Posted by
Tonewah on Friday, July 25, 2008 4:00:00 AM
In my previous posts, I've indicated that our continued embrace of socialism is a threat to the American way of life. I still believe that, but, if you look a little deeper, it's a small part of a far greater threat. Where is this socialism coming from? Why are we accepting it so readily?
At the bottom of it all is globalism. Specifically, globalism with a goal of globalization. Our government sacrifices it's ability to legislate in order to please foreign interests. We allow global organizations to write laws that will be enforced in the USA. We adopt ideas that aren't compatible with our philosophy of liberty in order to please the governments of foriegn nations.
Examples of this are groups like the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and, perhaps the most demonized of them all, the United Nations. America sends unelected representatives to these groups which act as legislative bodies on a global scale. Laws are passed that presume the jurisdiction of the every nation on Earth. Our government then recognizes them. This is a problem.
Government works best on a local scale. Even on the state level, individual laws are passed that effect only certain geographic areas of the state. These laws should have been passed on a local level, not the state. Federal laws must be even less invasive than state laws, limiting themselves to the protection of the rights of the people. Why, then, do we assume that a GLOBAL law should supercede even national laws?
Still, there would be no problem with groups like the UN if they only agreed to the most basic human rights. The Geneva convention and the Hague are good examples of the role international bodies should play. As antithetical to our idea of liberty as groups like the UN, WTO and IMF are, at least we know what they are discussing and can protest and object publicly.
The most troublesome form of globalization comes not from these overt globalist bodies, but from the closed-door agreements made by international corporations and financeers. No public information is released about these meetings, other than the occasional leak, of which authenticity is in question, and corroboration is nonexistant. Price fixing, back-door trusts and the outright challenge to the sovereignty of nations can be discussed by these people who were not elected by the people and put into practice, with no knowledge or approval of the people.
Although this problem seems insurmountable at first glance, the solution is simple: Hold your elected representatives accountable. If your elected representative allows legislation to pass, or activities to occur which are counter to the American principle of liberty, you MUST make him or her take responsibility. If we don't take them to task, the globalization will continue, and the grasp of socialism will never be broken.