Then & Now

Steven E. Moran, Jr.

February 21, 2008

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men 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 – That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, 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 to abolish it.”-from the U.S. Declaration of Independence

THEN: ”My ardent desire is, and my aim has been…to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other Country.  To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none. In a word, I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home.”– George Washington (letter to Partick Henry, 9 October 1775)

NOW: “I will send you a proposal to double the budget of the National Endowment for Democracy, and to focus its new work on the development of free elections, and free markets, free press, and free labor unions in the Middle East. And above all, we will finish the historic work of democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq, so those nations can light the way for others, and help transform a troubled part of the world.”– George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 2006THEN:  “The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.” –George Washington

NOW:  “The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. America’s domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve and America’s foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF].” And, “…when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.”– Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, January 7, 1999

THEN:  “I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty”

                          -Thomas Jefferson, 1807

NOW:  “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.” – Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State United States of America

THEN: “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”   -Thomas Jefferson

NOW: “The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.” — Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State United States of America

THEN: “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium (safeguard) of the liberties of a republic…” — Joseph Story, Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845NOW:  “Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.” –Sarah Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control

THEN: “Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. To secure peace, securely and happiness, the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.”  –George Washington

NOW:  “Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.” –U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden Associated Press 11/18/93
“Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.”
–U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein Associated Press 11/18/93

THEN:  “No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”–Thomas Jefferson

NOW:  “If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would own hand guns…” - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, in Washington, D.C., November 13, 1998.

THEN: “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure [without] a conviction… that these liberties are a gift from God?”  –Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence

NOW:  “When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans …… And so a lot of people say there’s too much personal freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it. That’s what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we’re going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.”– U.S. President Bill Clinton, on MTV 3-22-94 

THEN:  “America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy; she is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all.  She is the champion and vindicator only of her own” –John Adams

NOW:  “The story of America is the story of expanding liberty: an ever-widening circle, constantly growing to reach further and include more. Our nation’s founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.” -George W. Bush

THEN:  “[O]ur fathers were men—they were heroes and patriots—they fought—they conquered—and they bequeathed to us a rich inheritance of liberty and empire which we have no right to surrender.  —Noah Webster

NOW: “It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.”  -George H.W. Bush, 19921 speech to UN General Assembly

THEN: “Democracy is the most vile form of government… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” -James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution

NOW:  “We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.”
-John Kerry, United States Senator from Massachussetts

THEN: “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”  -Samuel Adams 

NOW:  “Our aim is nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands to dominate the political system of each country, and the world economy as a whole. Freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives…”  -Carrol Quigley, CFR (1966), U.S. President Bill Clinton named Quigley as an important influence during his acceptance speech to the 1992 Democratic National Cnvention

THEN:  “The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. –James Madison

NOW:  “we will finish the historic work of democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq, so those nations can light the way for others, and help transform a troubled part of the world.”– George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 19, 2006

THEN: “The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty”.  -Fisher Ames, while making a speech during the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention

NOW:  “The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety…” -Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States

THEN:  “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802),3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

NOW: “…the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.”⁷

Zbigniew Brzezinski, In 1971,Former National Security Advisor during Carter Administration (Note) David Rockefeller recognized the shortcomings of the CFR when he founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 with Zbigniew Brzezinski. Rockefeller represented Corporate and Brzezinski represented Academic.

(Note) Through its powerful membership, the Trilateral Commission dominates the executive branch of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve System, and is closely aligned with the Bank for International Settlements, which controls the world’s currencies and money supply. This is seen even without analyzing the remaining two-thirds of Commission membership that resides outside of the U.S.

THEN: ”Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” -Benjamin Franklin

NOW:  “…The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.”Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France on May 21, 1992.

