GLOBAL GORBY

[Danny Sale]

ARTICLE: American Opinion
TITLE: Global Gorby
AUTHOR: William F. Jasper

Much of the world sat glued before their television screens, eyes
and ears transfixed by the drama unfolding in a Los Angeles
courtroom. The closing arguments by Johnnie Cochran and Chris
Darden in the O.J. Simpson trial held millions in thrall.

Meanwhile, up the coast in San Francisco, an event of another sort
(and of arguably much greater consequence) was getting under way
with considerably less attention: "The State of the World Forum,"
a planetary confabulation sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation.
Held atop the city's famed Nob Hill at the luxurious Fairmont
Hotel, the forum brought together a glittering constellation of
global notables representing the epitome of worldly power,
prestige, fame, wealth, and influence: presidents, princes,
potentates, philanthropists, poets, philosophers, and poohbahs.

Who's Who

The weighty seriousness and ambitious reach of the conference
indicated by the title of the event -- "Toward a New Civilization:
Launching a Global Initiative" -- were underscored by the list of
attendees, a veritable Who's Who of Wall Street, the Trilateral
Commission, the World Economic Forum, the Aspen Institute, the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, the Bilderbergers,
the Politburo, the Commission on Global Governance, the World
Future Society, and other Insider bastions of power.

Among the 400-plus eminent personages from 50 countries who flocked
to the five-day affair (September 27th-October 1st) were former
Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz (both co-chairs
of the forum), former President George Bush, former British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher, President Askar Akaev of Kyrgystan,
former President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, Prime Minister Tansu
Ciller of Turkey, Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, former
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and South African Vice
President Thabo Mbeki.

Additional participants included: Worldwatch President Lester
Brown; New Age gurus Fritjof Capra, Jeremy Rifkin, Willis Harman,
Deepak Chopra, Robert Muller, and Matthew Fox; Marxist poetess
Rigoberta Menchu; Earth Council president and billionaire eco-
warrior Maurice Strong; Microsoft wizard Bill Gates; media mogul
Rupert Murdoch; futurists Alvin Toffler and John Naisbitt; Senator
George Mitchell; Archer Daniels Midland CEO Dwayne Andreas;
computer tycoon David Packard; Esalen founder Michael Murphy;
motivation superstar Tony Robbins; Men's Wearhouse CEO George
Zimmer; chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall -- not to mention Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Carl Sagan, John Denver, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis
Weaver, Ted Turner, Jane Fonda, Theodore Hesburgh, Timothy Wirth,
Max Kampleman, Milton Friedman, Randall Forsberg, Saul Mendlovitz,
and Alan Cranston.

Overseeing the entirety of this summit of the anointed was, of
course, Mikhail Gorbachev himself. The purpose of the convocation,
he proclaimed, was to "launch a multi-year process, culminating in
the year 2000, to articulate the fundamental [world] priorities,
values, and actions necessary to constructively shape our common
future." And who better to kick off an ostentatious extravaganza of
that sort than global media titan and former "Humanist of the Year"
Ted Turner. Identifying himself as a "great student of history" and
a longtime friend of Gorbachev, Turner praised the "ex-Communist"
and former dictator for ending the Cold War, which he acclaimed as
"the greatest accomplishment in the history of humanity." "Now,
with the Cold War behind us," said Ted, "this forum's job is to
help chart the way for humanity."

Global Brain Trust

Gorbachev let it be known that he was not one to shirk from that
solemn task. Wasting no time, he opened his remarks with this
magnanimous proposal: "From the outset I would like to suggest that
we consider the establishment of a global Brain Trust to focus on
the present and future of our civilization." This is important, he
said, "because the main reason why we are lagging behind events,
why we are mostly improvising and vacillating in the face of new
developments, is that we are lagging behind in the thinking and
rethinking of this new world. Of course, this idea of a Brain Trust
can only succeed if endorsed and actively pursued by people who are
widely respected as world leaders and global citizens." Respected
world leaders and global citizens like -- well, like those
assembled at that very same august colloquium on Nob Hill: selfless
billionaires, statesmen, academic double-domes, Nobel laureates,
and spiritual mahatmas in the service of humanity and planetary
survival. This is a theme Gorbachev has been playing in concert
with similar motifs in which he has called for "non-governmental
commissions of 'wise men'" and "Councils of Elders" to solve the
world's intractable problems.

