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By Al Snow, Sr. 
List Price $19.95  June 2002. 6 x 9 Soft Cover 
 Agreka™ Books  ISBN  1-888106-64-6 Library of Congress:2002106135
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Also see author's new book Liberal-itis: A Thinking Disorder Destroying America

La Verkin Proud to Be Anti-U.N.
BY CHRISTOPHER SMITH
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE March 19, 2003

WASHINGTON – History may record that the foreign policy turning point of the coming Iraqi war was mulled in the Atlantic islands of the Azores. But Al Snow hopes the southern Utah burg of La Verkin perhaps can claim a footnote.

Snow is the La Verkin city councilman who crafted the "United Nations Free Zone" ordinance in 2001 that earned the "garden spot of Dixie" international media attention, not all of it complimentary. . . .Snow subsequently wrote a book about La Verkin's experience in declaring the town free of U.N. authority and the perils of America heeding U.N. edicts.

Last July, Snow sent a copy of his book, Exceptional Profiles of Courage: The United Nations vs. American Liberty, to President Bush at the White House. "He sent me back a nice, signed handwritten card saying how he welcomed the gift," Snow said Tuesday from his office in St. George. "After what he did Monday night, I'm on cloud nine. It was fantastic." . . . .

Bush's historic snub of the U.N. in declaring war on Iraq without a renewed resolution authorizing military force may be a signal moment in the demise of multilateralism and the beginning of a new phase of American isolationism. But to Snow, 66, it is validation of a belief he has held since high school that the United Nations is a paper tiger that should not be recognized or even consulted by the United States.

"I did not vote for [U.N. General Secretary] Kofi Annan, I voted for George Bush, and the president does not need to ask Mr. Annan, 'Please, can I go to war?' " said Snow, who will be speaking tonight to a class of foreign relations students at Brigham Young University. "I'm thrilled the president did his duty and recognized we do not need the U.N.'s permission to go to war."

"The structural fact is that the U.N. has no capacity to carry out its own mandates," said Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah. "It is entirely dependent on its member states and it is an indictment of those member states for failing to carry out the U.N. mandates." Read the entire Mar. 19, 2003 front page article. http://sltrib.com 

Congressman Ron Paul (R) Texas:  "An emerging global government is how the UN views itself. They readily admit their goal is to impose a comprehensive set of laws on all of us – laws that supercede sovereign national governments. To do this, the UN needs a global military, a global police force, international courts, officers around the globe, and many highly-paid international bureaucrats. The UN is absolutely serious about imposing a global tax." Back cover quote.

". . .Thoughtfully described and explained, Al Snow's book has powerful people on its side. Try Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, President Bush. "The Salt Lake Tribune World Desk, Oct. 6, 2002, Michael Nakoryakov

INTRODUCTION    TABLE of CONTENTS   ABOUT THE AUTHOR  CHAPTER ONE 

REPUBLIC vs DEMOCRACY

Mr. Snow may be contacted via his cell phone: 1 435 229-1065 or email: davidsnow@infowest.com   See http://www.theamericancause.org/laverkin.htm

INTRODUCTION

The question every thinking American needs to ask – Is there an entangling alliance with the United Nations that can never be untangled? How will it serve the United States in the years to come. And each individual American. The United States has one vote among 191 nations. One.

A growing number of Americans believe we are relinquishing what our forefathers held so dear. They believe that in our effort to cooperate with the U.N., we have been forfeiting – little by little – the freedom to govern our own personal lives.

As a U.S. citizen, are you aware of the escalating transfer of power – military, environmental, economic, labor, arms control, human rights laws, and taxing – to the United Nations. The subject needs to be explored.

Much good has been accomplished by the United Nations in its 56 year history, and many countries and their peoples have benefited. What we wish to address in this book is how the U.N. Charter, Amendments, activities and goals have slowly but steadily become entangled with the individual freedoms guaranteed every U.S. citizen in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Many less powerful countries do not have the resources of America. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain from transferring their sovereignty to the U.N.

The United States should not withdraw from the world. It can establish individual Treaties with other countries, and still keep its sovereignty. As a major world power, it can continue to interact in the ways it chooses so that individual American rights can be preserved.

Everywhere I go, I’m asked, "Why in the world would a town board or a city council pass an ordinance making their community a U.N.–Free Zone?" To answer this question, one must gain an understanding of the sweeping changes proposed by the United Nations for all nations of the world.

People are being led to believe that in order to live in an interdependent world, all nations and states within nations must yield their sovereignty to a one world government (the United Nations).

