In their own words: some of the promoters of so-called free trade agreements such as the FTAA have, at times, acknowledged that their purpose is to create supranational governments.(Premeditated Merger)

In 1994, President Clinton convened the Summit of the Americas.... As president, I will build on that spirit and help forge a new and broader "Community of the Americas."

-- Senator John Kerry Interview in Poder magazine, August 2004

We cannot leap into world government in one quick step.... [This objective] requires a process of gradually expanding the range of democratic cooperation ... a widening, step by step, stone by stone, [of] existing relatively narrow zones of stability.... [T]he precondition for eventual globalization--genuine globalization --is progressive regionalization because thereby we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.

--Zbigniew Brzezinski Former national security adviser to President Carter, address to Mikhail Gorbachev's State of the World Forum, October 1995 (Brzezinski was the first North American director of the Trilateral Commission.)

[T]he "house of world order" will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down.... [A]n end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault....

Among other things, we will be seeking new rules in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to cover a whole range of hitherto unregulated nontariff barriers. These will subject countries to an unprecedented degree of international surveillance over up to now sacrosanct "domestic" policies, such as farm price supports, subsidies, and government procurement practices that have transnational effects.

-- Richard N. Gardner Foreign Affairs, April 1974 (Foreign Affairs is the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. Gardner has held a number of posts in the U.S. State Department.)