No one bothered to ask how he would reconcile the obvious
contradictions inherent in his "Brain Trust" proposal and the
forum's other throbbing themes of "democratization," "pluralism,"
and "egalitarianism." During the course of the marathon palaver,
Gorbachev and other conference participants regularly attacked
present political, economic, and social structures as "elitist,"
"anti-democratic," and "exclusionary," but were conspicuously vague
on how their proposed "Brain Trust" would surmount those problems.
Obvious questions went begging: Who would appoint this group? What
would be its powers? How would it be funded? What would be the
selection criteria? To whom would it be accountable? How would the
"diversity" of the group be guaranteed?

The very term "Brain Trust" reeks of elitism, social engineering,
and manipulation by a cabal of experts of supposed cerebral
superiority. It is an epithet of opprobrium to all lovers of
liberty who are aware of the monstrous abuses initiated by the
socialist planners of FDR's New Deal "Brain Trust": Raymond Moley,
Rexford Guy Tugwell, Lindsey Rogers, James W. Angell, Adolf Berle,
Hugh Johnson, Charles Taussig, George Peek, and others. A global
"Brain Trust" by the intellectual and spiritual heirs of these
statists would mean a prescription for global tyranny.

But drastic measures are needed, says Gorby. The traditional
political structures "no longer respond to the needs of an
interdependent world. The political culture that we inherited from
the past stands in the way of efforts to unite mankind's resources
in the face of global challenges."

Mere transformation of political structures, however, is far from
adequate. "We are in dire need of redefining the parameters of our
society's economic, social, political, and spiritual development,"
the Soviet seer told his worshipful votaries. "Indeed, we have to
reinvent the paradigm of our existence, to build a new
civilization." It was a rehearkening to other familiar themes
Gorbachev has sung: "developing a global consciousness," "embracing
the task of spiritual renewal," launching "the next phase of human
development." An awesome undertaking, to be sure. Fortunately for
us, he is graciously willing to enlighten and minister to our
darkened souls as well as our sick body politic. How does he
propose to do this? Comrade Gorbachev proposes to "set up a kind of
United Nations Council of Elders."

It was in this "Elder" capacity that Gorbachev offered the next
part of his lecture. "Civilization will shift and new values and
new ways of life will be needed to find real solutions to the
problems of our environment, a way out of the ecological crisis,"
the sage of Moscow told his San Francisco gathering. Then came the
punch line: "Gradually we will have to achieve a change of emphasis
in the archetypal dilemma: to have or to be; to change the nature
of consumption." "Perhaps it is a little risky in this country to
speak about that," he beamed to a titter of audience chuckles. "We
have to change the nature of consumption. And I have much to say
about that here."

Compassion Con

He certainly did have much to say on the topic, as did many of the
other participants during the course of the forum. What was most
amazing was that no one gagged or guffawed at the brazen effrontery
and hypocrisy of the sainted one's sermonizing on conspicuous
consumption while his rapt audience feasted on a sumptuous array of
epicurean comestibles fit for royalty: smoked trout salad, filet of
beef in shashlik marinade, and a dessert of panna cotta with autumn
fruit. This gourmet creation was the work of celebrity chef Joyce
Goldstein, and her tantalizing production was but the first of many
offerings by famed masters of gourmand haute cuisine such as
Wolfgang Puck, Julian Serrano, Joachim Splichal, and David Ribbons.

