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All Four SC Republican House members vote ‘For’ CAFTA:

Henry Brown, Joe Wilson, Gresham Barrett, and Bob Inglis

If even ONE of these four SC Republican House members had voted against CAFTA instead of voting for this sell-out of American workers, American factories, and American sovereignty, then the entire House vote would have been a tie (216 to 216), and CAFTA would have failed !

Despite the assertion in The State on Tues., July 26, the day before the CAFTA debate began in the US House in earnest, that JOE WILSON was among three ‘definite “no” votes’ in the South Carolina 8-member Congressional delegation (2 US Senators and 6 Congressmen), when it was all said done, and CAFTA passed the US House by the narrowest of margins, 217 to 215, JOE WILSON CHANGED HIS VOTE, AND VOTED PRO-CAFTA WITH PRESIDENT BUSH.

Indeed, The State reported on Thursday, July 28, that the passage of CAFTA was “a personal triumph for President Bush, who campaigned aggressively for the accord…” and that the President of the United States had even taken the extraordinary step to actually go to the U.S. Capitol Building to personally lobby Republican House members. As report by The State, “It was an uphill effort to win a majority, with Bush traveling to Capitol Hill earlier in the day to appeal to wavering Republicans…”
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/12241334.htm

In the end, it appears that Congressman Joe Wilson (R-Lexington) was more loyal to the Establishment agenda of President Bushthan what he himself probably knows is in the best interestof the people he represents in the 2nd Congressional Districtof South Carolina (Lexington County to Beaufort County).

See how Congress voted at http://thomas.loc.gov HR 3045, July 28, 2005

Find tables of ‘AYES’ ‘NOES’ and ‘NOT VOTING’ for CAFTA vote, with alphabetical list of Congressmens’ names under each heading at:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll443.xml

“… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 28, 2005
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The State
Columbia, SC

www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/12222535.htm

Posted on Tue, Jul. 26, 2005

Trade treaty wins over S.C. lawmakers

By LAUREN MARKOE
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON ­ South Carolina’s congressional delegation will split its votes on CAFTA.

That’s a notable roll call for a traditionally protectionist state where not long ago all but the least controversial free trade treaties were dismissed as bad for American workers ­ and S.C. textile workers in particular.

In 1993, only one of the eight members of the delegation voted for NAFTA, the free trade treaty between the United States, Mexico and Canada.

U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis, R-Travelers Rest, announced his support for CAFTA on Monday. And U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, R-Westminster, will soon follow suit, according to several Capitol Hill sources who have been counting CAFTA votes.

With U.S. Rep. Henry Brown, R-Hanahan, leaning toward CAFTA, and U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., firmly in CAFTA’s corner, four of eight South Carolinians in Congress will likely vote “yes” on the treaty. It could come up for a vote as early as Thursday.

“We’ve gotten some real improvements in the agreement,” said Inglis, who for weeks has led intense negotiations with administration officials on behalf of a group of lawmakers who represent textile interests. “CAFTA is now a much better CAFTA.”

The White House is pushing hard to pass CAFTA, a free trade agreement betweenthe United States, five Central American nations, and the Dominican Republic.

Among the changes Inglis cited as most important in swinging his vote: a signed agreement between CAFTA countries that pockets and garment lining produced in nations outside the free trade zone would not enjoy the benefits of CAFTA.

The Upstate is home to several mills that make pockets and linings ­ firms that would be threatened if China and other producers of pockets and linings avoided tariffs by shipping their often underpriced goods through CAFTA nations.

DeMint, of Greenville, was challenged during the 2004 Republican Senate primary and the general election by candidates who tried to make an issue of his free trade stance and CAFTA, accusing him of ignoring textile workers. But the issue largely fell flat with voters.

DeMint countered that South Carolina ­ home to Fuji, Michelin, BMW and other multinational corporations, now has much more to gain than lose from free trade.

Brown on Monday said that while he is still more likely than not to vote for the treaty, he may not make up his mind before the day of the vote. He noted that he represents a district with an important international port, the Port of Charleston, and he continues to receive calls and e-mail from constituents on both sides of the issue.

On the other side of CAFTA are three South Carolinians who are definite “no” votes ­ U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-Springdale; and U.S. Rep. John Spratt, D-York. Spratt was the single “yes” vote on NAFTA in 1993.

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn said Monday he is still leaning against CAFTA.

What would get him to vote for it?

“They would have to fix stuff. Fix the environmental stuff. Fix the labor stuff. Fix the textile stuff.”

Reach Markoe at (202) 383-6023 or lmarkoe@krwashington.com.

© 2005 The State and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.thestate.com

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Read “The World Government Two-Step” at:
www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1763.shtml

First NAFTA, then CAFTA, then FTAA, then Western Hemispheric regional government, then one-world socialism/global government, i.e., the New World Order (as written on the back of the $ 1 dollar bill in your wallet as Novus Ordo Seclorum at the base of the pyramid on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States).

This can, by the grace of God, all be stopped, just as God put an end to the ancient Tower of Babel in Genesis, chapter 11.

On July 28, 2005, Americans lost another layer of our country’s sovereignty when 202 traitor-Republicans voted for the agenda of the New World Order (regional government, then one-world government). However, now the battle shifts to the Western Hemispheric “Free Trade Area of the Americas” (FTAA), involving all of the nations in North America, Central America, and South America (except Cuba).

Stop the FTAA !

Any of the 217 U.S. House members (202 Republicans and 15 Democrats) who voted for CAFTA (HR 3045), this NWO, anti-American, unconstitutional transfer of Congressional authority to international tribunals and bureaucrats, and erosion of U.S. independence and sovereignty, has broken his (or her) Oath of Office, and should rightly now be impeached. Likewise, the same for any and all of the 54 members of the U.S. Senate who traitorously voted for CAFTA (S 1307) on June 30, 2005.

[ see CAFTA votes of both Senate and House at http://thomas.loc.gov ]

Certainly, any such oath-breaking incumbents should NOT be re-elected next year on November 7, 2006 !

