The power of truth. (The Last Word).

When the newly informed American recognizes that powerful Insiders are conspiring to consolidate economic and political powers in a one-world government, he may also conclude that the situation is hopeless. "How can I, an ordinary American, prevent this from happening?" he might ask. "How can my voice be heard above that of the media cartel?"

Yes, the Insiders possess immense power and wealth. Yet they greatly fear one weapon that freedom-loving Americans can readily use to oppose them. That weapon is truth. The Insiders' Achilles' heel is that they must contain the truth in order to protect their schemes.

Throughout recorded history, man has yearned to be free -- to worship God; to live and travel where he pleases; to be the master of his own hearth; to choose his own vocation; to keep the fruits of his labor. So the Insiders, who conspire for a world without freedom, must obscure their global ambitions. They may claim that some form of "global governance" is needed to prevent war or to save the environment -- but such an admission is at best a half-truth, tantamount to a lie. They cannot tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" without admitting that they really intend to shackle the planet instead of saving it.

The evidence is available for anyone willing to examine it. The architects of world order established the United Nations so that it would become a seat of world government. One of those architects was John Foster Dulles, who later served as secretary of state under President Dwight Eisenhower. Dulles wrote in War or Peace (1950): "The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization."

The following decade, President John F. Kennedy presented the UN with the U.S. government's official policy for making the UN a "more highly developed organization." That policy, published by the State Department under the title Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World (1961), stated that disarmament "would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force." Other evidence, including U.S. enforcement of UN disarmament resolutions in Iraq, makes clear that this policy remains in force.

If the Insiders succeed, their already-developing global government would become the most powerful force on Earth. For several reasons, this force would most assuredly be used, not to ensure world peace, but to impose world tyranny. Those reasons include:

* the corrupting influence of power;

* the nature of the UN system itself, which would be authorized to intervene in virtually every human endeavor, supposedly for the good of the people; and

* the demonstrated character of the deceivers who would wield this unprecedented power.

Daniel Webster said that "there is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange." The Insiders can succeed only by burying and obscuring truth, which of course explains why their control of the major media is essential to their plans. On the other hand, freedom-loving Americans can succeed by disseminating the truth. No matter how bleak the odds may seem, we can draw encouragement from one fundamental reality: The Insiders must weave a fragile web of deception and falsehood to advance their plans.

The first step in creating the needed understanding is to inform yourself. The more informed you are, the more effective you will be in the freedom fight. Another necessary step is to inform others. But no matter how hard you or others try, you cannot realistically hope to succeed without undertaking a third step -- organizing.

Fortunately, the John Birch Society already provides the necessary organizational framework for success. This magazine is, in fact, published by a JBS affiliate. The JBS began exposing the Insider-controlled Establishment decades ago, including Insider plans to develop the UN into a world government. Although that exposure has not been sufficiently widespread to stop the UN threat, it has nevertheless alerted millions to the danger. To achieve victory, we must simply create more widespread understanding through an expanding membership.

On one level, the John Birch Society and its affiliates could be viewed as a vehicle for circumventing the Establishment media cartel. Through the JBS, members can become better informed, and they can also use their newly acquired knowledge to inform others. But the organization is much more than a dispenser of information.

Describing the necessity of organization, Robert Welch wrote in 1969 that "simply publishing good books, articles, and pamphlets, and even getting them distributed, is not, by itself, enough to win this battle. This literature must be read, it must be put to use, and it must be a part of an overall, concerted plan of action. And this is exactly what The John Birch Society has been doing, and must continue to do in the future."

If you agree that the threat exposed in these pages is both real and serious, and that your freedoms and country are worth fighting for, we encourage you to take a look at The John Birch Society's action program (see the ad on page 56).