Why did the Hallmark of Freedom Merge with the Hallmark of Tyranny?
By Nick Ivanovich
The Party That Surrendered the Independence of the U.S. to Made In China?
Have you noticed that the big box stores across America have one thing in common? They no longer stock products made in the USA. Most products on display are ‘Made in China’. It’s not a dream, a myth or a conspiracy theory, these products are “Made in China.” It didn’t happen overnight. There was no alarm, no outcry, and no public accusations. The media didn’t sound the alarm except to occasionally note that another US plant was closing. Millions of Chinese communist product containers just began arriving on our shores. Eventually they replaced all the products Americans used to make. Neither Party brings up the subject. How did it happen?
In 1950, China’s Chairman Mao Tse-Tung sent an Army into Korea to fight against the United Nations forces led by the U.S. To this day American troops are still guarding the 38th parallel where that conflict ended. In the early 70’s President Nixon and Henry Kissinger began detente with China’s Chairman Mao, eager to establish closer ties with the communists. In stark contrast reputable Chinese dissident Harry Wu says, “Mao killed just as many people as Hitler, maybe even more.”
While President H. W. Bush was in office, the world witnessed the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Students began gathering in the square on the 15th of April calling for freedom and the reform of the communist party. Support for these demonstrations spread throughout the country. On May 30TH students, still occupying the square, erected a plaster statue, calling it the “Goddess of Democracy” which came to symbolize the protest to television viewers worldwide. On June 4th a student hunger strike was met with a decision from the Communist Party to clear the square. The People’s Liberation Army moved into the streets of Beijing with troops and tanks and drove the students from the square with live fire.
The Globalist Agenda
Globalists or Internationalists value profit from global trade and investment above all else. They strive to expand global enterprises, institutions, and global government. National sovereignty, borders, laws, preferences, individual rights and liberties are seen as an impediment to profit. Their goal is the free flow of capital, services, products and labor, unrestricted across all borders. Citizens are called ‘consumers’ and sovereign nations are obstacles to be controlled. Globalists have no regard for freedom. They locate in totalitarian countries for maximum profit from an unlimited, slave wage, government controlled workforce. Then they sell those products in highest price markets like our own and tell us to compete.
In his first term Democrat President Clinton, against citizen and union opposition, carried Republican President Bush Sr.’s North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, free trade with Canada and Mexico, to completion. After the November ‘94 Republican victory, Democrat leaders called the many ousted members of the 103rd Congress back into session on November 29th and passed the equally unpopular World Trade Organization, WTO, an unconstitutional transfer of Congress’s trade authority to Geneva. Ironically both of these measures were supported by Representatives John Boehner R-OH, Newt Gingrich R-GA and Nancy Pelosi D-CA.
President Clinton’s second term began with Republicans controlling both the House and the Senate. On May 15, 2000, Rep. Bill Archer R-TX introduced H.R. 4444, PNTR, Permanent Free Trade with communist China. To get the bill passed, the God and Country Party delinked Human Rights concerns from the annual review of Most Favored Nation status for China and made that trade status permanent. Americans were told trade will convert the communists, Americans will gain exports and jobs and globalism is the future.
Noteworthy comments during the PNTR debate from the Congressional Record.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher R-CA, “Again, the opposition refuses to address the fact that taxpayers under this proposal will pay subsidies to businessmen who set up factories over there and close them in the United States . . . . . Nixon, on his death bed, told writer William Safire that his China strategy may have created a Frankenstein.”
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-OH, “Mr. Speaker I rise in strongest opposition to permanent trade privileges for China. . . .This is not a fight about expanding America’s export markets. This is a fight about China becoming a vast export platform, 12 times the size of Mexico’s, taking our markets in Asia’s rim and sending a glut of sweatshop and agricultural commodities back here to our shores.”
Rep. Ton Tancredo R-CO, “Mr. Speaker, here are some more facts. Over the last 10 years, according to the State Department and the newly created United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, there has been a steady deterioration; I say deterioration, of human rights, workers’ rights, religious liberty. . . The commission therefore believes that Congress should not approve PNTR for China until China makes substantial improvements in respect for religious freedom. . . .”
Rep Ron Paul R-TX, “No one should question that individual rights are vital to liberty and that the communist government of China has an abysmal record in that department. . . .This bill further undermines U.S. sovereignty by empowering the World trade Organization on the backs of American taxpayers, sends federal employees to Beijing to become lobbyists to members of their communist government to become more WTO-friendly, funds the imposition of the questionable Universal Declaration of Human Rights upon foreign governments . . . .”
Republican Speaker of the House Denny Hastert said that America was going to increase our exports now that 1.3 billion people had access to our products. “‘We are going to send [China] a glimpse of freedom . . .China gets nothing from us they do not already have, and we get lower tariffs and easier access for our exports going to China. And who makes those exports? American workers do.”
