This is the MORNING of the United Nations Millennium Summit. Staying about five blocks away from the UN building in New York City, there is a constant serenade of motorcycle police, countless NYPD cars and vans, police with their ears wired walking dogs, helicopters flying overhead and streets suddenly closed because “the President” has left his hotel. One might ask which President because there are about 160 of them in town, instead we join the New Yorkers who simply frown upon the UN and carry on about our business.

There are so many Millennium meetings going on in this city that it is difficult to keep them straight. There was the World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders chaired by the “master of UN reform,” Maurice Strong that took place last week. That is when media mogul and keynoter Ted Turner apologized for “God” who says that there is only ONE WAY to heaven. (God has always required a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. He sent His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross to fulfill that law once and for all. Those who believe His requirement and His provision, Jesus, are saved by faith alone.)

The infamous Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs, radical leftists who call themselves “civil society”) held a meeting also last week called, “Global Solidarity: The Way to Peace and International Cooperation.” They dedicated themselves to their incessant battle for a place at the negotiating table. They are interested in LEADING the world, and they have bold ideas about where they want to take us.

The UN General Assembly meets annually, and it began meeting this week at the “glass building” on the East River in NYC that now needs $1 BILLION to renovate and expand. The UN used to meet only once a year for about three months to speechify and pretend their importance calling it “diplomacy.” Today, they meet year-round.

There is another major United Nations Millennium meeting in addition to the ones I mentioned earlier: the seven-day State of the World Forum created by the head of the former U.S.S.R., Mikhail Gorbachev. Since 1995, he has been hosting Forums in San Francisco, California, and this year he decided to move to New York City’s Hilton Hotel not far from the UN Millennium Summit in New York City.

His stated goal of his State of the World Forum is to gather “the creative genius of the human family, its elders and innovators, in search for solutions to the critical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.” Organizers call it “a powerful common evolutionary enterprise for our species.” Americans ought to question each these stated goals in order to determine what these nonsense terms mean.

I cannot understand why anyone would give such esteem to a man ousted by his countrymen. Nor can I understand why the American media named him “man of the year.” He failed his people and his country, yet he has found favor among our media elites. That says a lot about both Gorbachev, who has NOT renounced communism (that is why his goals are rhetorical nonsense), and our American media elite. The bottom line is that American must be aware of what ousted communist dictators are up to in OUR country.

There were 63 speeches by heads of state this first day of the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York City. Most of the speeches called for relief of developing nations’ debts (American taxpayers beware), equalization (redistribution) of natural and economic resources, strengthening the UN’s peacekeeping abilities and finding a cure for AIDS.

President Clinton was the first speaker immediately following the official opening of the Summit and remarks by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. After the usual platitudes about the “honor to host in the United States this unprecedented gathering of world leaders,” he told the audience that “our greatest challenges [utopian dreams] are all unmet: to free humanity from poverty, disease, and war; to reverse environmental destruction; and to make the UN a more effective instrument in pursuing all these aims.” He then focused on “the making and keeping of peace.”

After acknowledging that most wars today are internal wars, he called a “stark, collective challenge” to deal with them (forget about national sovereignty). And there were no victories of any of the wars he mentioned in Bosnia, Iraq, Burma, Burundi, East Timor, Sierra Leone or Columbia.

He said the UN needs “better machinery to ensure UN peacekeepers can be rapidly deployed, with the right training and equipment, the ability to project credible force, and missions well-defined by a well-functioning headquarters. To meet this challenge, we must also more effectively deploy civilian police to UN missions.” He is calling for a UN standing army!

Clinton said that in order to “prevent” conflicts, that the UN must recognize “the iron link between deprivation and war.” And he asked that the UN build on “our initiative to provide free meals for 9 million children around the world.” Just like “midnight basketball” was supposed to prevent crime, Clinton believes that taxpayer funded global meal programs will prevent wars. He also called for intensifying our work to develop drugs and vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. The first politically protected disease, AIDS, is pandemic in many nations, yet the UN refuses to condemn the behavior that causes it.

“These efforts come with a price tag,” said Clinton, and he described what would be required to pay the bill. “All nations, including my own, must meet our obligations to the UN. And those with the capacity to increase their support must do so. Reform of the UN’s financial structure must be made if the organization is to meet the demands we make of it. Those who believe we can either do without the UN, or impose our will upon it, have not learned from history and do not understand the future.”

Concluding, he admonished us to send our children a message that, “we came together in a moment of choice…and chose to change the world.” Like his other “choices,” they are sure to propagate human death as well as destruction of American sovereignty.