Transnationalism: What it Means for America
by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook
Barack Obama Bows to Transnationalism
Transnationalism = Globalization (see photo above)
I’ve heard word “transnationalism” used on television several times this week, and it reminded me that Obama’s legislation, The Global Poverty Act, Senate Bill 2433, should be brought up for a vote, probably in the dead of night, before long.
The key to making transnationalism the rule of the world, rather than a choice by a Nation, is a document known as the U.N. Millenium Development Goal (read text here), known as the MDG. Senate Bill 2433 ties our President, whomever he may be, and surprise, surprise, “he” is Barack Obama, to accomplishing the Millennium Goal. Obama wrote this Bill while a Senator. Now he will implement this Bill with the U.N. – something that President Bush would have never considered.
In short, the U.N. defines transnationalism as a type of globalization that is, this minute, turning the world into a “global village.” That “global village” will give back control of “peace, equity, social justice, democracy and human rights,” to the people. The U.N.’s vision of globalization is one that makes all industry, throughout the world “work for the benefit of everyone to eradicate poverty and hunger globally…”
The U.N. MDG says this:
This can happen only if global corporations, international financial and trade institutions and Governments are subject to effective democratic control by the people…”
You get the picture. The U.N. wants world-wide socialism – no surprise there.
I urge everyone to keep a close watch on The Global Poverty Act, s.2433. It will rear it’s ugly head sometime soon, and it’s sponsors will attempt to get this innocuous-seeming Bill through without a lot of noise. Here’s some information on how fossil fuels, currency, and land are to be taxed throught the MDG, as well as plans for globalized militaries.
Frank Gaffney, Jr. has a column this week on transnationalism. It’s something we should all familiarize ourselves with because it is galloping at us at a very high speed. Here is Mr. Gaffney’s article. Pay close attention to what is happening to former Bush U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others:
Looming specter of transnationalism
U.S. needs a State Department defender of its sovereign rights
by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
Washington Times
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
COMMENTARY:
What is wrong with this picture? We learned this weekend that a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, is preparing to prosecute six Americans who worked as senior legal and policy advisers to former President George W. Bush – including former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith. The purported crime? The opinions they provided Mr. Bush supported the use of torture against enemy combatants.
Most Americans would find this assertion of what has come to be called “transnational law” to be troubling on several grounds. Its application is an affront to due process and the rule of law in this country. It would criminalize internal U.S. policymaking deliberations, with profound implications for U.S. sovereignty. If allowed to run its course, this prosecution would have a profoundly chilling effect on the willingness of subordinates to provide a president with advice or perhaps even to serve in government.
One would hope President Obama would recognize that this use of legal mechanisms as a form of warfare against the United States – increasingly known as “lawfare” – holds serious dangers not just for the country and those who ran it for the past eight years, but for his administration as well. That would appear not to be the case, however, in light of his choice of Harold Koh to be the State Department’s top lawyer.
In fact, as dean of Yale’s law school, Mr. Koh has been an unalloyed enthusiast for transnational law. For example, in a 2006 article in the Penn State Law Review, he extolled the “transnationalist faction” on the Supreme Court and the wisdom shown by four, and sometimes five, of its justices in rejecting the impulses of what he disdainfully calls “the nationalist faction”:
“Generally speaking the transnationalists tend to emphasize the interdependence between the United States and the rest of the world, while the nationalists tend instead to focus more on preserving American autonomyThe transnationalists believe in and promote the blending of international and domestic law, while nationalists continue to maintain a rigid separation of domestic from foreign law. The transnationalists view domestic courts as having a critical role to play in domesticating international law into U.S. law, while nationalists argue instead that only the political branches can internalize international law.
“The transnationalists believe that U.S. courts can and should use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system, while the nationalists tend to claim that U.S. courts should limit their attention to the development of a national system. Finally, the transnationalists urge that the power of the executive branch should be constrained by judicial review and the concept of international comity, while the nationalists tend to believe that federal courts should give extraordinarily broad deference to executive power in foreign affairs.”