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www.StopCafta.com/

www.StopTheFTAA.org

www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/cat_index_1.shtml#1777

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www.BushRevealed.com

www.RetakingAmerica.com

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217 to 215 CAFTA vote in US House July 28, 2005

Find tables of ‘AYES’ ‘NOES’ and ‘NOT VOTING’ for CAFTA vote, with alphabetical list of Congressmens’ names under each heading at:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll443.xml

—- AYES 217 —
—- NOES 215 —
—- NOT VOTING 2 —

also located through:
http://thomas.loc.gov

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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 443
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 3045 RECORDED VOTE 28-Jul-2005 12:03 AM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
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AYES – REPUBLICAN – 202, DEMOCRATIC – 15
NOES – REPUBLICAN – 27, DEMOCRATIC – 187, INDEPENDENT – 1
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NV – REPUBLICAN – 2
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TOTALS:
AYES 217
NOES 215
NOT VOTING 2
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“… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17
Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 28, 2005

87% of House Republicans sell out American workers, American factories, and American sovereignty in their Oath-of-Office breaking ‘Yes’ vote for CAFTA

CAFTA passed the US Senate by a 54-45 vote on June 30, 2005. TheUS House passed CAFTA by a vote of 217 to 215 on July 28. If even one more House Republican had kept his (or her) Oath of Office and had voted against CAFTA instead of voting for this anti-American legislation, then the vote would have been a tie (216 to 216), and CAFTA would have failed.

See how Congress voted at http://thomas.loc.gov HR 3045, July 28, 2005

Literally in the middle-of-the-night, 202 traitorous, quisling, Republican Congress-critters, of the 231 in the US House, sold-out America during a floor vote at 12 midnight; after intense, personal pressure tactics by the Illuminati Establishment’s White House front man, Skull and Bones masonic secret society member, President George W. Bush.

CAFTA, a stepping-stone to the FTAA, which is itself a stepping-stone to a Western Hemispheric regional government, like the NWO’s European Union, is vitally important to George W. Bush’s Illuminati Establishment New World Order masters… hence the reason for his intense, personal lobbying of individual Congressmen, even amidst the ongoing agenda items of the Rove scandal and the Roberts nomination.

George W. Bush continues to serve his New World Order masters well.”

… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 28, 2005

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USA Today

www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-28-CAFTA-house_x.htm

Posted 7/28/2005 12:36 AM Updated 7/28/2005 1:34 AM

House narrowly passes free-trade pact

By David J. Lynch, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON ­ The House late Wednesday narrowly approved the controversial Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in an important victory for President Bush.

Central American goods, like these shirts made by Honduran workers, could be imported without most tariffs if CAFTA passes.

By Ginnette Riquelme, AP

Ending a contentious debate, it voted 217 to 215 in favor of the deal, which lowers trade barriers between the U.S. and six Central American nations.

Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, said the bill would boost U.S. exports, and he accused Democratic opponents of spreading “protectionism … (and) fear.” Only 15 Democrats backed the measure. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., labeled it a “job killer.”

The deal marked a come-from-behind win for Bush, who traveled to Capitol Hill earlier in the day in a last-ditch bid to secure needed votes. Amid a wartime backdrop, Bush rallied Republicans by stressing trade’s role in cementing democracy and stability in the USA’s neighborhood.

“The president reminded us that we come here not only to represent our district but to represent the nation,” said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

The unusual presidential visit was part of an intense lobbying push. Vice President Cheney wooed wavering Republicans as Democrats and labor organizers also mobilized.

The Senate approved CAFTA last month. But the deal, which would weld the USA and the Central American nations ­ Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic ­ into a seamless trade bloc, hit rougher sailing in the House.

Some Republicans from sugar-producing and textile states, such as Florida and North Carolina respectively, opposed the bill, as did Democrats concerned about worker rights and eager to deal the president a setback. CAFTA also became a lightning rod for other worries, including the ballooning U.S. trade deficit and growing competition from China.

To attract votes from lawmakers worried about China, the Republican-led House passed a separate measure Wednesday that would allow new tariffs on Chinese goods.

Labor union officials say CAFTA will depress U.S. paychecks because it lacks adequate protections for Central American workers. Since the 1994 NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico, 890,660 U.S. textile and apparel jobs have vanished, according to the National Textile Association.

Organized labor’s efforts sparked controversy Wednesday when the head of the International Association of Fire Fighters threatened to withhold campaign cash from pro-CAFTA Democrats.

“The opponents of trade are playing hardball,” complained John Murphy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The political fuss dwarfs the deal’s projected economic punch. U.S. exports to the CAFTA nations total $15 billion, less than 1% of U.S. output.

[Steve Lefemine: what a deception this last statement is – 3,000,000 American manufacturing jobs have disappeared in the last 5 years. As stated above,890,660 U.S. textile and apparel jobs have vanished since the NAFTA deal. CAFTA will intentionally continue the exodus of American manufacturing jobs and factories. Those who voted for CAFTA have committed economic treason.]

© Copyright 2005 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.

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Read “The World Government Two-Step” at:
www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1763.shtml

First NAFTA, then CAFTA, then FTAA, then Western Hemispheric regional government, then one-world socialism/global government,i.e., the New World Order (as written on the back of the $ 1 dollar bill in your wallet as Novus Ordo Seclorum at the base of the pyramid on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States).

This can, by the grace of God, all be stopped, just as God put an end to the ancient Tower of Babel in Genesis, chapter 11.

On July 28, 2005, Americans lost another layer of our country’s sovereignty when 202 traitor-Republicans voted for the agenda of the New World Order (regional government, then one-world government). However, now the battle shifts to the Western Hemispheric “Free Trade Area of the Americas” (FTAA), involving all of the nations in North America, Central America, and South America (except Cuba).

Stop the FTAA !

Any of the 217 U.S. House members (202 Republicans and 15 Democrats) who voted for CAFTA (HR 3045), this NWO, anti-American, unconstitutional transfer of Congressional authority to international tribunals and bureaucrats, and erosion of U.S. independence and sovereignty, has broken his (or her) Oath of Office, and should rightly now be impeached. Likewise, the same for any and all of the 54 members of the U.S. Senate who traitorously voted for CAFTA (S 1307) on June 30, 2005.

[ see CAFTA votes of both Senate and House at http://thomas.loc.gov/ ]

Certainly, any such oath-breaking incumbents should NOT be re-elected next year on November 7, 2006 !

http://capwiz.com/jbs/home/

www.StopCafta.com/

http://www.stoptheftaa.org/

www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/cat_index_1.shtml#1777

http://www.lefemineforlife.net/

http://www.bushrevealed.com/

http://www.retakingamerica.com/

http://www.thenewamerican.com/

http://www.americanfreepress.net/

http://www.infowars.com/

http://www.bilderberg.org/

CAFTA will add to loss of 3,000,000 mfg. jobs in last 5 years

Revision/Correction

CAFTA will add to loss of 3,000,000 mfg. jobs in last 5 years

NAFTA and Permanent Normal Trade status for Red China have helped balloon America’s trade deficit from $38 billion/yr in 1992, to $618 billion/yr in 2004, and have helped generate exodus of American factories and manufacturing jobs overseas to Communist China, Mexico, etc.

