.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: A Libertiot for Union of the Free Date: Sunday, August 13, 2000 10:26 PM http://www.atlantica2000.org A Libertiot for Union of the Free By Rick Biondi I am a libertiot. I believe in the concepts and ideas enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence that were conceived in Europe yet born, raised and matured in the United States of America and beyond. I hold "these truths to be self-evident:" that all men and women "are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Naturally, I believe that governments are created among men and women, "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." Furthermore, as an organizational principle, I believe that liberty and union are inseparable, that the greatest threat to the ! concepts and ideas I hold dearly is anarchy among free men and women. As a libertiot I believe Clarence K. Streit was right when he urged the creation of an Atlantic federal union of the free by "uniting of the world�s most advanced democracies, modeled on the Constitution of the United States." He articulated in Union Now that "The Union would be designed (a) to provide effective common government in our democratic world in those fields where such common government will clearly serve man�s freedom better than separate governments, (b) to maintain independent national governments in all other fields where such government will best serve man�s freedom, and (c) growing into universal world government peacefully and as rapidly as such growth will best serve man�s freedom." I fully embrace his emphasis of freedom and union as the sine qua non of world peace and prosperity. Today, his concepts and ideas should continue to serve as a guide for the establishment of a free world order...continued A Libertiot for Atlantic Union of the Free Continued.... There are a plethora of challenges that need to be addressed in the 21st century. We need to balance our desire for a high standard of living with our demand for higher standards of environmental stewardship. We need to address the negative externalities associated with global commerce and trade. We need to establish a world order free from war and tyranny. We can address these issues, as well as others, today, as free men and women, or we can procrastinate and address these issues tomorrow as slaves. If we continue to address the common problems facing the Atlantic community, as well as the world, through our separate and equal stations, our individual liberty will soon become a figment of our imagination. >From the Convention on Biological Diversity to the World Trade Organization, a >considerable amount of international regimes and organizations have been negotiated >and established by representatives of sovereign states that are specifically designed >to influence the socioeconomic behavior of the world�s inhabitants. Forged with >streaming preambles laced with high-sounding principles and purposes, yet lacking >adequate enforcement and capacity-building provisions, these piecemeal approaches to >international organization, while appearing to be a step in the right direction, >actually serve to distract the citizens of the world from moving in the best >direction�towards the establishment of a federal union of the free. It is imperative that we realize that as our common problems become more pronounced due to our refusal to unite the free today, we are likely to see more regimes formed and existing institutions and organizations granted more power and latitude to indirectly, and directly, control, manipulate and influence our individual pursuit of life, liberty and happiness in the so-called name of the common good. This evolution will be gradual in nature, designed specifically not to awaken the sleeping majority of freedom-loving citizens of the world. It will be carried out by those, in the words of the English Jurist Albert Dicey, "who know or think they know what is good for the people better than any non-official person or than the mass of the people themselves." What will be lost is the essence of Western civilization, the notion that the state exists for the individual rather than the individual existing for the state. >From an American perspective, while it is rational under the Constitution of the >United States for the President and his advisors to negotiate military alliances with >the advice and consent of the Senate, it should be absolutely apparent to all free >men and women that the scope of the issues being addressed through the treaty and >agreement-making power currently extends well-beyond the original scope intended by >our Founding Fathers. In 1787 our Founders were more concerned about intranational, >rather than international, problems�which they solved through federal union of the >free. If we have entered an international age where our socioeconomic and >environmental affairs are heavily interdependent, why do we continue to address >international issues using a constitutional mechanism suited for the 18th century, a >time when international socioeconomic and environmental issues were not as complex as >they are today? Can we, as a people committed to representative democracy, allow! our democratic institutions to be usurped by international organizations such as the World Trade Organization where policies and decisions binding on entire nations are made behind close doors by decision-makers that are only accountable to the politics of the day and the special interests that drive them? Free men and women should cry: "No implementation without representation!" Our Founding Fathers forged the Constitution of the United States because they recognized that individual liberty was best served when the decisions that affected the lives of Americans as a whole on a socioeconomic level were made by representatives directly elected by the American people themselves. Today, the Atlantic community of nations share common problems that only common policies forged through common democratic institutions should address. I cannot, in good conscience, allow a dictatorship by proxy to emerge simply because I refuse to seek a more perfect, Atlantic, union. According to the Declaration of Independence, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." I refuse, however, to allow the current! abuses and usurpations associated with the international treaty and agreement-making power to facilitate the erosion of individual liberty. I am a libertiot and I chose Atlantic Union now! http://www.atlantica2000.org Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *********************************** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** Explore Our Archive: <http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html> <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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