How many Americans are aware that some, let alone an actual majority, of the Supreme Court’s justices think this country should be ruled by something other than the Constitution of the United States, laws made pursuant thereto and treaties clearly consistent with it? Assuredly, few of us know such an assault on our sovereignty is afoot; in all likelihood, fewer still would support it.
The same likely would apply to Mr. Koh’s embrace of myriad other controversial transnationalist initiatives. He favors U.S. submission to the International Criminal Court, enabling that tribunal to have the right tomorrow to take up the sort of foreign prosecutions of Americans contemplated by Spain’s Judge Garzon today.
Mr. Koh goes even further than Sen. John Kerry, who argued that American uses of force must meet what he euphemistically called a “global test.” Mr. Koh says the United States must obtain pre-authorization by the U.N. Security Council. In keeping with this view, he condemned the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which lacked such a mandate, as “illegal.”
The State Department legal adviser-designate has also actively opposed virtually every instrument the previous administration deemed necessary to wage and win the war against terror-wielding adversaries. Mr. Koh insisted that Guantanamo Bay be closed, coercive interrogation techniques be halted and trials in civilian U.S. courts be afforded to captured enemy combatants. To be sure, these positions largely track with those of Mr. Obama, although the latter has left himself some latitude in their implementation. Mr. Koh’s critique of the government’s terrorist surveillance, though, is even more extreme than that of Mr. Obama, who as a senator voted to allow the program to continue.
It is absolutely predictable that the United States will find itself under ever greater assault in the form of lawfare as notions of the supremacy of transnational law take hold among elites, both here (notably in the Supreme Court) and abroad. Mr. Obama can spare himself and the country considerable grief when he meets this week in Europe and Turkey with some of the leading practitioners of lawfare by repudiating Judge Garzon’s extraterritorial overreach, rejecting the application of transnational law more generally and selecting a State Department legal adviser who is an avowed nationalist, not a committed transnationalist”
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for The Washington Times.
End Mr. Gaffney’s article
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Posted by Maggie Thornton on April 3, 2009 10:11 am
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President Obama bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia says that he is inferior as a man and leader.
With that bow America has become a 2nd rate nation.
Obama has acknowledged through his bowing that those terrorist on 9/11 who came from Saudi Arabia have officially demoralized and defeated the great United States. The video and picture of Obama bowing and submitting before the center of Islamic rule will be used by every terrorist throughout the world as recruitment tool against America and it’s allies.
Obama has disgraced America and has put the security of America and it allies in grave danger.
DEMS SEEK TO REVIVE SHARIA LAW OR Re-Stated Here We Go Again
RIGHT NOW friend and foe here and overseas, want to subject the US MILITARY personnel to indictment and prosecution by the ICC.
GERMANY AND ITALY have actually already indicted US CIA agents for supposedly capturing radical islamic terriorists.
This is an infringement on our SOVEREIGNTY and a dagger aimed at our US MILITARY.
As a result, they may soon want to charge our troops overseas whom are fighting against terriorism, with trumped up “war crime” charges.
Charges like claiming Americans committed genocide, or claim we committed crimes against humanity. There’s a leftist group in Paris, plus Argentina, Sweden, whom want to charge Rumsfeld for allegedly authorizing torture at Guantanamo bay, and abu Graib prison in Iraq claiming 1984 convention against torture, which FRANCE has used in previous torture cases.
it’s really time to put the UN on notice that the days where the USA would mindlessly supply it with money, men, military equipment and blood without conditions are simply over.
In fact the latest—the new UN SEC GENERAL has already stipulated he wants NYC police officers to serve in UN peacekeeping mission in places like haiti, kosovo, and liberia.
here is one more reason why
CLINTON IN 2000 gave his blessing to the whole globalist thing on the UN “INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC). The DEMOCRATS all along want to make US citizens SERVANTS TO THE UN AS OUR GOVERNMENT instead of a country governed by WE THE PEOPLE.
Thankfully Bush saw the serious threat this Socialist star chamber posed to our military and he told them to stuff a sock in it. Apparantly at that time the UN was insulted by it. Although the REPUBLICANS tried twice to negotiate immunity for US peacekeepers thru the Sec Council.
