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CAFTA Battle Rages in Congress –

Bernie Kunkel

          This article points out: The Bush administration has been clear that it sees CAFTA approval as essential to building momentum for approval of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which would include all the nations of our Western Hemisphere.

  CAFTA/FTAA and the EU by William F. Jasper When the European Common Market was launched nearly 50 years ago, the peoples of Europe were told that it was principally a "free trade" pact. They were unaware that the architects of the scheme really intended for the Common Market to steadily evolve, gradually acquiring powers until it would become a supranational government.

As the Common Market evolved into the European Union, the EU's institutions and bureaucrats in Brussels usurped more and more powers. Adoption of the EU constitution would codify a vast transfer of remaining legislative, executive, and judicial powers from the nation states to the EU. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos happily admits that the EU constitution amounts to a death warrant for the 25 member states. He stated: "We are witnessing the last remnants of national politics. The member states have already relinquished control of justice, liberty, and security. The concept of traditional citizenship has been bypassed in the 21st Century."

Many Europeans who are now desperately trying to disentangle their countries from this morass wish they had acted sooner, before they had gone so far into the trap. The architects of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement), and FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) intend to follow the same path as the EU, pushing for full "integration" of the 34 countries of the Western Hemisphere, but on an accelerated timetable. EU leaders are very much involved in this process, providing massive funding to the CAFTA/FTAA process, supplying expertise at FTAA and Latin American conferences, and establishing formal ties and offices with Latin American countries and the central institutions of the FTAA: the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations Economic Commission on Latin America.

The EU is becoming increasingly oppressive and socialistic, and is fast on its way to becoming what Mikhail Gorbachev has approvingly called "the new European Soviet."

If America is to retain its freedom and independence and not follow the EU Soviet example, we must make sure that Congress rejects both CAFTA and FTAA.

CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN AGAIN AND AGAIN AS CAFTA MAY BE VOTED ON IN THE HOUSE AS EARLY AS next week.

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