It is this reporter's opinion that if my longtime friend, the Broadway-to-Hollywood columnist Walter Winchell, was still with us he would be handing out two of his top-drawer awards – beautiful orchids – to two American patriots.
I speak of William Norman Grigg, editor of The New American and author of a brilliant book, "America's Engineered Decline." And the second orchid to the gifted Phyllis Schlafly and her Eagle Forum.
Grigg and Schlafly offer us exposés of a planned national suicide and of America's leaders and political elite ready to sacrifice America's past, present and future.
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Grigg's book rivets readers as he exposes the underbelly of America's leaders – our senators and congress people – and their growing disregard of our citizens as they transfer our industrial strength to the communist giant in Beijing.
Grigg exposes America's impossible debt load, how we have transformed from the largest creditor nation into the largest borrower in all of world history, an $8 trillion national debt, with foreign investors waiting to raise the interest or call in those debts.
Schlafly says the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag as to what is really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. She tells of a 59-page CFR document that spells out a five-year plan for the establishment by 2010 of a North American Economic and Security community with a common outer security perimeter.
Schlafly tells us "community" means integrating the U.S. with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders among the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
But Schlafly said this didn't just happen overnight. The CFR document, called "BUILDING A NORTH AMERICAN COMMUNITY," asserts that Bush, Mexico's Fox and Canada's Martin committed their governments to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and then assigned working groups to fill in the details.
Schlafly says, "Ask your senators and representatives which side they are on – the CFR's Integrated North American Community or U.S. sovereignty guarded by our own borders."
But they didn't stop there; a follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference, "We want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders."
The CFR document calls for creating a "North American Preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border. Employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages.
A common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution. Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who probably hate the U.S. anyway.
Getting back to Grigg and "America's Engineered Decline," he says the real objective is to destroy national sovereignty and erect a global government – a highway to universal serfdom. One of the sobering aspects of Grigg's book concerns the exposé of George W.'s personal goal of dissolving America's borders.
Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo echoes Grigg's conclusions: "We are undergoing a radical change in our national character and social structure, not to mention language, and it shouldn't be allowed to happen without the informed consent of the public."
"The Free Trade Area" of the agreement will go down in history books as the beginning of the end of America's middle class. We're basically liquidating our whole middle class, polarizing our people on the two extremes: haves and have-nots. At some point, Communist China may peg its yuan to the more valued eurodollar – collapsing the U.S. dollar. That will create hyperinflation, the swiftest way to destroy the middle class.
When one reads the words of Grigg and Schlafly, one can only ask why we are witnessing the growing disregard of our citizens by a president and Congress. How can those we elect to office allow America to sink deeper and deeper into the clutches of Third World misery? As Grigg puts it, "Corruption operates at the highest level in America because 96% of the senate and congress continues being elected by a trusting public."
Call it what you will; Grigg and Schlafly are identifying an experiment in socialism that has failed miserably in every country on the planet. Will we survive the experiment? Many of the consequences are already playing out, such as the riots in France ... and exactly what is happening to us with illegal aliens piling up everywhere in the U.S. – a Third World invasion brought to us by a president and Congress.
I'm reminded of two quotations – one from George Santayana:
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
... and the other from Mahatma Gandhi, who said, "The roots of violence are wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principals."
In spite of all this doom and despair ... to all of you One Reporter's Opinion readers: a happy and bountiful Thanksgiving!