NWO: None Dare...pp. 77-78

 Well, finally. 

I've probably mentioned this before: but I used to be a conspiracy theorist. I was a Mulder-type, X-files, quasi-militia supporting, conspiracy theorist in the 90s. I believed in the UFO thing, I believed in the government plot to keep that a secret, and I believed in the one-world government bullshit. Somehow, and thankfully, this was separate from my devout religious belief, but that's probably because I was raised Catholic. The Vatican was dealing with its own conspiracy at the time: only that one was real and they were doing it. The coming "New World Order" was definitely a thing in my mind. At this point in history, the NRA was tilting towards the batshit conspiracy theory haven that they have become. It was around this time that they called federal law enforcement officials "jack booted thugs" causing George HW Bush to turn in his lifetime membership. They did so as a response to both Waco and Ruby Ridge, which the perception was that the government was going after law-abiding gun owners (in neither case were the suspects law-abiding, but that's a whole different mess that is a matter for legal dispute). 

The "New World Order" (NWO) is simply a stand-in for the Illuminati, Freemasons, international Zionists, or whoever. The difference here is that those earlier conspiracy groups were ethereal. The NWO and the UN, were real and they had done stuff. Waco for instance was the NWO's first strike. This kind of thinking drove the militia movements of the 90s--whether those movements were racially based or not. It's also sad, because if we had paid attention then, we might have the problems we have now. 

I get this weird wave of nostalgia when I read the phrase in Allen's book. After four years of this Q-anon amateur night bullshit, the pizzagate Satanic-panic rip off, and those three lame UFO videos from last summer; it's nice to have a relatively apolitical conspiracy theory come back in. It's not really a-political but since it isn't throwing death threats at specific individuals it seems rather nice and quaint. This book, that we are reading right now, is the work that popularized the phrase in conspiracy theory circles. So when we read Allen quoting the NYT from 21 May 1971: "Nixon would obviously like to preside over the creation of a new world order, and believes he has an opportunity do so in the last 20 months of his first term:" the rest that follows drives the American right-wing for the next fifty years. 

This is also kind of sad for a different reason: what follows is the most boring aspects of the book thus far, and that's saying something. I have to repeat this from earlier posts: Allen doesn't know what a think tank is or does, but every time he writes about one, I get the feeling that he's jealous they won't let him in. This week's target is the United World Federalist society which Nixon praised as being one of many tools for world peace. 

We need to back up for one second. After the end of World War II, the world was pretty broken. The only country that really emerged unscathed was the United States. With the exception of Pearl Harbor and some very lucky balloon bombs, the actual United States was never attacked. US leaders in both politics and business realized that maybe preventing war was a good idea. At this time a bunch of groups sprung up that was similar to the hated CFR (Council on Foreign Relations). The Bilderberger conferences begin, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the UN, the United World Federalists, etc.; all with the goal of the cooperation, fostering trade, and trying to stop the next war from happening. Allen sees these groups as the coming NWO trying to suppress American sovereignty.

He quotes Nixon, "Your organization (United World Federalist) can perform an important service by continuing to emphasize that world peace can only come thru [sic] world law. Our goal is world peace. Our instrument for achieving peace will be law and justice..."

He then quotes Nixon's opponent Hubert Humphrey, "Every one of us is committed to brotherhood among all nations, but no one pursues these goals with more dignity and dedication than the United World Federalists." 

Read each of those quotes and tell me what is the bad thing that is happening here? Allen follows these quotes saying that the voters were given the choice between a CFR-backed Nixon or Humphrey: but he never explains why world peace is a bad thing. At a certain point, Allen has to realize that he's the bad guy. I say this not because he thinks American sovereignty must be preserved at all costs, but because he never gives a reason for his opposition. The only thing we have to go on, based on the writings of this book, is that he is against groups that are against war. A very poorly performed bait and switch later and he thinks the world superstate is being planned underneath the dome at Southern Illinois University. 

I looked up the dome and Allen really undersells it. He claims that underneath the dome is a detailed map of the world three football fields long. This is incorrect. If you stand inside the dome and look out, you see a detailed map of the world. The dome is the map, and it also works as planetarium of the northern hemisphere as well. Was it built by the Rockefellers, Ford (weird addition to the list), and Carnegie to plan to control people? No. While I don't know who funded the dome, it was built to house a religious/spiritual group (you can take a virtual tour of the dome--it looks pretty cool). My suspicion is that Allen heard about the dome, had no idea what it was for, and just made some assumptions to make himself mad. 

We'll close with more ranting about Nixon. Allen argues that the real name of this game is not--well it doesn't have a cover name, but the real name is 1984. 1984 is like the Bible and the Consitution in that, when you hear someone proseltyzing about it, you can be sure they've never read it. As soon as it's mentioned he drops it, because he can't explain what Orwell was actually talking about. This is depressing, because Orwell was anti-Communist too, he was just also anti-Allen. Authoritarianism was bad to Orwell whether Communist, Fascist, or the type of system that Allen is pushing here. That aside the ultimate point is that Nixon is disabling the US through his policies so that it can be assumed into the world government. The real problem is that Allen isn't listing any of the Nixon policies. In previous sections he's talked about trading with China, and the brief flirtation with what we would now call universal basic income. Conspiracy theorists like Allen pretend they have the information but all they can really do is rely on specific references to obscure works because they are pretty aware that the average person isn't going to know. Here, a specific Nixon policy would help argue his case, but he's just so mad he can't come up with one right now...he'll mail one later. Just as soon as he's finished reading 1984.