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From Megatons to Microbes: Scaring Us Into the New World Order
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From Megatons to Microbes: Scaring Us Into the New World Order

Threats of worldwide disease, like the earlier threat of nuclear war, provide a power mechanism for getting Americans to surrender to global government. ...
Robert W. Lee
Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

This article originally appeared in the November 24, 1997 issue of The New American — 24 years ago this month. The article warned, “Where once we were menaced by megatons, the danger now supposedly comes from microbes — and familiar voices are insisting anew that only world government can save humanity from destruction.”

An abridged version of that article appears below. The graphics and photo captions are newly added, but the text of the article itself is the same as in the 1997 original printing except as indicated in a couple spots with graphics.

In the world of COVID-19, readers might be forgiven for viewing our 1997 warning as prophetic or clairvoyant. After all, freedom-eroding regulations from lockdowns to vaccine mandates are being imposed worldwide for the stated purpose of fighting COVID-19. And the threat of global governance for the ostensible purpose of imposing these and other controls (e.g., environmental) internationally is looming larger and larger.

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