There are virtually no institutions set up to address transnational issues from a conservative perspective. Conservatism tends toward localism and secondarily the national public square, but it must develop a transnational consciousness. Conservatives cannot go on ceding the international arena to the liberals. The stakes are too great, the future too uncertain.

A huge complex of international organizations, government and non-government, are already in place, and most if not all espouse a globalist agenda with its implicit civil-law orientation. Furthermore, the major media, both news and entertainment, all are pushing the very same globalist agenda. Resistance to this agenda comes only at the local or national level. There is no organized resistance at the international level.

Take a look at the international media outlets. Here are a few: The Economist magazine, The Financial Times newspaper, the International Herald-Tribune newspaper, CNN, the BBC World Service (sadly, the Wall Street Journal Europe is increasingly beginning to imitate its rivals in subtly championing the cause of the European Union, and by extension the Civil-Law Tradition). All push more or less aggressively the globalist agenda.

Consider the human-rights organizations. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both push a radical program of human rights that could only be implemented by establishing a world government and eradicating rights of property and contract.

Consider the environmental organizations. Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund, all pursue a similar agenda that would severely restrict property rights and establish massive control by government over the world’s resources.

The same holds true for energy, with the same organizations at the forefront of a push to gain control of energy resources in order to establish complete control over energy consumption, destroying property rights and individual freedoms on the way.

Then there is the drive toward erecting an international legal order establishing radical human-rights dogma at its core, outlawing just forms of punishment such as the death penalty and punishing murderous teenagers in accordance with their crimes. In place of retribution and restitution will come therapeutic rehabilitation, because today’s penologists and criminal psychologists are confident that they can understand and manipulate human nature; evil, for them, is a thing of the past.

The need, then, is for institutions to raise awareness, to galvanize opposition to the massive structure of globalist institutions and media, instead providing a focal point for the further expansion and eventual triumph of the Common-Law Tradition across the globe. Is this a pipe dream? Time will tell.

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