Conspiracies: The US Constitution is our only protection against Global Schemers
I get an e-mail every now and then warning about some conspiracy or other: The Amero, North American Union, etc. This time it was the Trilateral Commission-Barack Obama connection. Web sites like this one keep the alarm bells clanging by hinting darkly about hidden connections and nefarious plots.
I hesitate to even call these things a conspiracy, because they always begin with a grain of truth and usually follow open, accepted facts through to some logical conclusion. The North American Union really is an ideal espoused by people in Canada, the US and Mexico, including government officials. There really are people who want to subordinate US law to international law and the United Nations.
Unfortunately, many use established facts as a point of departure for the outer limits of the twilight zone where President Obama is a kind of Trilateral Commission Manchurian Candidate under the spell of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Yes, Zbig did so much for Jimmy Carter's success!). Following these maps will veer you off on twisted, scary paths involving gold, secret governments, black helicopters and other arcane subjects.
No Conspiracy, Just a Global Oligarchy.
Yes, we have an oligarchy. The rich and powerful rule the world. I'm not talking the ordinary rich, I'm talking the Davos Men: Mr. Burns, George Soros and Rupert Moloch rich. The world's oligarchs and plutocrats.
Yes, follow the money, but also understand man's basic need to create order out of chaos. That drive is what makes good entrepreneurs and army sergeants. It is also what spurs the moneyed rich to manipulate the global proletariat:
"Look at all those Latin Americans just standing around doing nothing..." (Rich, gray head shaking side to side in disgust). "Send them North! They need cheap labor up there. Those fat, lazy Americans are driving up costs!"
Westerners getting too big for their britches and not listening to their social betters anymore? Saddle them with green guilt and (literally) scare the dollars and Euros out of them with cataclysmic climactic jeremiads. That will put them back in their cowering corner!
The Will to Efficiency
Not all of the oligarchs are wickedly clever or have the entrepreneur's know-how, so they recruit experts to achieve their goals. And they achieve those goals through ordinary, licit pursuits like academic study, commerce, trade and government. This Will to Efficiency leads to concepts like Euros, no borders, one-world legal superstructures, and North American Highways that facilitate cheap transportation of imported goods.
American dock workers demand too much money? Bring the goods into cheap Mexican ports and truck them north.
Throw the bums out is not a viable option
So what's the answer? Overthrow the oligarchy? Of course not. Lenin, Marx and Engels have been discredited. Remember the 20th century? Throw the bums out just ushers in a worse gang of bums, and the means of production will always be concentrated in the hands of a moneyed few. To paraphrase Walter E. Williams, when has a poor man ever given you a job? Anyway, how do you "throw out" Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller? They're not elected to anything!
Oligarchs want to rearrange the world
Behind almost every conspiracy is a group (or competing camps) of powerful, moneyed people trying to organize the world so they can more efficiently mine its material and intellectual wealth. They want to yolk us to the plow and chain us to the mill wheel and they don't care how many societies they wreck in the process. They live in their own gated global community anyway.
Our Constitution is Our Only Protection
I don't know how to save the world from the beastly tentacles of this global menace, but I do know how to save our beloved United States of America:
Follow The Constitution.
Elect only those that do and vote out those who don't. Judges won't follow that brilliant document? Impeach them!
Do you think ideas like NAU, the UN or other such nonsense are anything new? The founding fathers saw this all around them. They saw what human nature run rampant can do. The only way to protect Americans from the tyrannies of power-hungry oligarchs and nefarious plotting plutocrats was for the various states to create a federal government to protect the rights of the various states and the people.
They did that, but we've wrecked it. We've elected oligarchs to power, or we've allowed our elected officials to abandon dedication to public service and instead become tools of the oligarchy.
They say you can't cheat an honest man. Well, you can't mislead a virtuous people, either. The Constitution is a bulwark against tyranny, but we've allowed the politicians and lawyers to shoot it full of holes. It's a swiss cheese now, and the rats are crawling through, spreading their plague as they go.
I should have voted for Ron Paul. We all should have voter for him.
I Swear! It's not a conspiracy. The flubbed presidential oath of office (can't we get anything right these days?) will spawn a thousand conspiracy theories, mark my words
WaPo tells us Chief Justice Roberts and President Obama redid the oath at the White House. Drudge adds conspiratorially that no Bible was used!
Okay, all you nuts on the left! Turn to the nut on your right and give him your tinfoil hat!
Big business wants Mexican truckers delivering goods here in this country. Why? For the same reason it supports illegal immigration: Businesses don’t want to pay a decent wage to the American worker. This isn’t a conspiracy, but it has spawned a hydra-headed monster of conspiracy theories.
Heard the one about the North American Union and that NAFTA Highway? Like all conspiracies, this one starts with a basis in fact then spirals off on a weird tangent, producing new twisted offshoots as it goes.
