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BLUEPRINT FOR U.S. DICTATORSHIP PLACES INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AT RISK</p>
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<p> By Mike Blair
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Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT</p>
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<p><ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, DC -- During <ent type='EVENT'>the Persian Gulf war</ent> and the military buildup
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leading to it, President <ent type='PERSON'>George Bush</ent> began using the term "<ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent>
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Order," often suggesting that the commitment of so-called multinational
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forces involved in the military effort was the beginning of this alleged
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worldwide utopia.</p>
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<p> Supposedly using the vehicle of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> Nations, Bush's <ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent>
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Order would be the arbitrator of all world problems and the apparatus to
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enforce globalist dictates through the use of armed forces combined from
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the armies of member nations. The UN law would be, regardless of the
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nationalist interests of individual countries, the final word.</p>
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<p> Actually, even the mention of a <ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent> Order would normally be
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anathema to thinking <ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> and, in particular, conservative political
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leaders and civil libertarians.</p>
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<p> SINISTER TECHNOLOGY</p>
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<p> It is also surprising to many critics of the move toward one-world
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government that <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> would even dare choose the term "<ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent> Order" to
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define his globalist schemes. However, most <ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> alive today were
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born after <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II, when propaganda of the so-called <ent type='ORG'>Allied</ent> powers
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used the terms of "New Order" or "<ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent> Order" to describe in a
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sinister way the military efforts of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and, in particular, <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>
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under <ent type='PERSON'>Adolf Hitler</ent>.</p>
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<p> Few, it seems, have taken the time to analyze just what <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent> has in
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mind for his <ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent> Order, of which <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> is to become an integral
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part, starting with supplying about 90 percent of the muscle, and young
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lives, that tackled and defeated <ent type='NORP'>Iraqi</ent> strongman <ent type='PERSON'>Saddam Hussein</ent>'s <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>
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legions.</p>
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<p> However, patriotic Constitutional scholars know that Bush's <ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent>
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Order is the worst attack ever on <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> as a sovereign, independent and
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free nation.</p>
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<p> BEGAN WITH WILSON</p>
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<p> Efforts to form a global government are certainly nothing new.
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n political leaders, who were concerned with <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> first, were
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able to overcome the internationalist, one-world government machinations of
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President <ent type='PERSON'>Woodrow Wilson</ent> following world war I. <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> was prevented from
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realizing his visions of a <ent type='EVENT'>New World</ent> Order, through <ent type='ORG'>the League</ent> of Nations,
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by a powerful Senate opposition, which refused to rubber-stamp for <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>
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U.S. membership in the world body.</p>
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<p> A few decades later, however, President <ent type='PERSON'>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</ent>,
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near the end of <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II, was able to get his one-world plans under way
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by laying the groundwork for today's United Nations, which was completed
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under his successor, Harry S. Truman.</p>
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<p> A few years later, that membership in an UN-mandated war in <ent type='GPE'>Korea</ent> cost
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> 35000 young lives.</p>
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<p> The problem that one-worlders have always encountered, of course, is
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the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as a bulwark against any globalist
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schemes.</p>
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<p> Nevertheless, <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n presidents since <ent type='PERSON'>Roosevelt</ent> have insidiously
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chipped away at the great powers of the people, written into the
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Constitution by America's immortal Founding Fathers, with the use of so-called executive orders.</p>
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<p> CAUSE FOR ALARM</p>
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<p> <ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> should be deeply alarmed that those presidents have signed a
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series of executive orders (<ent type='ORG'>EOs</ent>) which, under the guise of any national
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emergency declared by the president serving at the time, can virtually
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suspend the Constitution and convert the nation into a virtual
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dictatorship. Dissent, peaceful or otherwise, is eliminated.</p>
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<p> Those backing efforts to circumvent the Constitution may have gotten
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the idea from President <ent type='PERSON'>Abraham Lincoln</ent>, whose use of various extraordinary
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powers of his office -- which many Constitutional scholars still insist was
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illegal -- suspended various civil rights to curb such problems as draft
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riots during <ent type='EVENT'>the Civil War</ent>.</p>
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<p> In 1862, <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> enacted the Enrollment Act to allow the drafting of
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young men for <ent type='ORG'>the Union Army</ent>. The act was rife with inequities, such as
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the provision which allowed a man to pay $300 or hire a substitute to take
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his place. This hated "<ent type='PERSON'>Rich Man</ent>'s Exemption," as it was called, angered
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the average <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n of military age and in particular young <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent>
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immigrants in <ent type='GPE'>New York City</ent>.</p>
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<p> A riot erupted in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent> in 1863, and it resulted in <ent type='ORG'>Lincoln</ent> using
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some extraordinary powers of his office to keep the <ent type='ORG'>Union</ent> from falling
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apart from within.</p>
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<p> But over the years, presidents have used these powers for purposes
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never intended by the Founding Fathers.</p>
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<p> INDIANS VICTIMIZED</p>
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<p> President <ent type='PERSON'>John Tyler</ent> used such powers in 1842 to round up <ent type='NORP'>Seminole</ent>
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<ent type='NORP'>Indians</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Georgia</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent> and force-march them -- men, women and
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children -- to <ent type='GPE'>Arkansas</ent>. This was probably the first use of internment in
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<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> to deal with unpopular minorities. It was not the last.</p>
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<p> In 1886, the <ent type='PERSON'>Geronimo Chiricahua Apache</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Indians</ent> surrendered to U.S.
