Published in The Orlando Sentinel, Sunday, August 31, 1997 Count me out if a New World Order is what world is coming to By Charley Reese of The Sentinel Staff Want to know what's weird? It's weird that an out-of-work ex-dictator of the Soviet Union, such as Mikhail Gorbachev, tools around the United States, forms a tax-exempt foundation and hosts state-of-the-world forums attended by various new-left and in-power utopians. One should remember, shouldn't one, that Gorbachev worked his way through college ratting out his professors and fellow students to the KGB -- condemning them to torture and/or death -- and did not (and never did intend to) bring democracy to the Soviet Union. He intended to save communism by putting on a few cosmetic reforms. He blew it. It's also weird that, unlike the Nazis, former Communist leaders who killed millions have never been brought to justice, except for a token guy here or there. It's even weirder that America's raving moralists don't seem to give a hoot. That's probably because they are more left than moral. I think that we ought to file a complaint with the Russians. They should keep their former dictators at home. I understand that there is plenty of room in Siberia, and what would be a more fitting retirement home for a Communist tyrant than the place where communism doomed millions to hard labor and death? Instead, this Communist ex-dictator sets up a foundation at The Presidio, a former U.S. Army base. Old Spot's putting on a series of state-of-the-world forums to develop ideas for a global civilization. Given Gorbachev's background and experience, I don't want to have anything to do with any civilization he plans, but a lot of American political, business and news-media bigwigs turn out for his hoop-de-doos for a New World Order. Al Gore, who aspires to be the Utopian-in-Chief, was at the '95 shindig along with Jane Fonda and other assorted leftists. The whole affair was subsidized by Bob Dole's favorite agribusiness, Archer Daniels Midland. Someone called the 1995 forum a meeting of new-left socialists and utopians. I would call it a meeting of new-left socialists and saps. The way so many prominent Americans lust after socialism and its necessary loss of liberty makes me think of a line from an old Western movie. ''If God did not intend for them to be sheared, then why did he make them sheep?'' an inquiring Mexican outlaw wanted to know. Good question, Calvaro. It seems to me that either the Cold War was a phony deal or the end of the Cold War is a phony deal. Instead of being brought to justice, Communists in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are either still in power or getting rich running capitalist enterprises. And what does it say about capitalists when they pick Communists to run their enterprises? It says that a no-goodnik is a no-goodnik regardless of what language he speaks or what economic or political system he pays lip service to. There is a worldwide brotherhood of indecent men who would sell their mothers to the devil, let alone their countrymen, to make a buck. Well, I don't want any part of a New World Order or global civilization. I'll settle for the plain, old constitutional republic our revolution produced. That no longer exists either, except in form, but it, at least, is worth restoring. I hope you notice that all these folks who talk about globalism or new world orders never seem to get around to talking about the principles of the American Revolution -- liberty, inalienable rights and self-government. There are no elected delegates to the United Nations. They are all appointed by their governments. Therefore rule by the United Nations -- if that's what people have in mind -- would be dictatorial rule by an oligarchy of the more powerful nation-states. No thanks. [Posted 08/29/97 11:27 PM EST] Register / Site map / Feedback / Help 1997 Orlando Sentinel Online ==================================================================== ///, //// Mark A. Smith \ /, / >. \ /, _/ /. * * * \_ /_/ /. \__/_ < UNITED STATES THEATRE COMMAND /<<< \_\_ http://www.eagleflt.com /,)^>>_._ \ email: msmith01@flash.net (/ \\ /\\\ http://www.flash.net/~msmith01 // ```` ======((`=========================================================== The Second Amendment was created so that the citizens can sleep good at night, and the politicians don't.