As I've mentioned before, I participate on a Christian chat server on a fairly regular basis. I enjoy being able to chat with friends, and I am happy to meet most of the people that I do. I'm obviously presented with the ability to communicate on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) with users I would otherwise not have the opportunity to, and to share Jesus when I can.

Of late, I have found it interesting to interact with, and observe the chat of a Christian user from a particular country in Europe. Our server (as its owner) is based in the United States of America. This gentleman has expressed displeasure with my country in many areas. As we do not allow people to come in and bash countries, mine or anyone else's, he routinely gets shut down.

I could take this young man into a debate and tell him what I think about the folly of his country handing over its power and sovereignty to the European Union. The EUs foreign policy chief, Javier Solana thinks Christians are idiots. I could tell this young chatter, that his country now has to be in complete compliance with all of the many rules they have. Currently, the E.U. has a 90,000 (ninety thousand) page book on accession. I could bring to his attention the fact that his country, if it becomes disillusioned with its new masters, would not be able to break off from the E.U., short of a war. Already, the military forces of the E.U. have started to coalesce into a very large "peace-keeping" force. When that happens, a war to break off from them would be suicidal. I see his country as having sold themselves, and their future, out.

I could debate with him, but I think often these days of my own country's future, and I do not always like what I see. These days we have NAFTA, which sent a lot of jobs south and opened us up to some constitutionally damaging future prospects, all the while declaring "Free trade! Free trade!" What's more, we have CAFTA, passed in a Republican held house and senate in 2005. CAFTA's adherents say that the E.U. serves as a good model. Sheesh.

Now our government is trying to fast track the FTAA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas. I've seen some of the development plans that accompany this ideology. The Trans-Texas Corridor is their baby. If you've not heard of this project, it is a 1,200 ft. wide, super highway with ten lanes, rail lines and utilities (gas, etc.) running from Mexico, through Texas and northward through the Midwest and into Canada. If this project becomes a reality, how will it affect this country, its constitution and its sovereignty? I can only guess, but as the project moves forward, it appears that ownership will be foreign (Spain I believe), and with the recent shocking changes in eminent domain laws, I can imagine that there will be a lot of unhappy erstwhile property owners, displaced in the name of progress.

I'm not an alarmist, but I think that this type of slow, unopposed progression is just the kind of thing that leads to a European Union, and I do not want it to lead to an "American Union." I think that one of the phases that countries who have to fight for their independence go through is a complacent one. I think we're in that now. We're not watching closely enough. We elected a conservative house and senate last time, and people became aggravated that they didn't get off their politically correct duffs and do what they were elected to do. Now they have been trounced, and I think people will regret their knee-jerk action in giving those bodies to an obviously very liberal party. I'm regretting it already.

The Democratic Party in America is very impressed with the ideologies espoused by the European Union, very impressed with their legal system, and altogether way to disposed to agree with whatever the United Nations says. Their new house speaker, Nancy Pelosi is staunchly pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, including gay marriage and seems to have a love affair with the ACLU. I'm sure too, that she and the rest of her party thinks that the Council on Foreign Relations, a very pro-globalization think-tank, is just ducky.

I cringe every time I think of this stuff, and I really do not want our country headed in this subtle direction. Perhaps subtle isn't properly descriptive. It's more like openly sneaky. It is hard for people to see a big picture, but here we have several big things going on. We have free trade routes being established that skirt constitutional law and erode our sovereignty. We have international borders being broken down in the name of that free trade. We have the Council on Foreign Relations suggesting that we eliminate our borders and incorporate Canada and Mexico and we have the ACLU clamoring at every opportunity to remove God from every facet of society. I could go on, but I think this makes my point about why I really can't debate the chatter about what he thinks of America.

I'm just glad that I live here, and that this country is still free. I hope it remains that way for a long time.