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U.Ks Gordon Brown: Preaching One Worldism In U.S., Fighting Patriots At
Home

By Brenda Walker

"It was a low blow to American patriots. The leader of a historic ally
stood on our soil and declared: "We are all internationalists now."

The man: Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The occasion: an April 18
speech, Foreign Policy in an Interdependent World, at the Kennedy Library
in Boston .

In case there is any doubt that political elites of the West have wholly
bought into the globalization belief that a handful of superstates should
form, eventually leading to one world government, the performance of Mr.
Brown was dispositive. He is hard at work to institute happy-face soft
totalitarianism in Europe. He wants America to get on board with the
project.

The ideologies of the left keep failing, but today's proponents believe
the One-Worlder version will work, this time for sure. If elites can just
eliminate the nation-state democracies with their annoying ideas of
representative government and sovereignty, then joy and peace will prevail
under the United Nations of Brussels.

The political oligarchs know best, after all, and they are engaged in the
important business of creating a future superpower.

Mr. Brown's speech was sophomoric throughout. The Prime Minister began by
thanking Senator Ted for his gracious introduction, and added many
gratuitous asides about the wonderful Kennedy family and their service to
the world.. (Interestingly Brown's Kennedy kudos started with JFK,
omitting the clan father Joseph Kennedy, who was sent home from his post
of Ambassador to Britain in 1940 for favoring appeasement of the Nazis.)

Here is a typical snip from Browns speech:

"And the reality is that we are all affected now by what happens in Asia
or Latin America or Africa. And if we do not work across countries and
continents to create a globalization that is inclusive for all, then not
only will the poorest of the world who lose out react to being excluded,
but people in our own countries will feel€”as many do today€”victims not
beneficiaries of the process of change€”losers and not winners€”and
protectionist sentiment will gain ground.

€œI am optimistic about the benefits of interdependence, and certain that
globalization need not be a zero sum game that says if China or India
benefits America or Europe loses. Why? Because over the next 25 years we
will see the world economy doubling in size, creating a billion new
professional or skilled jobs worldwide, offering opportunity for any who
have the creativity, ingenuity, skills and talent to benefit€”a time of
huge opportunity even if it is also a time of change and risk.

€œAnd in the spirit of John Kennedy who summoned us to think of how we
can make our interdependence work for the benefit of all, I believe a new
global deal is possible: "

New Global Deal? Does that mean an end to poison products from China? How
about a reduction in China's airborne industrial filth that causes 40
percent of the West Coast's air pollution?

Nope€”we can be sure the New Global Deal means bigger offices and more
power for the unelected bureaucrats the European Union and United Nations
already have in excess.

Its important to note, however, that in Europe, ordinary citizens have
not been cooperating in the process of dismantling nations to construct
the EU superstate€”just as grassroots revolt by ordinary Americans
stopped the Bush-Kennedy-McCain Amnesty/Immigration Surge bill last year.

In 2005, after highly debated public campaigns of pro and con concerning
the ratification of the EU Constitution€”a bureaucratic document of 800
pages€”the French and the Dutch voted it down.

The people don't want it. They don't want their national communities
destroyed to fulfill the fantasies of Euro-tyrants.

In a counterattack, the EU bureaucrats concocted a revised scheme to
unborder Europe: the Lisbon Treaty, which is essentially a repackaging of
the rejected legislation. One report noted the Lisbon Treaty is "96 per
cent identical to the old constitution".

Prime Minister Brown has shown his true colors by reversing his
government's 2005 promise of a referendum on the EU Constitution.

In doing so, he acted against public opposition to the Treaty, which is
hugely unpopular. (See the Heritage Foundation article, The EU Lisbon
Treaty: Gordon Brown Surrenders Britain's Sovereignty, by TK, March 7,
2008).

A few days ago, Stuart Wheeler, a betting entrepreneur and one of
Britain's richest men, was granted permission by the High Court to proceed
with a lawsuit to force a vote on the treaty:

"The news was welcomed by the Conservatives who failed to force the
Government to hold a referendum on the treaty in the Commons last month.

