[hedgetrimmer]

"free trade" = global government, loss of sovereignty and economic harmonization with other countries, especially if they are needy of US taxpayer dollars.

While everyone is arguing about outsourcing, meetings are quietly held to push along the FTAA, which is due to be impelented in January 2005.

The FTAA, Free Trade Area of the Americas impact on American citizens will dwarf the impact of outsourcing on the American citizen.

The Treaty of Maastricht created the EU in 1992 as an economic zone or free trade area.

Then in 1999 the African Union was created.

We also got ASEAN, the Association of South East Asian Nations about that time.

The fall of the Soviet Union generated a reformation of itself in the CIS or Council of Independent States, another 'free trade region'.

The only region left that isn't quite under the belt of the free traders is the middle east. However there is an organization formed that will become the regional government for the middle east called the OIC, the Organization of the Islamic council.

What do all these groups have in common?

They are predicted in the UN document called "Our Global Neighborhood". Each and every one, including the "free trade area" the United States will be forced to belong to" has the language in its charter--that the organizations are organized "within the framework of the United Nations" and that they only follow international law (bye bye Constitution, it was nice knowing you.)

Each and every one of these organizations has exactly the same structure, a president, a parliment, a permanent council, an observers council, and a secretariat (there is an amazing uniformity of government here for such a diverse group, is there not?)

Each and every one of these organizations is founded on the principles of "peace, justice and solidarity"... which sounds awfully marxist to me

End of part I

[Cronos]

Face facts -- countries have gotten larger right from the time when all the Anglo-Saxons Kynigs were brought together under one OverLord, King of England who then created the United Kingdom. the US is made up of 50 states. We need some more and vote to add the 6 in Australia first and then maybe the Canadian ones and then the UK, some parts of Mexico etc.

[briant]

Thoses who themselves have no real skills are trying to reinstitute serfdom; And they are appauded for loving freedom.