THEN: “Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.”  - Thomas Jefferson

NOW: “The taxpayer; that´s someone who works for the federal government, but doesn´t have to take a civil service examination.”–Ronald Reagan , 40th US President

THEN:  “What students would learn in American (public) schools above all is the religion of Jesus.”-George Washington

NOW:  “”By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God…” -Gloria Steinem, radical feminist in 2/10/1973 edition of Saturday Review of Education

THEN:  “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802),3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

NOW:  “Mr. Chairman, we have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a government board, has cheated the government of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt”. -Congressman Louis T. McFadden, speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives on June 10,1932

THEN:  “Independence Forever!” -John Adams, final public proclamation during celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Indepe ndence

 NOW:  “The U.S. must strive to build a new international order… including states labeling themselves as ’socialist’… to maintain and gradually increase the authority of the United Nations.” -Statement from Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in 1959

THEN:  “Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.” -John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

NOW:  “Capital must protect itself in every way… Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers…” J.P. Morgan, Family involved in the 1913 secret meeting on Jekyll Island that formed the private banking cartel Federal Reserve

Yours In Liberty,

Steve

From West Virginia has come a letter that made my blood boil and should yours also. Pastor Butch Paugh running for Governor with the Constitution Party there, gives the incredible report of the State Chairman of the party being “wrongfully arrested on five bogus and outrageous charges for circulating our ballot access petition on the public sidewalk. He was denied his right to a public defender and a jury trial! The municipal judge assigned to him was the same judge who told another good Mountaineer that ‘The U.S. Constitution does not apply in my courtroom.’”

We have collected ballot access signatures in five States, have been denied the privilege in some public places, and have made it plain that petitioning for ballot access is not only necessary to get on the ballot (except for payment of a fee in some places) but that it is legitimate “official business” in that it is required by the State. Imagine being arrested for simply asking voters to sign your “State petition,” which in Florida is Form #DS-DE 104, in order to help you get on the ballot in the next election.

Multiplied millions of these petitions have been collected in no doubt every State in the Union, required and authorized. Those who sign must be registered voters, already on record with the Division of Elections, and they have no obligation to vote for the person named on the petition. In Florida, this is titled the “Alternative Method” of ballot access, the Division of Elections preferring that you pay the fee to gain ballot access. The fee for State and federal offices is in the area of nearly $2000 to nearly $10,000.

Signatures required are in the area of less than 1000 to well over 100,000. How’s that for fairness in America? Is that alone reason enough for you to get involved? And did you think that you could get on the ballot in Florida easily at any time? And why do we ask folks to plan ahead to run for office? Obviously, to be one who is determined that such inequities should be contested in the legislative halls in Tallahassee—to be in the battle rather than on the sidelines.

If that is not enough to make your blood boil, consider what the “unjust judge” stated: “The U.S. Constitution does not apply in my courtroom.” Do not judges take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitu-
tion? Can a judge stay on the bench in America who does not even honor our Constitution? Who or what has brought them to such a conclusion? I believe that such boldly treasonous statements derive from those of higher authority, those of the Supreme Court and those in the White House. Supreme Court justices have ignored and discredited our Constitution and have even proposed that their decisions should take into account statutes of foreign countries!

Furthermore, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, has himself said that the U.S. Constitution is “just a ___ ___ piece of paper,” in the presence of reporters a year or so ago. Our presidents in recent years have shamefully set the standard for America in deceptions, lying, immorality, and in discrediting our U.S. Constitution. Is it any wonder that followers of our leaders also become intolerable? And that our children learn immorality and un-Americanism by example?

What can be done, Patriots? Many ask us this question. How much are you willing to get involved in saving our Republic from decay and destruction? Does it matter to you? Are we exaggerating? Find out for yourself. Consider becoming a candidate. Political parties offer candidates. We are not just a “discussion group.” The “discussions” should be carried into office in the legislative halls of America.

Jack McLain, C.P.F

Viewpoint
Constitution Party of Florida
January 24, 2008

The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), the agreement that would give the United Nations power to regulate seven-tenths of the world’s surface, is still in the balance. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved it, and our Senate has schemed to keep the public unaware, while it is believed they could ratify it at any time. The secrecy involved in this treaty that would incredibly affect our nation speaks of its very controversial nature. The Washington Post and mainstream media have effected a blackout on the LOST issue, reports the American Free Press (1/14/08). Americans should be informed, warned, and in opposition.

The United Nations originated this scheme in the 1970’s as part of their redistributionist agenda known as the “New International Economic Order.” Through this treaty, a transfer of wealth and technology would be accomplished from the industrialized nations to the Third World nations. The UN would collect royalties on the commercial use of the seabed through the International Seabed Authority, a power that would give it control of the riches at the bottom of all the worlds’ oceans.