United States Senator’s like Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) have made this possible (DeMint voted for Red China PNTR status on May 24, 2000, and voted for CAFTA on June 30, 2005). So why does supposedly “conservative” South Carolina continue to elect and re-elect a Congressman selling out American factory workers and industry to Communists and Latin America ?

“… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 27, 2005

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USA Today

www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-07-24-oppose_x.htm

Posted 7/24/2005 8:27 PM

Deal would favor select few

By Sherrod Brown

A prediction.

If the House of Representatives passes the Central American Free Trade Agreement, it will take place in the middle of the night, the normal 15-minute roll call will be extended to about three hours so that House leaders can twist arms, and the legislation will pass by one or two votes.

CAFTA supporters say the agreement will increase our exports. What they haven’t said is the combined purchasing power of the CAFTA nations is equivalent to that of Columbus, Ohio. Or that an average Nicaraguan worker earns about $2,300 a year.

This agreement wouldn’t allow workers in Central America to buy prime beef from Nebraska, or cars made in Ohio, or software from Seattle. These countries wouldn’t be competing to buy our products, they’d be competing to make them.

When I was first elected to Congress in 1992, our trade deficit ­ the amount by which our imports exceed our exports ­ was $38 billion. Last year ­ after a decade of the North American Free Trade Agreement, China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations and a host of other trade agreements ­ our trade deficit has ballooned to $618 billion. More important, we have lost three million manufacturing jobs in the last five years.

Now congressional leaders and the president want to do more of the same. CAFTA, as other trade agreements, was negotiated by a select few for a select few. It builds in strong protections for U.S. pharmaceutical companies, but does nothing for American or Central American workers. It protects Hollywood films, but not the environment.

That’s why the opposition to CAFTA is so wide and deep ­ Republicans and Democrats; small manufacturers and labor unions; family farmers and environmentalists; Roman Catholic bishops in Central America and Jewish, Lutheran and Presbyterian leaders in our country.

There is a better way. Trade policy should benefit also workers and small business, not only our largest corporations. Our trade agreement should protect the environment and food safety. Labor standards should be adopted to respect American workers and lift up workers in poor countries.

When the world’s poorest people can buy American products, not just make them, then we will know that our trade policies are finally working.

Rep. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is author of Myths of Free Trade.

© Copyright 2005 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.

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www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/cat_index_1.shtml#1777

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www.BushRevealed.com

www.RetakingAmerica.com

www.TheNewAmerican.com

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www.bilderberg.org

CAFTA NWO anti-sovereignty bill set for imminent House debate

HR 3045 (U.S. Senate version passed 54-45 June 30 is S 1307)

Monitor www.house.gov

click on:

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Summary of debate on the House floor for the current legislative day.

and

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Search the Thomas website maintained by the Library of Congress for bill and other information related to the U.S. Congress and the legislative process.

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From http: thomas.loc.gov

click on: Link to the Bill Summary & Status file.

Any member of the US House of Representatives who votes for CAFTA, this NWO, anti-American, unconstitutional transfer of Congressional authority to international tribunals and bureaucrats, and erosion of U.S. independence and sovereignty, is breaking his (or her) Oath of Office, and should be thereafter impeached. Likewise, the same for any and all members of theU.S. Senate that traitorously voted for CAFTA (S 1307) on June 30, 2005.

Certainly, any such quisling incumbent should NOT be re-elected next year on November 7, 2006 !

“… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 27, 2005

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Bill Summary & Status for the 109th Congress
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H.R.3045

Title: To implement the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement.

Sponsor: Rep DeLay, Tom [TX-22] (introduced 6/23/2005) Cosponsors (1)

Related Bills: H.RES.386, S.1307

Latest Major Action: 7/26/2005 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 386 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3045 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. During consideration of H.R. 3045 pursuant to this resolution, notwithstanding the operation of the previous question, the Chair may postpone further consideration of the bill to a time designated by the Speaker in consonance with section 151 of the Trade Act of 1974. In addition, a motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 3045 pursuant to section 151 of the Trade Act of 1974 shall be in order only if offered by the Majority Leader or his designee. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. House Reports: 109-182

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See also: Related House Committee Documents 6/23/2005:

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
6/23/2005:
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held Prior to Introduction and Referral (Jun 15, 2005).
6/30/2005:
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

7/25/2005 7:47 pm:

Reported by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 109-182.

7/25/2005 7:47 pm:

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 114.

7/26/2005 10:38 pm:

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 386 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3045 with 2 hours of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. During consideration of H.R. 3045 pursuant to this resolution, notwithstanding the operation of the previous question, the Chair may postpone further consideration of the bill to a time designated by the Speaker in consonance with section 151 of the Trade Act of 1974. In addition, a motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 3045 pursuant to section 151 of the Trade Act of 1974 shall be in order only if offered by the Majority Leader or his designee. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments.
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Read “The World Government Two-Step” at:

www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1763.shtml

First NAFTA, then CAFTA, then FTAA, then Western Hemispheric regional government, then one-world socialism/global government, i.e., the New World Order (as written on the back of the $ 1 dollar bill in your wallet as Novus Ordo Seclorum at the base of the pyramid on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States).

This modern ‘Tower of Babel,” the so-called ‘New World Order,” can, by the grace of God, all be stopped, just as God put an end to the ancient Tower of Babel in Genesis, chapter 11.

Jesus said: “… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18

Pray that God would turn the hearts of members of the House in Congressto vote against CAFTA – Proverb 21:1:

“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turneth it whithersoever He will.”

