Get US Out! of NAFTA, TPP, TTIP, and other Regional Integration Schemes

From TPP and TTIP to a renegotiated NAFTA, the American political landscape has exploded with a plethora of alphabet soup so-called "free trade" agreements designed to facilitate regional integration as an interim step toward global government.

Experiencing the erosion of its national sovereignty, the majority of Britons successfully voted to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union in what became known as "Brexit." Looking back at the creation of the European Union, it did not start out as a common market or regional government.

Even prior to the Treaty of Rome - originally signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and West Germany in 1957 - and the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC), the EU's roots can be traced as far back as 1951 with the signing of the Paris Treaty, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

Like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreements of today involving the United States, both the EEC and ECSC were sold to the people of Europe and their various governments as "free trade" agreements.

For a war-torn continent facing the imminent threat of communism by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact satellite nations, the concept of reducing tariffs and other trade barriers among the nations of Western Europe was appealing, however it came at a high cost, as Britons discovered with the loss of their nation's sovereignty.

Although not in a war-torn nation, Americans find themselves in a predicament similar to what the Europeans of the 1950's faced: Do we choose the path of eventual regionalism and global government paved by the enticing prospects of "free trade" with other nations or do we keep the U.S. free and independent?

A lot can be learned from Britain's past mistakes. As JBS Vice President of Operations Bill Hahn points out in Analysis Behind the News, "In the video documentary called The Real Face of the European Union, British producer Philip Day exposes how the unelected and unaccountable European Commission creates legislation and then expects all the elected members of the European Parliament to pass the legislation in each country." 

As Hahn also points out, in 2001, EU British District Judge Morgan wrote, "We are now living under a new legal order. The 1972 European Communities Act was a one-off not an ordinary treaty but a new way of life. These are new constitutional powers. The British Parliament surrendered its sovereignty in 1972. European laws have overriding force with priority over our British laws .... The articles on the supremacy of the British Parliament are now only of historical perspective -- they are non-binding."

Will a future American district judge write the same about the United States, because of the NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP, TTIP, TiSA, and other alphabet soup agreements that we are in or propose joining? To learn more about Britain's experience in the EU, you can purchase the DVD The Real Face of the European Union from ShopJBS.org or by clicking on the thumbnail image on the left.

Despite having a parliament composed of elected MEPs (Members of European Parliament), the EU's actual law-making power resides in the unelected, bureaucratic EU Commission, to which the EU Parliament serves as a rubber stamp body while giving the illusion of "democracy." In fact, the EU isn't the only regional scheme with such a powerful commission. Both NAFTA and the proposed TPP have their own commissions and settlement dispute courts that supersede the sovereignty of both the United States' legislative process and judicial system.

Regarding NAFTA, retired General David Petraeus, chairman of KKR Global Institute, declared at a conference in 2014 that NAFTA has already highly integrated the three North American countries of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and that the coming decade will be spent building North America. General Petraeus further elaborated in an article in Foreign Affairs magazine, published by the world-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), stating, "all three countries have the chance to forge a new forward-looking agenda for North American competitiveness and integration."

A decade earlier, in the Washington Post, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote about NAFTA calling it "the most creative step toward a new world order taken by any group of countries since the end of the Cold War," further adding that NAFTA "is not a conventional trade agreement, but the architecture of a new international system...."

The question remains, which will you choose: liberty and independence or Petraeus', Kissinger's, and other globalists' North America and a "new international system"?

If you choose liberty and independence, contact Congress and the President today, as requested below.

Phone your representative (202-225-3121), two senators (202-224-3121), and the president (202-456-1111) and ask them to Get US Out! of NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP, TTIP, TiSA, and any other alphabet soup so-called "trade" agreements.

Click here to send this same message as an editable, pre-written email to Congress and the President.

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Your Friends at The John Birch Society