This ISA would have the authority to grant or refuse permits for deep sea mining, with fees simply for applying. Fishing and navigation of the worlds’ oceans would also be under the control of the UN. The UN claims the oceans in the name of the “common heritage of mankind.”

Extracting fees for use of the oceans is, of course, a form of taxation. The American Free Press notes that there are pending before the United Nations proposals for directly taxing “citizens of the world.” One of these is to place a levy on oil at the wellhead. This would amount to paying a direct tax to the UN every time we purchase oil or gasoline—higher gas prices and more taxes, just what we need at this time. Worse than the tax, would be a further surrender to the socialist/communist dominated United Nations and a further step toward world government.

As we have indicated in the past, Howard Phillips of Conservative Caucus and the Constitution Party lists opposition to the ratification of LOST (also known as UNLOST) as a top priority issue with which we should be actively involved, contacting our U.S. Senators. Among the many losses to the United States through a LOST treaty, Phillips states that the International Seabed Authority would have the authority to regulate ocean research and exploration, the power to deny U.S. companies access to strategic ocean minerals freely available to us today, to establish production quotas, and the power to create a multinational court system called the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and to enforce its judgments.

President Ronald Reagan first rejected LOST in 1982 on grounds that the U.S. would surrender sovereignty to the UN and its international courts. President Clinton favored the treaty but withheld submission to the Senate due to lack of support.

Reportedly, many Senators and presidential candidates have become aware of the evils associated with the ratification of LOST. Our globalist President Bush is calling for ratification. However, victory for the internationalists is no longer assured. Contacting our Senators telling of our opposition is very important at this time.

We must also hold them accountable if they fail to reject this destructive treaty. It would be of great loss to the United States of authority, further erode our failing economy, and especially grant vast power and wealth to the United Nations. The Constitution Party is unalterably opposed to any treaty which would deprive U.S. citizens of their constitutional rights.

Jack McLain
C.P.F., 1/24/08

Constitution Party of Florida
January 17, 2008

I sometimes wonder what America will be like when the globalists get finished with their scheming and planning to bring in the New World Order. Have you given it any thought? I’m convinced that many Americans are totally unaware of what the future holds for their country. Others are convinced that the uniting of nations won’t be so bad, even great with freedom to travel, one currency, one government, one grand utopia. They have been taught that and they believe what their mentors say. Still others are convinced that they can’t do anything to stop the progress of nations, so to speak, so that they may as well enjoy life and, let’s face it, we must be optimistic. Many Christians seem to be convinced that, since God is in control and that world government is in prophecy, they would not dare try to stand in the way.

Suppose that you knew that your president and other world leaders were planning the merger of the U.S. with the European Union by 2015? Would that cause you to perk up and open your ears? Wow! In my lifetime! I hadn’t thought of it that way. Even now, while the North American Union is gradually being put into place, though being denied by officials and media, a more far-reaching plan is in the wings. Dr. Jerome Corsi, in WorldNetDaily, January 16, 2008, reports: “Six U.S. senators and 49 House members are advisers for a group working toward a Transatlantic Common Market between the U.S. and the European Union by 2015.”

In April of last year, President Bush hosted a Transatlantic Economic Council at the White House to implement this plan. Invited were German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. Now this plan is proceeding as the Transatlantic Policy Network, a non-governmental organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels which is chaired by a U.S. Senator Robert Bennett, Republican of Utah. Now we need to tune in to the T.P.N.

Here we have an agreement “to integrate and harmonize administrative rules and regulations between the U.S. and the EU ‘in a very quiet way,’ without introducing a new free trade agreement to Congress,” states the report. We realize that there are now six Senators and 49 Congressmen who have been enticed to cooperate in the uniting of our country with European countries without the consent of Congress or the people of the United States of America. Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA), a member of the advisory group, affirmed the target date of 2015 for the creation of a Transatlantic Common Market.

No doubt believing that there is safety in numbers, the Bush administration has now enlisted 55 members of Congress to participate in the surrender of the sovereignty of our nation. That an economic union with other nations comprises also the ultimate political union of those countries is admitted by World Bank economist, Domenec Ruiz Devesa, stating: “…since an integrated market requires common institutions producing common rules to govern it.” We need only to look at the European Union to realize what many in Europe did not realize when they were being persuaded to join a Common Market, that the individual freedoms of their countries were being surrendered to an unelected, appointed group of administrators whose rulings would affect their lives, their fortunes, and even their morals as we reported previously.

