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The Free Trade Deception

free trade deception

We are told that the free trade agreements are ways of promoting free trade between nations. Most of us simply accept these agreements as labeled by our politicians and media. They are beneficial to our nation we are told.

After all what can be wrong with “free” trade. In truth and fact, free trade is neither beneficial nor free!

The First Deception

Free trade is good for our nation- Isn’t this what we are told by the media and our politicians? While on the surface we can all agree with that statement, do the “free trade” agreements actually promote real free trade?

Obama was pilloried by the media for not getting free trade agreements passed as though he had betrayed the nation.

The irony, however, is that the agreements are what actually betrays the nation once you understand these agreements for what they actually are.

The actual fact is, these free trade agreements are undermining our Constitutionally established national sovereignty which is to say our capacity to govern our own nation.

How Free Trade Undermines our Constitution and National Sovereignty

All of these agreements, from NAFTA to the most recent agreements, cede the control of foreign trade from our elected representatives in Congress to the United Nations.

What people have not been told and what the agreements actually do are two completely different things.

The capacity to regulate trade for the States was one of the primary concerns which promoted a change in the Articles of Confederation.

The colonies wanted to negotiate as a trading block because it gave them more leverage with trading partners. It offered more protection against pirates and cargo hijacks from other nations. It gave our nation more control over the trading process itself.

The adopted Constitution reflected those concerns in Article I, Section 8 as follows:

The Congress shall have the power….

To regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and offenses against the Law of Nations;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

However, the so-called Free Trade agreements are quite simply an UnConstitutional surrender of our sovereign trade authority to an international body. By approving them, Congress is ceding its authority to the United Nations. This is in direct opposition to the intent of our rule of law or the United States Constitution.

What it does do however is to place yet another brick in the new world order architecture of which the UN serves as a template that George Bush and others have referred to over the years:

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“When we are successful, and we will be…….” Pretty confident about that wasn’t he? Based on the results achieved since he made that address, his confidence was justified.

These are some of the actual provisions of the 2012 Columbia free trade agreement:

Chapter One
Initial Provisions and General Definitions

Section A: Initial Provisions

Article 1.1: Establishment of a Free Trade Area

The Parties to this Agreement, consistent with Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 and Article V of the GATS, hereby establish a free trade area.

Article 1.2: Relation to Other Agreements

The Parties affirm their existing rights and obligations with respect to each other under the WTO Agreement and other agreements to which such Parties are party.

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Do you see under whose authority the agreement is provisioned? Pretty obvious isn’t it when you actually read the words of the agreement. The WTO BTW is a Related Organization in the UN System.

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 Free? How is That the Case if….

The UN is the controller under these agreements NOT the U.S. or our Constitution? You know, the document which each elected representative from the President on down takes an oath to protect, defend and uphold.

Under these so-called “free trade” agreements, the Constitution is simply out the window.

It is traded away by our wonderful representatives while the media chirps on about how beneficial they are to U.S. trade. Free trade agreements are promoted in Congress by our politicians and backed at the highest level by President’s like Obama, Clinton, and both Bush’s to have them approved by the Senate as treaties. (Not by Trump however. At least that is what he says to the public.)

If you are beginning to sense some deception here, you should. There is more going on than the vast majority of the public understand.

Click here for Part Two (How free these free trade agreements?)

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