Posted on 05/31/2005 3:26:55 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
What level of government (local, state, federal, multinational institution or none) should regulate the following: What trees you may cut on your home property; whether you may burn logs in your home fireplace; what identification you need to open a bank account in your local bank?
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Well....yes.
Just yesterday, I was thinking that a "typical multi-nationalist" person in Western Europe has many layers of government: (1) local, (2) province/state, (3) central/federal, (4) European Commission, (5) United Nations...
Believe it or not here where I live in Maryland, because my property is in what they call a crucial area, The County government does regulate what trees can be cut and what they have to be replaced with. If a limb fell on my house I cannot legally cut it off without a permit.
I'm generally more in favor of local government than more far reaching - but criminy, that's ridiculous.
Sounds to me like you have a good bit of left wing fascism going on in your county.
If I'm reading you right, not only does the government control what you can or cannot do on your property, it charges you tax (permit fee) to improve your property (remove a branch from your roof).
So you're getting the shaft two ways.
Under this system, private property owners (serfs) take care of the land and pay taxes on it, while government wields complete control over the land.
It’s win-win for an imperial government. Not only do serfs work the land, the serfs also pay the government taxes for the labor they performed. It’s the ultimate government abuse and scam on the people.
No, we're not 'drifting'...
We're being rapidly rowed there by our elected leaders, whether we WANT to go that direction, or not!
Let's see, we have City Government, County Government, State Government, Federal Government, and that's just here!
I believe GWB's refusal to do anything about the border is for the precise reason that he wants chaos and essentially no border whatsoever.
The elite in Washington, including GWB, are rapidly moving us in the wrong direction.
I would probably word it a bit differently than "world government". But we certainly do see increasing centralization of power. First the Feds take it; then they hand it over to international bodies (plural, not one government). The problem is that there are no longer any rules to follow. The US Constitution is now a quaint, old document that is honored in the breach continously. Without a foundation, anything goes...and that is why we are drifting on many dimensions.
The ultimate abuse and scam on the American people is CAFTA and the FTAA. These 2 treaties are the back door into the UN.
These 2 treaties plus the WTO treaty are written almost verbatim from the UN. There is not a dimes worth of difference in all 3 treaties.
These treaties are not about trade, they are about control and socializing, to the ultimate, the American people.
How do I know this? I was on another thread and got into an argument. So I decided to back it up with the document. Guess what? I was wrong in my argument and the free traders were also wrong.
I found this offical FTAA site. http://www.ftaa-alca.org
I then clicked on 3rd draft, the Chapter XVI Services. Approximaately 1/4 of the page down you will find the words "more burdensome than". Read this part and also scroll down to professional qualilfications and read. You will see that licenses ,such as nursing licenses and CPA licenses, can be downgraded to taking an oral test or interview.
The thing that bugged me about this was the 3 words "more burdensome than" as they are not specific words. So I then went to google and typed in "more burdensome than". I got an eyeopener as to how powerful these words are.
I then went to http://www.wto.org and hit the search engine at the top of the page. Then the search engine at the bottom of the page I typed in "more burdensome than". Whoa, powerful words. I then clicked on # 8 and #9 on that page. These 2 documents explain what "more burdensome than" means.
Still not satisfied, I went to http://www.ustr.gov and again to the search engine. The 3 little words did not work so I typed in "CAFTA final text". I then went to Chapter 11. Again those 3 little words "more burdensome that" were there. On down you will read the profession critera for licenses.
As I said earlier, there is not a dimes worth of difference in any of these treaties.
With the signing of these treaties we will be giving Americas high standards of licensing to a tribunal to down-grade as they see fit. I imagine, any other law that comes in the way of a country making a profit in the US is up for grabs by the tribunal. Sickening.
These treaaties are not about trade, they are about control.
Thanks for the ping TT.. Thanks for all your research as well.. I believe you are exactly right. This is about control, and world governance.
I have always believed these type things are about money and control - their control over us and our money.
Read post #10. this will support your argument on what an abomination CAFTA, the FTAA abd WTO is.
Read post #10 and ping those interested.
Note, the specific or non-specific language in these 3 treaties.
I am not willing to gives my country over to a tribunal.
Also, doesn't NAFTA lead us into CAFTA which leads us into FTAA and so on and so on?
The heroes in Congress are the 40 Republicans resisting these scam deals like CAFTA. Hopefully they don't cave in to the enormous pressure in the coming weeks.
Yepper. Check out Texastoo's post #6.
Ooops.. correction, post #10.. Dang fangers. :)
All of you need to read my steps in #10.
As Paul Harvey would say, this is the rest of the story.
CAFTA and NAFTA are only partially trade treaties. The rest is world dominance by tribunals. Our voices will never be heard again. I found out also that the original text of NAFTA didn't have these 3 words, "more burdensome than".
The orginal text of NAFTA didn't have these 3 words.
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