Eco-idiots need to be disabused of their romantic view of nature. As Reisman points out, most “resources” in nature are useless lumps of nothing. If not for man, iron, aluminum, coal and oil would lie purposeless and pristine in the wildernesses.
Man discovered that these elements could be used to assuage human needs. Once he identified and ingeniously matched the human need with the material thing, he devised ways to establish mastery over the resource, and came up with means to harness it. Most “resources” provided by nature become goods of value only when man connects the dots.

If not for man, the matter and energy abundant on earth would come to naught. The ability to discover and transform natural resources into usable goods, as well as to develop “resource-enhancing and sustaining technologies” are the unique provenance of man.

The environmentalist sways with Mother Earth’s rhythms, but he has little mental staying power to grasp the pulse of the very thing that feeds him. About the voluntary cooperation between men, about the division of labor, and about the way the price system conserves resources, he is ignorant.

No surprise then that for every enlightened suggestion made at the “Heart of Darkness” Summit (such as eliminating protectionism and tariffs), there were lots of stupid condemnations of the supposedly disastrous production and consumption patterns in industrial societies.

The alleged impending scarcity, however, is a feature of ‘public ownership,’ the Sacred Grounds for the Summit’s voodooists. Depredation, overuse and wastage are attributes of government-managed resources. The tragedy of the commons occurs when everyone and no one owns the resource.

As we speak, government-managed forests are going up in flames. Lives and property have been lost. This is to be expected. Be it fishery or forest, communist custodianship removes all the attributes of private property, chiefly, the incentive to conserve. Only when you own a forest and are not just leasing it, do you ensure that the resource continues to be a viable and renewable source of revenue. Lack of ownership is the death knell for the resource. The solution clearly lies not in better regulation, but in privatizing resources.

“The horror, the horror,” Kurtz’s last words in Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness,” capture the counter-civilization, savage-lauding spirit of the South African Summit. The totalitarian, myth-worshipping environmentalists are hostile not only to The Good Life, but to life itself.

—WorldNetDaily, August 28, 2002

Western civilization is under attack. This attack can be defined as an assault on the Christian values, which are the foundation upon which Western nations were built. These values are expressed in the 10 commandments and in the teachings of Jesus Christ. The twelve apostles went out to comply with Jesus’ final commission to “make disciples of all nations and baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Teach them to observe all I have commanded you.”

Christian teachings, customs and practices are an inseparable part of Western history and culture. This historical fact is not affected by the millions of people leaving the churches today—many because their churches had discarded God’s supreme right to total submission of all nations. Too many Christians have resigned and adjusted to living as Christians in a post-Christian society instead of fighting for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven. That means abolishing socialist and creating god-centered societies. For that purpose, I believe, America, today the lead nation of Western society, was created as a nation with freedom as a mission and a constitution as a political expression of Christian teachings, which alone make freedom possible.

Our laws and legal system are based on God’s absolute moral standards, meaning that, before God, and therefore also before the law, all human beings are equal. Such a concept existed nowhere in the world before Jesus of Nazareth appeared, and it changed the world. That we are abandoning this concept while preaching it at the same time is one signal of the effectiveness of the attack on our values.

Defining human existence as part of eternity runs through nearly two thousand years of Western culture, be it in literature, music, painting, theatre or architecture. Christianity therefore consists not only of the religious faith expressed by Christians that through Jesus Christ we can find forgiveness of our sins and gain eternal life, but also of the legal, social, and political infrastructure of a Western nation, which resulted from Christian teachings and must be understood as translation of those teachings into man’s social existence. One only has to look at the backward Islamic societies, where equality before God or before the law or the concept of loving your neighbor do not exist, in order to realize the result of the lack of those teachings: backwardness. They lack the wealth, which Western people have access to because of it. It can be pointed out that at the same time the European history is one of wars, arrogance, bigotry and intolerance. The pilgrims who came to the shores of America and started the process, that led to the formation of the United States of America, fled Europe because of the intolerance and abuse of power by government and church leaders. And that was no different a

reason than the one which inspired Martin Luther to stand up to an established class of Roman Catholic church bureaucrats who wanted to control the population. All of this, however, can be understood as “in house” conflicts within our civilization, produced by people with limited knowledge of God and human nature. Disputed were the understanding of God, the interpretation of Christian teachings and the political application, but not God himself.

