Steve Montgomery & Steve Farrell
Monday, Sept. 10, 2001

NAFTA ... FTAA ... joint border development planning commissions ... new rules with new institutions ... no single government can handle it alone ... a borderless society ... a border government ... taking compassionate conservatism to the next level ... trust ... trust ... trust. (1)

These are the words, the Third Way/new world order rhetoric, if you will, of U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vincente Fox – two men equally committed, it would seem, to redefining the laws, the Constitution, the way of life of the United States of America according to the collectivist design of that despicable body of Naked Capitalists, the Council of Foreign Relations, even as they promise prosperity economics, democracy, democracy ... and more democracy.

Patrick Henry, at St. John's Church on March 23, 1775, said:

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. (2)

The truth was, however, and the evidence supported it, Father and Mother were conspiring, were making war, and were fixed on enslaving and exploiting their wayward, troublesome, bastard child.

The lesson learned? When it comes to political power, never trust – be ever vigilant.

Mr. Bush and the Republican Party encourage conservatives, regarding their "free" trade negotiations, regarding the dismantling of our immigration laws, that we should "trust" them – that our sovereignty, our political institutions, and our way of life are secure in their hands. That their only design is to help the American economy and to export democracy. In essence, they will honor their oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." But such promises are hollow in light of the facts and common sense.

Let's take a step back. The date is April 22, 2001. The location, Quebec. The players involved, the heads of state of the Western Hemisphere, including President Fox and President Bush. The occasion, the Summit of the Americas. The purpose, to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Ask yourself to what document George W. Bush made a loyalty oath when he and his fellow Western Hemisphere buddies put their hands, their voices and their hearts to the following joint declaration:

We, the democratically elected Heads of State and Government of the Americas, have met in Quebec City at our Third Summit, to renew our commitment to hemispheric integration. ... We reiterate our firm commitment and adherence to the principles and purposes of the United Nations and of the Organization of American States. ... We welcome the significant progress achieved to date toward the establishment of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). ... The Agreement should be balanced, comprehensive and consistent with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and disciplines. ... (3)

This is not an oath to sustain the U.S. Constitution. This is not an oath to protect U.S. sovereignty. This is not an oath to defend the laws and borders of this country – but to take them down, to merge the United States with a bunch of corrupt, leftist banana republics under the laws and premises of the pro-Communist, anti-morality, anti-American United Nations.

Is this the true goal of free trade and regional arrangements under the U.N. Charter? Consider what pro-NAFTA, pro-WTO Newt Gingrich (Council on Foreign Relations) said to his fellow Republicans, in respect to the same:

[W]e need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States, at a practical level, significant authority to a new organization. This is a transformational moment. I would feel better if the people who favor this would just be honest about the scale of change. ... [This is] a very big transfer of power. (our emphasis) (4)

Writing in the fall 1991 edition of Foreign Affairs (the mouthpiece of the Council of Foreign Relations – and what Time magazine dubs "the most influential periodical in print"), M. Delal Baer was equally frank:

After all, international organizations like GATT and NAFTA by definition minimize assertions of sovereignty in favor of a joint rule-making authority. (5)

NAFTA should be used for the same, he stated:

"It may be useful to revisit the spirit of the Monnet Commission, which provided a blueprint for Europe at a moment of extraordinary opportunity. The three nations of North America, in more modest fashion, have also arrived at a defining moment. They may want to create a wiseman's North American commission to operate in the post-ratification period. ... The commission might also adopt a forward-looking agenda on themes such as North American competitiveness, links between scientific institutions, borderland integration, the continental ecological system, and educational and cultural exchanges."

Leon Trotsky would have been proud of the EU and NAFTA. The EU certainly fulfills his dream:

The Federated Republic of Europe, the United States of Europe – that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. (our emphasis) (6)

History You May Have Missed

During President Washington's presidency, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, the man who penned "all men are created equal," submitted his "Report on Commercial Intercourse" to Congress. Regarding trade equality, he resolved "to enforce a perfect commercial equality by retaliating impositions." Adam Smith and Pat Buchanan couldn't have said it better. After all, true free trade ought to include the right of each sovereign nation and its people (through Congress) to negotiate on fair and just terms, or not at all. NAFTA, FTAA and WTO are top-down arrangements which take such vital decisions away from us, and thus strip us of our equality before the law.

Constitutional Corner

The Republicans wish to export democracy. Perhaps they have already forgotten that their president won the election, despite a low overall vote total, because this nation is a republic.

On May 31, 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Edmund Randolf, the delegate from Virginia, reminded his fellow delegates why the convention had been called:

[T]he general object was to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy; that some check therefore was to be sought for, against this.

The turbulence and follies of democracy. Is there a more accurate description of the governments of South and Central America, to which our dear president, his party and his CFR advisers would merge us?

Wary Eye

Merry and Serge Bromberg record in their biography, "Jean Monnet and the United States of Europe," the conspiratorial and totalitarian mind-set of their hero (Monnet) in his decades-long quest to create a united Europe.

"Gradually, it was thought, the supranational authorities, supervised by the European Council of Ministers at Brussels and the Assembly in Strasbourg, would administer all the activities of the Continent. A day would come when governments would be forced to admit that an integrated Europe was an accomplished fact, without their having a say in the establishment of its underlying principles. All they would to is merge all these autonomous institutions into a single federal administration and then proclaim a United States of Europe. ...

"Actually, the founders of the Coal and Steel Community would have to obtain from the various national governments – justifiably reputed to be incapable of making sacrifices for the sake of a federation – a whole series of concessions in regard to their sovereign rights until, having finally been stripped, they committed hara-kiri by accepting the merger." (7)

As to the "spontaneity" of the movement for a united Europe, Monnet and co. were financed, supported and controlled by Marshall Plan funds, the U.S. State Department, and most especially the Council of Foreign Relations, the real instruments of this "spontaneous" uprising of a united socialist Europe.

Like Father, Like Son?

Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a "world order" in which "the principles of justice and fair play ... protect the weak against the strong. ..." A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders [Such as that of the chief architect of the United Nations – the convicted Spy Alger Hiss?]. (8)

Pending Legislation

Congress will consider in September a variety of Republican Party measures to give the president fast-track authority, so that he might without congressional interference (that is without consulting and debating with the people's representatives) swiftly move forward to subvert our sovereignty at every turn. Write your congressman and senators tell them NO!

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If you haven΄t already, read Part 6 of Steve Farrell's Democrats in Drag and Part 9 of Missing the Mark With Religion, or access his NewsMax archives.

Footnotes

1. Edwin Chen and James F. Smith. "Bush-Fox summit seen as opportunity to cooperate." Los Angeles Times, Sept. 4, 2001. Return

2. Henry, Patrick, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death." Return

3. http://www.sice.oas.org/ftaa/quebec/declara_e.asp. Return

4. Jasper, William F. The United Nations Exposed, p. 196. Return

5. Ibid, p. 194. Return

6. Trotsky, Leon, Oct. 30, 1917, at Smolny, Petrograd. Return

7. Bromberger, Merry and Serge. "Jean Monnet and the United States of Europe." New York: Coward McCann Publishers, 1969, p. 123 – As quoted in William F. Jasper's fine documentary, "The United Nations Exposed." Return

8. President George Bush Sr., Speech to Congress, March 6, 1991. Return