In a speech given at Oxford on July 7th, Gore claimed that the Waxman-Markey cap & trade bill would help bring about “global governance.”

Gore extols the virtues of the bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in the battle against global warming, and goes on to say “But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”  Video of the comments can be seen here.

Gore’s sentiment echoes statements made by French President Jacques Chirac, in which he said that the Kyoto Accord represented the “first component of an authentic global governance.” 

It also dovetails nicely with comments made recently by Pope Benedict XVI, who called for a global political body “with real teeth” that would replace the UN and manage the world’s financial markets.

Likewise, Canadian Prime minister Stephen Harper gave a speech at this week’s G8 summit, detailing the virtues of a similar organization.

One might wonder what the goal is.  Why are so many of our leaders so eager to give up our sovereign status to a new global superstructure?

The answer, as always, is money.  Money and power. 

It’s easy to take control of people and nations when employing the old “for the good of the whole world” canard.  Right now global taxes are being proposed that would monitor the finances of every person on Earth, extract money from the world’s wealthy, and redistribute it to it’s poor.  Given that a sizeable portion of the planet still lives in mud huts, that would make, well, almost everyone, “the wealthy.” 

Imagine  the power a governing body with control over revenue confiscated from Billions would have.  It would be nearly all powerful, taking money from one nation, and sending it to another, based on it’s own data regarding that countries citizens.  It’s easy to see how it would become a breeding ground for corruption, carrying out theft on a planetary scale as it demolishes the sovereignty of the nations it governs.

And why would we want it?  Oh right.  To combat manmade climate change.  A problem that, considering the temperature of the Earth has dropped .74 degrees since Gore released “An Inconvenient Truth,” may be nothing more than what one climatologist calls an “alarmist fantasy.”

-Robert Laurie