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www.StopCafta.com/

www.StopTheFTAA.org

www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/cat_index_1.shtml#1777

www.LefemineforLife.net

www.BushRevealed.com

www.RetakingAmerica.com

www.TheNewAmerican.com

www.americanfreepress.net

www.infowars.com

www.bilderberg.org

Bush White House ‘Whipping the Vote’ for CAFTA

Carrot and Stick approach to ‘whip’ Republican Congressmen into lockstep support for anti-sovereignty CAFTA bill

From article below:

“To win over Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) and possibly a few more textile-state Republicans,…”

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www.covenantnews.com/blog/archives/013805.html

July 22, 2005

‘Whipping the Vote’ for CAFTA

Republicans ‘Whipping the Vote’ for CAFTA

Administration Trying to Build CAFTA Majority Vote by Vote

At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans yesterday, Rep. Bill Thomas (Calif.) sidled up to the lectern and hinted that the leadership might look more favorably on lawmakers’ requests for highways and bridges if they vote for the Central American Free Trade Agreement, according to three GOP witnesses. According to administration and House aides, the White House has authorized Republican leaders to secure votes with whatever is at hand, from amendments to the highway and energy bills to the still incomplete annual appropriations bills. Side deals may be in the works on textiles and sugar. House leaders have even approved a vote on a slate of punitive China trade provisions that risks alienating a trading partner that dwarfs Central America.
Posted by Editor at 06:34 AM

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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002078_pf.html

washingtonpost.com

Administration Trying to Build CAFTA Majority Vote by Vote

Clash in House With Democrats Takes On Added Status

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 21, 2005; A04

At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans yesterday, Rep. Bill Thomas (Calif.) sidled up to the lectern and hinted that the leadership might look more favorably on lawmakers’ requests for highways and bridges if they vote for the Central American Free Trade Agreement, according to three GOP witnesses.

“Just to let you know, we’re having some problems with the highway bill. It probably won’t be finished until after the CAFTA vote,” the deadly serious chairman of the Ways and Means Committee said to knowing laughter.

In the scope of trade deals, CAFTA is a minor economic matter, extending duty-free trading privileges to six Latin American countries whose combined economies are smaller than the Czech Republic’s. But as a political fight, the deal has snowballed into a major showdown ahead of the final House vote next week.

“CAFTA has been given symbolic status by both sides that is well outside its true economic importance,” said Rep. Phil English (R-Pa.), who opposed the agreement in the Ways and Means Committee, then promised to support it next week after securing a promised vote on China trade legislation. “But that does not mean it does not have enormous political significance,” he said.

[Steve Lefemine: On the contrary, CAFTA has ENORMOUS significance,and not just “political.” It’s real purpose is to be another stepping-stone on the road to first, regional government in the Western Hemisphere, and then eventually, one-world global government – the New World Order.]

Both sides agree a CAFTA defeat would weaken President Bush’s hand on the rest of his legislative agenda while casting a pall on looming trade negotiations with far greater significance: the hemispheric Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and the Doha round of global trade talks. The Senate recently approved CAFTA.

“Clearly a CAFTA defeat would have larger implications than just the agreement,” said Matthew Niemeyer, assistant U.S. trade representative for congressional affairs. “And that’s why we won’t fail.”

Bush has held eight meetings with House members, three with senators, and appeared at five dedicated CAFTA events, the latest scheduled for today at the Organization of American States. Since U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman took office 2 1/2 months ago, he has held about 100 meetings on and off Capitol Hill.

According to administration and House aides, the White House has authorized Republican leaders to secure votes with whatever is at hand, from amendments to the highway and energy bills to the still incomplete annual appropriations bills. Side deals may be in the works on textiles and sugar. House leaders have even approved a vote on a slate of punitive China trade provisions that risks alienating a trading partner that dwarfs Central America.

“No one’s opposing CAFTA yet,” said Julia Hughes, a lobbyist for textile and apparel importers, who is anxious about the concessions already on the table. “But they’re really taking away some of the benefits that make it meaningful.”

On the other side, Democrats and their allies have countered with threats to cut off fund-raising support for any Democrat flirting with a “yes” vote. Trade unions have used radio advertising to keep up the pressure, especially on three Republicans in the Syracuse, N.Y., area. Constituents of Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (Tex.), an undecided Democrat, have been subjected to two rounds of automated, pro-CAFTA phone calls, while his San Antonio staff was targeted by laid-off Levi Strauss & Co. workers protesting the deal.

“There’s a whole lot of pushing and shoving, on both sides actually,” Gonzalez said. “There have been some difficult votes around here in the past years, but this one, you’ve never seen anything like it.”

So far, administration officials concede they still do not have the votes to pass CAFTA in the House. They will likely be five to 10 votes short when the proposed agreement goes to a final tally Wednesday or Thursday. Opponents say they have 28 solid Republican votes against the pact, while only a dozen Democrats may back it.

The White House had hoped to win over blocs of undecideds — textile representatives, sugar industry allies, immigration opponents, or lawmakers from manufacturing areas rife with anti-China feelings. But those blocs have barely budged. Now, the administration is going vote by vote.

“We’re not there yet,” Niemeyer said, “but we’re quickly cleaning up undecideds and are clearly within striking distance.”

To win over Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) and possibly a few more textile-state Republicans, Thomas secured a promise this week from the six CAFTA countries to halt the use of Chinese-made apparel pockets and linings for their duty-free clothing exports to the United States.

English was granted a vote on his China trade provisions. And sugar-state lawmakers are wringing out new concessions that could allow sugar growers access to the federally mandated ethanol market.

“I feel very good about the fact that CAFTA is helping to secure and lift up our own neighborhood [in Centra America],” said Rep. Adam Putnam (R), whose Central Florida district includes sugar cane growers. “I just want to make sure it doesn’t throw an industry that I support overboard.”

House members say the president has expressed some exasperation about the amount of time he has spent on the deal. He has had to reach out to some strange bedfellows.

[Steve Lefemine: Note how little CAFTA has been in the news… while Christians and conservatives are largely distracted by the nomination of Washington establishment lawyer/judge John Roberts… and the media is focusing Americans’ attention on many other places… President Bush is working to pressure congressmen to give away American sovereignty and independence, and the willing accomplices of the dominant media cooperate in a foolish, self-destructive, relative complicity of silence.

If America is submerged into a supra-national, global government, the sovereign First Amendment protections of the U.S. Constitution will, by definition, also be superseded – that includes Freedom of the Press !]

And no potential ally has proven too small for attention. Earlier this month, Bush aides surprised Anne Alonzo, approaching the former Clinton administration official and seeking an invitation for the president to address her small pro-CAFTA Hispanic Alliance for Free Trade. That speech is planned for today.

“We’re not a big mean fighting machine. It’s just me and him,” Alonzo said, pointing to an intern.

Staff writers Paul Blustein, Laura Blumenfeld and Mike Allen contributed to this report.

© 2005 The Washington Post Company

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Any member of the US House of Representatives who votes for CAFTA, this unconstitutional transfer of Congressional authority to internationalbureaucrats, and erosion of American independence and sovereignty, is breaking his (or her) Oath of Office, and should be thereafter impeached.

When are Christians going to stop voting for Republicans who are but waterboys for the New World Order Illuminati Establishment elites ?

“… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 25, 2005

CFR’s plan to integrate North America: Canada / US / Mexico -CAFTA is a stepping-stone of the march to world-government

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www.rense.com/general67/aDf.htm


CFR’s Plan To Integrate

The US, Mexico & Canada

By Phyllis Schlafly
7-17-5

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what’s really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the “establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community” with a common “outer security perimeter.”

“Community” means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. “Common perimeter” means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

“Community” is sometimes called “space” but the CFR goal is clear: “a common economic space … for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely.” The CFR’s “integrated” strategy calls for “a more open border for the movement of goods and people.”

The CFR document lays “the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America.” The “common security perimeter” will require us to “harmonize visa and asylum regulations” with Mexico and Canada, “harmonize entry screening,” and “fully share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals.”

This CFR document, called “Building a North American Community,” asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin “committed their governments” to this goal when they met at Bush’s ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” and assigned “working groups” to fill in the details.

It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet “vigilantes” on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona.

A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference that “we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders.” The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa report “represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership.”

The CFR document calls for creating a “North American preference” so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages.

Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for “a seamless North American market” and for “the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico.”

The document’s frequent references to “security” are just a cover for the real objectives. The document’s “security cooperation” includes the registration of ballistics and explosives, while Canada specifically refused to cooperate with our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

To no one’s surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called “multilateral development” from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, “long-term loans in pesos,” and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico.

The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for “a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution.” Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.

The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks “unlimited access” to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a “tested once” principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.

The CFR document demands that we implement “the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico.” That’s code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.

Here’s another handout included in the plan. U.S. taxpayers are supposed to create a major fund to finance 60,000 Mexican students to study in U.S. colleges.

To ensure that the U.S. government carries out this plan so that it is “achievable” within five years, the CFR calls for supervision by a North American Advisory Council of “eminent persons from outside government . . . along the lines of the Bilderberg” conferences.

The best known Americans who participated in the CFR Task Force that wrote this document are former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and Bill Clinton’s immigration chief Doris Meissner. Another participant, American University Professor Robert Pastor, presented the CFR plan at a friendly hearing of Senator Richard Lugar’s Foreign Relations Committee on June 9.

Ask your Senators and Representatives which side they are on: the CFR’s integrated North American Community or U.S. sovereignty guarded by our own borders.

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Note: Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly, author of the article above, “CFR’s Plan To IntegrateThe US, Mexico & Canada,” is Roman Catholic.

“… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 23, 2005

Formed in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is based on Manhattan in New York City, and it is incredible to see the influence it wields administration after adminstration regardless of whether the President is a Republican or Democrat because of the many key positions CFR members hold (e.g., Carter (D), Clinton (D), and Bush, Sr. (R) have all been CFR members; as have Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Condi Rice, and Sandra Day O’Connor (all R’s); and also Madeleine Albright, Donna Shalala, Warren Christopher, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer (all D’s). See a concise overview article about the CFR on the internet at: www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1995/vo11no10/vo11no10_tyranny.htm

“The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) became the American headquarters for the Illuminati.” quoted from another source in “Billy Graham and His Friends” -“A Hidden Agenda ?,” by Dr. Cathy Burns (over 780 pages), Published by Sharing,212 E. 7th St. (# B), Mt. Carmel, PA 17851-2211

Regardless of whether the President is a Democrat or a Republican (both are national socialist parties: Socialist Party “A” and Socialist Party “B”), the march to one-world government (the New World Order) has continued under the watches of: Carter / Reagan / Bush Sr. / Clinton / Bush Jr.

In fact the Illuminati, masonic “new world order” agenda goes back to the founding of the country, when true Christian patriots battled the masonic influence among some of our founding fathers. Just look at the back of the $1 dollar bill in your wallet. The Great Seal of the United States design was approved in 1782 (greatseal.com). On the Reverse side, under the Luciferian “all-seeing” eye, and under the unfinished “Tower of Babel” pyramid, is the term, “Novus Ordo Seclorum.” That’s Latin for “New Order of the Ages” (a term President George W. Bush used in his Second Inaugural Address on January 20, 2005), or “New World Order” (a term, President George W.H. Bush used before Congress in his State of the Union Address, at the United States Capitol, January 29, 1991 www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0900156.html ).

This Luciferian agenda, to erect a 21st century version of the new world order’s Tower of Babel can, by the grace of God, all be stopped, just as God put an end to the ancient historic Tower of Babel in Genesis, chapter 11.

The City of Babylon located in present-day Iraq is in ruins today. So, one-day, will be the Illuminati’s so-called ‘New World Order.’

Hallelu-Yah ! The Lord Jesus Christ (Messiah Yahshua) is King of kings and Lord of lords now, today, and forever !!!

1 Timothy 6:15

CAFTA vote in House could be Wed., July 27 – call Congressmen !

Passed in the Senate on a 54 to 45 vote June 30, 2005

It MUST be STOPPED in the House! It is our only opportunity!

Contact your Congressman now to Vote NO to CAFTA !!!

CAFTA is an expanded version of NAFTA !

Haven’t we already got enough of an illegal immigration problem without erasing any more of America’s sovereign border further ?

Haven’t we already exported enough American manufacturing jobs and factories overseas to Mexico, China, etc. ???

FIRST:
Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard and ask for your Congressman by name at Toll Free: 1-877-762-8762 (or call 1-202-224-3121)
Call today! Call MONDAY, July 25 and every day till the vote is final!

CAFTA = building block for the new world order

Tell your Congressman to say NO to emplacing another building block toward establishing an EU-type of regional government in the Western Hemisphere through first CAFTA, and then the FTAA

SECOND:
Send an e-mail now to your Congressman to vote NO to CAFTA:
go to: http://capwiz.com/jbs/home/

ELECTED OFFICIALS
Enter your ZIP Code and click “Go”
Your help is urgently needed to convince a majority in the House of Representatives to vote NO on CAFTA.

This truly is the best chance in a long time for demolishing a key building block in the globalists’ house of world order, and thereby building momentum for our long-term campaign to preserve our country’s precious independence!

Any member of the US House of Representatives who votes for CAFTA, thisunconstitutional transfer of Congressional authority to international bureaucrats, and erosion of American independence and sovereignty, is breaking his (or her) Oath of Office, and should be thereafter impeached.

“… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 22, 2005

Selected content above includes information from e-mail received from:
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:08:09 -0500
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:50:22 -0500
From: The John Birch Society alert@jbs.org
Subject: CAFTA Can Be Stopped! Please Keep the Pressure on Your Rep!

