THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VII, Issue # 157, July 22, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
GET AMERICA OUT OF THE WTO
By Dr. Ron Paul
THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: THE THIRD LEG OF THE ULTRA-INTERNATIONALISTS' SCHEME TO BRING ABOUT
GLOBAL STATISM, THAT IS, A WORLD GOVERNMENT REGULARLY & CONTINUALLY ENGAGING IN CENTRAL CONTROL,
DIRECTION, & PLANNING OF A ONE-WORLD ECONOMY, FORCING SUBSTANTIAL TRANSFERS OF WEALTH FROM THE
ECONOMICALLY MORE DEVELOPED & PRODUCTIVE NATIONS TO THE POORER, LESS DEVELOPED NATIONS, & IMPOSING ON
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY THE DESTRUCTIVE RESTRICTIONS & PROHIBITIONS DEMANDED BY THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS --
THE CASE AGAINST CONTINUED MEMBERSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE WTO
FULL STORY:
The World Trade Organization, by its own admission, is not just about trade. According to the WTO website, liberalizing trade actually
takes a back seat to the organization's more activist and radical ambitions, such as “development” – a euphemism for wealth-transfers
from rich nations to poor nations. Likewise, the WTO website promises that, “In the WTO, commercial interests do not take priority
over environmental protection.” In 1994, the WTO created the Trade and Environment Committee to bring “environmental and
sustainable development issues into the mainstream of WTO work.” What does this mean? It would not take much imagination to tie
any environmental issue to trade and thus invite WTO meddling.
What about the Kyoto Accords, the international agreement that aims to solve the supposed problem of global warming? Clearly the
Kyoto Accords, to which the United States of America has not agreed, will affect world trade. Will this be an open door for the WTO
to act as enforcer against the U.S.A. and other countries that refuse to sign the Kyoto Accords? Two leading UN observers, Henry
Lamb of Sovereignty International and Cathie Adams of the Texas Eagle Forum, have reported that the WTO is widely recognized as
the enforcement tool of choice for the Kyoto treaty.
Even Newt Gingrich, a supporter of American membership in the WTO, recognized, in 1994, that far more than trade rules were at stake:
"I am just saying that we need to be honest about the fact that we are
transferring from the United States at a practical level significant authority
to a new organization. This is a transformational moment. I would feel
better if the people who favor this would just be honest about the scale of
change.... This is not just another trade agreement. This is adopting
something which twice, once in the 1940s and once in the 1950s, the U.S.
Congress rejected. I am not even saying that we should reject it; I, in fact,
lean toward it. But I think we have to be very careful, because it is a very
big transfer of power."
In reality, the WTO is the third leg of the globalists’ plan for a one-world, centrally-managed economic system. The intention behind
the creation of the WTO was to have a third institution to handle the trade side of international economic cooperation, joining two
institutions created by Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. For the United States to give up any
bit of its sovereignty to these unelected and unaccountable organizations is economic suicide. International organizations can never
“manage” trade and make it better than it naturally occurs in a true free market of goods and services. At best, WTO acts as a
meddling middleman, taking a cut for unnecessary services provided. At worst, it forces the United States to change its domestic
laws in ways that seriously harm our economy and our sovereignty.
Economist Murray Rothbard said it best:
"You don’t need a treaty to have free trade. Governments and
quasi-government bodies like the WTO can only politicize and
interfere with the natural flow of goods and services across borders.
When we cede even a fraction of our sovereignty to an organization
like the WTO, we can hardly hope to become more prosperous or
more free."
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Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, elected from and representing the Fourteenth
Congressional District of Texas. Congressman Paul is considered to be one of America's leading spokesmen for constitutional
government, the rule of law, liberty under law, the private enterprise system,, free market economics, sound monetary policy, and
fiscal restraint on the part of the U.S. national government.
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