But the richness of the contradiction was no doubt lost on the
pious frauds who paid $5,000 to attend this prestigious soiree.
They have grown inured to their own fakery; from palatial palavers
in Rio, to Cairo, Paris, Copenhagen, Geneva, etc. -- they have
become accustomed to the lavish amenities in which they luxuriate,
while feigning selfless pathos for the world's poor and excoriating
"hedonistic consumption" by the "middle classes" of Western
industrialized societies.

"World Citizen" Ted Turner represents the acme of this compassion
con. According to some analysts, the recently announced sale of his
Turner Broadcasting System to Time Warner could net him $2.6
billion, a tidy little sum to add to his already bulging billions.
After the forum, he and wife Jane could fly off in their private
jet, perhaps to their 40,000-acre bison barony in Montana, or to
one of their many other humble domiciles to plan still more
crusades to save the planet from the destructive consumption of the
world's troublesome riffraff.

Getting to the crux of the matter, Gorbachev pontificated: "We have
to, I believe, gear consumption more to people's cultural and
spiritual needs. Also, through culture and education and within the
framework of laws we shall have to address the problem of
controlling the world's population." And control, of course, as
always, is the key word and concept here. Control. Power.

Sound like familiar drumbeats for global government? Oh no, says
Gorby: "We should not hope that the solution can come from some
global center, a kind of world government. What we need is common
ground rules accepted by the world community and observed by
everyone and for that we need the international mechanisms and the
international law that is required." Meaning simply that the
"visionary" Russian is glibly proficient in the Aesopian word games
employed by the globalists to put off troublesome "isolationists"
who rightfully suspect this subversive flummery.

How else to square Gorbachev's denial with his "Churchill" speech
of May 6, 1992 in Fulton, Missouri, wherein he explicitly called
for "global government" under the United Nations? Or to square it
with the obvious intent of global governmental power implicit in
his repeated calls for "international mechanisms," "international
law," and "global controls"?

Call for Global Government

The New York Times reported on September 17, 1987 that Mikhail
Gorbachev had "called for giving the United Nations expanded
authority to regulate military conflicts, economic relations,
environmental protection and ... also called for enhancing the
power of the afflicted International Court of Justice to decide
international disputes." These appeals for further empowering the
UN were amplified in the Global Security Programme report published
last year by the Global Security Project of his Gorbachev
Foundation.

Chairman of the board of advisers of the Gorbachev Foundation is
past Senator Alan Cranston, a past national president of the United
World Federalists. In 1949 Cranston pushed through the California
legislature a resolution memorializing Congress to call a national
convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to "expedite and insure
the participation of the United States in a federal world
government." However, in a 1976 interview he advised fellow one-
worlders against mentioning world government since "the more talk
about world government the less chance of achieving it, because it
frightens people who would accept the concept of world law."
Gorbachev, obviously, has heeded the advice of this "elder
statesman."

Some of the globalists slip up, however. Recent statements by James
Garrison, co-founder and president of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA,
for instance, must have caused Mr. Cranston to wince. "Over the
next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government,"
Garrison said in an interview in the May 31-June 6, 1995 issue of
SF Weekly, a liberal-left San Francisco newspaper. "It's
inevitable." Garrison continued: "What's happening right now as you
break down the Cold War, what is emerging now is ethnic identities.
You are going to see more Yugoslavias, more Somalias, more Rwandas,
more [Timothy] McVeighs and more nerve-gas attacks. But in and
through this turbulence is the recognition that we have to empower
the United Nations and that we have to govern and regulate human
interaction...." (Emphasis added.)

But Gorbachev's dissembling over world government/world law should
not surprise. Like his treacherous use of "democracy," "pluralism,"
"diversity," "interdependence," "perestroika," "glasnost," and
other globalist shibboleths, it is in full comportment with the
Communist program of dialectical deception. Consider his
conveniently flexible position on "Communism." One speaker after
another at the San Francisco forum praised the venerable aparatchik
(and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union) for putting an end to Soviet Communism. Gorby himself
denounced the evils of "totalitarian ideology."