Well, the anti-Americans at the UN wouldn’t have any of it and the Abu Graib prison gave Kofi Annan the opening he wanted. The he tried to wrap himself in the human right mantle by claiming it would be unfotunate for someone to press for such an exemption given the prisoner abuse in Iraq.
We all know that if Mr. Amman really cared a thing about human rights he would have protested the revolving membership of certain countries with human rights track records. However, the Sanctimonious UN and Annan are always silent on the topic of human rights; except when it comes to taking cheap shots at the US
What they are really after is for the US to submit to the will of the UN and it’s International criminal court. What they want is for the US to relinquish it’s SOVEREIGNTY relagating WE THE PEOPLE of the US to the status of servants to the UN INSTEAD of being governed by WE THE PEOPLE
THIS would for example entail that any US servicemen serving in let’s say Pakistan could be apprehended by local Muslim authorities for an offense, real or imagined slammed into the ICC and flown to the Hage, netherlands where they would rot for months waiting for trial and done ENTIRELY without due process. they would get not trial and no confronting of accusers, No protection from double jeopardy and no unanimous verdict for a conviction.
Take a second to THINK about this all of the globalists within and without the USA think the murderous Al Qaida terriorists should have these rights HOWEVER NOT OUR US SOLDIERS and NOT OUR US CITIZENS.
Even though we can’t guarantee that no American soldier is ever taken prisoner by a foreighn state and put before the ICC, we at “least” make sure no US soldier and or civilian meets with this fate.
However, the ICC doesn’t want to recognize the CONSTITUTIONAL rights that we as Americans are guaranteed. GET IT?? They too think our constitution is FLAWED.
Meanwhile the globalists Anti-American ICC supporters criticized Mr. Bush claiming we were “undermining international LAW, the reality, THEY were writing new INTERNATIONAL LAWS TO protect themselves.
RIGHT NOW –the GRINCHES at the UN want to create something called a TRANSNATIONAL TREATY where anything protecting our USA PUBLIC that happens in our courts that GOVERNMENT DOESN’T LIKE gets kicked out of court would be sent to THE UN whom will then OVERRIDE THE WILL OF AMERICAN PUBLIC and ENFORCE it’s SHARIA LAW rule over this NATION.
Don’t believe it’??? it was on fox at 5pm today folks.
Want to know WHAT were the “agreement on the Privileges and immunities of the ICC” ratified with the assent of ONLY 10 NATION–it flat out provides the ICC immunity from “every form of legal process anywhere”.
**They stated that the “property, funds, and assets” of the ICC “shall be IMMUNE from search, seizure, requisition, confiscation, expropriation and any other form of interference. And, the ICC and it’s assets they said “are to be exempt from all direct taxes” including local taxes and customs.
** Meantime they want to IMPOSE the GLOBAL POVERTY TAX which would most certainly bankrupt the USA; while they engage in the Socialist rhetoric of how we are “selfish” for not wanting to pay more taxes. This is their idea of spread the wealth. Notice the funds are always going someplace else instead of to the PUBLIC.
How many people don’t know all throughout history the spread the wealth has always been used in facist/socialist/communist elections.
RIGHT NOW– OBAMA AND DEMS are attempting to seek a seat at the SHARIA LAW UN and the DEMS want to PUT INTO EFFECT —TRANSNATIONAL TREATY—what does thaaat mean?? it means anything that the PUBLIC decides in court that is beneficial to WE THE PUBLIC that the GOV doesn’t like –it WILL get kicked out of all courts at all levels and be sent TO THE UN international court WHERE they will IMPOSE THE WILL OF SHARIA LAW/UN court on the AMERICAN PUBLIC.
OBAMA AND WASH DC SLUGS WANT TO once again endanger this country by FORCING the US under SERVANTHOOD to the U-NATION which is SHARIA LAW. This will DESTROY our CONSTITUTION and make it IMPOSSIBLE for the USA AMERICAN public to govern themselves. –always the bottom line isn’t it??