The NAFTA Superhighway is just a network of existing roads that are approved for the Mexican Truck Pilot Program. Here’s what the US Department of Transportation says about the program:
(The program is) designed to simplify a process that currently requires Mexican truckers to stop and wait for U.S. trucks to arrive and transfer cargo. … this process wastes money, drives up the cost of goods, and leaves trucks loaded with cargo idling inside U.S. borders.
All true, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. This is not some dark conspiracy to rob us of our sovereignty; it’s an open plan to rob the American worker of his rightful wages.
Businesses make money selling us cheap imported goods. Highly paid dock workers in Los Angeles cut into their profits. Further cutting into those profits are the “overpaid” truckers (all truckers are rich, right?)
So big business has a simple solution: Bring the goods into Mexican ports, where dock workers are paid a tenth of what they are paid here, and let Mexican truckers haul it north, cutting out the higher-priced American trucker in the process.
No conspiracy, just our government openly helping business screw the Mexican worker by paying him below market-wages while also screwing the American worker by driving his wages down in the process.
Do you really want your government to put Americans out of work so you can pay 5 cents less for a piece of imported crap?
I don’t either. I am not anti-business: That’s where the jobs come from. But I believe in free-market capitalism, not exploitation. Sarah Palin said it best when she described how she stared down the energy companies in Alaska and negotiated a better deal for the people. She didn’t demonize Big Oil, she recognizes it as an important engine for economic growth. She said something like this:
“They (the oil companies) have their job to do and I (the government) have mine.”
So true. It is big business’s job to make money and power our economy, and it is government’s job to keep them from raping us and our land in the process. Unfortunately, our government is not doing its job, and the American worker is getting shafted. Businesses can’t outsource certain kinds of manual labor and transportation that must be done here, so instead they bring in cheap foreign labor with our government’s blessing.
Conspiracy theories act as a red herring, masking the real story. Nutty conjectures involving black helicopters and UN takeovers discredit all efforts to expose the legitimate facts. This leads to the press, strangely acting as big business’s lapdog, to paint any and all who try to address these issues as conspiracy nuts.
Finally, all conservatives need to note that this plan was advanced by the Bush administration. It’s time we grow up and drop the hero worship of our politicians. It is unwise to hug any politician or party too closely. The constitution and our sovereignty are more important than any person or movement.
Is the Federal Government planning to demonetize the dollar and replace it with a new Mexican-Canadian-US currency known as the Amero?
Like all good conspiracies, this one is rooted in facts but quickly branches out into wild and wooly territory. Trying to cut through the tangle of information quickly overwhelmed me. Andrew E. Marshall has written an interesting piece on the issue. I noticed his website has articles by Pat Buchanan and America critic Howard Zinn. Odd combination.
There's also some guy named Hal Turner on a Spanish language Google video site flashing Ameros minted and sold by this website that he claims are made by the Denver Mint. The messages responding to his video are all from excited Latin Americans eager for the hated America's immediate downfall.
I don’t know who these people are, but it looks like they’re into gold and post-apocalyptic doomsday scenarios. Could they have some melanoma-related issues as well? I just don’t know…
Here is what I do know:
Businesses hate borders and the petty governments that guard them with their tangles of red tape. Commerce does not like currency exchanges; they are inefficient and act as a tax on trade. So it makes sense businesses would push for a common North American Union and a currency to go along with it.
Governments, believing they could maintain their sovereignty, could even see the benefits of such a scheme. This is especially true since government is infested with professionals plucked from the private sector.
What do I think?
I think this conspiracy stuff is cooked up by crafty devils who make money pitting groups against one another and selling gold to ignorant suckers. Yes, gold should be part of every investor’s portfolio, as the guy on the radio keeps reminding us…
… OK, so the US crashes and pandemonium ensues. How are you going to redeem your shares for the gold they represent? Your broker is face down in a pool of his own blood in some New York Skyscraper. Phones don't work and even FedEx ain't delivering. Looks like your portfolio could have used some reality... So let’s say you actually bought gold coin or bullion. How are you going to spend it? Where are you going to spend it? The neighborhood Safeway? No. It's been looted and bums are living there now. You will be carrying out ad-hoc transactions with scared people, predatory people…
I think we need to pay a little less attention to ball sports and Hollywood and a little more attention to current events and what our government is up to. The forces that move our economy and society are not mysterious, and everything is not a conspiracy. Don’t chalk up to malfeasance that which can be more easily explained by incompetence.
People with ideas make things happen. Sometimes these people have ulterior motives or bad ideas, or both. An educated, well-informed citizenry is the best defense against rotten ideas that violate our sovereignty. And don't forget to stock up on tinfoil...
