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I don't recognize the validity of the above statement

Then you should go on to the US Trade Representative's website and read some of the speeches he's giving in South America and around the world. Then go an read the mission statements and the "organizing principles" of the supranational agencies that were created to centrally manage global trade.

Intra-American Dialog

Participants discussed CAFTA as one of the first real tests of trade promotion or "fast track" authority, passed in 2002. A CAFTA accord is an important step in hemispheric integration as it goes beyond the bilateral level to a multilateral approach.

http://www.iadialog.org/summaries/feb04/cmwg.asp

A lunch discussion on U.S. global trade policy featured Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Peter Allgeier and former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills. Participants noted that the U.S. government views bilateral free trade agreements - such as the U.S.-Chile agreement, NAFTA and CAFTA - as stepping stones to hemispheric integration. Furthermore, the U.S. considers Europe's negotiations with Mercosur as complementary to its own efforts.

http://www.iadialog.org/summaries/march04/forum.asp

What does hemipsheric integration mean in the context of this discussion? It means dissovling sovereign borders and irrevocably integrating nations economically, socially and civilly(as in "civil government"). It means creating a "trade bloc" in the style of the EU, which if you've been paying attention has gone from a simple "tariff lowering system" to a fully formed association of soviet states attempting to pass a constitution to create the supranational government to rule over all.

The steps taken in this hemisphere with the "free trade" agreements that everyone champions, are identical to the creation of the soviet states of Europe. When I say soviet, I mean it, because the supranational government is a council system like the soviet union, many of the articles in the EU constitution mirror in a remarkable way the final constitution of the USSR.

Thank you for the links. Nevertheless, communism does not really stand for free trade, even if captive states behind the iron curtain were restricted from imposing tariffs on each other.

My point is that even though the dissolution of trade barriers can accompany the dissolution of sovereign barriers, there is no necessity that they must, nor does one cause the other.

However, I have stated that it is in our interest to protect industries needed for national defense.