"Citizen of the world" Clinton. (The Last Word).

For close to an hour on October 3rd, private citizen Bill Clinton addressed the British Labor Party's annual conference in Blackpool, England. Invited by Prime Minister Tony Blair, his devoted friend and ideological soul mate, the former president acknowledged the "warm applause" he received while recalling having spent two of "the best years of my life" in England. Courtesy of the Rhodes Scholar program, those were the years he campaigned against the U.S. military action he avoided by dishonorably dodging the draft. He did not mention that of course. Nor did he mention his trip behind the Iron Curtain to link up with Communist anti-Vietnam War protesters while fellow Americans were dying in Southeast Asia.

However, what Bill Clinton did say earns him the distinctive label of anti-American. Identifying himself as a "citizen of the world," he repeatedly called for an "integrated global community," which would result if all join together "to make the United Nations a more meaningful, more powerful, more effective institution." He even chided his own country because the U.S. does not "contribute in my view as much as we should to international institutions."

Along with the sovereignty-destroying European Union that he admires, Mr. Clinton hopes to see an improved UN "in five, 10 or 20 years." Should nations defend their own interests? Not so, said Clinton: "There are still people who vote in the United Nations based on the old-fashioned national interest views they held in the Cold War or even long before, so that not every vote reflects the clear and present interests of the world...."

He patted himself on the back for "bringing China into the World Trade Organization and the community of nations." That these moves were, in part, payoffs for huge illegal campaign contributions from China via Johnny Chung, Charlie Trie, and John Huang earned no mention. And he also ignored KGB-veteran Vladimir Putin's current trade overtures to Iraq while congratulating himself for "trying to build alliances with Russia."

He derided the Supreme Court's decision ending the 2000 presidential election and then heaped scorn on Republicans. Their opposition to "the Kyoto Protocol, the comprehensive test ban treaty, [and] the international criminal court" stands in the way, said Bill Clinton, "of our larger obligation to create an integrated world." Not content with bashing Republicans, he took aim at "conservatives" both in the U.S. and England. "Their politics is based on ideology and power, and they don't like evidence and argument very much," he claimed. It would be difficult to find a more apt self-indictment.

Who supports conservative views? "When people are insecure they often turn to the right because of the rhetoric...," said Clinton. The truth, unfortunately, is that the insecurity he and like-minded leftists propagate is what persuades voters to support advocates of bigger and more socialistic government.

While in England, he congratulated himself for "all the things we did [such as] global debt relief." Of course, he didn't mention skirting Congress to transfer $20 billion from the Treasury Department's Currency Stabilization Fund to Mexico. And he certainly didn't comment on how the chief beneficiaries of that move turned out to be his friends sitting atop U.S.-based international banks.

He advocated "regime change" in Iraq and said nothing about the consequences to our military or within the Islamic world. Nor did he mention the burden of putting Iraq back together should our nation follow his call for U.S. troops to enforce UN resolutions.

Without explaining the term, he frequently touted "the third way," a middle-of-the-road approach that includes Marxist economics and international usurpation of nationhood. His British hosts evidently needed no clear definition of what they are already championing.

Clinton's love for the UN dominated his remarks. He said the hope for "a truly global community of people together in peace" didn't even materialize until "the creation of the United Nations and the issuance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Abandoning his own nation's Declaration of Independence and its unambiguous assertion that men's "unalienable rights" are given by "their Creator," he saluted the UN Declaration, which does not acknowledge God and boldly asserts that men's "rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

It is obvious that Clinton opposes the very concept of independent nations, despite his solemn oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Now that he is no longer seeking votes, he can boldly tell an audience in England that he is committed to the "interests of the world" and to an "integrated global community."

Perhaps Bill Clinton is campaigning to become president of the world, maybe secretary-general of a beefed-up UN. If so, he should deliver his October 3rd speech worldwide. Its "America Last" theme would win him friends among the many who both despise national independence and hate the United States.