Up at the United Nations, the carpenters of the New World Order are busy
constructing the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal. Modeled on
the Nuremberg court that convicted the Nazis, the new tribunal claims
jurisdiction over all nations, including the United States.
Last July, America rejected the court, fearing U.S. soldiers could be
prosecuted. Yet, American diplomats are beavering away alongside U.N.
bureaucrats who envision the tribunal as a world court that shall sit
above the claims of any and all nation-states.
The sovereignty issue is roaring back. This time, our elites may not
write
it off as the concern only of folks on the look-out for black helicopters,
or sitting on rural hillsides soaking up the thunderous oratory at
God-and-Country rallies. For even centrist scholars are now breaking the
glass on the fire alarms.
"Why Sovereignty Matters" is the title of a paper written for the
American
Enterprise Institute by Jeremy Rabkin, a professor of government at
Cornell, who sees global agreements as a growing and direct threat to
American sovereignty.
"(W)hat makes a state sovereign," Rabkin writes, "is that it need answer
to
no outside authority." For us, "sovereignty means the primacy of our own
Constitution. The people of the United States, by their own sovereign
authority, have made the Constitution supreme over the government, and no
outside agreement can challenge that supremacy."
Yet, both NAFTA and Al Gore's Kyoto treaty on global warming supersede
our
Constitution and imperil that sovereignty, putting America on the same
fatal path being trod by Europe.
Writes Rabkin: "(T)he Common Market ... has expanded in size and ambition
to emerge as something like a federal superstate. ... The European Union
has undertaken ... to remove tariff barriers ... to standardize products
and services, to ensure common protections for labor and the environment,
and to reallocate wealth from richer to poorer regions. In total, such
'integration' is far more ambitious than the aggregate of policies
undertaken by the federal government in the United States. ... (T)he
European Court of Justice claims and exercises the authority to invalidate
statutory enactments of parliaments ...
"No one seriously pretends," he adds, "that the member states of the EU
are
still sovereign in the way they once were."
With Tony Blair's Britain, Europe last great holdout, preparing to
surrender its currency and control of monetary policy to the new European
central bank, the day of the nation-state in Europe is over.
Now, the United States, too, "has begun to participate in environmental
agreements, human rights agreements, trade agreements, and agreements in
other areas that do raise inescapable questions about American
sovereignty."
Under NAFTA, private companies can appeal U.S. import duties to panels
dominated by Canadians and Mexicans, whose rulings are binding on U.S.
courts. Globalists have discovered the loophole in the Constitution,
Article 6, which puts foreign treaties on the same plane, and are driving
their one-world agenda right through it.
The Kyoto Protocol, Rabkin writes, "assumes that actions of motorists in
Kansas or homeowners in Minnesota can be related to 'international'
concerns. ... In ratifying that treaty, the Senate would seem to be
ratifying in advance a whole series of future policies that may never
return to the Senate for its consent."
If Americans are not to lose their constitutional rights and the United
States. its sovereignty to "global governance," there is a need for the
eternal vigilance that is the price of liberty, and more than that.
"Congress must come to grips with the threatened erosion of U.S.
sovereignty in the very near future," writes Rabkin. We need both "new
protective legislation against international bureaucratic mandates," and
"a formal amendment to the Constitution to clarify and reinforce
traditional limitations."
America needs an amendment that declares that no treaty we enter into is
above the Constitution, and that above the sovereignty of the nation
stands the sovereignty of God alone. Here is an issue to rally
Republicans, conservatives and populists, leaving out only those whose
hidden agenda is Strobe Talbott's World Government.
Jefferson wrote: "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written
Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the
same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty
making power as boundless. If it is, then we have no Constitution."
Independence forever! Now, there's a cause.
