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STUMPTALK: Loss of sovereignty in the U.S.

By Jerry McDonough / Chronicle contributor

All the nations of the European Union (EU) have decided that a treaty is superior to a constitution. Today all regulation comes from the European Commission (EC) meaning all the different national rights come from one faceless group. When the EU tried to write a constitution the result was voted down by many member nations resulting in constitutional sovereignty without a constitution and so the EU has no police force or military to control its borders or look to its defense; in other words, jurisdiction without responsibility.

Presently, the Obama administration is preparing to negotiate a Kyoto like treaty which will delegate the authority of important American public policy to a faceless international commission. Who is going to set the standards? Who is going to enforce them? All countries do not behave the same and international unions have no police or military. Will we have a “global corps of brown shirts?”

Where does this trend away from the sovereignty of national constitutions lead? I think it will undermine the idea that national governments can protect citizens who will then look for protection elsewhere. When the Iraq government collapsed into chaos people reverted to ethnic groups and militias for protection. Because England has surrendered much of its sovereignty citizens are striving for autonomy as in Scottish and Welsh independence. For much the same reason Europe has a Muslim separatist movement because EU countries have given their authority to the EU.

Alexander Hamilton wrote that if a nation had no national government it could not expect to remain a nation. Imagine if you will thirteen individual colonies revolting against Great Britain. If America allows its policy to be written at international gatherings our government will have less capacity and even less moral authority resulting in less Americanism. Really, what is left to Americanism if we are all part of some abstract group? People who expect to retain the benefits of sovereignty without constitutional discipline or without retaining responsibility for their own legal system are putting their faith in words or ideas that so long as we say nice things about humanity, everyone will feel better and we will all be safe. One could even say that such people are hanging a lot on incantations or some form of witchcraft. Yet this is exactly where the Obama administration along with George Soros, Teresa Heinz and the other “progressives” or liberals or whatever they call themselves today wants to lead America. If Americans do not wake up soon they may well be led away to the cattle cars.

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