This is an interesting article that was published by the "Investor's Business Daily." We all have questioned President Bush's policies and many people have agreed or disagreed with those policies. However, this article makes one question just how much Globalism may impact our Constitution and it should help us determine for ourselves just how much Globalism may threaten our Homeland Security.

If we look at what has been happening in the European Union and in other parts of the Globe, it isn't too promising. Will the Obama Administration uphold our laws and protect our citizens; or will it capitulate to the will of those who would be our enemies? I would hope that President Obama will work for America first and maintain our security on all levels. America must keep governing itself and not fall prey to foreign rule. It's all the more reason that we should not enter into a North American Union, especially since Mexico does not have the welfare of the U.S. Citizen at heart. Here is the article:


http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticle ... 4876652170


Against All Enemies
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:20 PM PT

The Law: When a U.S. attorney general helps a foreign judge hunt down U.S. officials for carrying out America's defense policies, it threatens our very sovereignty. Eric Holder should read the Constitution.

U.S. government officials swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

The enemies of our form of government, going back even to before the ratification of the Constitution, have never been limited to invading armies.

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 22 warned that "one of the weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption."

His solution was that treaties with foreign powers must submit "to one supreme tribunal." (Hamilton's own emphasis in the text.)

"Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation," Hamilton noted.

Obviously, Hamilton did not envision that Supreme Court being located in Holland or Switzerland. It was to be an American court administering laws passed by the duly-elected representatives of the American people.

Attorney General Holder obviously needs reminding of the oath he took to support and defend the core governing document of our land. Last week, he suggested the U.S. government might cooperate with a Spanish judge's probe of U.S. federal officials involved in enhanced interrogation methods used against terrorist detainees.

"Obviously, we would look at any request that would come from a court in any country and see how and whether we should comply with it," Holder said.

"This is an administration that is determined to conduct itself by the rule of law, and to the extent that we receive lawful requests from an appropriately created court, we would obviously respond to it."

But the rule of law that applies when foreign judicial entities try to go fishing in the internal affairs of the White House can be found in the text of the Constitution itself: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America . . . . The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States . . . ."

The president's paramount duty under the Constitution is to "provide for the common defense," and whatever one thinks his shortcomings in other areas of policy may be, George W. Bush performed that duty above and beyond all expectations.

As noted on this pages many times, keeping the nation safe for more than seven years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks was not achieved by luck or through a national security policy of coasting.

It was the very aggressive, innovative steps President Bush took — at great political, even legal, risk to himself — like the CIA's foreign interrogation program and the National Security Agency's (NSA) terrorist surveillance program — that foiled numerous plots and saved hundreds if not thousands of innocent lives.

For this, Bush and those who helped him protect us deserve our gratitude, not censure.

The Constitution gives the president broad powers to defend the country against foreign military threats, which today take new and deadly forms.

Will a U.S. attorney general now help a foreign power conduct an anti-American witch hunt against those who served a previous president — those whose "crime" was to keep the American homeland safe?

If he does, it will be an attack on the very heart of our highest man-made law.