The John Birch Society

CAFTA Can Be Stopped! Please Keep the Pressure on Your Rep!

So far, administration officials concede they still do not have the votes to pass CAFTA in the House.”

— Washington Post, July 21, 2005

This is it! Our nation’s independence and our personal freedom hang in the balance.

  • House leaders project a vote on CAFTA next week (more precisely on July 27th). As reported in the Washington Post today, the administration concedes they still don’t have enough votes to pass CAFTA. A sign of that shortfall is the fact that the House Ways and Means Committee has repeatedly delayed submitting its favorable committee report that would clear the way for a vote by the full House.
  • However, do not be deceived. The Bush administration and its pro-CAFTA allies have been very busy on many fronts during the past couple months, building toward a CAFTA majority, vote by vote. Remember that in 1993 NAFTA was supposed to be in trouble, but still won handily. Furthermore, this administration has a record of winning the close votes.
  • Still, the vote promises to be a real cliffhanger. Many of you have already helped keep CAFTA on the ropes. Now you must keep the pressure on your rep either to maintain his intention to vote no or to switch from yes to no.
  • Last Friday, President Bush lobbied for CAFTA in the Carolinas yet appears to have come away with nothing. Grassroots anti-CAFTA pressure there has been intense. It needs to be just as intense in every congressional district.
  • Our latest tool for impressing your rep that CAFTA must be defeated is “CAFTA Battle Rages in Congress,” The New American, July 25, 2005 issue. This hard-hitting article gives specific examples of how CAFTA threatens our independence by quoting directly from the CAFTA Agreement itself.
  • See the July issue of STAY INFORMED, the STOP the FTAA Newsletter, for links to our earlier CAFTA alerts and our “Danger: CAFTA ” video clip. See also “The War on the Border” video clip, which links the illegal immigration problem with CAFTA. You can forward the links to the video clips to your representative and his staff, as well as to others in your sphere of influence.
  • Check the “What’s Hot” section of STOPCAFTA.com regularly for the latest news on the CAFTA battle.

So it’s come to this. Many of you have it in your power to make the difference in this critically important CAFTA vote.

Let’s win this one for ourselves and our families!

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Read “The World Government Two-Step” at:

www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1763.shtml

First NAFTA, then CAFTA, then FTAA, then Western Hemispheric regional government, then one-world socialism/global government,i.e., the New World Order (as written on the back of the $ 1 dollar bill in your wallet as Novus Ordo Seclorum at the base of the pyramid on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States).

This can, by the grace of God, all be stopped, just as God put an end to the ancient Tower of Babel in Genesis, chapter 11.

CAFTA Battle Raging in US House – Call now !!

Passed in the Senate on a 54 to 45 vote June 30, 2005

It MUST be STOPPED in the House! It is our only opportunity!

Contact your Congressman now to Vote NO to CAFTA !!!

CAFTA is an expanded version of NAFTA !

Haven’t we already got enough of an illegal immigration problem without erasing any more of America’s sovereign border further ?

Haven’t we already exported enough American manufacturing jobs and factories overseas to Mexico, China, etc. ???

FIRST:
Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard and ask for your Congressman by name at Toll Free: 1-877-762-8762 (or call 1-202-224-3121)
Call today! Call MONDAY, July 11 and every day till the vote is final!

CAFTA = building block for the new world order

Tell your Congressman to say NO to emplacing another building block toward establishing an EU-type of regional governmentin the Western Hemisphere through first CAFTA, and then the FTAA

SECOND:
Send an e-mail now to your Congressman to vote NO to CAFTA:
go to: http://capwiz.com/jbs/home/

ELECTED OFFICIALS
Enter your ZIP Code and click “Go”

Your help is urgently needed to convince a majority in the House of Representatives to vote NO on CAFTA.

This truly is the best chance in a long time for demolishing a key building block in the globalists’ house of world order, and thereby building momentum for our long-term campaign to preserve our country’s precious independence!”

… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 11, 2005

Information above includes content from e-mail received from:
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:08:09 -0500
From: Don or MaryAnn Crum dcrum@powernet.org
Subject: ACTION ALERT!

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The New American, July 25, 2005 Issue

www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/cat_index_1.shtml
www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_461.shtml

CAFTA Battle Rages in Congress

by William F. Jasper

The Central American Free Trade Agreement would not only destroy more U.S. jobs and businesses, but undermine our sovereignty. Those who claim otherwise need only to read the agreement. [To learn how to help activate the House to defeat CAFTA, go to STOPCAFTA.com.]

Caving in to White House threats and bribes, the Senate approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) on June 30, by a vote of 54 to 45.

Deaf to the appeals of farmers, manufacturers, and workers who have been devastated by previous trade agreements, and indifferent to the growing danger these pacts pose to U.S. sovereignty, President Bush pulled out all stops in a major effort to ram CAFTA through the Senate before the July 4 recess.

[Note from Steve Lefemine: Is the need for the White House to focus on pressuring Congressmen to pass CAFTA the real reason for the delay in announcing a Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Sandra O’Connor ?]

The Senate vote, hailed as a major victory for the president, came after months of bitter wrangling and several vote postponements. However, the relatively narrow margin of victory ­ one of the slimmest ever for a trade agreement ­ is a testament to the growing disenchantment with so-called free trade and globalization.

On the same day that it passed the Senate, CAFTA also was approved by the House Ways and Means Committee by a vote of 24 to 11, setting the pact up for a floor vote in the full House after Congress returns from recess on July 11. The House fight, which is expected to be even closer and more hard-fought than the Senate battle, is seen by most analysts as too close to call.

The Central American Free Trade Agreement proposes to expand NAFTA (the decade-old North American Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada) to include Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The Bush administration has been clear that it sees CAFTA approval as essential to building momentum for approval of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which would include all the nations of our Western Hemisphere.

Most media accounts of the congressional CAFTA fracas give the false impression that the only significant opposition to the agreement comes from domestic sugar producers fearing an avalanche of cheap sugar from the Caribbean and Central America. The sugar beet lobby, a major source of campaign funds for both Republicans and Democrats, has indeed presented formidable resistance to CAFTA, pointing out that massive sugar imports would jeopardize more than 300,000 jobs in 19 states. However, an even larger number of textile jobs are at stake, as well as hundreds of thousands of other agriculture, manufacturing, and service jobs.

