Agendas

I was talking with a couple of guys I'm acquainted with. One is older than I, and I know him to be somewhat of a conspiracy theorist. The other guy is young. He tends to be on the skeptical side when it comes to talk of most conspiracies, or even "hidden" political agendas.

I have to admit, I get pretty bored when people start talking about the Illuminati and secret international organizations bent on world domination. It may make for amusing entertainment, but other than that I think it's tiresome. Given that, the younger man was a bit surprised at the turn of our conversation. The older guy mentioned the words, "one world government." The younger guy said, "Isn't that just a lot of nonsense?"

I answered, "It's not nonsense. Globalism isn't a joke. It's happening right now." He raised his eyebrows, and seemed to take in the idea that at least I believed my statement.

In his memoirs, published in 2002, David Rockefeller wrote, "Some even believe that we (speaking of his family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

While that statement is true, it doesn't mean that the story of the Illuminati is true, though it does show that there are people with an undeniably globalist agenda. There are people and "groups" of people with an outright globalist agenda, and there are movements within groups of people who are swayed to a certain type of thinking that are "led" toward globalism, even if they don't realize it.

The older guy in our little discussion mentioned the trans-Texas Corridor and implied it would lead to a North American Union, which will consist of the former Countries of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. This rolled off the younger guy like water off a duck. I mentioned that on September 1st, our nation's borders with Mexico were opened and commercial trucks from about one-hundred (give or take) Mexican companies were allowed to pour through.

The older guy and I kept talking. He said, "Yeah, there are a lot of stories about that on conservative talk radio, and they are all pretty upset about it." (I had caught it on at an online news source.) I really don't enjoy listening to most conservative talk radio shows. It can be like listening to a tape-loop, though in this case I can really understand why most of them would be upset. I'm conservative myself, and I think level-headed trade with democratic, non-terrorist countries is okay, but I don't think that Mexican trucking companies should be allowed to run through our country in unregulated vehicles with un-inspected loads when our own country's companies are so highly regulated. That's ridiculous.

You can see where it's going. Canada wants more trade with Mexico. Mexico wants to get their product to Canada. We're all buddies. We want to help Canada out. What the hey? It's not hurting anybody. And, "Hey! Think about all the good-paying jobs that will be created if we created a smoother transfer route between the three countries? Hey! Wouldn't everything just be simpler for all concerned if we just did away with all of these silly borders? Wouldn't everything be simpler if we just standardized all of the regulations for trade without regard to that pesky U.S. constitution? Wouldn't it be simpler and easier for all concerned if we just joined our three countries together and wrote a new constitution?"

If that sounds a bit over-simplified, it only took about fifty years for that to happen in post-war Europe. The European Union is changing the face of the confederated nations which make up that block. Of course trade was only part of the drive to get the job done. Wanting to be the most powerful nation on the planet was what was really used to push the agenda there. The phrase, "We want to be the United States of Europe," was tossed about liberally to get national leaders to sign on. In turn, with the Euro devaluing our currency, and the dollar now on par with Canada's for the first time in thirty odd years, America will not want to be left behind. It doesn't always take much of a push. The grass is always greener.

I live in an area where there are two neighboring towns. One of those towns was having trouble with a few things. Their governing body had made poor decisions, they had used funds poorly. They had overextended themselves on projects and they ended up losing part of their job base. This went on for some time, but their answer to the problem was to consolidate with our city. There was a subsequent push to get that agenda accomplished, so that our stable system and economy could bail them out of their economic dilemma.

The problem with that was, their city government showed no willingness to compromise and make the necessary changes to the way they operate. Our city would have been looking at higher property taxes, bigger school levees and generally we would have been handling a heavier load with little in the way of a return for the investment. The movement got out-voted by a huge margin, but guess what happened? Our neighboring city found ways to change---for the better. Some diversification, some creative thinking and some common sense applied with diligence was all it took and they are back on their feet. It was their choice, and their responsibility.

I hope when the concept of a North American Union begins to pick up speed in the public eye that people will be able to see it for the quick-fix, ill-fated unwise thing that it is. That's one of the things I will give to the Clinton Administration. Even though NAFTA was implemented in 1994, the 1995 requirement to open the U.S.---Mexican borders were never put into action, even though President Clinton's refusal to do so was challenged by a Mexican tribunal. President Bush on the other hand, signed the provision into law on December 4, 2006. Unfortunate. It is something that will be very hard to reverse, because that makes it look like NAFTA mandates now seem to have more weight than American law. Cow-towing to NAFTA only heads us in the direction of a body that already seeks to consolidate North America.

Our responsibility should be to our own country, and to this people. If other countries want to be bailed out, let them do it themselves. I'm not saying to be inhumane in the presence of need, say it the event of disasters, but let's solve our own problems here, in our own way, and allow our neighbors to solve their own. Let them work hard, educate themselves, be creative, diversify and apply some diligent common sense and see what becomes of things. They always want us to keep our noses out of their business, so let's do that, shall we? Common sense should tell us to keep their noses out of ours.