Congress should:
- re-study the original purposes of civil government
- abolish all unconstitutional agencies and
- cut off funding of all Non-Governmental Organizations
- The purpose of civil government is to promote Christianity.
See the evidence from America's Founders here.
- The Constitution allows the federal government to act only
in areas which have been strictly enumerated
in the Constitution.
- Understanding those two concepts is critical in empowering
and inspiring activists to abolish unChristian and
unConstitutional government programs and agencies.
- The purpose of this page is to show how vast that assignment
really is.
3-4-5
Use the mnemonic "3-4-5" to think about
the scope of your government.
The following is a catalog of government tentacles,
to gain an overview of all that "the government" is doing.
We must always keep in mind that at present the
government is committed to being a "secular" government,
which is to say, an atheistic government, that its
religion is the
religion of Secular Humanism and "pluralism,"
which is an outright denial of the truth of Christianity. Around the
world, agencies of the U.S. Government are promoting atheism and
immorality.
Our goal should not be to change government funding
from atheistic agencies to "Christian" agencies; to use
the coercive power of the U.S. Federal Government to impose
Christianity and threaten vengeance and punishment to those
who engage in immorality, but to eliminate the tentacles that
now encompass not just America, but the entire Globe.
- Efforts at Christian Reconstruction
and social healing should be undertaken by voluntary
associations in the Free Market. This requires a complete
transfiguration of our view of "society." A Christian
view of "society" distinguishes society
and state. Social order for the Christian begins with a
regenerated heart, which
- leads one's family,
influences one's neighbors,
shapes local schools,
determines the ethical practices of businesses and corporations,
and
demands Christian values in media and entertainment.
- Working from the individual, from the "bottom
up," Christianity creates a Godly and humane society,
without much help from "the State." Imposing
a Godly society on unconverted people using the coercive
power of the sword is repudiated
by the Bible.
This catalog of Government tentacles is vastly
abbreviated. Its purpose cannot be exhaustive identification of all
the tentacles. The important point is to see how broad the scope is.
Every area of life and thought is being reconstructed by
these atheistic agencies. This is the outworking of a secular,
non-Christian worldview, which views Caesar
as Savior. There may be well-intentioned Christians working in
the organizations listed below, and not everything done by these
agencies would go undone if these agencies were abolished; some
genuinely humanitarian activities are performed by some of these
agencies, and Christians would undoubtedly take up the slack and
solve the problems which these agencies purport to solve. But this
catalog represents hundreds of billions of dollars spent on largely
wasted (at best) efforts, or worse, successful promotion of atheism
and immorality in the quest for a Humanistic
world.
"Reforming" a tentacle here or there, or
even amputating one tentacle here or another there, will not stop
this beast. Individuals must develop a Christian
worldview, and the entire Octopus must be destroyed.
First we'll survey domestic tentacles of atheism and
immorality, then we'll look at the global reach
of Washington-funded tentacles.
| Boards,
Commissions and Committees |
Boards,
Commissions and Committees are created by Congress in the
form of an amendment to an existing act, to advise the
President and Congress on specific topics.
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| Quasi-Official
Agencies |
Quasi-Official
Agencies are not officially Executive Agencies but are
required by statute to publish certain information on
their programs and activities in the Federal Register.
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NGO's -- TENS of THOUSANDS More!
Finally, we have to examine the effect of
Federally-Funded NGO's ("Non-Governmental
Agencies") as well as International
NGO's. At one point we had begun a catalog of NGO's, like the
abbreviated catalog of government agencies above. But Helmut Anheier
et al, in their work Global
Civil Society
place the number of internationally operating NGOs at 40,000.
And that was back in 2001. [Global
Civil Society 2007/8]
The
World Bank, defines
NGOs as "private organizations that pursue activities to
relieve suffering, promote the interests of the poor, protect the
environment, provide basic social services, or undertake community
development". A World Bank Key Document, Working With NGOs,
adds, "In wider usage, the term NGO can be applied to any
non-profit organization which is independent from government. NGOs
are typically value-based organizations which depend, in whole or in
part, on charitable donations and voluntary service.
By the way, which leader of the World Bank did you
vote for? To say an NGO depends "in part" on charitable
donations is to say it depends "in part" on government
funding, which is to say, your paycheck. But as "the
smoking man" on X-Files used to say, "Access. It's all
about access." Even if privately financed, an atheistic NGO
will be granted access where a Christian NGO would not.
Over the last few decades, federal funding has been
given only to NGO's that promote secularism and non-Christian
morality. There have recently been efforts to get
"faith-based" NGO's funded which promote, e.g., abstinence
rather than condoms. "Secularist" and
"pluralist" forces have fought these appropriations tooth
and nail. In the long run, the best approach is to eliminate federal
funding for everyone's NGO.
Here is a short list
of NGO's affiliated with the United Nations,
which receives funding taken from your paycheck.
