The term New World Order refers to a belief or conspiracy theory among apocalyptic religious and various political groups, especially in the United States, that some powerful secret group has created a secret plan, known as the New World Order (NWO), to rule the world via a world government. The belief may stem – at least partly – from the phrase New World Order, which has been used in politics for much of the Twentieth Century. See New World Order (political).

There are a number of different ideologies related to this belief; some groups are religiously motivated, and believe that the agents of Satan are involved. There are others without a religious perspective on the matter, known as Illuminus. They operate outside of social, legal and political restraint, gathering information and evidence on world events that are considered instigated by another group of illuminated individuals called the Illuminati. While the Illuminati supposedly work behind the scenes to create conditions favorable to a New World Order, the illuminus gather evidence and take direct action, influencing groups to prevent the New World Order attaining a foothold. These illuminus believe that the totalitarian society has already arrived in a subtle form.

Also, this belief became popular when North American Christian activist Pat Robertson wrote the bestselling book New World Order (Robertson, 1991).

The understanding of these believers is that the NWO will be created by a military coup, using UN and American troops, against all the nations of the world to bring about the One World Government. There was a belief among some believers in this thesis that this process would begin in 2000, set in motion by the predicted Y2K computer crisis causing widespread social disorder.

Other perspectives on this matter relate to globalization and various intellectual movements evolved from Marxist "internationalist" ideology, such as Social Democracy and Socialism, aiming to homogenize cultures and values by political normalization, as pointed out in the European Union's gradual "communautarian construction" scheme of a common economic and legal framework for all countries. Some political groups, such as the Club of Rome and the Socialist International (to which the French, British and German parliamentary Left-wing parties belong), openly advocate these goals.

Some predictions made by users of this term of events that will occur under the NWO include:

• The abolition of private property rights and gun ownership
• world-wide perequation under UN control
• all national and local elections controlled by the UN
• the US constitution replaced by the UN charter
• only approved religions will be allowed to exist – as parts of the One World Religion, or alternatively mandatory secularism with all religions made illegal
• interdiction of politically incorrect opinions by UN laws and charters, such as statements deemed discriminatory, critical of minorities, anti-feminist, anti-homosexual or illiberal
• home schooling will be illegal and there will be a UN-approved curriculum
• even more radical perspectives fear military bases will be turned into concentration camps to confine those who defy the NWO, as prisoners of opinion.

Although the UN is often used as a central figure in these actions, sometimes Jews, Communists, extra-terrestrials (typically the "Greys"), the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, Freemasons, the Illuminati, and similar bodies are included in the conspiracy.

See also New World Order (political)

References

Robertson, Pat. (1991). The New World Order. Dallas: Word Publishing. ISBN 0-8499-3394-3 (pbk.)

External links

• New World Order Archive
• New World Order Definition
• The Plan against the New World Order
• Photo: Bush Sr. Gets 'New World Order' Gun? - Free Press International
• Illuminati Conspiracy Archive