April 29, 1992
Dear Editor,
When Brent Scowcroft spoke for the commencement exercises at BYU, he
focused his comments on the need for the U.S. to play a central role in shaping the New
World Order, mentioning this euphemism for one-world socialist government fourteen times
in the course of his address. He began his address by comparing the graduation of students
to the graduation of the world from an old world order to a new order. He later said,
"A New World Order will appear. The issue is not whether or not there will be a New
World Order, but whether the nature of that order will be shaped by the constructive
involvement of the U.S."
The way in which he presented his ideas made the New World Order sound
as if it were nothing more than the American idealization of an inescapably interdependent
world. To the undiscerning eye and slumbering heart, the picture he painted seemed
innocuous and without contradiction to the principles of truth we hold dear.
However, when juxtaposed to the words that have come to us from the
scriptures and from modern prophets, his presentation epitomized the deception about which
we have been warned. What he promoted, the shaping of this New World Order, is the
antithesis of the principles of free government which were embodied in the Constitution
when it came from the pens of the Founding Fathers. It is wholly incompatible with and
inimical to the freedom for which our forefathers fought.
The fact that General Scowcroft faulted the U.S. for not having joined
with the League of Nations after World War I, and that he glorified the current role of
the United Nations, is irrefutable proof that his paradigm is grossly incompatible with
what modern prophets have said, especially our living prophet, Ezra Taft Benson, who has
written volumes on the subject.
In assessing who is right about this New World Order--those who say it
is an innocuous term for world cooperation or those who warn that it is the epitome of
Satan's kingdom set up on earth--one must ask who it is that thumbs their nose at
President Benson's political "views," saying they are mere opinion, all the
while flaunting that they believe him to be a prophet.
There is a diabolical difference between free enterprise and
big-government "capitalism;" between a Constitutional Republic and
"democracy" (which is completely compatible with Communism and its sister,
Socialism--one need only look at the decades of "elections" in the former Soviet
Union to see what a mockery the glorification of this idea can produce). With America
having become a big-government, capitalist democracy, do we really want the rest of the
world to follow our degenerate example?
Where are the Elders of Israel who will stand forth with a banner of
freedom and truth to hold that forth? Chances are, they were sorrowfully shaking
their heads or weeping to find out that Brent Scowcroft endorsed and encouraged
participation in the New World Order at a capacity BYU crowd, who gave him a standing
ovation.
Whether Brent Scowcroft is a subversive or just deceived, he is not
right. Having served as a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, he knows very well
what the phrase New World Order means; and the way he painted it for the BYU crowd is not
the way it is depicted for other, less "patriotic" audiences. I would think that
Christians should have nothing to do with the New World Order, but that they should
promote the Constitution as intended by the Founding Fathers. It is one or the other, for
the two are incompatible.
Sincerely,
Scowcroft Promotes NWO to BYU
Students