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troops in the West, were rounded up by order of President <ent type='PERSON'>Grover Cleveland</ent>,
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and shipped to internment in <ent type='GPE'>Florida</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Alabama</ent>.</p>
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<p> Earlier, during <ent type='EVENT'>the War Between the</ent> States, <ent type='ORG'>Sioux</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Indians</ent> in
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<ent type='GPE'>Minnesota</ent>, when there was a delay in paying them their yearly allowance,
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began attacking nearby white settlements. <ent type='ORG'>Lincoln</ent> sent in a hastily raised
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force of volunteers under Col. H. H. Sibley. Little <ent type='PERSON'>Crow</ent>, leader of the
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<ent type='ORG'>Kaposia</ent> band, was decisively defeated by the <ent type='ORG'>Union</ent> troops on September 23,
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1862, and more than 2000 <ent type='ORG'>Sioux</ent> were taken captive, although Little <ent type='PERSON'>Crow</ent>
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himself and a few followers escaped.</p>
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<p> Through the process of a military tribunal, sanctioned by <ent type='ORG'>Lincoln</ent>, 36
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<ent type='ORG'>Sioux</ent> leaders were publicly hanged. Whether the <ent type='ORG'>Sioux</ent> executed were
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innocent or guilty was apparently immaterial. The revolt was quelled, and
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the <ent type='GPE'>Minnesota</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Sioux</ent> were all moved to reservations in <ent type='GPE'>Dakota</ent>.</p>
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<p> These instances of the nation's executive branch taking extraordinary
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measures to confine, or intern, <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n <ent type='NORP'>Indians</ent> are just a few of many
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examples.</p>
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<p> More recent examples of interning minorities by executive order
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occurred during <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> I and <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> II.</p>
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<p> During <ent type='EVENT'>World War</ent> I, an unknown number of <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> were rounded
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up by federal authorities and interned until after the war. In addition,
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regardless of the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees
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freedom of speech and of the press. <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>-language newspapers, published
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within <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>n communities in <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States, were banned.</p>
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<p> WW II INTERNMENTS</p>
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<p> After the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese attack on <ent type='LOC'>Pearl Harbor</ent> on December 7, 1941, within
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days the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> rounded up tens of thousands of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese-<ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent>, guilty
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only of being of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese ancestry, under the authority of an executive
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order issued by President <ent type='PERSON'>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</ent>. The lists of those to
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be apprehended had been drawn up months earlier, before the war.</p>
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<p> Held in concentration camps, the perimeters guarded by U.S. soldiers
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armed with machine guns, the mostly innocent and patriotic <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese-<ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> were not released until after the war.</p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> has recently passed legislation extending the nation's
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apologies to the <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese-<ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> and extending them compensation for
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their years of confinement.</p>
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<p> However, no apology or compensation has ever been extended to the more
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than 8000 <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> who were confined in dozens of jails and camps
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across <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States, also by order of <ent type='PERSON'>Roosevelt</ent>.</p>
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<p> Many were not released until 1947, a full two years after the end of
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the war, in total violation of the Geneva Conventions.</p>
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<p> "What happened to me and thousands of others is old history," said
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Eberhard <ent type='PERSON'>Fuhr</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Cincinnati</ent>, who was interned at 17 years of age, "but the
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next time it could be any other group, which is then not politically
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correct, or out of favor for any other reason (SPOTLIGHT, May 20, 1991).</p>
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<p> Fuhr's warning, of course, had already been proved correct just
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several months earlier when, under orders of <ent type='PERSON'>Bush</ent>, the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> hounded
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thousands of innocent <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> as the U.S. prepared for the Persian
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Gulf conflict.</p>
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<p> Only the efforts of a handful of irate U.S. <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>men halted the
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harassment but not until after a number of U.S. military bases were
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selected as sites of internment camps for <ent type='NORP'>Arab</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Americans</ent> and war
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dissenters.</p>
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<div>-----------------</div>
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<p>Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,
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May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement
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to The Spotlight appears, including this address:</p>
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<p> The SPOTLIGHT
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300 Independence Avenue, SE
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<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, DC 20003
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