If you have been too busy with your life to pay much attention to all that has transpired in the past century with the U.N. and what is happening in the 21^st century, you can remedy this by reading and pondering the material we provide herein, which includes extensive legal document excerpts (now public domain).

We owe it to our ancestors and the Founding Fathers to educate ourselves and form our own opinion.

You will learn how the U.S. began with the Articles of Confederation, which then led to the writing of the Constitution – and why. You’ll learn how the United Nations came to be – and why. We list the changes made to the United Nations Charter and the events that brought these changes to pass.

Many well meaning people have believed U.N. plans are good for the world. But have they really looked at the accompanying gradual erosion of the rights of individual Americans:

In a speech to the nation and the world on September 11, 1990, the senior and former president Bush stated "Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective – a new world order – can emerge." A few days later on September 17, 1990, Time magazine noted a comment by Senior Bush, who said "... would like to make the United Nations a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order."

As you read the material we present, you will begin to see what so many other Americans now see.

And, by the way, who has the power to make those decisions for you. Can the national government make them for The People, or make them in behalf of the individual states of the Union. Can your state make that decision for you. Or does the U.S. Constitution and your state constitution prohibit such actions. And if so, why are they being made.

How many "good laws" have been passed in this country that later came back to bite us with results no one anticipated. Yet, they are now the law of the land.

Read the agenda presented by the Council of Global Government, which met at the United Nations in New York City the summer of 2001, to amend the United Nations Charter. Their agenda may sound good on first reading, but read deeper and ponder how they could eventually affect you and your family. And those yet unborn. These are but more steps added to the many that have already been taken over the past 56 years.

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Twelve Principles Presented in 2001 to be Amended to

the United Nations Charter –

Principle 1: Calls for the consolidation of all international agencies under direct United Nations authority.

Principle 2: Calls for regulation by the United Nations of all transnational corporations and financial institutions, requiring an "International Code of Conduct" concerning environment and labor standards.

Principle 3: Demands an independent source of revenue for the U. N, such as the Tobin Tax, taxes on aircraft and shipping fuels, and licensing of Global Commons, defined as "outer space" atmosphere, non-territorial seas, and related environment that supports life. This paves the way for other type global taxes.

Principle 4: Eliminates veto power and permanent membership status on the Security Council.

Principle 5: Authorizes a standing United Nations army.

Principle 6: Requires United Nations registration of all arms and reduction of all national armies as "part of a multilateral global security system" under the authority of the United Nations.

Principal 7: Requires individual and national compliance with all United Nations "Human Rights" treaties and declarations.

Principle 8: Activates the International Criminal Court (ICC), making the International Court of Justice compulsory for all nations and gives individuals the right to petition courts to remedy social justices. Every individual will be subject to the ICC.

Principle 9: Calls for a new institution to establish economic and environmental security by insuring "sustainable development."

Principle 10: Calls for the establishment of an International Environmental Court.

Principle 11: Calls for the declaration that climate change is an essential global security interest that requires the creation of a "high-level action team" to allocate carbon emission based on equal per capita rights.

Principle 12: Calls for the cancellation of all debt owed by the poorest nations, global poverty reductions, and for equitable sharing of global resources as allocated by the United Nations.

Some legal scholars believe these 12 principles, and others the U.N. has passed and hope to pass, set a precedent that will eventually lead to the following –

!An end to individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, the right to trial by jury, and the right to keep and bear arms, etc.

!National and personal disarmament, along with conscription of U.S. citizens into a United Nations Army or Police Force.

!The end of private property rights and the ability to control our own home, farm or business.

!Loss of our right as parents to raise and instruct our children in accordance with our personal beliefs.

!Population control measures that determine when, how many, or if we can have children.

!U.S. economic and environmental regulation by the U.N.

!Global taxation.

!A centrally managed world monetary system.

!Environmental controls that could mean the end of single family homes and personal automobile ownership.

Americans unknowingly ask – But, doesn’t the United Nations just deal with international issues.

Does it become a local issue if the United Nations can take your right to private ownership of property, tell you how many children you can have, mandate what you can teach your children, tell you where you can live and not live, tax you with a global tax, take your gun or guns?

George Washington stated in his farewell address: "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."

Thomas Jefferson stated, "...essential principles" of our nation; "...peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

Yes, there is an entangling alliance and yes, it can be untangled. However, we need to do it now while the U.S. still has its sovereignty. If the U.S. yields its sovereignty to a one-world government, then it will be impossible.

The authority to govern this nation is derived from the people, not the national government. Power flows upward not down.

Samuel Adams stated: "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

Because we believe that each town and city in the U.S. is slowly losing its constitutional protections to Washington, who is giving it to the United Nations, my hometown, LaVerkin, Utah, has taken preventative action.

