Posted on 02/10/2005 1:36:09 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
By early next year (2005) Congress will convene and decide whether or not to push through the incognito FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). If this free-trade pact goes through successfully, a revolution inconceivable since America’s founding will sweep across the American front, unleashing widespread economic instability by uniting North America’s market with Mexico’s, and eventually South America’s. Together, this process will consolidate North and South America’s monetary system, trade, market, political hemisphere, and regional infrastructure. On top of this, the Bush Administration’s recently proposed “Amnesty” plan will compound the situation by flooding America with an influx of mass-immigration from Mexico and abroad, which will be a prelude to further diluting American culture and fleecing American jobs. So is this all just a shot in the dark, a fantasy or unreality? A matter of fact, this is not political hype, but as real as it gets. The process has already begun—ever so quietly—behind closed doors. Plans for the FTAA were opened publicly in 1994 at the Summit of the Americas in Miami, Florida. The Bush administration, mass media and a few inside sources have whimsically portrayed the FTAA and NAFTA as some kind of juvenile equal-status trade environment, which would supposedly create growth in business, jobs and the economy. It would be stupendous if this were so, but unfortunately the Bush administration has kept the FTAA and NAFTA’s true objectives and motives behind public scrutiny. The administration also forecasts that the FTAA will bring a huge boost in U.S. exports, but actually the opposite will occur. EU’s Free-Trade Mirrors American Free Trade
The European Union and the earlier European Community, are important subjects to examine for understanding the true nature of “free-trade”. The EC involvement with free-trade and the “Common Market” are almost identical to the Free-Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Europe’s “free trade zone” and “Common Market” for many years led people to believe that economic and social prosperity would benefit European communities. But the opposite has occurred. In 1970 European countries began witnessing a “free-trade zone” and Common Market system developing. Worsthorn, a well known writer for the London Sunday Telegraph commented on the deception that had been occurring. In a 1991 column, he said that: “twenty years ago [1971], when the process began [Common Market], there was no question of losing sovereignty.” Remarkably though, the creative charade of hiding behind the curtain didn’t surface its ugly head until the year 2000. Some undisclosed documents revealed true lies and mischievous deceit: “What these papers revealed more starkly than ever before”, says British journalist Christopher Booker, “was just how deliberately the Heath Government and the Foreign office set out to conceal from the British people the Common Market’s true purpose. They were fully aware that it was intended to be merely the first step towards creating a politically United Europe, but they were determined to hide this from view.” Booker continued saying that, “for 40 years British politicians have consistently tried to portray it [the Common Market and EU] to their fellow-citizens as little more than an economic arrangement: a kind of free-trading area primarily concerned with creating jobs and prosperity.” Ever since Europe’s Common Market and free-trade began emerging, it has created nothing but economic down-sizing, loss of jobs, under-development and degradation for Europe’s people. Since 1971, EU countries haven’t become stronger and more prosperous by free-trade and a Common Market, but steadily have become weaker in their ability to grow economically, populously, and independently. Whatever Euro-politicians have said or claimed about the prosperity of free-trade and the Common Market in the EU, they really are only contradictions to the reality of the situation. They say “all is well”, but statistics document otherwise. It is interesting that while Europe’s economy was crumbling and jobs were diminishing, that industrial and manufacturing jobs were being handed over to government and monopolistic corporations. Ironically, the same situation is currently happening in America today! The preponderance of deceit that EU politicians have wielded over their people for nearly 34 years resembles the same charade currently being used in America.. Back to present times, on December 17, 2003, U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick proclaimed that the Bush administration had manufactured a “cutting edge” Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with South American countries—El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Mr. Zoellick noted that the U.S. is “step by step, country by country, region by region…opening markets with top-notch comprehensive FTAs that set the standard”, referring to the nifty trade pacts he has been so diligently molding for the Bush Administration. It should be noted that CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) is a precursor to the more hemispherical FTAA—a stepping stone you could say. Continuing with Mr. Zoellich’s December 17th commentary—during a press release—he described CAFTA’s objective as being affiliated with a global agenda. “The culmination of a year of intense negotiations” says the release, “CAFTA fulfills a key U.S. objective of opening markets with free-trade partners, while continuing to push trade liberalization through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and globally in the Doha talks in the World Trade organization.” Mr. Bush himself revealed the ultimate objective of the FTAA in a commentary just three days before the 2001 Summit of the Americas in Quebec. He said that “[The FTAA] will make our hemisphere the largest free-trade area in the world, encompassing 34 countries and 800 million people.” It certainly will be a brave new world if free-trade is opened up to 800 million people. An Amnesty Nightmare