Abolition
2000
AFARM
American Humanist Association
Association for Progressive
Communications
Association "FOR
SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT"
Baha'i International
Community
Center
for International Cooperation
Center of Concern
Earth Charter
Education With Enterprise
Trust
Education International
Experiment in
International Living
The Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt Insititute
GCS (Global Cooperation
Society) International
Global Education
Associates
Global Policy Forum
Good Neighbors
International
The Hague International
Model United Nations
Information Habitat:
Where Information Lives
INFG - International
Network for Girls
Institute for Development
Research (IDR)
Institute of
World Affairs
International Agency for
Economic Development
IACERHRG
(The International Association "CAUCASUS: Ethnic Relations,
Human Rights, Geopolitics")
International Campaign To Ban
Landmines
International
Union for Land Value Taxation
IPPNW Hamburg
The League of Women Voters
Legacy International
The Lifebridge Foundation
National Council on Family
Relations
NAN (No to
Alcoholism & Drug Addiction)
Napredna omladinska
alternativa Republike Srpske(Progressive Youth Organisation,
Republic of Srpska
The
National Group of Georgia of the International Society for Human
Rights (ISHR-IGFM)
NGO Committee on
Disarmament
Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation
Pathways To Peace
Quaker United Nations Office
Society for
Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE)
The Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
Soroptimist International of
the Americas
State of the World
Forum for Emerging Leaders
Surgical
Aid to Children of the World
Together Foundation for
Global Unity
TRANS Youth Association
UNA-USA - United Nations
Association-United States of America
United Nations
Association of Puerto Rico (UNA-USA Division)
Wainwright House
We the Peoples (A Peace
Messenger Initiative)
WGG - The NGO Working
Group on Girls -UNICEF
The Wittenberg Center
for Alternative Resources
Women's Action for New
Directions (WAND)
Women's Federation for World
Peace
World Council of Independent
Christian Churches
World Federation of United
Nations Associations
WIT - World Information
Transfer
The World Peace Prayer
Society
WSO - World Safety
Organization
World Young Women's
Christian Association
The
Wyndom Foundation
Yachay Wasi
The Secretariat of
Youth for Habitat International Network
You might even want to make a donation to some of these
organizations. Others offend you. It is wrong for the government to
threaten you with prison if you don't "contribute" to a
federal budget which funds -- directly and indirectly -- these
agencies and a hundred thousand others like them which are
destructive of your conscientiously-held values.
Other NGO's
- INGO
stands for international NGO;
- BINGO
is short for business-oriented international NGO, or big
international NGO;
- ENGO,
short for environmental NGO, such as Global
2000;
- GONGOs
are government-operated NGOs, which may have been set up by
governments to look like NGOs in order to qualify for outside
aid or promote the interests of the government in question;
- QUANGOs
are quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations, such as the
International
Organization for Standardization (ISO). (The ISO is actually
not purely an NGO, since its membership is by nation, and each
nation is represented by what the ISO Council determines to be
the 'most broadly representative' standardization body of a
nation. That body might itself be a nongovernmental
organization; for example, the United States is represented in
ISO by the American
National Standards Institute, which is independent of the
federal government. However, other countries can be represented
by national governmental agencies; this is the trend in Europe.)
- TANGO,
short for technical assistance NGO;
- CSO,
short for citizen sector organization or citizen society
organization;
Which is Worse: A "Corrupt" NGO or an
"Effective" NGO?
Many NGO's have an explicitly anti-Christian purpose, or a
purpose that would appall the men who signed the Declaration of
Independence and Constitution. Other NGO's have a more reasonable,
less destructive purpose, but your taxdollars are swallowed up in
their administrative waste and corruption.
- The
Uncivil Civil Society: The Pernicious Influence of NGO's
- Exactly
How Has the US Meddled in the Ukrainian Elections? by
Congressman Ron Paul
- Statement before the US House International Relations
Committee, December 7, 2004
Mr. Chairman: President Bush said last
week that, "Any election (in Ukraine), if there is one,
ought to be free from any foreign influence." I agree with
the president wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, it seems that
several US government agencies saw things differently and sent
US taxpayer dollars into Ukraine in attempt to influence the
outcome.
We do not know exactly how many
millions – or tens of millions – of dollars the United
States government spent on the presidential election in Ukraine.
We do know that much of that money was targeted to assist one
particular candidate, and that through a series of cut-out
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – both American and
Ukrainian – millions of dollars ended up in support of the
presidential candidate, Viktor Yushchenko.
- Bush’s
Foreign-Aid Fraud by James Bovard
-
Foreign aid fails in part because of pervasive corruption. A
2003 report from a leading Bangladesh university estimated that
75 percent of all foreign aid received in that country is lost
to corruption. Northwestern University political economist
Jeffrey Winters estimated that more than 50 percent of World
Bank aid is lost to corruption in some African countries.
President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria announced in 2002 that
African leaders “have stolen at least $140 billion from their
people in the decades since independence.”
An
African Union study pegged the takings at a much higher rate,
estimating Africa’s toll from corruption at $150 billion every
year. Lavish automobiles are so popular among African government
officials that a word has come into use in Swahili – wabenzi
– for “men of the Mercedes-Benz.” Investment guru Jim
Rogers, who recently drove around the globe, declared,
Most foreign aid winds up with outside consultants, the local
military, corrupt bureaucrats, the new NGO [nongovernmental
organizations] administrators, and Mercedes dealers. There
are Mercedes dealers in places where there are not even roads.
- The
NGO Revolutionaries and the Leninists Who Support Them
- When
Poverty Becomes Profitable - The Acton Institute
- Globalization
Without Tears An economist debates the NGOs.
- "in India these days, it's easier to attract a bride by
offering her an NGO than by offering her a green card"
- Watch
out, quangocrats – our patience is running out | Minette
Marrin - Times Online
- "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent
hither swarms of Officers to harass our
People, and eat out their substance."
Declaration of Independence, 1776
Governments around the world swallow up half of the world's
wealth. Can you imagine how the world could be improved if people
were allowed to keep their money out of the government coffers and
donate that money to churches, non-profit agencies, and other
organizations that are held accountable by the Free Market and
achieve many times the good results at a fraction of the cost of
government agencies? When families spend their money in "the pursuit
of happiness," the money is spent
more wisely and more humanely than when the government
re-distributes family money to various bureaucracies and NGO's.
"The Government" -- as a way of achieving social
objectives and a vehicle for social change -- is not a friend of any
disciple of the Executed
Christ.
next: "The Administrative
State"
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