What will America be like if and when such a union is implemented? Don’t expect your freedoms to be intact. Don’t expect your Constitution to be any longer effective. Don’t expect your church leaders to be allowed to “preach the Word, in season and out of season,” any longer. Don’t expect to be able to protect your rights in anything resembling an American court. In short, NOW is the time to consider what we have to lose if we sit still, don’t get involved, and just let unimpeded centralized Washington government continue in their path to a grand sovereignty-surrendering union—their New World Order.

Jack McLain
C.P.F., 1/18/08

The article reads, “Public exposure has stalled SPP efforts.” There has been much exposure of the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Security and Prosperity Partnership, but is it really stalled? We need to examine the facts, for this SPP has been shown to be a startling proposal for union of the three countries under the title of North American Union.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was launched in Texas in March 2005 with the heads of state of the United States, Mexico, and Canada—President Bush, then-President Vincente Fox of
Mexico and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada. President Bush at that time referred to the SPP as a “union.” The planning of this “union” continued in the second meeting in Mexico in 2006, and a third meeting in Canada in August 2007 in which denials of such plans to unite the countries were forthcoming. Ex-President Fox has acknowledged the plans for a union while overseas and for a united currency, already named the “Amero.”

In the light of all the factual information that has been presented concerning SPP and the North American Union, statements by the heads of state at the Montebello, Canada meetings, are shameful. A FOX News reporter asked the three heads of state: “Can you say today that this is not a prelude to a North American Union, similar to a European Union? Are there plans to build some kind of superhighway connecting all three countries? And do you believe all of these theories about a possible erosion of national identity stem from a lack of transparency from this partnership?”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded with ridicule, mocking those who have assurance of a NAFTA Superhighway as believing in “interplanetary” roads. President Bush chose to call these claims as “quite comical”—amusing speculations—“scare tactics.” He said that some lay out a conspiracy and then force people to try to prove it doesn’t exist.

In a video that can be viewed on the internet, the proof of the progress of the North American Union is seen with the “Throne Speech” at the 2nd Session of the 39th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada, on November 20, 2007. The speaker states that the U.S. and Canada are working for access to key trade markets. An “enhanced driver’s license will be ready in the fall of 2008.” Manitoba is taking a major role in a mid-continent trade corridor with Central U.S. and Mexico. The northern port of Churchill will connect with trade markets throughout the U.S. and Mexico. An alliance is being developed with business leaders the entire length of the corridor and will incorporate the inland port of Winnipeg with pre-clearance for international shipping.

May we ask, if Manitoba, Canada is playing a “major role” in all these plans, what of the denials of President Bush and Prime Minister Harper? The video is “official documentation.” Americans need to decide “what is truth?”

Reporter John Ibbitson of Canada’s Globe has declared: “The Security and Prosperity Partnership is dead.” He said that he believes public exposure has stalled SPP efforts. Others disagree but believe that public awareness of the agreement will bring about changes. In all three countries, opposition has exposed SPP, but Stuart Trew of the Council of Canadians states that “it is not fair to say the SPP has died.” Of this we can be grateful—that secret agreements that affect our freedoms and our very sovereignty can still be exposed and opposed.

In October, the group called the North American Forum met in Mexico. It has been called a “sister organization to the SPP—a parallel structure to the SPP—and not just an academic meeting.” The claim is “that political leaders in Canada and the United States are not willing to invest the capital needed to keep the SPP moving forward.”

I propose that the statements that the SPP is dead are a ploy to relax and retire the opposition. The North American Forum is, I believe, a political maneuver to cause the Canadian and American opposition to believe that they have defeated the globalists in this move. I propose that, “You can trust the Globalists—to be Globalists.” Their plans were established many, many years ago. They may switch tactics to low gear for a time and later switch back into high gear when the opposition has relaxed. Americans and Canadians need to be alert and insistent that the truth be exposed.

Jack McLain
Constitution Party of Florida
December 11, 2007