http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/column/2012-06-06.html
One of the biggest issues in the November election is whether we will continue or stop President Obama’s move toward
restricting U.S. sovereignty and rushing down the road to global governance.
One would think that the obvious failure of the European Union and disdain for
the euro would put the skids on global integration, but no such luck.
Obama has such delusions of his own power that he thinks he can do by
executive order whatever he cannot get Congress to approve, even Harry
Reid’s Democratic Senate. Obama’s most recent executive order
starts off with the extravagant claim that it is issued “by the authority
vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States
of America.”
On the contrary, the
President is not vested with the authority asserted in Executive Order 13563, which
locks us into a worldwide regulatory system and thereby gives up a huge slice
of U.S. economic and environmental sovereignty. The proclaimed
purpose is to globally harmonize regulations on environmental, trade, and even
legislative processes.
This Executive Order is larded with globalist gobbledygook about the
obligation of our regulatory system to “protect public health, welfare,
safety and our environment while promoting economic growth, innovation,
competitiveness, and job creation.” Those pie-in-the-sky goodies are
designed to benefit “an increasingly global economy,” rather than
the United States.
The Executive Order specifies that this new “international regulatory
cooperation” will function “particularly in emerging technology
areas.” That’s an open door for dangerous mischief in sensitive
areas that the new global busybodies might get into, and it will probably give
Communist China the opportunity to steal more of our technology.
The crux of the purpose for this tremendous assumption of presidential power
is to establish a “Regulatory Plan” and “reforms” of
“significant regulations that address unnecessary differences in
regulatory requirements between the United States and its major trading
partners.” Wow! Will we be harmonizing U.S. regulations with Communist
China, one of our biggest trading partners?
Do you remember Cass Sunstein, Obama’s Regulatory Czar who became
famous for saying that the government “owns the rights to body parts of
people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their
organs without asking anyone’s permission,” and, bow,
wow, that dogs are entitled to have lawyers to sue humans in court? He
has recently emerged to publish an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal
enthusiastically supporting Obama’s global regulatory harmonization.
Maybe Sunstein will try to harmonize our dog-food regulations with China,
whose dog-food just sickened 1,000 U.S. dogs. Maybe Sunstein will find a way to
harmonize U.S. production of electronic parts for our military aircraft with
the 1,800 cases of counterfeit parts Communist China sold to our military.
Obama’s Executive Order creates a
“Working Group” to issue a “Regulatory Plan” and
“guidelines” that will “operate on consensus.”
That’s the favorite United Nations procedure of reducing the power of the
United States in international confabs.
President George W. Bush had dreams of harmonizing our regulations with
those of Canada and Mexico as a stepping stone to creating a North American
Union. He set up a bunch of Working Groups in the Commerce Department under the
name Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).
But Bush’s three-country plan was not acceptable to Americans who
value our independence, and not global enough for Obama who is eager to turn us
into world citizens under global governance. After Obama was elected, SPP
closed down and deleted its website.
The next step of the global
governance lobby is likely to be a push for U.S. acceptance of the United
Nations’ demand for a global tax on all financial transactions “to
offset the costs of the enduring economic, financial, fuel, climate and food
crises, and to protect basic human rights.” That’s on the agenda
for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro this month
known as Rio+20.
Don’t expect any benefit to the United States. The real purpose is to
reduce our standard of living by transferring U.S. wealth to dictators all
around the world.
In one of Obama’s most revealing moments, he was caught on an open
mike in Seoul, South Korea telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev,
“This is my last election. After my election I have more
flexibility.”
Obama’s clear meaning was that he is prepared to cave in to Russian
demands on missile defense after his re-election, but needs more
“space” until then. Medvedev responded, “I understand. I will
transmit this information to Vladimir [Putin].”
If you think Obama has already gotten away with unconstitutional actions,
his second term can take us over the cliff and make us targets for countries
that threaten us with nuclear missiles.
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