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U.S. Bush administration's greed-driven 'New World Order' plans threaten human rights and democracy

I applaud the column by Paul Hellyer on Globalization. He covered all the bases. As an American being subjected to the overthrow of our government by George Bush and his co-conspirators in the corporate world, I feel the same anger and despair as Canadian citizens. In addition, we also have the Reconquista, the attempt to retake the Southwest United States through demographic dominance. Mexico lost this region as a result of the Mexican/American War of 1848. They will be successful.

George Bush has refused to secure our borders since the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will have open borders as early as 2010, if the SPPNA (Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America aka North America) is implemented. The borders between Canada and America will be opened and citizens of both countries will be free to live and work in either of the two member states. This policy will be extended to Mexico as soon as the wage differentials between Mexico and the other two states is diminished considerably. That means when American and Canadian wages are diminished considerably.

Bush, Martin, and Fox committed their nations to this new economic and political union at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. It is a prelude to the FTAA, a demonstration to the rest of the Western Hemisphere that it will work. Bush and his "advisors" in the corporate world are planning to construct a regional corporate government of the hemisphere (34 nations) which will be run, initially, by these trade agreements. Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, is lobbying to have Miami as the headquarters of the FTAA. Eventually, this would become the capital of a European type of union, complete with a council and parliament.

The motivation for this corporate takeover is profit. People are merely cheap tools of production. They have no rights and as we can clearly see, the goal of these soulless captains of industry is to destroy unions, reduce or eliminate benefits, and drive wages down (known as the race to the bottom). China is a CEO's dream world, where women and children toil for companies like Wal-Mart under horrible conditions. They work up to 90 hours a week, with no overtime pay, no benefits and a pay scale that ranges from 14 to 35 cents an hour.

If the FTAA passes, workers will enter a future that consists of unrestrained commerce, privatization (for profit) of everything from water and sewage to schools plus 800,000,000 people fighting for temporary jobs with meagre pay. No time for the things that make life worth living.

Chapter VI Environment Provisions and Chapter VII Labor Provisions of the FTAA declare that these "issues are not contemplated in the TCI mandate or in the FTAA negotiation mandate. Therefore, no provisions on this issue should exist in the FTAA Agreement." If NAFTA is an example of what we can expect, then people and the environment will continue to be of no concern to the ruling corporate elite, a group that is not held accountable for their actions.

Most Canadians and most Americans oppose this New World Order, which more and more seems to be heading for an Orwellian destiny, a place where life has no meaning and hope is nowhere to be found.

I wish the citizens of Canada success in their fight to remain a free and sovereign nation.