The Bush administration wielded both the carrot and the stick to overcome this growing opposition and whip senators into the CAFTA corral. As the New York Times reported on July 1, “[A]fter intense negotiations between White House officials and leading lawmakers, wavering Republicans settled for modest extra protections and heeded veiled warnings about reprisals to those who balked.” The Times continued: “To placate sugar producers, White House officials agreed to limit imports for another two years by paying Central American producers not to export to the United States. The United States would pay with surplus farm products accumulated through its other subsidy programs.”

Backing From Corporate One-worlders

The Bush White House and its pro-CAFTA contingent in Congress have received indispensable support in the push for CAFTA from the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other industry groups dominated by corporate globalists associated with the Council on Foreign Relations. AT&T, the Bechtel Group, Coca-Cola, Ford Motor, Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, IBM, Tyson Foods, and Xerox are but a few of the corporate heavyweights propelling the CAFTA bandwagon. Employing deceptive rhetoric laced with false appeals to “free market” and “free trade” principles, they have lured many Republicans and conservatives into supporting trade pacts that amount to major subsidies by U.S. taxpayers and consumers for the participating corporations and foreign governments.

Lined up against this imposing pro-CAFTA corporate lobbying force are a relatively few large companies that do not want to move their operations out of the U.S., including some of the major textile manufacturers, as well as an assortment of independent business and industry groups. Many small and medium-sized U.S. businesses, which provide most of America’s jobs, stand to lose big under the CAFTA accord. On June 21, the U.S. Business and Industry Council (USBIC) released a letter signed by 24 business organizations across the country urging President Bush to scrap CAFTA. The business groups, which speak for some 8,500 companies in dozens of industries, also called for a new national trade strategy that encourages production and employment in the United States. The letter’s signatories include: the American Brush Manufacturers’ Association; the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition; the American Mold Builders Association; and the National Textile Association.

“Although you promise that CAFTA will open big new foreign markets for U.S.-made goods, the opposite is clearly true,” says the USBIC letter. “The results of the outsourcing deals that have dominated U.S. trade policy over the last fifteen years are in: gargantuan trade deficits, shuttered factories, and formerly middle class Americans sliding down the job and wage scales. CAFTA is simply the latest in this series of outsourcing deals that are gutting our domestic manufacturing base.”

According to USBIC President Kevin L. Kearns, the letter shows that opposition to CAFTA extends far beyond textile and sugar interests and organized labor. “The anti-CAFTA and anti-outsourcing stances expressed by this letter represent the broadest business opposition to a trade initiative in decades,” Kearns noted. “The emergence of a large business constituency against current U.S. trade policies is a watershed in the politics of globalization.” Just as important, Kearns added, “This business opposition to CAFTA makes clear that outsourcing-dominated groups like the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have lost their claims to be exclusive spokesmen for American business on trade and globalization policy.”

Outsourcing Sovereignty

As important as the loss of jobs is to America, there are additional downsides to CAFTA that have not been brought to the attention of the American people by the media, says John F. McManus, national chairman of the John Birch Society’s Stop CAFTA and Stop the FTAA campaigns (http://www.stopcafta.com/ and www.stoptheftaa.org).

“The Bush administration has made it quite clear that it is using CAFTA as a steppingstone for the FTAA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, which would include all 34 nations of this hemisphere,” McManus notes. “In fact,” he points out, “the Preamble of the CAFTA text explicitly states that the parties to the pact pledge to: ‘Contribute to hemispheric integration and provide an impetus toward establishing the Free Trade Area of the Americas.’ This should provide all the impetus that any real American needs to jump into the fight against CAFTA. We have already seen the broken promises and devastating impact of NAFTA ­ lost jobs and production, huge trade deficits, increased illegal immigration ­ but the far greater threat in the long run is the threat these agreements pose to our independence and sovereignty. NAFTA and WTO [World Trade Organization] courts and regulations are already being used to supersede our state and federal laws and constitutional protections. CAFTA and FTAA would multiply and expand these subversive assaults.”

According to McManus, “All anyone has to do is look at the CAFTA text itself to see that it is loaded with commitments that further entangle us in a thicket of controls under the WTO and UN.” He points to the following examples:

• CAFTA’s subservience to the World Trade Organization (WTO). According to the Preamble and Chapter 1 of the CAFTA text, parties to the agreement pledge to: “Build on their respective rights and obligations under the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization….” Also, “The Parties affirm their existing rights and obligations with respect to each other under the WTO Agreement….”

• Loss of U.S. independence to the supranational CAFTA Free Trade Commission. Chapter 19 of the agreement states: “The Parties hereby establish the Free Trade Commission, comprising cabinet-level representatives of the Parties…. The Commission shall: (a) supervise the implementation of this Agreement; (b) oversee the further elaboration of this Agreement; (c) seek to resolve disputes that may arise regarding the interpretation or application of this Agreement; (d) supervise the work of all committees and working groups established under this Agreement; and (e) consider any other matter that may affect the operation of this Agreement.”

• Loss of U.S. independence to World Bank and United Nations tribunals. CAFTA’s Chapter 10 provides that: “a claimant may submit a claim … (a) under the ICSID Convention [World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes]….” Chapter 20 stipulates: “A Party shall be deemed to be in compliance … if it is a party to and is in compliance with the 1958 United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards….”

• Loss of independence of U.S. federal, state, and local governments to regulate service professions and businesses to CAFTA’s “Cross-Border Trade in Services” provisions. According to CAFTA’s Chapter 11: “Cross-Border Trade in Services … applies to measures adopted or maintained by a Party affecting cross-border trade in services by service suppliers of another Party. Such measures include measures affecting: (a) the production, distribution, marketing, sale, and delivery of a service; (b) the purchase or use of, or payment for, a service; (c) the access to and use of distribution, transport, or telecommunications networks and services in connection with the supply of a service; (d) the presence in its territory of a service supplier of another Party; and (e) the provision of a bond or other form of financial security as a condition for the supply of a service…. For purposes of this Chapter, ‘measures adopted or maintained by a Party’ means measures adopted or maintained by: (a) central, regional, or local governments and authorities; and (b) non governmental bodies in the exercise of powers delegated by central, regional, or local governments or authorities….”

“The NAFTA/CAFTA/FTAA agenda is one that spells the death knell for American prosperity, independence and freedom,” says McManus. “Opposition to FTAA is definitely growing. If we lose CAFTA in the House we can still stop the FTAA. But if we defeat CAFTA, we will gain critical momentum to defeat the FTAA. That is why the CAFTA fight is so important. This is going to be one of those razor-thin margins in the House where each letter, e-mail, or phone call to your representative will have a huge impact. CAFTA can be defeated if only a few thousand more Americans take the time and make the effort to express their opposition.”

