Selling out America
In his recent attack on Joseph Farah and every other individual in America who thinks it is a stupendously bad idea - to say nothing of treason - to create an EU-style superstate on this side of the Atlantic, Michael Medved assured us that these concerns were imaginary, that no one "anywhere near the Bush administration, the Congress of the United States, Cabinet departments or even major think tanks" has had the mere thought even begin to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing their minds.
It goes without saying that the plans for the North American Union are almost certainly located in an abandoned bathroom with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."
But if it is a daring concept to base one's argument upon the integrity of a political leadership that began by fraudulently representing itself as conservative and is best known for lying repeatedly about the nature of the Global Struggle Against Virtually Everyone it is waging, it must nevertheless be said that this is unlikely to prove terribly persuasive.
Moreover, anyone who is even remotely familiar with the evolution of the European Coal and Steel Community into the European Union is well aware of how the EU was built upon a foundation of lies piled upon lies. It is telling to note that the European Union celebrated its 50th birthday on May 6, 2004, which the naïve observer might think to be somewhat curious considering the EU was established only 12 years ago, by the Treaty on European Union in 1992.
Even if the politicians are telling the truth in professing their innocence of any treasonous plans to merge the United States of America with Canada, Mexico and anyone else willing to kick into the kitty this doesn't mean that the process is not taking place. Back in 2002, I wrote a column noting how the Eurofascists managed to hoodwink the prime minister of the United Kingdom, as Lady Thatcher herself confessed in her memoirs:
"The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. Looking back, it is now possible to see the period of my second term as prime minister as that in which the European Community subtly but surely shifted its direction away from being a community of open trade, light regulation and freely co-operating sovereign nation-states towards statism and centralism ... . We had to learn the hard way that by agreement to what were apparently empty generalizations or vague aspirations we were later held to have committed ourselves to political structures which were contrary to our interests."
Nor have the lies ended, as the Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel recently vowed to revive the European Constitution which was rejected twice last year, as per the vote-until-you-get-it-right philosophy that has been established as a basic principle of union. And though this well-known European history does not prove that the American political elite is involved in similar skulduggery, I suggest that Michael Medved is perhaps not the observer most likely to perceive it.
For while Medved does sport a righteous stache that would be the envy of many a '70s gay porn star, his judgment in other matters has never been what one would be tempted to describe as keen. During a rant last summer about my opposition to a fence on the southern border, he first displayed his inability to distinguish between National Socialist totalitarians and anti-government libertarians, then followed that embarrassment up with a hilarious demonstration of intellectual acumen in an exchange with a caller on his radio show.
From the June 8th transcript:
Medved: He [Vox] was talking about the idea of deportation ... . Okay, the Germans didn't deport Jews, they murdered them.
Listener: So what? You're comparing the final example of the Jews, what he's talking about is deportation.
Medved: No, he is not talking about deportation!
From this exercise in conversational self-contradiction, we can conclude that either the furious denials regarding the existence of the North American Union mean that Medved is telling us, in secret mustache-speak, that there really is a treasonous conspiracy to hand over American national sovereignty, or that the man is simply a hysterical Republican Party cheerleader with less consistency and intellectual depth than clam chowder.
While some conservatives believe that his reaction indicates he is on the take, as per Armstrong Williams, I rather doubt this is the case. Had Michael Medved been living in 1937 Germany instead of 2007 America, I'm confident that he would have similarly dismissed rumors about "some malevolent, hidden agenda" on the part of Germany's political leaders as "a paranoid and groundless frenzy."
And given the history of the 20th century, it is deeply ironic indeed that it should be a Jew who takes the lead in insisting upon the innocuous nature of the surreptitious actions of an expanding central government with international aspirations.