"Convinced Communist"

But this is the same Gorbachev who, a few short years ago (November
1987) proclaimed: "In October 1917, we parted with the Old World,
rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world,
the world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road."
(Emphasis added.) "Perestroika," he said then, " is a continuation
of the October Revolution."

In 1989, Gorbachev declared: "I am a Communist, a convinced
Communist. For some that may be a fantasy. But for me it is my main
goal." The following year, even as he was being hailed as the "man
who ended Communism," he reiterated this conviction, stating, "I am
now, just as I've always been, a convinced Communist."

In his book Perestroika, he plainly admitted: "We are not going to
change Soviet power, of course, or abandon its fundamental
principles, but we acknowledge the need for changes that will
strengthen socialism." In the same revered text he explained that
"according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible," and
the "essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites
socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of
socialist construction both in theory and in practice." (Emphasis
added.) Thus, when he declares for "democracy," he means
"democracy" within the Leninist conception and definition of the
term, something quite the opposite of that which most Americans
assume he is talking about.

But this dialectical legerdemain does not concern George Shultz,
who introduced the royal eminence with an embarrassing gush of
superlatives ("brilliant," "bold," "daring," "imaginative,"
"astonishing energy and intellectual grasp," "an intellect of the
highest order") and anecdotes of their long "friendship." Shultz,
a member and former director of the Council on Foreign Relations,
and Gorbachev go back a long way together. In 1985 the duo signed
the Soviet-American Education Exchange Agreement negotiated by the
one-world subversives at the Carnegie Corporation. Shultz spoke
with fond remembrance to the forum guests of the "historic" 1986
Reykjavik Summit at which he and President Reagan, together with
Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze, laid the groundwork for the INF
Treaty and other disarmament debacles.

For the opening "Plenary Session" of the forum, Gorbachev shared
co-chair honors with Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki, the longtime Marxist
theoretician and globe-trotting ambassador of the terrorist African
National Congress, and a top member of the South African Communist
Party (SACP), was an appropriate choice. The ANC chief said he was
pleased to attend on behalf of the poor and suffering people of
Africa, who might otherwise not be represented in a "new world
order" where "the world's agenda is addressed only by the
powerful."

Mbeki, a frequent guest at the Council on Foreign Relations and
other lairs of American and European ruling elites, understands
power. On July 5, 1993 Mbeki attended a dinner hosted by David
Rockefeller for corporate CEOs to raise funds for the ANC's
election drive. Mbeki praised Rockefeller as a longtime friend who
"has backed the ANC financially for more than a decade." As Nelson
Mandela's heir apparent, Mbeki has been given a "moderate" image by
the ANC-friendly Insider media.

Steps to "World Order"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser,
noted that there was "something profoundly symbolic and hopeful"
about the fact that the opening session was co-chaired by Gorbachev
and Mbeki. Which in itself says a mouthful about the "worldview" of
Zbig and his like-minded fellow conferees. Burnishing his bogus
anti-Communist credentials, Brzezinski denounced the terrible
record of "carnage" wrought by "Hitlerism, Leninism, Stalinism,
Maoism," and decried the monstrous deeds of the "coercive
utopians."

"Yet five years after the end of the century's greatest ideological
struggle and five years before the onset of the next millennium,"
wailed the architect and first director of the Trilateral
Commission, "the end of the ideological centrality in global
politics has not ushered in a new world order.... We do not have a
new world order. Instead we are facing growing doubts regarding the
meaning of our era and regarding the shape of our future."

"We cannot leap into world government in one quick step,"
Brzezinski told his audience, apparently ignoring Gorbachev's
caution. Such a grand goal "requires a process of gradually
expanding the range of democratic cooperation as well as the range
of personal and national security, a widening, step by step, stone
by stone, [of] existing relatively narrow zones of stability in the
world of security and cooperation. In brief, the precondition for
eventual globalization -- genuine globalization -- is progressive
regionalization, because thereby we move toward larger, more
stable, more cooperative units."

