by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com
December 17, 2004
Day after day in New York City, a small and strange procession can be seen moving along the pavement. While taxicabs whiz by and passersby move out of the way on Big apple sidewalks, a handful of acolytes transport a large, hand painted box crafted from the wood of a sycamore tree. Make that "a sustainably harvested in Germany" sycamore tree. Dressed not in long flowing robes, but in average business apparel, the acolytes are garden-variety United Nations employees. There’s no need to hire Brink’s for protection and nothing but propaganda and hype worth robbing. The precious cargo of the box walked by the acolytes are the so-called Earth Charter, printed on actual papyrus and 300 small, handmade "tenemos" books.
The box is pretentiously called the ark of Hope, a not very good knockoff of the biblical ark of the Covenant, which contained the tablets of the Ten Commandments given to Moses.
Like so many things UN, the ark and its Charter are cloaked in confusion and lost in long-winded ideology, described in ambiguous wordage.
Not for nothing was the first UN Secretary General alger Hiss a convicted Soviet spy.
Pomp and ceremony have been part of the ark of Hope since its inception.
Were it not for the fact that the ark of Hope is being promoted full-steam, it would be easy to mistake it for something out of the movie, Lord of the Rings.
The Earth Charter carried about in the ark was designed by two grown men, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and UN Secretary General Kofi annan senior adviser, Canadian Maurice Strong.
Written up with 16 recommendations, placed in the ark and promoted as something sacrosanct, artists took over.
The ultimate mission of the ark of Hope, as expressed by energetic activists is to gain acceptance from all nations, all institutions and, in fact, all unsuspecting peoples of the world.
although UN employees charged with the task of taking the ark into schools carry it around with worshipful solemnity, the box for all its gild and goatskin is a hoax touting mainly sustainable development.
The ark of Hope has been around. Weeks before the kickoff of Earth Summit II, the Earth Charter arrived in Johannesburg for a series of rituals, celebrations and promotions--all aimed at setting the spiritual tone for the global conference.
according to the Temenos Project, artist activists who launched the ark of Hope, a temenos is a "magical sacred circle where special rules apply and extraordinary events inevitably occur."
Two days after 9/11, the ark was carried by supporters through the farm fields of Burlington, Vermont to Garrison, where it was ultimately placed aboard the sailboat Clearwater. Carrying the ark, secured atop its main cabin, the Clearwater plied its way through the waters of the Hudson Highlands to Manhattan and the UN, arriving at the 79th boat basin on Nov. 8., 2001.
Leftist folksinger Pete Seeger, was at the docks to officially greet the ark.
On January 24, the ark and Charter were carried in a procession from the Interfaith Center of New York to the United Nations Church Center, a distance of about 15 city blocks.
Grandiose in concept, the ark of Hope sounds like something out of a badly written play. But it’s ambitious in intent. "My hope is that this charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a Sermon on the Mount," Gorbachev stated in a 1997 interview with the Los angeles Times.
Strong, who presided over the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, where the Earth Charter was born boasts: "The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will, in fact become like the Ten Commandments." (Emphasis added).
Without waking the sleeping giant known as the public masses, activists pushing the Earth Charter have already obtained signatures and public support from local, state and national governments, schools and organizations.
Like most Marxist ideals pushed through at the municipal or civil level of government, the Earth Charter has been bobbed over by mayors and councils the world over.
Public school children who have been introduced to the ark of Hope and its charter now number in the tens of thousands.
as far as is known, notes from the principal asking parental permission are not sent home with school children.
Meanwhile, it’s coming on to 2005. Do you know where your children are?
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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