Thanks to Frank Gaffney at the Center for Security Policy for his advice and input.
NOTES
PART ONE
1. “fly-overs”: Heather Johnson, “Feedlot Flyovers Draw Ire in Nebraska,” NP Telegraph, June 2, 2012, http://www.nptelegraph.com/news/feedlot-flyovers-draw-ire-in-neb/article_55c22a61-4610-5c17-b8a5-5092454be7d0.html.
2. “chided critics”: Nicole Gaouette, “Clinton Hits ‘Black Helicopters’ Crowd to Push Sea Treaty,” Bloomberg News, May 24, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/clinton-hits-black-helicopters-crowd-to-push-sea-treaty.html.
3. “This just in”: Eric Pfanner, “Debunking Rumors of an Internet Takeover,” nytimes.com, June 11, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/technology/debunking-rumors-of-an-internet-takeover.html?pagewanted=all/.
4. “Our global neighborhood”: Commission on Global Governance, “Our Global Neighborhood,” sovereignty.net, 1995, http://www.sovereignty.net/p/gov/gganalysis.htm.
5. “Acknowledging responsibility”: Report of the Commission of Global Governance, “Our Global Neighborhood,” gdrc.org, 1995, http://www.gdrc.org/u-gov/global-neighbourhood/chap7.htm.
6. “And as for”: George Russell, “Exclusive: Godfather of Global Green Thinking Steps Out of Shadows at Rio+20,” FoxNews.com, June 20, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/20/godfather-global-green-thinking-steps-out-shadows-at-rio-20/.
7. “Sovereignty has been”: Commission on Global Governance, “Our Global Neighborhood,” sovereignty.net, 1995, http://www.sovereignty.net/p/gov/gganalysis.htm.
8. “For the first”: Marc Morano, “Flashback: Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About ‘Global Governance,’” climatedepot.com, July 10, 2009, http://climatedepot.com/a/1893/Gore-US-Climate-Bill-Will-Help-Bring-About-Global-Governance.
9. “will drive the”: Bob Unruh, “Global Governance Coming With Carbon Tax, Says Gore,” wnd.com, July 10, 2009, http://www.wnd.com/2009/07/103634/.
10. “individual states will”: Joseph S. Nye Jr., “Global Governance,” washingtonpost.com, January 27, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012402329.html.
11. “the very idea”: Jeffery Sachs, “Common Wealth,” theglobalist.com, July 14, 2008, http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=7121.
12. “godfather”: George Russell, “EXCLUSIVE: Godfather of Global Green Thinking Steps Out of Shadows at Rio+20,” FoxNews.com, June 20, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/20/godfather-global-green-thinking-steps-out-shadows-at-rio-20/.
13. “developed and benefitted”: Maurice Strong, Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992; quoted at http://sovereignty.net/p/sd/strong.html#8#8.
14. “Evidence procured”: Claudia Roset, “The U.N.’s Man of Mystery: Is the godfather of the Kyoto treaty a public servant or a profiteer?,” Wall Street Journal, October 11,2008, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122368007369524679.html.
15. “stepped aside”: Warren Hoge, “Annan Failed to Curb Corruption in Iraq’s Oil-for-Food Program, Investigators Report,” New York Times, September 7, 2005.
16. “The concept of”: Ibid.
17. “We have seen”: F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 166.
18. “What is called”: Ibid.
19. “The movement for”: Ibid.
20. The organization path: ABC News, abc.net.au, June 5, 2007, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-06-05/club-of-rome-member-warns-against-council/58734.
21. “an informal association”: Club of Rome, clubofrome.org, http://www.clubofrome.org/?p=324.
22. “a common adversary”: Ibid.
23. “either a real”: Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider, The First Global Revolution (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1993), p. 85.
24. “In searching for”: Ibid.
25. “For more than”: David Rockefeller, Memoirs (New York: Random House, 2002), p. 405.
26. “Sacrilegious though this”: Club of Rome, clubofrome.org, http://www.clubofrome.org/?p=324.
27. “deliberate disparagement of”: F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 155.
28. “our concepts of”: Howard Green,” “BNN Canada Interviews Maurice Strong,” Maurice strong.net, http://www.mauricestrong.net/index.php/videos/141-bnn-canada-text-maurice-strong.
29. “[A] tax of $25”: Michelle Nichols, “UN urges countries to impose global taxes to boos aid,” Reuters, July 5, 2012, http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/05/entertainment-us-global-tax-un-idINBRE8640XP20120705.
30. “The prevailing unilateralism”: Jeffery Sachs, “Common Wealth,” theglobalist.com, July 14, 2008, http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=7121.
31. “Globalization, despite some”: Vatican Today, news.va, October 24, 2011, http://www.news.va/en/news/full-text-note-on-financial-reform-from-the-pontif.
32. “citizen of the world”: Barack Obama, Speech, Berlin, Germany, huffingontpost.com, July 24, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html.
33. “I speak as”: Ibid.
34. “vaporous global-governance notion”: David Brooks, “Loudly, With a Big Stick,” nytimes.com, April 14, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/opinion/14brooks.html.
35. “We’ll never”: Ibid.
36. Email from Frank Gaffney to Dick Morris on July 1, 2012.
PART TWO
1. “cling to their guns”: “Editorials: Democrats Cling to their Guns,” WashingtonTimes.com, October 27, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/27/democrats-cling-to-their-guns/.