This changed with the French revolution and Jean Jaques Rousseau’s thinking. His false concept of the natural goodness of human beings exposed to the corrupting influence of society constitutes a rejection of God because it is opposed to biblical truth and reality, which point out the individual responsibility and the fallen nature of man. It was the beginning of the insurrection of society against God, which led to the institutionalized abandonment of his moral order and the establishment of a global and political infrastructure, which is contrary to His order but capable of integrating toothless Christian religion.

Hegel explained all events in the world as part of the movements of the absolute world spirit eliminating therewith God as a historical force. Marx followed and declared history to be a series of class struggles defining the capitalist as class enemy and cause for all evil of society. This adulterer didn’t know what evil is because he was blind to his own corrupt character. His medicine: the expropriation of property and the elimination of the enemy class. Because Marx’s historical materialism and economic theories are based on hatred and the rejection of God, Marxism and Christianity are incompatible. Marxism can be defined as sexual immorality, other people’s money and unrestricted power for self. Marx’s fantasy that man is good led to mass killings, the intellectual victimization of whole sections of society and entire nations and to the wasteful spending of trillions of dollars to rectify injustice on the basis of materialism without contributing to the progress of humanity. Instead it made people and nations dependent on the provider of money. This philosophy has become a vehicle for the enrichment of the distributors of the wealth of others: the international establishment class.

When the Nazis captured Germany in 1933 the Institute of Social Research—founded in 1924 in Frankfurt and modeled on the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow—moved to New York. With their ideologists Marcuse, Adorno and others, it had a devastating impact on American society and especially on entire student generations.

Their and their pupils’ objectives are identical to the goals of Lenin, Stalin and their successors: to eliminate God, destroy free society and establish a socialist-totalitarian system of government. World control by the socialist, capitalist and financial (!) elites began to replace the concept of the classless society. They expanded the traditional Marxist class-enemy list to encompass all civil and cultural institutions of Western society such as schools, universities, the family, the church, the media, the judiciary, Hollywood, private foundations, and others. Abandoning the Marxist/Leninst revolutionary concept of taking over government from outside, by force if necessary, they settled in favor of a new methodology; subverting and taking over the institutions from within, destroying the morals of the people, penetrating their minds and disconnecting them from their history, culture and traditions. The creation of the so-called multi-cultural societies is part of the scheme as well as the legalization of abortion and of all sorts of secular perversions, which are being infiltrated into the nationalized education system. All of this is aimed at generating forces from within Western society that will culminate in the destruction of the existing social order—the infrastructure based on Christian teachings.

We are facing a frontal attack on Christianity because Judeo/Christian moral absolutes are an obstacle for totalitarian rule. Those of us who lived through the Nazi years in Germany can attest to that. I very well remember the two Gestapo men standing in front of our church noting down the names of those who entered. In the Hitler Youth they ridiculed everything Christian. “You can pray and sing hymns at home and in the church,” we were told, “but in society we, the national socialists, are in charge.” And now 60 years later, I hear exactly the same here in America and find myself in the middle of the destruction of the Christian spirit and structures of Western society, which, if successful, will lead to an atheist world for our children and grandchildren. The ACLU has taken over the praxis of the Nazi party.

In order to defend our faith and our freedom we have to understand the nature of the attack in the cultural-ideological war. The issue is power not morals. Morality is the battlefield. God is not only love and truth, he is above all power—hence the reference to the ‘almighty.’ The war we are in is for control and power like any other war. Territorial gain, however, is not the objective but rather world control through taking over control of the existing institutions, including governments. This definition holds the key to understanding the present

state of American and Western society. The battle line goes through every nation. The United States, Germany, Chile and other nations are divided right down the middle—on the surface by political party but underneath by ideology.

What I say is not complicated. If atheist conspirators want to eliminate God in a nation in order to take over, the way to succeed is to launch false philosophies and implement laws, which destroy the connections of people to God’s moral commandments and entice them to give in to their lusts and ambitions. Such people can be manipulated. The essence of the war now raging is: almighty God vs. almighty man, absolute moral standards vs. moral relativism, God’s absolute truth vs. the lie.

The convenient assumption that religion and politics are two separate parts of society is absurd. It is wrong to lie for anybody, including the politicians. This wrong and subversive concept originates, I believe, from the abuse of political power by the Catholic Church engaged in the day-to-day power play in earlier centuries. The church was a spiritual and a political power at the same time. In England the Church became an instrument of a godless king. In both cases people were dictated to what they should believe and punished if they didn’t. The American Founding Fathers wanted to prevent anything similar from happening in America. Therefore it says in the first amendment “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or abridging the free exercise thereof.” It puts a limitation on government, not on Christians as has become the unconstitutional praxis.

