Oregon daily emerald., May 13, 1971, Page 7, Image 7

Totalitarianism is just around
the corner, claims colonel
Col. Arch Roberts
By JUDY TAINTON
Of the Emerald
The United Nations and the war in Indochina are part of a plan to
change the United States into a totalitarian state, Arch Roberts, an
army officer and author of several pamphlets dealing with the subject,
said Wednesday.
Roberts, a retired lieutenant colonel in the reserves, accused the
Council on Foreign Relations of fostering plans for such a change in a
speech before some 75 Eugene residents at the Eugene Hotel.
Communist governments, the U.N., the “no-win" wars in Korea
and Indochina and the current “international monetary crisis” are all
part of the plan, Roberts said.
He said that the government has “emasculated the idea of
sovereignty of the states” and the system of regional government
proposed by Nixon is merely a means of greater control by the Federal
Reserve Banks.
Beginning with 1905 and events in Russia, he delineated a history
of the group of financiers and industrialists who he said were in con
trol. “Communism was injected into Russia from America,” he said,
because Trotsky brought 300paid assassins there from New York City.
He said that Woodrow Wilson was the first puppet president and
that legislation during Wilson’s time in office, two amendments and
the Federal Reserve Act, was instrumental in changing the power
base.
“Since then the people have not elected a president. They have
always been presented to us as an option,” he said, but they have
always been under the control of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Nixon and Humphrey “were at the bidding of the people who control
the Council,” he added.
The Council “is in fact the real government ofthe United States,”
he said.
Legionnaires express views
on antiwar demonstrations
Eugene city officials drew both
criticism and praise Tuesday
night from members of the
American Legion Post No. 3 for
the city’s response to recent anti
war demonstrations.
The demonstrators themselves
fared considerably worse at the
session, which 16 of some 450
members attended.
Some Legionnaires attacked
Mayor Les Anderson and the
Eugene City Council in particular
for not ejecting protesters who
entered the city council
chambers Monday night carrying
a Viet Cong flag.
Past Commander Oral Robbins
proposed that the post adopt a
resolution “demanding that our
elected officials enforce the
laws.”
It’s time that “responsible”
organizations join forces and
demand that elected officials do
their jobs, Robbins said. He said,
“When someone breaks the law,
they should be summarily dealt
with.”
Mayor Anderson, contacted
Wednesday for comment, said he
had resented the presence of the
Viet Cong flag and the "at
mosphere” of the confrontation
in the council chambers, “but, to
me, the important thing was to
see that they (the protesters)
were met, that their questions
were answered. And I feel we did
a good job of answering their
questions.”
He said he felt that it was more
important “that we react to what
they had to say, not to the
techniques they used to irritate
and intimidate us.”
Not all of the Legion members
present at the Tuesday night
meeting were in favor of taking
an official stand on the matter.
One unidentified member said
that taking a stand against the
demonstrators would be
“drawing a line” and daring
them to step across it.
Legion member Ralph Mc
Connell said that young people
shouldn’t be criticized for the
disturbances caused by “tran
sients who go from city to city
making trouble.”
The discussion Tuesday night
followed a plea from Master Sgt.
William Lohan of the Eugene
Marine recruiting office that the
Legionnaires not “drive any
further wedge” between young
people and the general public.
Lohan said that most of the
demonstrators who marched
around the recruiting offices last
week were “interested and
concerned kids.”
“Nobody asked me to like what
they do,” Lohan said. “But what
my job and your service is all
about is giving them the right to
express themselves from time to
time.”
Lohan attended the meeting
with two other representatives of
the Marine recruiting office and a
Naval recruiting officer.
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“I believe now that we are headed for a massive depression,” he
added. He said that a depression which would reduce the U S. to a
state of want would make the country easier to control.
He called for individual action to cause state legislatures to pass a
statute making the U.N. illegal within state borders. Alabama had
already done that. Such action would prevent the U S. from becoming
a "socialist animal farm which is where we are headed right now," he
said. “It is the states that are the final reserve of federal power.”
“I am not an anti-Communist, because you see it is not a viable
political force,” Robers said. “The real enemy is in New York City
and Washington D.C.”
"Who profits from the war in Vietnam? The richest oil deposits in
the world have been discovered in Southeast Asia," he said. “All the
international oil companies are sending ships there already to stake
out prospective fields.
“I know my charges are going to be largely discounted and
ignored because they don’t seem real,” Roberts concluded. "America
is the last bastion of freedom, and when it finally goes down there will
be no place to run. We will all be part of the animal farm.”
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