"Association to Unite the Democracies"... Huh?

[The_Raven_1]

Howyadoin,

There’s a ballot initiative in Massachusetts this year “for a Constitutional Amendment allowing the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to exercise their right of self-government through a federal union of democratic unions.” This is sponsored by an organization called the “Association to Unite the Democracies”. Their website is http://www.iaud.org

Linkage:
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/ele/elepip/pipc.htm

Anybody have the Straight Dope on this Association? Sounds like they want some kind of uber-UN deal, am I right? It’s one thing to want some dopey non-binding referendum, but these folks want to change the state Constitution… I did a bit of research, but didn’t find anything blatantly linking these folks to any of the name-brand cults or other whackjob groups.

-Rav

[toadspittle]

Dunno. Their site bites … full of HTML errors, and less full of helpful info.

But a search on their name yielded this:

http://msx4.pha.jhu.edu/aud.html

which includes "An invitation to YOU, from Dr. Edward Teller " --Teller, father of the H-bomb and a pretty major hawk.

He sez:

November 15, 1996

To: MEMBERS, PREVIOUS MEMBERS, & PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS

As many of you know, I am known as “the Father of the H-Bomb”
though I much prefer to be known as a founding member of the
Livermore Laboratory in California which worked on the H-Bomb
and contributed to our winning the Cold War.

Because of my keen awareness of the problems of modern weapons
and international relations, I have searched for solutions. That is why
I am on the Advisory Board of the Association to Unite the Democracies (AUD)
and have been for many years.

I support AUD because it supports the concept of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) uniting its democracies politically, militarily,
and economically into a limited representative, democratic, federal republic
similar to the United States so that it can speak with one voice and uphold
the freedom, liberty, security, and prosperity that is our way of life in the
western world. Once united, NATO would then invite all other nations
to adopt a free market society and join NATO in a democratic union so that
we would have one peaceful united world.

Our American forefathers united thirteen separate governments into one,
which has evolved into fifty separate governments uniting into one. As
President Harry Truman once said, “It will be just as easy for nations
to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the
republic of the United States”.

Friends, I invite you, and urge you, to join and rejoin the Association
to Unite the Democracies today, so that we may abolish war and bring about
a peaceful world for us, our children, and our grandchildren.

Yours in peace,

Edward Teller

Basically, one-world govt, under NATO. Pretty weird.