Nobody, including judges, can define this honestly as “separation of church and state,” which is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. I cannot understand how a whole nation of free people can accept such nonsense especially if on top of it the interpretation of a non-existent law is done in such a malicious way as has become the praxis in the United States. Contrary to the intentions of the founders of this nation, the real purpose underneath is not the separation of two institutions, which of course have no business to interfere with each other, but the separation of God and society. God is not the invention of religious people. He is reality, which was recognized by the founding fathers. To ignore this existential reality shows a lack of discernment. No government, no judge, no person can do his job adequately on the basis of such ignorance.

I believe that every Christian and patriot must be actively engaged in this cultural/ideological way. Those who are not are on the wrong side of the battle line. We have to renew ourselves and make Jesus’ teachings the basis of a revolution to transform the world, spoil the purposes of the godless and restore God to his central place in our societies. That means injecting truth into all sections of society first here and then in all nations. To defend the faith and spread freedom means to stand up and fight for truth.

The enemy of truth is the lie, the mother of evil. Evil has to be exposed, attacked, and uprooted with everything we have—like Dietrich Bonhoeffer did. He paid the same price as Jesus, St. Peter, St. Paul and so many others who walked in the footprints of Jesus. The battle for truth in the ideological-culture war begins with the battle within oneself. It means no

more lies. I started my battle by giving my life and career to God and then as part of a series of moral decisions decided never to lie again and make restitution for the harm Germany and I had done to others.

When I said at the beginning that morality is the battlefield I must now bring the focus to where morality originates: in human nature.

In her analysis of the character of Vladimir Putin, president of Russia and former KGB agent, Edith Kohn writes in the German newspaper Die Welt on March 25, 2000 “The decisive question for any agent is: ‘What benefit can I get from a person?’ …An agent sees every day how weak people can be; therefore he works hard on the depths of a human soul to be able to exploit that person. At the same time he has to hide his own murky depths, store them away deep down in his soul so that he cannot be blackmailed with them… The issue is state versus freedom. Putin has always given priority to the state and disregarded the freedom of the others. It is understandable that such a person has to believe in a strong state, because he knows by experience how weak a person can be.”

This is a precise analysis about the origin of any totalitarian rule. American society, which is different from European societies, is supposed to hold the counter-position, not exploit others but care for others, and was organized with her constitution on biblical truth to prevent abuse of power, guarantee human freedom and spread it across the globe. But the nation forgot God and cheats on the reality of human nature and on the spirit and letter of the constitutions. Everything, justice, social order, war or peace, life or death boils down to the question of how to handle human nature.
St. Paul states in the seventh chapter of his letter to the Romans that his own behavior baffles him. “I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loath…my conscious mind whole-heartedly endorses the Law, yet I observe an entirely different principle at work in my nature.” The principle he refers to is the fact that human nature is opposed to God and His will—not necessarily as a consequence of a decision but as a result of the dictate of sinful lower nature with all its selfish desires. “Who on earth,” he asks, “sets me free from the clutches of my own sinful nature? I thank God there is a way out through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

And that is it! There is no future for humanity outside Jesus Christ. Pontius Pilate asked him who are you? Jesus answered, I am a messenger of truth. Every Christian needs to walk in the footprints of our Lord and be a messenger of truth by the way he lives, the purpose he has and the battle he puts up. God can only rule the world through people and leaders committed to His will who find new motives and a new character through Jesus Christ.

We cannot win this war by only defending our values. Attack is the best defense. Victory goes to those who have the better weapons and a superior strategy. There is no stronger weapon than truth. To make God’s truth the basis of all human relationships must be the revolution of the 21st century.

Dr. David Noebel
Christian Anti-Communism Crusade
PO Box 129
Manitou Springs, CO 80829
USA

Dear Dr. Noebel:

We are in receipt of your letter dated August 2002 defending your corporate name, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. We want to say, Thank you, and God bless you richly for your stand. We serve (in Gospel work) underground inside China, and with Mainland Chinese in the Russian Maritime Region. We have seen first hand the face of Communism and its destruction of men and their societies. We have also seen the terror of Islam as it exists, even inside China and Russia. We are Christian, and anti-Communist, and we are without a doubt on a crusade to rescue men’s souls from blindness. We whole-heartedly support your position to retain your longstanding corporate name. And we are praying for you.

