Posted on 07/25/2007 10:44:02 PM PDT by captjanaway
WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Fred Thompson, a Republican presidential candidate in waiting, candidly answered a question at a campaign stop in Texas yesterday regarding his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, sometimes referred to as a "shadow government" organization of elites with a global agenda.
In an exchange caught on YouTube that later deteriorated into a police encounter, an activist asked Thompson about his membership in the group, linking it with plans for a "North American Union."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
“I’m not voting for anyone working to eradicate our borders and erase our identity.”
You do know that the CFR is essentiallly Hardball for policy wonks, right? People from opposite sides of the spectrum debate politely at CFR conferences.
Sliming any given member of the CFR with what another member says is like smearing Reagan with what Carter says because they were on the same stage at a debate.
Just for example, the foul NAU piece from one task force had a direct, opposite, response from build-the-wall-yesterday Tom Tancredo. (The links are above.)
Let's move along.
Hunter's the best man this country has to offer and many can't see that his ideals are our ideals.
They like flash.
The people that hate the CFR are generally people so intellectually insecure in their ideas that they can’t stand to hear opposing viewpoints.
The idea of a civil debate is foreign to them.
Hearing opposing viewpoints make my conservative arguments stronger and more secure.
Is that the new catch phrase for this group? I've been seeing it lately on FR.
Gay unions don't really mean gay marriage, right?
Keep that list of names, you'll need it here.
>>She screams that the world trade center was “an inside job” as she is taken away. Nuts like this prevent conservative progress, they don’t do anything to help it.
I don’t know about her personally but when the topic turns to the CFR and conspiracy theories there is a subset of conservative who cannot seem to to think or see straight.
They will take a plan to provide a double layer of security to stop drugs and smuggled goods from entering into the U.S. by screening at the entrance to Mexico and Canada and it becomes a conspiracy to end the United State. Its often not too deep below to find a mention of Jewish bankers.
This is one of the things that keeps me being able to support Ron Paul - he’s too close to this movement.
Did you leave out a word in that statement?
>>I’d bet money she’s a Ron Paul Girl.<<
I didn’t see your post til now.. Oddly enough I was just mentioning Ron Paul in another post about this.
I like Ron Paul. I love the idea of the government respecting constitutional limits on what they are supposed to be doing.
But on finance and international relations he’s just over this edge and not recoverable.
Here is a quote from Ron Paul’s congressional web page
>>The proposed highway is part of a broader plan advanced by a quasi-government organization called the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” or SPP.
The SPP was first launched in 2005 by the heads of state of Canada, Mexico, and the United States at a summit in Waco.
The SPP was not created by a treaty between the nations involved, nor was Congress involved in any way. Instead, the SPP is an unholy alliance of foreign consortiums and officials from several governments. One principal player is a Spanish construction company, which plans to build the highway and operate it as a toll road. But don’t be fooled: the superhighway proposal is not the result of free market demand, but rather an extension of government-managed trade schemes like NAFTA that benefit politically-connected interests.
The real issue is national sovereignty. Once again, decisions that affect millions of Americans are not being made by those Americans themselves, or even by their elected representatives in Congress. Instead, a handful of elites use their government connections to bypass national legislatures and ignore our Constitution— which expressly grants Congress the sole authority to regulate international trade.
The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union—complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether.<<
This kind of conspiracy lessens of chance of getting real action on real problems like having way too many illegal immigrants and a need to better control our borders.
And his ideas for scrapping all money but gold and silver would plunge us into a depression.
Cool, with it I shall
RULE THE WORLD!
I wonder how many Americans never heard of the CFR before that?
Well, unless she was doing something behind the camera, which is entirely possible, what do you think she was kicked out for?
Maybe .1% have and the rest are sheep in the meadow.
The whole thing was confusing to me. I think some anti-freds were saying she was and that’s where I picked it up. I think.
She said something like “ a real conservative wouldn’t do this...” when she was addressing Fred. Maybe this is where it came from. Honestly, the only thing I do know what that she said that 9/11 was inside job. Maybe she has that printed on her back or something and that’s why she got kicked out. ?
It seems a little staged.
>> She did nothing to warrant her removal. She asked her question, then remained silent. She started her tirage only after they grabbed her.
I find no fault with the First Ammendment, even for people you assume to be kooks. I do have great trouble with the perceived need to remove a person because of the nature of a question. That speaks volumes, and appears to be damage control.<<
Kooks get their rights, no argument.
What she said was “they are asking me to leave.”
In general, a private citizen or non credentialed member of the press cannot interrupt a Presidential candidate talking to the press without being asked to leave.
Now, what they do from that point determines what happens. I suspect that if she had done more than scream conspiracies and refuse to leave Fred has security sufficient to have gotten violent.
You’re welcome. That’s what I thought you meant. ;)
Sad but true. *sigh*
Pastor, Robert A. - Vice President of International Affairs at American University; former NSC staff member under Carter
The father of trying to create the NAU.
It’ll give ya cooties.
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