The Record speaks for itself. Republicans were responsible for passage of free trade with China. They sponsored the bill and delivered 164 of the 237 yes votes, seventy percent of the total yes vote, to pass it..
H R 4444 RECORDED VOTE 24-May-2000 5:41 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: To Authorize Extension of Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal Trade Relations Treatment) to the People’s Republic of China
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2000/roll228.xml
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 164 | 57 | 1 | |
| Democratic | 73 | 138 | ||
| Independent | 2 | |||
| TOTALS | 237 | 197 | 1 |
The PNTR Bill Leadership was represented by House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-CA) and House Chief Deputy Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO). In 1999, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas made Blunt Chief Deputy Whip, after just a single term in the House. When DeLay rose to leader in 2002, Blunt became majority whip.
The Senate Bill encountered less opposition. That chamber approved it 83 – 15, with 46 Republicans and 37 Democrats, including both Missouri Republican Senators, Ashcroft and Bond, voting for it.
Some House members, who voted for PNTR Free Trade China, are still in office. They include: House Minority Leader John Boehner, Representatives Roy Blunt and Emerson, and Democrat Ike Skelton. Soon after, millions of Made in China products began coming ashore. Neither Party is interested in changing U.S. trade policy with China even though it has caused the de-industrialization of the United States.
Rep. Ron Paul introduced HJ Res 90 which would have withdrawn the United States from the World Trade Organization. “Our membership in the WTO is unconstitutional, which is to say illegal,” says Rep. Paul. “l plan to join with other House colleagues this year in demanding withdrawal from the WTO. Our sovereignty is a precious national asset, and the American people are tired of watching Congress sell out one constitutional principle after another.”
On June 21, 2000 Reps. Boehner, Blunt, Emerson and Hulshof voted against it. The Bill failed.
The Tea Party Candidate?
Ed Martin, my Republican opponent in the 3rd District Congressional campaign, presented himself as a Tea Party man of the people. Yet, he was endorsed by globalists like Rep. Roy Blunt who escorted him this spring to a Washington corporate PAC fundraiser. Blunt is described by the CATO Institute as an internationalist .
Ed Martin was also endorsed by Republican Newt Gingrich who worked with Pres Clinton to pass NAFTA and the World Trade Organization and he supports Climate Change all part of the establishment globalist agenda. [Henry] Kissinger old the Los Angeles Times passage of NAFTA “will represent the most creative step toward a new world order taken by any group of countries since the end of the Cold War. …” NAFTA “is not a conventional trade agreement,” he noted, “but the architecture of a new international system.”
Martin was also endorsed by:
By Rep Boehner By Sen Bond By Sen Ashcroft and By Sen. Danforth
Those who endorsed Ed Martin:
Voted for NAFTA Boehner, Blunt, Gingrich, Bond, Danforth.
Voted for WTO Boehner, Blunt, Gingrich, Bond, Danforth
Voted for PNTR China Boehner, Blunt, Bond, Ashcroft
Ed Martin served as Chief of staff for Rep. Blunt’s son, Matt Blunt, former governor of Missouri. Governor Blunt promoted the Kansas City SmartPort, the destination of products from China which are to be offloaded at the Mexican Port of Lazaro Cardenas and transported north, not stopping at the U.S. border but designed to travel on to the Smartport, which is described as Mexican territory in Kansas. The Port at Lazaro Cardenas is operated by Hutchinson Ports, a wholly owned subsidiary of communist China’s giant Hutchinson Whampoa Limited (HWL). If the concept was to export more products from the US, why not use American ports in lieu of a Chinese port in Mexico.
In June 2008 St. Louis Magazine featured Gov. Blunt, Sen. Bond, Sen McCaskill, and Rep Russ Carnahan at a signing of an agreement establishing an air-freight and commercial hub at Lambert airport with communist China. The article ended with, “The question that must be answered for the Chinese is if there are enough American goods to fill the Chinese aircraft on their return trip to China?”
Congressional Record of Key Unconstitutional Globalist Votes
Note: Rep John Boehner Republican Leader and 2011 Speaker of the House Voted yes for all of them.
