New World Order (conspiracy)
The term New World Order refers to a belief or conspiracy theory among apocalyptic religious and political extremist groups, especially in the United States, that the United Nations has created a secret plan, known as the New World Order (NWO), to rule the world via a totalitarian socialist 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, some groups are religiously motivated, and believe that the agents of Satan are involved, and there are others without religious bias, known as illuminus, who are considered to be intellectually illuminated, and 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, to allow a stronger foothold for the global elite to hold control, and also taking 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.
The understanding of these groups 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.
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
- all national and local elections controlled by the UN
- the US constitution replaced by the UN charter (although clearly not the current UN charter)
- only approved religions will be allowed to exist - as parts of the One World Religion
- home schooling will be illegal and there will be a UN approved curriculum
- military bases will be turned into concentration camps to confine those who defy the NWO.
See also New World Order (political)