It is my premise that the attacks we see on the Second Amendment are merely the warm-up act for a full scale, frontal assault on the Constitution. More evidence follows.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20000529_xex_helms_promis.shtml
This article discusses some of the implications to Constitutional government by the passage of PNTR with Communist China. The House of Representative voted to pass the resolution along to the Senate where there is more skepticism. I won't copy the article here but I will excerpt a troublesome passage.
". . . . China also will become, with U.S. backing, a member of the World Trade Organization, where it will have the same vote as the United States, and where it will have a right to challenge the validity of U.S. laws in secret international tribunals where foreign trade lawyers serve as judges.
This second benefit will also be a boon to major multinational corporations that have formed partnerships with China's communist regime. WTO membership, for example, will allow joint-venture manufacturing facilities operated by the Chinese regime and U.S. defense contractors, such as Boeing and Motorola, to sue the United States in WTO tribunals to overturn laws passed by Congress that Motorola, Boeing and the Chinese communists oppose.
Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee in 1994, when the Clinton administration first proposed the WTO charter to Congress for approval, then-House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., who favored the charter, candidly conceded it would transfer some American sovereignty to an international organization.
Said Gingrich: "I am just saying that we need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a practical level significant authority to a new organization. This is a transformational moment. I would feel better if the people who favor this would just be honest about the scale of the change."
By endorsing communist Chinese membership in the WTO, Congress is endorsing not only giving a totalitarian regime an equal vote to that of the United States in an organization of global government, but it is also giving that regime the authority to challenge the legitimacy of laws duly passed under the U.S. Constitution.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution gave Congress the power to "regulate trade with foreign nations." The WTO Charter -- which requires all WTO members to conform to the organization's rulings -- transfers that power to WTO tribunals. Granting China membership in the WTO gives a communist regime a part of the sovereign power over U.S. trade policy that the Founding Fathers reserved for Congress alone.
Advocates of Permanent Normal Trade Relations and WTO membership for China -- many of them conservatives -- argue that increased exposure to Western business interests and commodities will transform China from a totalitarian regime to a free one. Only time will tell if that is a correct assessment. . . . ."
Bottom line? PNTR with Communist China will make China equal with the US in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Our previous entry into the WTO subjects us to the governance by the WTO who can challenge any law made by the US legislature. If the WTO does not like any provision of our law, members (oh, say China for example) can force us to change our laws. You talk about abandoning sovereignty to "world government."
If you read the full article you will see that Senator No! (aka Jesse Helms R-NC) is publicly skeptical and will make the Senate work for it. I do not know what you think of this deal but I think it smells.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater--1964
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20000529_xex_helms_promis.shtml
This article discusses some of the implications to Constitutional government by the passage of PNTR with Communist China. The House of Representative voted to pass the resolution along to the Senate where there is more skepticism. I won't copy the article here but I will excerpt a troublesome passage.
". . . . China also will become, with U.S. backing, a member of the World Trade Organization, where it will have the same vote as the United States, and where it will have a right to challenge the validity of U.S. laws in secret international tribunals where foreign trade lawyers serve as judges.
This second benefit will also be a boon to major multinational corporations that have formed partnerships with China's communist regime. WTO membership, for example, will allow joint-venture manufacturing facilities operated by the Chinese regime and U.S. defense contractors, such as Boeing and Motorola, to sue the United States in WTO tribunals to overturn laws passed by Congress that Motorola, Boeing and the Chinese communists oppose.
Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee in 1994, when the Clinton administration first proposed the WTO charter to Congress for approval, then-House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., who favored the charter, candidly conceded it would transfer some American sovereignty to an international organization.
Said Gingrich: "I am just saying that we need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a practical level significant authority to a new organization. This is a transformational moment. I would feel better if the people who favor this would just be honest about the scale of the change."
By endorsing communist Chinese membership in the WTO, Congress is endorsing not only giving a totalitarian regime an equal vote to that of the United States in an organization of global government, but it is also giving that regime the authority to challenge the legitimacy of laws duly passed under the U.S. Constitution.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution gave Congress the power to "regulate trade with foreign nations." The WTO Charter -- which requires all WTO members to conform to the organization's rulings -- transfers that power to WTO tribunals. Granting China membership in the WTO gives a communist regime a part of the sovereign power over U.S. trade policy that the Founding Fathers reserved for Congress alone.
Advocates of Permanent Normal Trade Relations and WTO membership for China -- many of them conservatives -- argue that increased exposure to Western business interests and commodities will transform China from a totalitarian regime to a free one. Only time will tell if that is a correct assessment. . . . ."
Bottom line? PNTR with Communist China will make China equal with the US in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Our previous entry into the WTO subjects us to the governance by the WTO who can challenge any law made by the US legislature. If the WTO does not like any provision of our law, members (oh, say China for example) can force us to change our laws. You talk about abandoning sovereignty to "world government."
If you read the full article you will see that Senator No! (aka Jesse Helms R-NC) is publicly skeptical and will make the Senate work for it. I do not know what you think of this deal but I think it smells.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater--1964