The LaVerkin City Council has passed a United Nations Free Zone ordinance, to make a statement that shapes the public debate and forces the people of LaVerkin, Utah, and the rest of the country to educate themselves. And the hoped for result is that people were shocked and are now interested in learning about the U.N. Charter and the U.N. Statute of the International Court of Justice. I have yet to meet a single person in LaVerkin who had read the U.N. Charter before the U.N.–Free Zone Ordinance was passed.

LaVerkin is nestled in a beautiful valley at the foot of Zion National Park with its tall mountains, rugged cliffs, and painted rocks. In the southwest corner of Utah at an elevation of 3,266 feet, it is 25 miles from St. George and the Arizona border.

Of particular interest to those who live near wilderness areas –

There are 47 or more Biosphere Reserves and 20 or more World Heritage sites occupying over 50 million acres of United States soil at the present time, under partial control of the U.N. and all done without a local vote. (see Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage).

Yellowstone National Park, for example: Of the $20.00 fee to enter the Park – part of that fee goes to the United Nations. The U. S. government agreed to limit its right of sovereignty over these lands by deferring to international mandates promoted by the United Nations through their International Inter-Governmental Organizations, and non-Governmental Organizations.

Executive Order (EO) 12986 was signed by Bill Clinton on January 19, 1996.

Most U.S. citizens have never heard of EO12986, and fewer U.S. citizens could identify the IUCN or explain why it merits such privileged treatment by President Clinton’s Executive Order.

The IUCN is one of the U.N.’s major agencies in creating and implementing global environmental policy.

The IUCN is an accredited scientific advisory body to the United Nations and has more than 880 state and federal government agency and non-governmental organization members in 133 countries. In 1993 the IUCN received over 1.2 million dollars in U.S. tax money by way of the U.S. State Department.

LaVerkin City gets some of its water supply from the Virgin River, which starts in Zion National Park. There is a possibility that the United Nations could be given a biosphere within the boundary of Zion Park, which could affect our ability to irrigate our crops, fields, trees, gardens and yards.

Few U.S. citizens are aware that the U.N. International Criminal Court (ICC) would like to replace the American Court system. The ICC would have the ability to reach in and rework a nation’s moral, family, social, and community standards to correspond to the requirements of the United Nations.

In April, 12, 2002, The Salt Lake Tribune article, "World Court Comes Into Force Despite U.S. Refusal to Ratify," by Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press, reported, "The world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal got the necessary international backing Thursday to come into force July 1 ... hailed by human rights activists and many nations but strongly opposed by the United States.... Pierre-Richard Prosper, the U.S. ambassador for war crimes, restated President Bush’s opposition to the treaty and refusal to ratify it. The United States fears American citizens would be subject to frivolous or politically motivated prosecutions.... ‘The goal is noble and we agree with the goal of accountability.... What we disagree with is this precise mechanism for putting this goal in place,’ Prosper said. ... ‘The prosecutor and a handful of judges could make a political decision to prosecute a U.S. official or serviceman. This is a possibility we take seriously,’ Prosper said."

Few U.S. citizens are aware of U.S. Department of State publication 7277 called "Freedom from War – the United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World" (1961), based on the plan presented to the U.N. by John F. Kennedy in 1961. Read his speech to the U.N., then a review of this document, and the document itself.

Today, the United Nations is vocal about its desire to govern people of all nations. You may ask, How could this possibly come about? Let’s take a look at Henry Kissinger’s address at the Bilderbergers meeting in Evian, France, on May 21, 1992.

"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."

The development of a U.N. world "police force" might be the act that awakens every U.S. citizen.

Everyone of us in the U.S. need to encourage our fellow Americans to better understand and appreciate the principles of good government that are set forth in our Nation’s founding documents. They protect what you want protected.

Action is being taken. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) re-introduced HR 1146, "American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2001" on March 21, 2001. The two cosponsors are: Bob Stump (R-Ariz) and Richard Pombo (R-Calif).

We must become an informed nation. And that is the purpose of this book.

To begin, we want to gain your immediate attention. Chapter One contains a recent questionnaire that the U.S. government required 300 United States Marines to answer about their possible future involvement with the U.N. as military personnel.

Once you read this, you will want to know more.

But first read excerpts of The Articles of Confederation, the first legal document that governed our country. As you learn where the country has been, you will better understand where it is going. We also address what a Republic really is, and then excerpts of the Bill of Rights.

As you encounter various terms of which you are unfamiliar, see Definitions and Glossary, and Rights & Powers within the United States Constitution, and their definitions.

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