Thread: Taking a Stand Against Entangling Alliances

Taking a Stand Against Entangling Alliances

At the founding meeting of The John Birch Society in December 1958, Robert Welch stated that the method most relied upon for “taking us over” is the plan “to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty, piece by piece and step by step, to various international organizations — of which the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the only example.”

Then, a little over two years later, Robert Welch clearly stated in the January 1961 Bulletin what is at stake for Americans: “the total surrender of the independence of the United States [and] the loss of all individual freedom on the part of its inhabitants.”

He then clearly stated our strategy for preserving independence and freedom: “We must take the offensive and strike back at points we select.”

Based on the above, the JBS has been taking the offensive by striking back at the UN since 1959. Years later in the January 1989 Bulletin, William F. Jasper issued the Society’s first warning about free trade agreements:

"Legislation calling for the creation of 'free trade zones' must be defeated. Plans to establish such areas will surely blur border distinctions and dilute U.S. sovereignty."

The Society has always distinguished between the classical free trade policy of Adam Smith and the establishment-created “free trade” agreement initiatives, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the present-day Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

While we don’t oppose classical free trade policy, we do oppose the numerous present-day “free trade” agreement initiatives and the economic and political integration of blocs of nations.

While we played a leading role in stalling the development of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and greatly slowing down the development of the North American Union (NAU), we now face new threats to our national independence and personal freedoms from the proposed TPP (involving the eventual economic and political integration of the United States and eleven other Pacific Rim nations) and the TTIP (involving merging the United States and the European Union).

What’s happening is that we’ve reached a new critical stage in the transition of the United States from a free, independent nation to becoming a mere “member state” within a UN world government.

While back in the 1990s the U.S. was put on the path to economic and political integration with Canada and Mexico with the NAFTA agreement, now the proposed TTIP would lead to the economic and political integration of the NAU, represented for now by the United States, and the EU, which has already absorbed twenty-eight formerly independent nations in Europe.

The leading feature of this new critical stage is that instead of integrating groups of individual nations, we’re now seeing the integration of blocs of nations. That is, we’re fast approaching the time when regional economic and political blocs of formerly independent nations could be stitched together into a UN world government, thus completing the process that Robert Welch warned us about.

In 2013, JBS leadership chose to “take the offensive and strike back at points we select” by formulating the “Choose Freedom — STOP the Free Trade Agenda” action project to stop congressional approval of the TPP and TTIP partnership agreements.

Successfully stopping the TPP and TTIP will be a heavy lift. We’re faced with the enormous task of exposing the sovereignty- and freedom-destroying reality behind the “free trade” façade.

We’re faced with having to oppose something that most congressional Republicans and many congressional Democrats support. We’re faced with very little media coverage of the negotiations of the TPP and TTIP agreements, which means that it’s extra hard to get people to focus on these agreements.

What we need is for our members, supporters, and other conservative leaders to educate themselves and get inspired about the crucial importance of stopping the TPP and TTIP agreements. The best way to get the required depth of knowledge and big picture overview to be effective leaders in this battle is to read the special report of The New American, “How the Free Trade Agenda Is Knocking Down America,” September 2, 2013. Physical copies are available.

Finally, provide leadership in your area to build sufficient grassroots pressure to influence your senators and representative to vote NO on TPA (fast-track), TPP, and TTIP. As of now, it appears that TPA and TPP could possibly be voted on in the lame-duck session that will be held after the November elections, but more likely the votes will come sometime in 2015. A vote on the TTIP could happen later in 2015, but more likely in 2016.

We must preserve our national independence and our personal freedoms. Educate yourself, educate others, and get organized!

This image is from the website of the European Parliament President which states "The European Parliament wants a far-reaching negotiating mandate and will accompany the negotiations throughout. The European Parliament is convinced that an EU-US comprehensive trade and investment agreement has the potential to lead to a win-win situation and that a deeper degree of integration would considerably multiply the gains for both economies."

From what we know about how the EU was formed, "integration" and "partnerships" should raise some red flags.


The above article was adapted from the September 2014 JBS Bulletin, written for members. Join The John Birch Society today to have access to this and to get started standing up for American independence.



http://www.icontact-archive.com/Xij9...MsCFQeHizi?w=4

"Legislation calling for the creation of 'free trade zones' must be defeated. Plans to establish such areas will surely blur border distinctions and dilute U.S. sovereignty."

A wake yet America????

— JBS Weekly Member Update — NATO: Stepping Stone to NWO? What does arming Iraqi Kurdish communists and having countries join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) way beyond the north Atlantic have anything to do with each other? It points to a disturbing trend of NATO being positioned to be used as law enforcement to uphold the agenda of those seeking to implement world government under the United Nations. Anyone who understands the principles upon which our constitutional republic is founded knows that these principles are incompatible with the UN. Just look at any of their founding documents and compare them to America's founding documents. NATO, a regional subsidiary of the UN, is persuading more and more countries to join. Much of Europe has already joined, furthering the foreign entanglement they find themselves in through the European Union. The plan for world government advocates is to establish regional governments that siphon off much of a country's sovereignty and then to establish larger and larger political blocs until the UN essentially oversees everything and everyone. Think this would go well for Americans since the UN believes that government grants rights to its citizens? But how does Russia fit into this? Russia is merely the excuse that NATO uses as a threat to get countries to join them. They see what is going on in the Ukraine and suggest that this aggression should be corrected with sanctions and military action, and who better to do this than an organized group that has sworn to protect each other? JBS CEO Arthur Thompson discusses this in his weekly video, "NATO Being Positioned as Police Force for New World Order." Join The John Birch Society today! Land of the Free? The Communist Manifesto once shocked American readers with its version of radical socialism, called communism. Now, it’s nearly complete in America. The New American dives into the Manifesto to see how far along we are and what solutions there are to slow and stop the trajectory. Buy the physical issue or download a digital issue now. If you like what you see, please subscribe.

NATO Being Positioned As Police Force for New World Order
By: Art Thompson
09/08/2014



NATO-United Nations Graphic Shutterstock.com

NATO-United Nations Graphic
Shutterstock.com

JBS CEO Art Thompson's weekly news video update for September 8 - 14, 2014.

In this week's analysis behind the news video, JBS CEO Art Thompson discusses how a photo in the Wall Street Journal for September 5 reveals a Russian cargo plane being loaded in Germany with supplies bound for Communist Iraqi Kurds; and how news stories from around the world the past couple years reveal the positioning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a United Nations subsidiary organization, to become the police force for the New World Order.
NATO-UN graphic via Shutterstock.



Published on Sep 8, 2014

JBS CEO Art Thompson's weekly news video update for September 8 - 14, 2014.

In this week's analysis behind the news video, JBS CEO Art Thompson discusses how a photo in the Wall Street Journal for September 5 reveals a Russian cargo plane being loaded in Germany with supplies bound for Communist Iraqi Kurds; and how news stories from around the world the past couple years reveal the positioning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a United Nations subsidiary organization, to become the police force for the New World Order.