This "regionalization" is in keeping with the original Trilateral
plan, as outlined in Brzezinski's book, Between Two Ages, which
called for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately
leading toward "the goal of world government." In that same tome,
David Rockefeller's Polish protâgâ proclaimed that "National
sovereignty is no longer a viable concept" and praised Marxism "in
the form of Communism" as a "major advance in man's ability to
conceptualize his relationship to his world" and a "further vital
and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision."

NATO and the European Union must be expanded to include Russia and
the former Warsaw Pact countries, he said, and the scope of those
arrangements must be "furthered, deepened, and institutionalized."
Furthermore, Brzezinski asserted, similar structures must be
crafted for the Middle East, the Far East, and Central Asia.

Joining Brzezinski at the rostrum was astronomer and cosmic sage
Carl Sagan, who warned (predictably) that humanity faces "an
absolutely new, unprecedented series of threats to the global
environment that sustains us all." These "crises" include (of
course) "depletion of the protective ozone layer and global warming
through the increasing greenhouse effect...."

Yawn. Same tired, old, toxic eco-drivel. But wait! -- there is an
exciting new "crisis": asteroids, which are certain to collide with
earth in the not-too-distant future. This threat is "necessarily a
problem for the whole species" and one in which we will have to
join in collective action (presumably through the UN) to solve.

All of these crises show that we must begin to view the planet from
the astronauts' perspective, says Sagan: "There are no national
boundaries in that perspective. It is only one integrated, whole
planet, all parts of which rise and fall together."

The "New Paradigm"

John Naisbitt, futurist, techno-savant, adviser to corporate titans
and world leaders, and member of the board of advisers of the
Gorbachev Foundation, was more upbeat. The author of the mega-
blockbusters Megatrends, Megatrends 2000, Megatrends for Women, and
Global Paradox prefaced his remarks by stating his commitment to
"free markets and free trade." But like the rest of his colloquium
colleagues, he emphasized the need for everyone to adopt a "new
vocabulary," "new concepts," and a new "worldview" if we are going
to understand the "new paradigm" the world has entered.

This "new paradigm," naturally, requires "new leadership" --
leaders who will lead by "moral authority." "My candidate for what
a new leader would be like," said Naisbitt, "is Vaclav Havel." Mr.
Havel, the celebrated socialist playwright and president of the
Czech Republic, of course, also talks of "free markets" -- while
installing unreconstructed and unrepentant Communists such as
Alexander Dubcek in the top positions of power in his government.

Another of his favorite new leaders, said Naisbitt, is Nelson
Mandela. Colin Powell is yet another, and Naisbitt criticized those
who ask where Powell stands on the issues or what he would do
concerning this matter or that: "The point is not what is Powell
going to do; the point is who is he going to be. The new leadership
is shifting away from being in charge to moral authority,
responsibility, and inspiration." You see, in the "new paradigm,"
you need only be dazzled by the "moral authority" oozing from the
persona created by the elite media image makers. We have apparently
entered the age of ontological politics -- the politics of "being."

"The New Architecture of Global Security and Paths to Building a
Civic Society (The Global Age)" was the title of a presentation by
Kassa Kebede, a member of the board of directors of the Gorbachev
Foundation and an active participant in the Foundation's Global
Security Project. Kebede is a former ambassador to the United
Nations and was Foreign Secretary during the 1980s for the
murderous and genocidal Communist regime of Haile Mengistu in
Ethiopia.

"The globalization of the challenges confronting us will certainly
affect the traditional concept of sovereignty," Kebede told the
attendees. Indeed. Echoing the Kennedy Administration's treasonous
1961 Freedom From War proposal to transfer U.S. armaments to the
UN, Kebede's disarmament plan calls for "storage of the warheads
and of the delivery systems in separate places under international
control."

The Ethiopian commissar also commended the proposition put forward
in Our Global Neighborhood: The Report of the Commission on Global
Governance* to create "a standing force of 10,000 soldiers under
the authority of the Security Council." This in spite of the fact
that the UN's present "peacekeeping" operations, as Kebede himself
admits, are already vastly "overextended," with "more than 70,000
personnel, and costs of over $3.5 billion."

