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Recommended Reading and Action Global Gun Grab
Introduction It seems almost absurd to have to say it, but no person is made safer if his right to defend himself is taken away. Yet our nation is awash in propaganda claiming that civilian disarmament (better known as "gun control") is the key to personal safety and civic order. Tragically, many Americans have accepted this incredibly dangerous fallacy. One reason why so many have succumbed to the illogic of "gun control" is the fact that personal ownership of firearms has been relentlessly demonized by our mass media. The move to ban gun ownership is well organized and well financed. Prominent voices in the attack on the right to keep and bear arms include high-powered Establishment figures, prestigious tax-exempt foundations, and a sizeable number of members of Congress. Of course, the gun ban they seek wouldn’t be total. If the gun-grabbers succeed, police and military personnel will be permitted to have weapons, and criminals will continue to find ways to procure firearms. Only law-abiding citizens will be denied the right to be armed. On many occasions I have had the opportunity to ask "gun control" advocates a simple question: "Would you put a sign on your home announcing that no guns are inside?" Invariably, the response was dead silence, followed by a cautious reconsideration of the wisdom of "gun control." Only someone who is foolish or dishonest would answer "yes" to such a question. The responses I’ve received to this question illustrate that even those who readily recite anti-gun propaganda understand that the ability of armed citizens to protect themselves and their property - whether that ability is exercised or not - serves as a major deterrent to violent crime. While many Americans understand the value of individual gun ownership, and the dangers inherent in restricting or denying the exercise of that right, they fail to appreciate the critical fact at the heart of this book: The chief impetus for worldwide civilian disarmament is the United Nations. In this book, William Norman Grigg has provided Americans with an abundance of sorely needed information about the ongoing "Global Gun Grab." Someone had to step forward to combat the anti-gun propaganda with uncompromising thoroughness, not just sound bites. Mr. Grigg has capably accomplished that task in the pages that follow. Full of fundamental truths that have been suppressed in our age of sophomoric slogans, Mr. Grigg’s counteroffensive to the dizzying anti-gun campaign begins by warning that civilian disarmament does more than just leave citizens vulnerable to street criminals: It opens the door for governments to amass police state powers. Citing some of history’s grimmest chapters, he points out that totalitarian government is more deadly than war, and that the disarmament of civilians is a necessary prelude to both tyranny and mass bloodshed. To buttress this fundamentally important - and, sadly, little-understood - point, Mr. Grigg cites the authoritative work of Professor R.J. Rummel, whose powerful book Death by Government shows that in the 20th century alone, governments have killed four times the number of people who perished in that century’s wars. Rummel refers to this phenomenon as "democide" - the mass murder of people by criminal governments. And those governments, Mr. Grigg demonstrates, were able to carry out such incomprehensible slaughter because their subject peoples had been disarmed and were unable to defend themselves. In Global Gun Grab, Mr. Grigg explains in detail how "gun control" made possible the genocidal campaigns carried out by governments in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and elsewhere. He also notes that in many cases the work of disarming the population wasn’t carried out by a totalitarian government, but rather by the liberal regime that immediately preceded it. In many cases, liberals who urge "gun control" as a way of increasing public safety have set the stage for the murderous tyrants who came after them. Disarmament, coupled with the centralization of political power, leads to democide. Once a person grasps this simple equation, he can begin to understand the unfathomable danger represented by the UN’s plans for "general and complete disarmament" - which would include the confiscation of civilian firearms. Global Gun Grab also exposes the threat posed by what the author calls "psychological disarmament," a process through which personal gun ownership is demonized and the public, particularly children, are conditioned to abhor guns - unless they are wielded by agents of state power. Mr. Grigg shows how various UN-connected bodies and initiatives are conducting a psychological warfare campaign against American citizens in an effort to prepare the way for civilian disarmament. "In matters of disarmament," advises Mr. Grigg, "all roads lead to the United Nations." To illustrate the UN’s intentions, the author cites statements made by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and official statements hammered out at UN conferences and forums - particularly the July 2001 UN Small Arms Conference. Most importantly, he shows that while the UN has essentially declared war on American gun owners, the behind-the-scenes orchestration of that campaign is being carried out by American elitists. The critical framework for the "Global Gun Grab," as Mr. Grigg shows, is the little-known 1961 U.S. State Department document entitled Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World. This incredibly subversive document, which remains official U.S. policy, outlines a multi-stage program that concludes with the surrender of our armed forces to the UN. But it also mandates a total ban on the "manufacture of armaments" except for those approved by the UN. Under the Freedom From War design, "all other armaments" would then be "destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes" - meaning that they would be turned over for use by the UN’s "global peace force" and its national affiliates. Mr. Grigg shows how the same treacherous program is outlined by another State Department document, A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations, which was issued in 1962. Originally classified, that report very candidly proposes the creation of a UN-dominated world government. The document’s author, Lincoln P. Bloomfield, lamented that the American people’s "constitutional right to keep and bear arms" stands in the way of creating the "government monopoly" on firearms that is necessary for the creation of world government under the UN. The plans set forth in these diabolical documents are being carried out today. Global Gun Grab sheds light on the ongoing consolidation of the military and police. In the aftermath of Waco and similar tragedies, many have come to appreciate the dangers of mixing the military with law enforcement. Mr. Grigg highlights the little-understood fact that these outrages are a direct outgrowth of the UN’s disarmament campaign. With abundant, frightening evidence to back up his assertion, the author claims: "What we are witnessing is the slow but persistent abolition of our independent, local police forces, and their amalgamation into a centralized, militarized internal security force - just as the State Department’s 1961 Freedom From War blueprint dictates." Perhaps the most important contribution made in Global Gun Grab is its discussion of the folly of believing that our rights can be protected by working within the UN via non-governmental organizations, or NGOs. Groups that seek NGO status from the UN, Mr. Grigg demonstrates, have to pledge support for the work of the UN and accept the UN’s claim to act as a global legislature. If conservative NGOs attempt to offer effective opposition, the UN can - and will - banish them immediately. In addition, as Mr. Grigg points out, the NGO approach, which is favored by the National Rifle Association, offers a "purely defensive strategy" that is ultimately doomed to defeat. In this valuable book, the reader will find a wealth of information illustrating that the United Nations is the chief threat to both individual gun ownership and national independence. The UN is much closer to accomplishing its despicable designs than most Americans realize, in large measure because the American people have not been educated about the true nature of the threat, including the role of the American Establishment in empowering the UN. Nor do they understand the necessary response to this threat. "For Americans who understand the paramount importance of the right to keep and bear arms - and the threat to that right represented by the UN - the proper course is clear," writes Mr. Grigg. That course is to get our nation out of the United Nations, and to evict the organization from our land. It can be done, and this book brilliantly illustrates why it must be done. John F. McManus |
