"Free trade" impacts sovereignty.(THE LAST WORD)

The underlying goal of the drive for so-called free-trade agreements has always been control of national sovereignty. When the world-government advocates couldn't entice nations to give complete control of their governments to the United Nations via some single act, they aimed to achieve this goal through incremental power grabs by such UN subsidiary groups as the World Trade Organization (WTO).

U.S. participation in the UN began with Senate approval of the UN Charter in July 1945. By far the most important individual responsible for bringing the UN into existence--even writing its charter--was Alger Hiss. Later found to be a secret communist agent whose loyalty to the USSR superseded any devotion to his native America, Hiss would also play a pivotal role as the chairman of the U.S. delegation at the founding conference of the International Trade Organization (ITO) in Havana, Cuba, in 1947.

Various members of the U.S. Congress immediately concluded that the ITO was "a charter for trade control." Representative Samuel Pettingill (D-Ind.)said the ITO was "part and parcel of international socialism. one-worldism, and the slow surrender of national sovereignty". When several top-ranking business groups joined in with additional condemnations of the ITO, the issue never came up for a vote and Congress was spared the task of considering membership for our nation.

Faced with temporary defeat, the advocates of world government bided their time, changed the name of their proposal to the Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO), and finally gained U.S. admission to it in 1994. Its most important champion, Congressman Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), unabashedly labeled the vote on WTO membership "a transformational moment [through which[ we are transferring from the United States at a practical level significant authority to a new organization." Over the past decade, the WTO--prominently listed by the UN on its organizational chart has ruled against U.S. tax laws, cotton subsidies, steel tariffs, oil importation, and more. The U.S. Constitution grants power to Congress alone to "'regulate commerce with foreign nations," but this doesn't seem to bother the globalists in and out of government.

Never shy about the UN's ultimate goal, the authors of a 1995 UN document entitled Our Global Neighborhood (OGN) described the WTO as "a crucial building block for global economic governance." The key word here, of course, is "governance." This means that the WTO intends to flex its muscles in far more than just trade. The UN boldly admitted its overall intention with WTO by stating in OGN that ...