*NOTE: See the April 3, 1995 issue of The New American, page 5.

Kebede parroted the Global Security Programme and Zbigniew
Brzezinski in calling for establishing regional "security" (i.e.
war-making) organizations similar to NATO "in the Middle East,
South Asia and North East Asia."

Joining the Mikhail/Zbigniew Doublespeak Chorus, Kebede chirped:
"The commonality of goals, and shared values of global ethics,
produce justification for world governance. This concept is in no
way an alteration of national sovereignty, and does not lead to
world government."

Although the state of the world's political, economic, and social
ills came in for thorough treatment at the forum, it was in the
area of global spiritual enlightenment that the gathering blossomed
into full flower. Leading the cosmic charge were a host of the
reigning Brahmins of New Age bliss, including Willis Harman,
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Richard Baker, Matthew Fox, Shirley MacLaine,
Deepak Chopra, Fritjof Capra, and Rupert Sheldrake.

Willis Harman, New Age philosopher, president of the Institute of
Noetic Sciences, and author of Global Mind Change and The New
Metaphysical Foundation of Modern Science, has had a profound
effect on our society in the past couple of decades. In "Our
Hopeful Future: Creating a Sustainable Society," one of his new
essays distributed at the forum, Harman reported, "Around the world
one detects murmurings that industrialized and 'developing'
countries alike have a need for a new social order -- that, in
fact, the situation calls for a worldwide systemic change." Really?
Have you heard such "murmurings" in your neighborhood? Not likely -
- unless your neighborhood is home to some of Harman's murmurous
disciples.

Evolutionary Process

These murmurers, who comprise "an expanding fraction of the
populace," perceive "a shifting underlying picture of reality."
They see "the connectedness of everything to everything" and place
"emphasis on intuition and the assumption of inner divinity." These
adepts of the "new spirituality" share a "commitment to global
change." Their "New Order," says Harman, is characterized by "an
emphasis not on goals but on process ... the process is an
evolutionary one, and the goals are emergent." The message is:
Don't question where I am taking you, just start moving. And trust
me; I'm doing what's good for you.

"Interconnectedness" is the overarching theme also preached by
biologist Rupert Sheldrake, a Theosophist who posits that a
"morphogenic field" -- an invisible matrix or organizing field that
connects all life and thought on earth -- holds the keys to our
existence and to the "Ageless Wisdom."

Fritjof Capra, physicist and systems theorist, New Age swami, and
author of the international best-sellers Uncommon Wisdom, The
Turning Point, and The Tao of Physics, provided a similar message.
"The Elmwood Institute, which Capra founded in Berkeley,
California, sees that none of the major problems of our time can be
understood in isolation," write New Age political activists Corinne
McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson in Spiritual Politics: Changing the
World From the Inside Out. "A systems approach is needed, as all
our problems are interconnected and interdependent, facets of one
single crisis -- essentially a crisis of perception. This crisis is
part of a cultural shift from a mechanistic worldview to a holistic
and ecological view, from a value system based on domination to
partnership, from quantity to quality, from expansion to
conservation, from efficiency to sustainability."

A Capra essay, "The Turning of the Tide," was included in the Fall
1993 issue of ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and
Transformation, which was part of the free literature made
available to the forum participants. In it Capra writes:

"The view of man as dominating nature and woman, and the belief in the
superior role of the rational mind, have been supported and encouraged by the
Judaeo-Christian tradition, which adheres to the
image of a male god, personification of supreme reason and source
of ultimate power, who rules the world from above by imposing his
divine law on it. The laws of nature searched for by the scientists
were seen as reflections of this divine law, originating in the
mind of God."

