Stiff Right Jab: Ending the Debate--Globalist Styled “Consent”

Steve Farrell
April 15, 2002

As Americans, there are some political principles that are so basic, so engrained in our national psyche, so written in our hearts as humans endowed by our Creator with agency, that few, if any dispute their veracity.

Here's one: "Governments . . . [derive] their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Who doesn't believe this? In 1776, Jefferson penned it into the Declaration of Independence. He said in essence, men will be ruled by law, but since government´s sole duty is but a commission from the individual to protect his rights, writ large, no government can legitimately exist, let alone legislate, execute, and adjudicate law without the people, whom he will serve, first saying ‘OK, serve me;´ and next, ‘OK, these are the laws which I accept.´ We call this consent. It is the Divine heritage of the Children of God.

One hundred and thirty eight years earlier at the opening session of the General Court at Hartford, Connecticut, Reverend Thomas Hooker affirmed the same: “the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people.”

Before that, date it 1620, our Pilgrim Fathers drew up a Mayflower Compact, of which the FREELY elected Governor Bradford noted: "[I] t was thought good there should be an association and agreement, that we should combine together in one body, and to submit to such government and governors . . . by COMMON CONSENT . . .” Everyone signed.

These men knew the score. They knew that God, as perfect and all knowing as He is, yet, invites, persuades, admonishes men to “choose ye this day,” to join the Kingdom of God, or not. So what then of earthly Kingdom´s, run by imperfect men? Is not the right of consent in such as these, even more vital?

As it is with true religion, so it is with proper government, legitimacy is discredited as consent erodes.

There is a reason for this discussion. There is a bill before the Senate, this very hour, already passed in the House by one vote, which threatens your right to consent on two fronts. It is H.R. 3005, Trade Promotion Authority for the President.

Front One

Trade Promotion Authority for the President, is being marketed by the GOP as a “fast track” to prosperity. A mailer I received from the GOP last week, focused exclusively on one thing: free trade makes America richer; so if you care about your family budget, and hate paying taxes, support trade promotion authority for the President.

Not so fast. In a government that is run by consent, there is something fundamentally unsound about the idea of “fast track” legislation. In fact, the bill´s summary promises, as to fast track, that its central purpose is to “minimize debate.” The question is, what good is consent, if debate is minimized? Or what good is consent, if consent becomes uninformed, left out in the dark, rushed, and therefore, consigned to trusting in a President, his Privy Council, and international corporations who have a vested interest in using government to promote themselves to the exclusion of the liberty of the people?

Globalists fear gridlock. They claim the world is moving too fast for debate. Tough. The first logical solution is to remind the globalist that “gridlock” will diminish as government cut back on regulation, and returns to constitutional limits. But secondly, a little gridlock was hoped for by our Founders, as to insure every issue is given its day in the sun; as to insure consent is consent indeed; and that national sell outs, are not easily purchased.

Front Two

The text of H.R. 3005 states its second fundamental purpose, as being, the swift creation of a European Union clone for the Americas – the Free Trade Zone of the Americas (FTAA). In so stating, clause after clause mandates the necessity of insuring that a wide scope of US laws, i.e. environmental law, labor law, minimum wage law, intellectual property law, welfare law, are brought into compliance with the laws of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the UN´s International Labor Organization, the FTAA, and other international protocols, and to insure that the United States will be subject to international sanctions, whenever we fail to comply.

In summary, what does this mean? Front one -- fast track -- minimizes consent, by minimizing debate. Front two, FTAA, marginalizes, perhaps eliminates consent, by making US law subject to international law, that is, subject to lawmakers from communist, socialist, fascist, and Islamic Fundamentalist nations who hate us.

Are you willing to consent to this? If H.R. 3005 is made law, you may not even be asked.

Contact Steve at cyours76@yahoo.com

Action Corner

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