Letters to the Editor
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Regional and Global government is inevitable
Although Mr. Corsi once more trots out the "loss of sovereignty" bogey-man, the reality is that the increasing complexity and interrelation of the world economy and political sphere will require less and less national sovereignty in order to avoid repeated wars over increasingly scarce resources. While the idea of "one world government" always scares the bejeebers out of a certain segment of our citizenry, and it will certainly not happen during our lifetimes, it is clearly in the future best interests of mankind as a whole.
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Wow ! Sounds great!
All three countries united for peace and prosperity? We could do it better than the Europeans have,clean up our own act and be rich and happy! Sign me up!
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It's about time SOMEBODY noticed
For more information: http://americas.irc-online.org/am/386
If that's ever enacted, I leave the continent for good. If I wanted to live in America, I'd live in America.
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To make the wingnuts really crazy
I want Canada's health system and Mexico's culture. Muy pronto, por favor!
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"Brussels, in Luxembourg"?
Gee, it was in Belgium the last time I visited a couple of years ago. When did it move? Corsi is ill-informed but dangerous.
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Jerome Corsi
Whats that old saying that even paranoids have real enemies. Mr. Corsi is correct. They are plotting a North American Union. Many people may think its a swell idea, but shouldn't the American people have some say in it?
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Americans want less immigraton not more
The reason the Senate had to try to ram their grotesque version of "immigration reform" down out throats is because 80% of us like who we are. It is just the other 20% that either profits off of having "no borders" or prefers newcomers to the existing people here.
It is time to end mass immigration.
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Blowhard
Give this guy a megaphone and he'll argue for almost anything that gets him attention and makes him feel like a major player. The story of the Swift Boaters is no more about Corsi than the burning of the Reichstag was about Marinus van der Lubbe. It's the people who finance and enable pawns like Corsi that are the source of danger to what remains of our democracy.
Now that he's got me thinking about it, though, this North American Union idea of his sounds kind of appealing...it might dilute the disproportionate electoral strength of people like him.
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Conspiracy theories are so 20th Century
Unfortunately, too many of our citizens are still living in the 20th Century and, therefore, will probably give this self-serving publicity hound an ear. It might be nice, however, if occasionally we in the U.S.A. noticed that certainly the Canadians, if not the Mexicans, have no desire to become a part of the U.S.A. Bush hasn't noticed that Canada is a separate nation since before he first took office as President, but the Canadians of my acquaintance are very much aware of it. Corsi probably ought to have at least talked with a few of the citizens of Canada and Mexico before blithely assuming that whatever the U.S. politicians wanted, they could have.
And given the current strength of the Canadian dollar vs. the U.S. dollar, combined with their superior educational and health care system, we might do worse than follow some of their lead.
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Sovereignty is a monopoly of coercion, not a treaty
What is this, Swiftboating on trade and immigration? – NAFTA uses national governments as the dispute mediators on an ad hoc basis (NAFTA Articles 2204 and 2205), not a separate entity like the EU. Besides, America (like every country before it)has and can ignore treaties. The US ignored NAFTA rulings on softwood lumber trade for years. Any treaty can be changed if the will is there – Casio keeps using Italy as an example, but Italy seriously threatened to veto the EU constitution if its demands were not met. What's the problem?
And that doesn’t even matter - NAFTA exists to reduce trade barriers – it's silent on culture, because Canadians and Mexicans do not want to be Americans and vice versa. No treaty (or xenophobic fence) will change that. Didn’t we already deal with Samuel Huntington five years ago? And vote on this in ’94?
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Reality-based translation
Murh.. Muhahaha… Kudos to Salon for getting this turkey to give an interview; as noxious as he is, I’m glad I have a chance to beat Glenn Greenwald to the punch a bit, I imagine he will be able to tear this guy apart much better than I.
Before we start peeling apart the spin and defenses, lets take a look at the man’s history. The Wikipedia bio of Jerome Corsi, member of the Constitutional party (originally called the U.S. Taxpayers Party), which has such august supporters like Pat Buchanan, Bob Smith, and minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist. Lovely company he keeps, old school. “constution in exile” and “anti-UN New World order” paranoids. Read the full Constitutional party entry, it’s pretty hair curling.
In the interest of space and because it’s getting late, I’m just going to give the reality-based translation to the first page of his questions, with a link back to the original page.
What's the book about?
How us pure Americans are going to get our bodily fluids sapped and impurified by those Icky Brown People, and the French, I mean Canadians.
What you seem to foresee, however, is something that would go further than the European Union and actually dissolve the United States.
Evil liberals have destroyed the nations of Europe, who are soon going to soon be Muslim because they didn’t keep out those icky brown people. If we don’t go into full frothing paranoid mode, we won’t be able to invade other countries at will, because that went so well the last time around.
So what's the motive on the part of the American government and American corporations in forming this North American Union? That wasn't much discussed in your book.
The icky brown people (and French) are going to take our jobs and stuff. Never mind we ran a political hit job that handed re-election to the shrub, bosom buddy with the Enron, Wal-Mart, Halliburton, and any other multi-national that was willing to pay up. Never mind that.
See? translating a frothing wingnut is easy, fun for the entire family!
P.S. Couldn't get the links to work. working links on my blog.