This traditional Judaeo-Christian-influenced thinking, says Capra,
"has led to attitudes that are profoundly antiecological. In truth,
the understanding of ecosystems is hindered by the very nature of
the rational mind. Rational thinking is linear, whereas ecological
awareness arises from an intuition of nonlinear systems." Capra
celebrates Eastern mysticism as a superior spiritual path, while
applauding the "inevitable decline of patriarchy," the demise of
"fixed ideas and rigid patterns of behavior," and the rise of the
feminist and ecological movements.

Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of The Book of Co-Creation, claims in
her curricula vitae to be "establishing Evolutionary Circles
throughout the world to support small groups in their emergence as
universal humans, founders of a global civilization." Hubbard was
an organizer of the 1988 Soviet-American Citizens' Summit in
Alexandria, Virginia, coordinated with the Soviet Peace Committee,
a creature of the Soviet Central Committee's International
Department established by Stalin to carry out penetration and
subversion of foreign countries. Hubbard is also a former director
of the Federal Union, founded by Fabian Socialist Rhodes Scholar
Clarence Streit.

As a psychologist with Task Force Delta, an army think tank of
futurists, strategists, and psychology and parapsychology
researchers, Hubbard is credited with the idea of "bombarding" the
Soviets with "psychic love," and formation of the First Earth
Battalion (FEB). The credo of the FEB "guerilla gurus" states: "I
take personal responsibility for generating evolutionary
conspiracies as a part of my work. I will select and create
conspiratorial mechanisms ... that will create and perform
evolutionary breakthrough actions on behalf of people and planet.
One people, one planet."

But according to these cognoscenti, there are too many people on
this "one planet." Willis Harman's essay grapples with the
"dilemma.": "In the economy-dominated world, as the outspoken
anthropologist Margaret Mead once put it bluntly, 'The unadorned
truth is that we do not need now, and will not need later, much of
the marginal labor -- the very young, the very old, the very
uneducated, and the very stupid.'" "This dilemma is perhaps the
most basic one we face," said Harman. Society can't afford "from an
environmental standpoint, or from the standpoint of tearing apart
of the social fabric -- the economic growth that would be necessary
to provide jobs for all in the conventional sense, and the
inequities which have come to accompany that growth. This dilemma,
more than any other aspect of our current situation, indicates how
fundamental a system change is now required."

In the closing plenary session of the forum, philosopher/author Sam
Keen summarized the consensus of the learned ones. Among the
conference participants, said Keen, "there was very strong
agreement that religious institutions have to take primary
responsibility for the population explosion. We must speak far more
clearly about sexuality, about contraception, about abortion, about
the values that control the population, because the ecological
crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the [world's]
population by 90 percent and there aren't enough people left to do
a great deal of ecological damage."

How do we "cut" the planet's population by 90 percent? Even
genocidal mass murderers Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao combined
did not come close to attaining such a "lofty" goal. As always, the
devil is in the details. Forum participant Barbara Marx Hubbard may
already have provided some of the devilish answer. In The Book of
Co-Creation she writes: "Out of the full spectrum of human
personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend.... One-fourth is
destructive [and] they are defective seeds. In the past they were
permitted to die a 'natural death.'... Now as we approach the
quantum shift from the creature-human to the co-creative human --
the human who is an inheritor of god-like powers -- the destructive
one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.... Fortunately,
you are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of
God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy.
We are the riders of the pale horse, Death."

Lord help us all if this de facto "Brain Trust" of diabolical
misfits, murderers, megalomaniacs, terrorists, and tyrants succeed
in establishing their "new world order," their "new global
civilization."

END OF ARTICLE

THE NEW AMERICAN -- October 30, 1995
Copyright 1995 -- American Opinion Publishing, Incorporated
P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54913

SUBSCRIPTIONS: $39.00/year (26 issues) 1-800-727-TRUE

WRITTEN PERMISSION FOR REPOSTING REQUIRED: Released for
informational purposes to allow individual file transfer and non-
commercial mail-list transfer only. All other copyright privileges
are reserved. Address reposting requests to bi...@athenet.net or
the above address.