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The One World globalists are out of the closet and in our faces. George Soros, the U.N., the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Ted Turner -- these folks have been out of the closet for years. Now the MSM has officially and openly joined them. The socialistic academic world has seen its chance and joined the fray in an even more open and egregious manner than normal. Hollywood has long thought of itself in grandiose world terms, not just as an American film industry. A few mega-stars, like John Wayne, Charlton Heston, and a few others held the line, but with them faded from the scene, all pretenses on the point is removed.

I would suggest this to be the proper way to analyze the Hispanic agitation on immigration also. The Hispanic "leaders" are really advocating the illegality of national borders, enforcement of same, and national legal codes. Yes, America is the bogeyman of choice at the moment, but I notice that Vicente Fox has recently opened a second front against the Canadians. He argues that Canada is not doing enough to take in Mexican "guest workers."

Europe is experiencing its own version of this developing governing theory. The difference is that, in Europe, it is Muslims and Islam, instead of Hispanics. The delicious irony is that the one world mentality of the European elite and their governments is that the U.S. of A. is the big bad actor, but they get no credit among the Islamists and other Third World agitators. Instead they are told that they themselves are not doing enough.

I think that this mindset and movement can be, almost directly, traced to 1949 and the inception of the United Nations. We, however, were war weary and didn't see or believe it. Now we have a world court, an international law of the sea, a Kyoto, and on and on. There is a tremendous push from the U.N. and George Soros, et al., to enact and ratify a worldwide ban on personal weapons and the whole idea of defending oneself, ones home, and ones family. The U.S. Second Amendment is ridiculed and it is suggested that we have no "right" to have such a law or constitutional provision. Of course you may wish to suggest that the whole movement goes back to the League of Nations after WWI, and I would not strenuously dispute you on the point, but that attempt failed.

Yes, America is the bogeyman of choice for a large part of the world elite and governing classes, but I think it is distracting to think of the animus in these narrow terms, and to not ask why. What is the deep seated, real reason for our vilification in the world community? I would maintain that it is the increasing desire on the part of envious folks and elitists for a single, socialist, world government. But then what do I know? I am just a common, average American that loves his country and is proud to be a patriot.

p>REMEMBER THE ALAMO -- GEORGE BUSH WON'T!!!! br> -- Ken Shreve br> American /p>

In regard to the difference between the press corps of today vs. that of the WWII era is that some in the press corps were aware of the pending Normandy invasion of June 6, but had the integrity to not say a word because they knew the mission would be compromised. The press corps of today, with their "people have a right to know" at any cost, would have been in France interviewing the Germans regarded their thoughts regarding the pending invasion just as they did in the '80s on Grenada. It was rather ludicrous to see the self-righteous press on the shore suddenly turning on their television lights to interview startled marines wading ashore and expected to express their views.

p>Now 70 years old, I remember WWII days, followed the war in the papers, had uncles in the fracas, though I was only six years old and in the first grade when Pearl Harbor was bombed on Sunday, December 7, 1941 to get things off to a roaring start. It was a time of periodic blackouts in the town of Janesville, Minnesota, where we lived at the time. It was years later that I realized that every time there was a blackout called, though neither Germany or Japan at the time had long range bombers to strike the Midwest, there would be heavy train traffic. Sneaking a peek behind the mandatory drawn shades one moonlit night, I saw numerous freight trains loaded with military equipment going through town. br> -- Richard Becker /p>

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