€œThe Tories and some Labour MPs believe the treaty is a near-copy of the
discredited EU constitution, which Labour had agreed to hold a referendum
on if the proposals were brought back.

€œShadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said: €˜The Government promised
a referendum on the EU Treaty which is the Constitution in disguise.

€œ €˜It would be a great day for democracy if they were forced to honour
that promise." [Victory in first round of campaign to force EU treaty
referendum, Daily Telegraph, By Christopher Hope, May 2, 2008]

So while Gordon Brown was insulting patriotic Americans with his utopian
blather in Boston about a Global New Deal, he had recently attempted to
suppress representative government at home over the basic issue of
national sovereignty. A patriotic citizen had to take the government to
court to make it honor its own pledge.

What a dismal showing for the Labour Party. Brown showed how little he
cares about the will of the people.

Human nature being what it is, we can far more easily recognize a
boneheaded action by someone else than when we do essentially the same
thing.

So it is with globalization. To those who are paying attention from this
side of the pond, the increasing unification of Europe into an
authoritarian superstate looks like an evil-filled horror movie. The
national governments continue go through the motions, but they are giving
up their powers to unaccountable bureaucrats in the EU headquarters.

Do the people not care about the creeping Brusselization? Citizens in
France and the Netherlands have voted against it, but not everyone has had
that chance. The situation looks dire.

But in this hemisphere, the North American Union is chugging along on
schedule in a parallel transformation. George Bush and his cronies,
Calderon of Mexico and Harper of Canada, deny that anything beyond trade
is being discussed in their private meetings. But the idea of North
America as a more unified political unit is hinted, following "economic
integration."

The people don't want the "Security Prosperity Partnership" (recently
renamed the North American Leaders Summit to confuse the public). But it's
difficult to fight a concoction that is so disguised in business and
trade.

Furthermore, the topic of political globalization is not discussed because
American elites all agree that less national sovereignty would be a good
thing, in line with the corporate plan that borders be diminished. We have
endured months of Presidential campaigning with 24/7 cable news coverage,
but somehow the issue of globalization never comes up€”even though it's
the ideology undergirding both permissive immigration and job
outsourcing.

We see a race to the bottom for wages, with future of planet-wide
corporate feudalism. But the candidates offer little more than sympathy to
down-sized and unemployed workers.

It may boil down to representative government just being too much trouble
for many with Ivy League educations. and for their counterparts around the
world. Elites have never admired democracy and the rights it gives to the
average citizen; they merely put up with it, and bided their time. Now the
global economy and accompanying technology has freed them from earlier
constraints.

All the compromise and consensus-building required by democracy gets more
troublesome with the complexity of modern technological society€”not to
mention keeping all those billions of people relatively quiet.

A top-down power structure looks like a much better idea to these
elites€”particularly since they are on top themselves already,
conveniently.

Therefore, when Gordon Brown gives a speech to people who share his views
on how the world should be run, we shouldn't be too surprised when he
calls for a New World Order:

"...we, amid the emerging complexities of the 21st century, must recognize
afresh the power of John Kennedy's Declaration of Interdependence. And must
firmly root our international system in the values we hold in
common--shaping more than a new world order, creating instead a truly
global society: a global society no longer just based on the power of
states delineated by borders but on the aspirations of people that
transcend borders. "

Thanks, Gordon, for making it clear that borders have no place in the
elite vision of the future!"

http://www.vdare.com/walker/080515_brown.htm


Brenda Walker (email her) lives in Northern California and publishes two
websites, LimitsToGrowth.org and ImmigrationsHumanCost.org. She regards
herself as a citizen of the United States of America, not a mindless
consumer in the global marketplace. She believes Czech President Vaclav
Klaus was right when he said €œYou cannot have democratic accountability
in anything bigger than a nation state€�.



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