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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 23 June 2006 |
We call To The Point "The Oasis for Rational
Conservatives." We've gotten a flood of
emails this week asking if articles on certain websites claiming that George
Bush has "a secret plan to abolish American sovereignty" are being pushed by Irrational
Conservatives.
The answer is yes.
We all focus so much on the moonbats of the left - barking mad
hairshirts like Algore, Moveon.org folks driven treasonously insane by Bush
Derangement Syndrome - that it's important to recognize there are moonbats of
the right.
The problem for me is that a number of them are friends of
mine, so it's not easy for me to write this.
So I won't mention any names, or any websites - not even the
ones that dream up cockamamie conspiracy theories to drive traffic to the site
for the purpose not of informing their readership but gaining more advertising
revenue.
The hype is that Bush is in cahoots with Mexican President
Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in a secret plot to create
a "North American Union," whereby Mexico and Canada would merge with the US to
form one big borderless country with a single currency, the ‘Amero.'
The plot was supposedly hatched in March of 2005, when the
three met in Waco, Texas, and agreed to create a Security
and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).
An agreement to seek ways to increase security from
international terrorists and create more prosperity in North America? Obviously, what else could that be but a
plot to sell out America by the globalist traitor, George W. Bush?
Moonbat City.
That Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party, not Paul
Martin of the Liberal Party, heads Canada now, or that Vicente Fox will soon no
longer head Mexico (the presidential election is July 2, inauguration is
December 1) doesn't matter. The plot
somehow continues.
The molehill this mountain is made of is a book written by a
professor of international relations at American University, Robert Pastor, Toward
a North American Community. Pastor
argues for a sort of European Union for Mexico, America, and Canada with a
common currency he calls the Amero.
So when it was discovered to the horror of the
conspiratorialists that Prestor was one of the authors of a Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) paper called Building
a North American Community - well, that just proves Bush is using the SPP
to create a North American Union.
I'm sure you just said, "Huh?" and asked, ah, just what is the connection between this SPP and
the CFR? You'll get an eyes-rolling
response that everybody just knows the nefarious CFR controls American
foreign policy so obviously the CFR is running the SPP.
But of course, if the connection is so known and obvious,
there would be no need for FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests demanding
the disclosure of who is saying what in the SPP "Working Groups" discussing how
to increase security and trade.
Folks, this "plot" is made up, whole cloth. It is paranoid nonsense, cynically
pushed to generate advertising revenue.
For some weird reason which has to do with psychology rather
than reality, a small but loud subset of conservatives easily falls prey to
conspiracy theories about cabals of powerful people meeting in secret to take
over the world: the Bilderbergers, the
Trilaterialists, the Council on Foreign Relations, or some such.
The world headquarters of this subset of conservatives is on
a grassy knoll in downtown Dallas.
The world is way too big and complicated to be run by
secret cabals. Believing in this sort
of thing is kid stuff, it's not thinking like a grown-up.
I'm sorry to be so harsh, but it's really not helpful to let
frustration over Bush's refusal to shut down the illegal invasion make one go
wacko.
I have talked to a lot - a lot - of very plugged-in people
here in Washington, and no one - no one - has a coherent, knowledgeable
explanation of Bush's behavior regarding illegals. There are a lot of theories - and that's all they are.
But to jump from this mystery to loony-tunes hallucinations
about the President of the United States secretly plotting to eliminate his
country, especially when that president is a decent man of character and the
antithesis of a Bill Clinton - well, it recalls that scene in old movies where
someone loses it and his friend grabs his lapels and says, "Get a grip on
yourself, man!"
The lesson to be learned is not to trust sensationalist
websites that are conservative National Enquirers. You laugh at Enquirer headlines blaring "My Baby's Father Was a
Space Alien!" Learn to laugh at
websites blaring a political equivalent.
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