I am having sent to you a book entitled An Understandable History of the Bible (2nd Edition), by Samuel Gipp, ThD. The book deals with the two families or lines of Greek manuscripts which have been used in the translation of the New Testament of the Bible: (1.) The Majority/Antiochan/European Text; the Textus Receptus, or the Received Text; the foundation of the Authorized King James Bible, and (2.) The Minority Alexandrian/North African text; the basis of every modern English translation since 1884. I know full well that you are a very busy man, but I am praying that you will find time to read Dr. Gipp’s book. Dr. Gipp is in the line of other truly great scholars of Biblical manuscript evidence, like Dr. John Burgon, Dr. David Otis Fuller and Dr. Edward Hills. The book will probably arrive from an address in Ohio, USA (I am currently in the Philippines). This book is a gift to you. If and when you have time to read it, I should like very much to know of your opinion of the work.

Thank you for continuing to send The Schwarz Report and other accompanying materials. We read it carefully, and often incorporate the information in our lessons prepared for the Asia-Pacific Scripture Study Association and the Bible-Literalist Institutes. We have several Philippine military officers as students in our institute. The information in The Schwarz Report is of great value and encouragement to them as well as to us.

I would like to send you some information on the land reform laws of the Philippines (enacted since the Marcos presidency) for your analysis. I identify them as communist to the core. They are anti-private ownership. They require land “title-holders” to pay squatters to leave. Heavy taxation is used to prevent ownership (except by the super wealthy or super corrupt) of any large parcels of land. When I have it compiled I will mail you the information, which may yield illustrations of the encroachment of Marxist thought into the law making apparatus of the Philippines and other ASEAN countries.

Our prayers follow this letter. Thank you again for your stand!

For Souls and for Liberty,

R. E. P
Hebrews 13: 20, 21

Amongst the bloodiest genocides of the 20th Century – a horrifying tally that includes Hitler’s Holocaust, Stalin’s purges, Pol Pot’s Killing Fields, and Mao’s forced famines (each of which killed millions of people) – one would have to list the one-child policy of the People’s Republic of China.
China experts now estimate this policy has been responsible for the deaths of 5 to 10 million Chinese children. These were children (and in many cases mothers, too) who died from forced abortions, homicidal neglect in orphanages, or infanticide of primarily girls at the hands of parents who wished to try for a son. To put this slaughter in perspective, it has resulted in the death of 2,000 times as many innocent people as were killed in the attack on the World Trade Center.
One group has been a persistent cheerleader for China’s population control activities over the past 25 years: the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).

In the 1980s the UNFPA actually gave an award to the Chinese government for the effectiveness of its population control techniques. For years UNFPA has also indoctrinated Chinese officials with the false Malthusian premise that “overpopulation” is a major constraint on economic progress. The Chinese government took this message to heart in a most brutal way.

This is just one reason President Bush’s courageous decision to block $34 million of U.S. taxpayer money from going to UNFPA is a towering victory for human rights. In making the announcement [recently], Secretary of State Colin Powell denounced “UNFPA’s support of, and involvement in China’s population-planning activities [which] allow the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion.”

Bush deserved high praise for upholding the “Mexico City policy” adopted by the Reagan Administration in 1984, which says the United States will not fund international population control programs, including the UNFPA, that promote abortion. The Reagan Administration declared that it is a basic human right for parents to freely determine how many children they will have and that the poverty problem in the Third World was not a result of too many people, but of too little free-market capitalism.

Women’s groups and population control organizations such as International Planned Parenthood, refuse to accept either of these principles. So it is no surprise that President Bush’s zero-funding decision for UNFPA has elicited howls. This fight clearly isn’t over. Not by a long shot. “I’m going to do whatever it takes to restore funding for the UNFPA,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D.-N.Y.). She charged that “women and children will be the victims” of President Bush’s decision.
Nowhere is feminist hypocrisy more vividly on display than when so-called women’s rights advocates such as Maloney express their unflinching support for UNFPA and other government-funded population control activities. In 1984, Molly Yard of the National Organization of Women, said, “I consider the Chinese government’s policy among the most intelligent in the world,” It’s difficult to take seriously groups that say they favor “women’s reproductive rights” when they applaud governments that promote family-size quotas, forced abortions and sterilization programs.

