modest soupçon everywhere, cream cheese economics, or communism, take two, this time on a global scale. One means to help implement this equal opportunity poverty would come from a new power for the UN: the ability to raise taxes from everyone on the planet, no doubt at a higher rate for richer nations, again, the better to redistribute wealth. It’s already been proposed. The supposed global warming environmental crisis seems to be the chosen wedge to try to put this over.
A clear and repeated characteristic of the plan in all its many phases and areas is that no where does it mention you or I getting to vote on whether we actually want to sign on to this great design for living or not. Such a bothersome business, voting. Messy too. Mr. Strong and his legions of bureaucrats want to spare us all the trouble of voting. They’ll take care of it all for us. Nothing like a nice cozy totalitarian set up for taking the troublesome thought out of civic life. We can see something like this happening in the European Union now. Their proposed constitution was rejected by both French and Dutch voters. Undaunted, the bureaucrats in Brussels are simply implementing everything they can by fiat anyway — voters be damned.
The art of it all, however, is the matter of fact presentation in language so bland it wouldn’t, on its face, offend even Aunt Hattie. Look more closely at the language, however, and you find a sort of freakish experiment of animal husbandry gone wrong. Bland, bien pensant platitudes abound, e.g., “governance should be underpinned by democracy at all levels and ultimately by the rule of enforceable law.”, yet exist at cross purposes to the actual totalitarian nature of the proposed system. Or how about: global governance, “does not imply world government or world federalism.” Confused yet? The use of language is very slippery, insidious; it appears to say one thing, but upon closer examination indicates quite another.
“Our Global Neighborhood” — sounds sort of folksy and friendly, even cozy, no? Mr. Rogers and his neighborhood must be just around the corner. It’s not. OGN is a grim picture — get ready, for the Environmental Comintern is preparing to come to a “neighborhood” near you, and not at your invitation. This tome is nothing less than the How To Manual for the long-proposed morph of the United Nations into the United Nations World Government — despite the tap dance about how global governance is not world government (sic!). The further you look into the details, the more you see the enormity of the jaw dropping chutzpah it took to write this thing. It is well worth a careful perusal by anyone with a sentimental weakness for individual freedom, elective democracy, the notion of national sovereignty, and the good old American Way.
The whole OGN enterprise brings to mind one of the instant classic T-shirts from the 2004 Presidential election here in the US. It was designed by the brilliant and wicked satirists at the Communists for Kerry website. On the front of the bright red shirt, Mount Rushmore fashion, were the busts of Marx/Trotsky/Lenin/Kerry, and above them the legend: A Century of Failure Proves Nothing! Evidently, the gentlemen of OGN think themselves smarter than Einstein, that they can keep repeating the same experiment, but get a different result.

oliviaann@gmail.com wrote:

This article is full of inaccuracies, assumptions, and flat out poor journalism.

I’m wide open to that possibility, but I’d like to see something more than an argument by assertion

I’d also like to see how any errors negate the overall point she’s made.

Until then, I’ll continue to believe that this investigation is worthy of a Pulitzer Prize, though — outrageously — it won’t happen. Claudia’s been there, done that, bought the t-shirt — with the Oil for Food scandal.

Still, the present report might prompt further investigative reports by others. But I doubt it (color me cynical).

Brian