Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Just for Kooks
By John Vinson
The masters of the media condition us to believe that it’s a “conspiracy theory” to think that the elites of our county or elsewhere are working for global government. And they make clear that those who believe in “conspiracies” are kooks and cranks and nuts.
Certainly there are many nutty conspiracy theories, such as those involving space aliens and the like. Nevertheless, it is childish and naive to think that conspiracies among earthly elites never happen. To believe this you have to believe that all of our politicians, corporate CEOs, and financial moguls are so pure, public spirited and moral that they would never covertly advance any selfish common agendas against average citizens. Anyone thinking that needs to graduate from naivete to the real world.
Thus there are good conspiracy theories, as well as bad ones. A good one, we might conjecture, is one that fits with the facts that all can see. Further, it would gain added credibility from revealing statements made by those who seem to be involved in the alleged plots.
As for the apparent facts, if our elites are not pushing globalism, it certainly looks as if they are. For years, we’ve had an uncontrolled Mexican border and official indifference to the issue of national sovereignty that our broken border raises. Then we’ve had the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with Mexico and Canada which appears to move us toward some kind of a North American Union, perhaps patterned after the sovereignty-destroying European Union (EU).
At about the same time the SPP came about, the website of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published a lengthy paper advocating integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. What the CFR says carries clout because, as its website boasts, its members are key people in American government, business, media, and education.
Now for some statements. One is by David Rockefeller, a prominent banker, a former chairman of the board of the CFR, and its current honorary chairman. In his autobiography Memoirs, page 405, Rockefeller said, “Some even believe we [Rockefellers] are a part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United states, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I’m proud of it.”
Below Rockefeller in the elitist hierarchy, but still a significant voice, is Jim Hoagland, the former foreign editor of The Washington Post. In a recent article in the Post (6/1/08), he stated, “The United States should apply to relations with hemispheric neighbors many of the lessons of the European Union and its half-century of economic and political integration. A functioning American Union that pools sovereignty is a goal worth introducing.” Putting our sovereignty in a pool sounds like a good way to dissolve it.
And just what is the European Union all about? Consider the words of Gordon Brown, prime minister of EU member Great Britain (posted at www.britainusa.com). The time has come, said Brown, speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy Center in April, to accept “new global rules,” and “new global institutions.” Proclaiming that “we’re all internationalists now,” he affirmed that his goals were to “transcend states,” “transcend borders,” and “build the architecture of a global society.” Brown claimed that globalism will advance democracy around the world. Significantly, however, he refuses to allow his countrymen the opportunity to vote on whether they want to surrender even more of Britain’s self-government to the EU.
A growing body of “conspiracy theorists” believe that globalism is just a scheme to destroy nations and popular rule so that the wealthy and powerful will have free reign to become even more wealthy and powerful. These theorists haven’t yet proved their case, but the weight of evidence is on their side.