Yes Republican Yes Democrat Yes
R – D
NAFTA 11/93 132-102 Boehner, Gingrich, Pelosi, Skelton
GATT – WTO 11/29/94 121-167 Boehner, Gingrich, Pelosi, Skelton
Repeal Glass Steagall 11/1/99 207-155 Boehner, Blunt, Emerson, Talent Pelosi, Skelton
Merged Banks, Insurance co’s, Investment Houses
Created the Too Big to Fails
Free Trade China 5/2000 164-73 Boehner, Blunt, Emerson, Hulshof, Talent, Skelton
Patriot Act 10/24/01 211-145 Boehner, Blunt, Akin, Emerson, Graves, Hulshof Pelosi, Skelton
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Real ID Act of 2005 5/05 225-143 Boehner, Blunt, Akin, Emerson, Graves, Hulshof Carnahan, Skelton
13 States opted out
Renewal Patriot Act 2/10 153-162 Boehner, Blunt, Akin, Emerson, Graves,
Luetkemeyer Carnahan, Skelton
Hidden in the ‘Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act’
No Republican No Democrat No
R – D
Ron Paul’s H J Res 90 6/2000 182-181 Boehner, Blunt, Emerson, Hulshof, Talent Pelosi, Skelton
Withdraw from WTO. Voting No was:
The Bill was defeated
Views on the Globalist Agenda
Paul Craig Roberts economist and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to President Reagan wrote, “US corporations decided that the way to get rich was to destroy their American consumer base by closing their American factories, throwing their US employees out of work and hiring Chinese instead. The Chinese work for less, you see, and free trade economists say lowering costs makes us better off. . . . Meanwhile China is on a rip. China is now the third largest shipbuilder after South Korea and Japan. In five years China’s submarine fleet will be twice the size of America’s. In 10 years China’s navy will be larger than the American fleet. This is amazing performance for a country that as recently as 1989 had essentially no shipbuilding industry.”
Pat Buchanan, twice ran for the Presidency opposed NAFTA. In 1996 he lost to Bob Dole who lost to Bill Clinton. Buchanan wrote in a 9/16/2010 article titled Rockefeller Republicans, “What is the Republican establishment going to do, what are the neoconservatives going to do, if returned to power? . . . Are these Republican scribes and senators not the same folks who went all-out for NAFTA and GATT and the WTO and MFN and PNTR for China, those brilliant trade deals that gave us $5 trillion in trade deficits, wiped out 6 million manufacturing jobs and 50,000 factories in one decade, and put us into permanent debt to China?”
China, persecutions and human rights abuses continue.
A Christian Post article titled Watchdog Sees Rise in Reported Persecution Cases in China 2/8/2010 reports, “To get a better understanding of how Christians in China are persecuted today, ChinaAid recorded the number of cases for five common forms of persecution – crackdowns on house church leaders and the house church movement in urban areas, prevention of worship gathering, punishment of Christians with long-term imprisonment and heavy fines, and the tightening of control over Three-Self Patriotic Movement churches. . . . Meanwhile, tens of millions – and up to 100 million by some estimates – of Chinese Christians continue to refuse to worship in registered churches. “Underground” or “house church” Christians worship secretly in homes at the risk of being arrested, fined, or imprisoned by Public Security Bureau (PSB) officials.
LifeNews.com – 9/28/2010 China Will Not Stop One-Child, Forced Abortion Policy After 30th Anniversary The head of the Chinese agency responsible for the family planning policy that bans couples from having more than one child — enforced by local officials with forced abortions and human rights abuses — says the nation will keep the policy for decades to come. The announcement comes on the heels of the thirtieth anniversary of the policy, which has been soundly condemned by pro-life advocates but virtually ignored by abortion supporters and President Barack Obama.
Not Tough Enough With China! 9/25/2010 John Kusumi, President of the pro-democracy China Support Network, writes . . . . The U.S. government used the renewal of ‘Most Favored Nation’ trade status with China to add life support to the regime: to brace, buttress, stabilize, prop up, and enrich the communists, dictators, tyrants and thugs who continue to run the Chinese government to this day.
In the meantime, on human rights, the Chinese government has become worse, worse, and worse. In addition to the unanswered Tiananmen crackdown, they have since then launched the unanswered Falun Gong crackdown; the unanswered Tibet crackdown; and the unanswered East Turkestan crackdown. This means that after killing Beijing college students, the CCP went on to kill many more innocents and prisoners of conscience, from among Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans in occupied Tibet, and Uighur Muslims in occupied East Turkestan.
. . . When free trade extends outside of the free world and in particular to China – a nuclear-armed, communist superpower with slave labor gulags – then it takes odious, noxious, and objectionable to a new level, because it is a way for U.S. corporations to bypass the 13th Amendment (on slavery). By sourcing their production and procurement to China, U.S. corporate leaders are able to leverage dirt-cheap labor in China to replace American workers (exacerbating U.S. unemployment and trade deficit problems) to pad their profits handsomely. It undermines the economy while it also undermines freedom, democracy, human rights, and U.S. national security.
. . . . Right now, Washington is sounding self-righteous over the matter of currency manipulation, and silent over the matter of slave labor. The silence is very telling.
