Is that what they told you?
I attended a few meetings in 72-73. The rhetoric in almost exactly the same today. I don't see the world as they predicted. ie: one world govt, uncontrolled military industrial complex. And Henry Kissinger was supposed to be behind it all. The secret government that no one knew about except the Bircher's.
What I do see is a socialist world and that the U.S. is doing a fair job of keeping it's head above it all. I was worried there for a bit (for eight years), but I believe things have gotten alot better in the last two.
If the Bircher's did not sling all those conspiracys and tri-lateral BS around, I would be more inclined to take them seriously.
Read the quotes by George W. Bush back up the thread, and then explain to me how they're better. He's leading the charge for an internationalist, socialist government of NGO's, corporations, and bureaucracies. Ultimately the NGO's will be the losers, is my guess, they just don't realize it yet -- but they'll supply a lot of the wonkery and manpower to make the changeover to oligarchic, palace government possible, and their personnel will supply a lot of the slots in the remorselessly expanding supranational (they wish) bureaucracies.
They're all looking at us like we're dinner, hoss. What's good about that?
I want to talk about another subject that's incredibly important for not only the border states, but all of America. And that's relations with our neighbors to the south, Mexico. Mexico is a friend of America. Mexico is our neighbor. And we want our neighbors to succeed. We want our neighbors to do well. We want our neighbors to be successful.
We understand that a poor neighbor is somebody that's going to be harder to deal with than a neighbor that's prospering. And that's why it's so important for us to tear down barriers and walls that might separate Mexico from the United States. And that's why it's so important for us to stand strong when it comes to free trade with our neighbors to the south.
NAFTA has been good for New Mexico, and it's been good for Mexico. And that's an important relationship that I pledge to continue on. I ask -- I ask for the Congress -- I ask for the Congress to give me trade promotion authority, so that we can not only have free trade with our neighbor to the south, so that we can have free trade throughout the hemisphere.
Oh, I know there's some voices who want to wall us off from Mexico. They want to build a wall. I say to them, they want to condemn our neighbors to the south in poverty, and I refuse to accept that type of isolationist and protectionist attitude. (Applause.)
And let me say one other thing, one other issue that's important. It speaks to the spirit of our nation. It speaks to whether or not we're going to be true friends with the neighbors to the south. And that's the issue of trucking. There are some people who say we shouldn't allow our friends to the south to send their trucks into the United States. I say that's discrimination against Mexico.
I say that if we're going to have NAFTA, we ought to enforce all of NAFTA. I believe strongly we can have safety on our highways without discriminating against our neighbors to the south. To the protectionists and isolationists, I say if Mexican trucks, if United States trucks, and Canadian trucks are allowed to move freely on our highways, we can not only enforce the laws, it will help prosperity spread its roots throughout our neighborhood. And that's important for the future. (Applause.)
That is what is so great about being ornery. We have the ability to think for ourselves even when it does fit the "Party" line. LOL One of these days I am going to join the Birch Society just to get a bumper sticker and tee off my neighbors.