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JOHN
BIRCH BITES TOM DEWEESE!
Famed Right Wing Group Attacks Conservative Activist
Washington, DC -- It's not quite "man bites
dog", but the October 9th issue of The New American, a publication of
the John Birch Society, attacks Tom DeWeese, a leading conservative
activist and president of the American Policy
Center, for "embellishing the UN threat."
In an article written by senior editor, William
Norman Grigg, DeWeese is accused of over-stating the significance of the
recent United Nations Millennium
Summit in the June issue of the Center's Insider's Report. The report
focused on the UN's "increasing drive toward global governance"
says DeWeese and "was actually written in May 2000, some four months
before the Summit was to convene." The October Birch Society article
accuses DeWeese of undermining "the credibility of the movement to
restore US sovereignty and sow(ing) defeatism among those who are properly
alarmed over the UN's activities."
The Birch attack on DeWeese claims that the UN
Charter for Global Democracy is a document that "had absolutely
nothing to do with the Millennium
Summit or any formal proposal presented therein", but DeWeese points to a statement by John Ruggie,
Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, who
said in a September 28, 2000 letter to the editor of The Washington Times
that the Millennium Summit Declaration is being used by the General
Assembly "to implement the political commitments of the world's
leaders made at the Summit, which is precisely how it works."
"That's just what APC said," DeWeese
points out. "Whether the document used
was the Charter for Global Democracy, as first reported by APC, or the
final Summit Declaration, the warnings of APC's alert are justified and
verified. The true purpose of the Millennium Summit was to set the agenda
for global
governance."
APC Generated Over a Half-Million Petitions
To Withdraw US Support for the
UN
During the UN Summit, on September 7th, DeWeese
was on Capital Hill presenting Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) with 350,000 citizen
petitions in support of his bill, H.R. 1146 that would end United States
membership in the UN. In the past two years, the Center has spearheaded a
drive that has produced a half-million petitions for Rep. Paul's
legislative initiative. Characterizing the Grigg article as a
"vicious attack, Deweese says, "Other than complaining about me,
I haven't seen the John Birch Society produce any tangible results with
its decades-old ruminations about the UN," says DeWeese. The Center
maintains an Internet site at http://www.americanpolicy.org
and publishes The DeWeese Report, a
monthly newsletter, in addition to the Insider's
Report.
The American Policy Center is an activist think
tank headquartered in Herdon,
VA, just outside of Washington, D.C. Its focus is on sovereignty, privacy,
property rights, and education issues. On the Center's Internet site and
through an aggressive communications program, the Center has mobilized a
greater awareness of the UN's plan to restructure itself into a global
government to destabilize the sovereignty of its member nations and all
others. DeWeese has led a coalition
that includes The Liberty Study Committee,
Sovereignty International and other conservative groups to warn Americans
about the dramatic shift in the UN's agenda.
"Several APC allies," says DeWeese,
"have expressed their belief that (this article) is really a thinly
veiled and petty turf war. Perhaps the John Birch Society feels the Center
is stealing its thunder as an opponent of the United Nations?"
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