While the Bush administration continues eroding away our freedoms by continuing the unification of the western hemisphere, liquidating U.S. borders has become another objective. January 7, 2004, President Bush addressed the nation at the White House, calling for a “new temporary worker program” for illegal immigrants who presently reside within and out of the U.S. He said the legal status “will last three years and will be renewable.” Mr. Bush claims that “our current limits on legal immigration are too low,” (even though 75% of downtown Los Angeles—and numerous other metropolitan areas are owned largely by foreigners). He also called for implementations to “increase the annual number of green cards that can lead to citizenship” for illegal aliens presently occupied here, as well as any other illegal immigrants that wish to cross our unprotected borders. Mr. Bush’s “Amnesty” plan not only provides the occasion for the ten to fifteen million illegal immigrants currently living in this country to infiltrate the U.S., but also all those who live in foreign countries across the globe who seek to participate in the program. The solution to the immigration problem is deteriorating so quickly that America might as well put up a sign exclaiming: “All terrorist organizations and radical hate groups are welcome to participate in exploiting America—so come—cross our borders and take our freedom.” In light of Mr. Bush’s delightfully offered “amnesty”—which is branded for disaster—he inquisitively shows the up-most concern for America’s poor economic condition, yet mysteriously he continues opening up countless doors for American jobs to be outsourced by legal and illegal low wage takers. Over the past ten years, more than 2 million low-skilled American workers have been displaced from their jobs, “writes CNN financial analyst Lou Dobbs. And each 10 percent increase in the immigrant workforce decreases U.S. wages by 3.5 percent,” Dobbs says. Mr. Bush and his iron-clad followers, encouragingly stipulate that illegal immigrants are taking jobs nobody wants, however, Steve Camoreta of the Center for Immigration Studies, remarkably discerns that “what they really mean is that they are doing jobs that they as middle-and upper-class people don’t want.” It really is a matter of economics; for instance, as the illegal immigrant workforce out-sources middle and upper-class American jobs, the supply of labor goes up, therefore submerging its price [wage]. An example in correlation goes like this: When the amount of currency in the money supply is increased, (as relating to an immigrant workforce), the value of it decreases—therefore causing inflation. Instead of inflation of the money supply though, inflation of the immigrant workforce creates economic instability. The average middle and upper-class American job losses its wage [value], just as an increased currency in the money supply losses its value—so do middle class jobs that are replaced by a low wage immigrant workforce. The open-border policy that Mr. Bush has been currently undertaking for some time now was confirmed by Mexican President Vincent Fox, in a speech in Madrid, where he explained the important value of mixing, and finally eliminating the distinction between legal and illegal immigration—therefore blending the merger of Mexico with America. He remarked that: “Eventually our long range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada….an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the good of attending to future themes [such as] the future prosperity of North America, and the movement of capital, goods, services and persons.” If America follows in the footsteps which were spoken by President Vincent Fox and President Bush, America will no longer see borders protecting her, but instead, one regional border engulfing an entire Northern and Southern American hemisphere. In fact, soon after Mr. Bush took office, he and Mexican President Vincent Fox signed a document confirming such unification. In the “Guanajuato Proposal”, it states that their governments would “strive to consolidate a North American economic community whose benefits reach the lesser-developed areas of the region and extend to the most vulnerable social groups in our countries.” Whatever promotional tools that both presidents have used to term their provocative message of “integral immigration”—whether for painting an illumination of “prosperity”, or focusing on stimulating the “vulnerable”—truth speaks louder than words. Their globalist agenda will only reap disunity among social groups, bring instability in the economy, and fleece American jobs. And if their political master plan is left undetected, it will only lead to further destruction (if not entire destruction) of our constitution, and proceed to subjugating America’s sovereignty and obliterating our borders. If this scheme were to succeed, it would transform America into a supra trans-continental migratory trade highway!