Long and short of it—-the ICC MEMBERS have declared themselves IMMUNE form “personal arrest or detention, Legal process of every kind and immigration restrictions.
Oh then then lastly, the “salaries, emoluments and allowances” of the judges prosecutor deputy prosecutor and the registras of the ICC ARE EXEMPT from taxaition.
What hypocrites, it seems to run DEEP in the UN, but it indicates the lengths to which globalists will go to undermine National SOVEREIGNTY.
There’s no mistaking it, the ICC SEVERELY undermines our Sovereignty and has over the years placed our troops at great risk.
It CLAIMS complete jurisdiction over every person in the world and it makes no difference to them whether or not that nation has even ratified the treaty.
And, FRANKLY our own constitution may soon be up to the interpretation of 18 foreign -and for the most part hostile-ICC JUDGES.
Long and short of it, the ICC is literally a dagger in the heart of our US SOVEREIGNTY, our freedom and our independence.
DO you want to know what the ACLU thinks about how ‘STUPID’ they view Americans. Here is what Norman THOMAS one of the Founders of the ACLU says QUOTE Americans will never “knowingly” accept Socialism, but under “liberalism” Americans will accept every fragment; and one day wake up in a Socialist Nation and “wonder” how it all happened.
What we need to investigate is how the DEMOCRATS and ACLU think that they can continue to count on Americans being as stupid as the ACLU thinks Americans are. So they can further their Soc/glob/marx/fac/comm agenda
THE HIDDEN LEECHES IN TRANSNATIONAL LAW
ONCE AGAIN DEMS are attempting to re-vive the mislabled fairness doctrine which disguises SHARIA LAW how??? only this time you got it!!! they want to call it a new name —the TRANSNATIONAL TREATY and by seeking GLOBALISM.
THIS treaty means that anything that happens in USA courts that GOV DOESN’T LIKE they simply have it kicked out of courts at all levels and then give it to the UN/SHARIA LAW international court (icc) whom will IMPOSE their SHARIA LAW WILL ON THE PEOPLE.
WHAAT IS SHARIA LAW–it states
1. it is illegal to be a christian or any religion different from Muslim
2. it is punishible by death to claim any of the muslim/islam/sharia law murder rapes and terrorist activity are ‘bad’
3. it would mean female mutilation would become common place.
4. it would mean that all non-muslims land monies possessions would be confiscatable at whim by the GLOBAL/UN GOVERNMENT.
THIS would for example entail that any USA CITIZEN could be apprehended by local Muslim authorities for an offense, real or imagined slammed into the ICC and flown to the Hage, netherlands where they would rot for months waiting for trial and done ENTIRELY without due process. they would get not trial and no confronting of accusers, No protection from double jeopardy and no unanimous verdict for a conviction.
Take a second to THINK about this all of the globalists within and without the USA think the murderous Al Qaida terriorists should have these rights HOWEVER NOT OUR US SOLDIERS and NOT OUR US CITIZENS.
24 hours after the UN accepted the SHARIA LAW 30 christians were kicked out of their home and their lands and possesions and everything why??? because the country was SHARIA LAW and the GOV FELT LIKE IT.
however, in the media they said that since they aren’t be-heading people that it terrorists are ’somehow’ not that bad anymore.
You can bet that if the USA is allowed themselves to be bamboozled by this that it won’t be 24 hours before they kick everyone else and resume all their other behaviors because the USA WILL HAVE NO RIGHTS PEOPLE.
CLINTON IN 2000 gave his blessing to the whole globalist thing on the UN “INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC). The DEMOCRATS all along want to make US citizens SERVANTS TO THE UN AS OUR GOVERNMENT instead of a country governed by WE THE PEOPLE.
Thankfully a handful of protestors in SEATTLE WASH REMEMBA?? SECURED our freedom and
Thankfully Bush saw the serious threat this Socialist star chamber posed to our military and he told them to stuff a sock in it.
Apparantly at that time the UN was insulted by it.
Although the REPUBLICANS tried twice to negotiate immunity for US peacekeepers thru the Sec Council.
See Amer Ctr for Law and Justice as well
Always bet on Black!
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