U.S. Law In The Balance

Widespread ignorance of communitarianism and denial of the existence of an emerging global legal system has allowed every program necessary to achieve full implementation, unhindered by press or public scrutiny. The vast majority of citizens of the United States do not know what it means when their legislatures say they are “balancing” their laws. They never question why there must be a balance between individual rights and community rights. This “news” can be printed on the front page of American newspapers and not an eyebrow will raise. The new American mantra is that rights to privacy and anonymity have to be balanced against the community’s need for greater homeland security, and gee, while they’re at it, they may as well go ahead and protect the environment and provide social equity too.

Our citizens have not been told that open borders, protected land and water, free trade, citizen advisory councils, domestic spying, reaching consensus, public-private partnerships, sustainable development, exporting democratic freedom, and enforcing the global common good is as un-American as buying British merchant’s tea. The U.S. National Guard says it protects the “common good” right on TV. It’s a tragedy that our people do not understand either the ideology or the roots for all the important words used to define American laws.

The term homeland was used in the 1930s to describe a position of the Austrian Minister Zernatto who negotiated terms with the Nazis. Today homeland is a Russian political party and is also used to describe all of Russia. In 2002, Republican speechwriter Peggy Noonan wrote, "The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably. Homeland isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now." (answers.com)

We have a whole war named for Terrorism, and yet we have never been taught the word “terrorist” comes from the Jacobin freemasons who established the usefulness of terror tactics to achieve sweeping political goals in 1789 France. We surely have never been told the term “civil society” originated with the Jacobin’s revolutionary idealists. Would it come as any surprise to hear the term “ideology” also originated in 18th century France?

Our government has described its efforts in Iraq as rebuilding a communitarian system in the Middle East, yet this term never comes up in congressional debates, nor is it part of the anti-war speeches. It’s not even part of the calls for Bush and Cheney’s impeachment. How can so many people be opposed to the current administration’s polices and wars, be so upset over congressional passage of the Patriot Act and the Amnesty idea, be so suspicious of the WTO, and yet not be the slightest bit interested in the actual ideology behind the wars and the laws, let alone the entire concept for global domination over every nation’s marketplace?

How is it possible that educated Americans cannot see there is a recurring theme inherent in all new actions that alter national systems, regardless of whether the changes are violent invasions or are quietly adopted into regulatory law just under the local radar? Maybe they’ve heard it so many times from so many public officials’ lips that they assume it’s a good thing to rebuild a moral community based in shared values. It sounds so lovely, doesn’t it? Anyone opposed would have to be immoral with selfish values, wouldn’t they?
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