The Final Outcome
The emergence of mass illegal and legal immigration, free-trade, and opening up trans-continental markets between North and South America will predominantly centralize the economies of the two continents and vamp political unity. Just as Mr. Zoellick confirms: “This agreement will further the regional integration that the Central Americans themselves have begun, and compliment our vital work on the Free Trade Area of the Americas.” To fully understand the depravity and future jeopardy of the FTAA and NAFTA all one needs to do is look at Europe, where 30+ years of free-trade and “harmonization” of business, industry, agriculture, transportation, immigration, education, and soon to be defense, have amounted to nothing but a transfer of power from the people to the government. “Harmonization” (as so quoted by our leaders) is nothing more than consolidation and centralization of the economy and political sector. It is a process of transferring civil powers to multi-national and international political powers (which was the case in the creation of the monstrous E.U). It is said that once economic union forms (which is what NAFTA and the FTAA are constructed to do) that political union follows in its footsteps. And once unionization is established, independent national sovereignty will give way to multi-regional international sovereignty. Most people relate to this kind of political/economical run system with globalism, socialism or a New World Order. In 1958, in the Congressional Record, (p.2560), Senator George W. Malone clarified in some words on what respectfully is associated with free-trade and immigration. He said: “A great editor, Mr. E.F. Tompkins, of the New York Journal-American, has written five important articles regarding the relationship between free-trade, free-immigration, and world government…..In a letter addressed to me, Mr. Tompkins stated: ‘The free trade movement is not a separate entity. It is related in this country to the opposition to immigration regulation, and both by adoption or devolution are parts of the world government movement’….On June 28, 1952, I said on the Senate floor—and my remarks were reprinted under the title “Free Economic System Versus Fabian Socialistic Program”: ‘The international socialism plan calls for (a) Reduction of all barriers to the flow of international trade, (b) Access to raw material of all sorts for all nations, (c) Access to markets for all nations, (d) World organization through which the nations can share freely in the supplies and the markets of the world. There can be only one result and only one final solution [if] these objectives are allowed to obtain, and that is, of course, the leveling of the living standards of the United States of America with the sweatshop-labor nations of the world’. It is remarkable how Mr. Malone’s remarks replicate 46 years later—to the tee— how America has followed his program description. From Mr. Malone’s analogy, (a) Reduction of all barriers to the flow of international trade: President Bush is further compounding this by opening up our borders to mass-immigration, and (c) He is opening markets through out the western hemisphere with trade-pacts such as NAFTA, FTAA, and CAFTA, and (d) The consolidation of the world’s economies which has not yet been fully replicated. There can only be one thing left to be said about free immigration and free trade, that is—if it took 40 years of opening markets and spreading free-trade across European countries, which then transformed into the European Union, then it very well could be that North and South America will similarly merge like the E.U., except it may only take a quarter the time to accomplish. What will our borders look like in just a year or two if the FTAA successfully passes through Congress in January 2005? It would be an event unparalleled in America’s two hundred twenty eight years of independence. What we see today in America as a single independent nation will no longer be in America tomorrow. Just as the Revolutionary War freed America from hierarchical governance in 1776, the FTAA and NAFTA will excavate any lasting remnant of freedom that existed from that period.
If the shoe fits, wear it.
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Ever stop to think that "free trade" under NAFTA, GATT, etc. has been the trojan horse to set up the framework for a form of hemispheric governance that might be called something like the American Union which will operate ala the EU. The debate over free trade drones on endlessly while the critical issues of constitutional rights and legal protections are totally ignored.
By studying what's occuring right now in Europe it's becoming increasingly apparent that each country's leaders have forfeited their sovereignty by signing on to the EU and giving power to it's army of bureaucrats. Currently, there's quite a bit of discontent over there as many Europeans wake up to realize that the new EU constitution may well infringe on rights many have enjoyed for generations in their own country. Most likely the legal systems in these countries may well be harmonized under a new EU legal framework.
It's hard to find much info on this but we should be wary of the FTAA for these reasons and legal immigration is nothing more than the conditioning process for big banking and business signalling that they're going to shove this up our collective you know what's regardless of how much screaming the people do.
Ive got my Knickers pressed, Musket loaded and ready for action! I just bought John Calhouns selected writings and speeches. I be damned if let that $35.00 go down the tubes.
bookmark for later reading.
Good for you.
Nah, no problem here...
Truly, if people can't see this for what it is, they deserve what they get.
"Conspiracy and the National Question"
An interesting read.
http://www.bestwriters.com/good/archives/00000031.htm
Here come the bots to the defense of freely traitorous trade and immigration amnesty. That was record time.
They don't defend, so much as call names.
I kinda disagree with this. I really don't think the American people know what the FTAA is all about. We have just had a national election that the world was watching. Did the FTAA get mentioned? If it was mentioned, I didn't hear it. Has congress even discussed this with the public. Has anyone called for public hearings before this is shoved down our throats? Every state should demand public hearings. We, the people, need to start demanding.
When I said what I did, I took it for granted that this was going to get a loud noisy reception. I don't think many will go into this not knowing about it. I do agree that it's time to make a hell of a lot of noise about this.
OMG.
If this article has something important to say, it had better say it more simply--or not say it at all for all the good it will do.
Ya reckon that musket's gonna save us? LOL It's gonna take a lot more of us than that. Apathy is what is killing America. People are either blinded to what's going on, they don't believe it, or they just don't care. We started down that long slippery slope a long time ago. It began the day America rejected God.
bttt
Governor Bush Optimistic Miami Can Land FTAA Headquarters
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Governor Jeb Bush says he's optimistic Miami can land the Free Trade Area of the Americas headquarters.
...F-T-A-A negotiations have been stalled for a year and missed a January first deadline for completing the talks. But U-S and Brazilian trade officials have recently met to discuss resuming
them.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/news-article.aspx?storyid=31921
The problem is that if you state this in simple terms, its hard to get people to listen. There are a lot of inter-related pieces in the FTAA puzzle, and they must be discussed so that Americans will know what is happening and why.
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