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CAFTA story suppressed by CFR-controlled dominant media

Why did the impending announcement of O’Connor’s replacement on the Supreme Court by President Bush go from: after his return from his trip to Europe on July 8th …

“Press secretary Scott McClellan said later that Bush won’t announce his choice until he returns from a four-day trip to Europe on July 8.”
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-01-oconnor-retirement_x.htm
Posted 7/1/2005 10:26 AM Updated 7/1/2005 5:38 PM

to:Bush is now going to “home in on a handful” of prospective nominees [possibly including pro-abort Bush-buddy Alberto Gonzales] over the next few weeks” ???

…White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. He said Bush would “home in on a handful” of prospective nominees over the next few weeks.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-07-05-g8-bush-denmark_x.htm
Posted 7/5/2005 4:40 PM Updated 7/5/2005 4:56 PM

Could it be that Bush, Inc. wants to be able to focus on ONE major, administration-defining issue at a time – now that the US Senate has just passed CAFTA late on Thursday night, June 30, right before the July 4th long-weekend, and the day before Sandra O’Connor announced her resignation, by a vote of 54 – 45, the US House is set to take it up anytime after they return from the July 4th recess, on Monday, July 11 ?

Other than those tuned into the HUGE significance of CAFTA, which can be thought of as NAFTA-plus, and a predecessor to the FTAA, encompassing all of the Western Hemisphere (except, for now, Cuba), many Americans don’t realize the HUGE impact of emplacing another building block for hemispheric regional government (in the model of the European Union, whose proposed Constitution voters in France and Holland recently rejected, thank the Lord !), as a stepping-stone to global, one-world government – the New World Order ! (check out the back of the one-dollar bill in your wallet; see the words Novus Ordo Seclorum at the base of the unfinished Tower of Babel-like pyramid that is part of the Great Seal of the United States).

One reason many Americans do not understand the serious, sovereignty-stealing aspect of the CAFTA story, is because the CAFTA story is being actively suppressed by the CFR-controlled dominant media, from which newspapers all across the nation take their reporting cues:

For example, the local daily paper in the capital of South Carolina, The State, is South Carolina’s largest newspaper. Look below at the miniscule, two-sentence coverage, at the end, the tenth item in a list of “NATIONAL BUSINESS BRIEFS” that appeared in The State on Friday, July 1, the day after the CAFTA vote in the US Senate:

Make no mistake about it, CAFTA is immensely critical to the drive toward world government envisioned by the Illuminati Establishment elites to whom Skull and Bones secret society member President George W. Bush owes his presidency and to whom he gives allegiance in the pursuit of policy. He serves the Illuminati; he uses the foolish Christian (so-called) ‘right.’

One guess is that Bush, Inc. wants more time to pressure members of Congress in the US House to vote to pass the unconstitutional CAFTA legislation (treaty) – and that’s why the O’Connor replacement announcement has been put off until”the next few weeks.”

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The State
Columbia, SC

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/12029803.htm

Posted on Fri, Jul. 01, 2005

NATIONAL BUSINESS BRIEFS

Boeing names McNerney as new CEO

The aerospace company named 3M Co. chief executive W. James McNerney Jr., 55, as its new CEO, turning to an outsider to help it recover from recent ethical lapses and lead its high-stakes bid to regain the top spot in commercial airplane sales. Shares jumped $4.29 to a four-year high of $65.96.

Ebbers to forfeit assets in settlement

Former WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers will give up nearly everything he owns ­ including his Mississippi home and his stake in a golf course ­ in a settlement with angry investors in the fraud-toppled company. He faces sentencing July 13 for his role in the WorldCom debacle.

1. Mack succeeding Purcell at Morgan Stanley

John Mack returned to Morgan Stanley as its chairman and chief executive, bringing the stability of a Wall Street veteran to an embattled firm and promising to seek the return of top employees who left the company under former chairman and chief executive Phil Purcell.

2. Income growth, spending slow in May

Personal income growth slowed sharply in May and people’s spending didn’t increase at all, but analysts viewed the weakness as temporary and not a signal of a serious slowdown of the economy.

3. Oil prices continue slide

Oil prices fell by more than $1 a barrel, bringing the decline in crude futures to more than $4 a barrel over the past three days.

4. United flight attendants claim right to strike

The union representing flight attendants at UAL Corp.’s United Airlines said they have the right to strike, now that the airline altered their contract without their consent. UAL disagreed.

5. CNOOC: Unocal bid will move forward

CNOOC Ltd. will press ahead with its takeover bid for Unocal despite a planned shareholder vote on a competing offer by Chevron and Unocal’s recommendation that it should be accepted, the Chinese company’s chairman said.

6. Maytag says new bid causes ripples

Household appliance maker Maytag said it was notified by Triton Acquisition Holding Co. that Maytag’s talks with rival suitors give Triton the right to terminate their merger agreement and collect a $40 million termination fee.

7. ConAgra Foods’ earnings decline

ConAgra, a top U.S. food producer with brands such as Butterball and Chef Boyardee, said fourth-quarter earnings declined 40 percent, primarily due to lower profit from its packaged meats. Shares rose 6 cents to $23.16.

8. AT&T shareholders approve SBC deal

AT&T shareholders approved the company’s $16 billion acquisition by SBC Communications that would create one of the world’s largest phone companies. SBC’s stock at $23.75 a share, down 19 cents, so the deal now values AT&T’s stock at about $19.80 per share. That’s about 4 percent higher than AT&T’s closing price, $19.04.

9. Bush names Glassman acting SEC chair

The president named Securities and Exchange Commissioner Cynthia Glassman as acting SEC chairman. SEC chairman William Donaldson stepped down Thursday. The Senate has yet to approve Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., Bush’s choice to replace Donaldson.

10. Senate approves CAFTA, setting up battle in House

The Senate on Thursday endorsed a free trade agreement with six Latin American nations, handing a major win to President Bush. The 54-45 vote sets the stage for a final battle in the House, where the agreement’s many critics have vowed to defeat it.

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“… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

Steve Lefemine
Independent * candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
US House District #2, South Carolina
* American Christian for a Biblically-based constitutional republic
www.LefemineforLife.net
July 6, 2005

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CAFTA is an expanded version of NAFTA !

Haven’t we already exported enough American manufacturing jobs and American manufacturing factories overseas to Mexico, China, etc. ???

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Call today! Call MONDAY and every day till the vote is final!

Tell your Congressman to say NO to emplacing another building block establishing a European Union-type of regional government

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