The left argues that what is at stake here is whether women overseas will have the same rights to contraception and the full range of reproductive freedoms that women in the U.S. have. They characterize their opponents, primarily the Roman Catholic Church and pro-life Republicans, as anti-choice zealots, who are against a woman’s right to choose abortions or even basic methods of birth control. It is clear that abortion is part of the issue here. Representatives Chris Smith (R.-N.J.), Mike Pence (R.-Ind.), and other staunchly pro-life Republicans have led the fight against UNFPA primarily because some of the funds will be routed to “family planning” centers that perform abortions.

The UNFPA denies that it funds abortions, but since all money is fungible, U.S. tax dollars given to UNFPA would be used to facilitate abortions abroad. Opinion polls show that even “pro-choice” voters on abortion generally oppose U.S. tax dollars funding abortions – here, or overseas.

Missing Girls

This isn’t a debate only about abortion, however. It is also a debate about whether U.S. foreign policy goals are advanced by funding programs based on the Chicken Little population bomb scare that was the rage in the 1970s when these programs were created. These over-population theories have been thoroughly discredited by people such as the late economist Julian Simon, but the government programs have not been dismantled.

The money at stake here, $32 million, is trivial in the grand scheme of a $2-trillion federal budget. The issue is whether the U.S. government should spend even one penny on international agencies that have such a track record of aligning themselves with governments that have a history of dehumanizing “family planning” practices.

UNFPA has a long history of involvement with the Chinese program—sticking with it even after the horrors of what happened in Chinese clinics became indisputable public record. In 1998, the Senate Committee on Human Rights heard testimony from Xiao Duan Gao, a former Chinese administrator of the policy. Duan Gao said that if a woman in rural China is discovered to be pregnant without a state issued “birth allowed certificate” she typically must undergo an abortion regardless of how long she has been carrying the baby.

“Once I found a woman who was nine months pregnant, but did not have a birth allowed certificate.” Duan Gao testified, “According to the policy, she was forced to undergo an abortion surgery. In the operating room, I saw how the aborted child’s lips were suckling, how its limbs were stretching. A physician injected poison into its skull, and the child died and was thrown into the trash can.”

If congress wanted to do a great service to the human race, it would devote the $32 million that was supposed to go to UNFPA to investigating, publicizing and hunting down the criminals responsible for these atrocities against women and children. It is instructive that the godfather of the neo-Malthusian movement that created the intellectual foundation for these murders, Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, once applauded the China policy as “remarkably vigorous and effective.”

Unfortunately, coercive population control activities have occurred not just in China. Writing in the Yale Journal of Ethics, Prof. Brian Clowes notes, “Coercion and even violence in the name of ‘family planning’ has been imposed with relative ease in at least 35 developing countries,” Last week the Peruvian government was forced to apologize for forcibly sterilizing at least 200,000 Indians between 1996 and 2000. The procedures, performed typically in unsanitary

family planning clinics, left thousands of families without mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives. The Peruvian government says the program was launched in the name of “women’s well being and improved health” – exactly the Orwellian rhetoric UNFPA uses.

Some of the more reasonable pro-UNFPA groups acknowledge there have been atrocities in the past, but say that family planning programs are now entirely non-coercive. China is said to have moved beyond the horrors of one-child policy. But a U.S. investigative team sent to China in May found that UNFPA works in one county in which women who have a second or third child must pay a penalty sometimes as high as three years worth of income. As State Department reports, “Such crushing fines constitute a program of coercive abortion [because they] have the purpose or effect of forcing mothers to have abortions.”

So much for UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid’s absurd assertion that “UNFPA is pro-life... I would love for people to see UNFPA as the pro-life organization.”
In the final analysis, the sex ratio data in China doesn’t lie. If “voluntarism” is the new paradigm, why then are Chinese orphanages still overflowing with discarded baby girls? A 1996 U.S. Census Bureau report indicates that 9 in 10 Chinese orphans are girls. The male-to-female sex ratio in China is now higher than anywhere else in the history of civilization, and the census report euphemistically indicates that “millions of Chinese girls are demographically missing” because of “sex-selective abortion of female fetuses, female infant mortality (through infanticide or abandonment), and selective neglect of girls age 1 to 4.”

Now that President Bush has defunded UNFPA, he should look next to terminating all $300 million in annual U.S. funding for population control activities through such agencies as USAID. Government-operated population control programs are the ultimate assault on freedom. We have seen in China the debasement of human dignity on a grand scale when population control runs amok. Why take the chance in the 21st Century that such atrocities will happen again?

—Human Events, August 12, 2002, p. 7