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International Group To Monitor U.S. Presidential Election
Special Thanks to
Tom DeWeese of APC
http://www.americanpolicy.org
Outrage!
The U.S. State Department has invited an international team of
observers to hover over American voters in November and
monitor the U.S. presidential election. This news comes only
months after a group of 13 Democrats (led by Rep. Eddie
Bernice Johnson of Texas) disgustingly wrote a letter to UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan, asking him to send monitors to
the U.S. for the upcoming election.
Think about how despicable this is. Thirteen members of the
United States Congress are begging unaccountable,
international meddlers to come and monitor our electoral
process, in an effort to frame America as some tin-pot
dictatorship that can’t fairly manage its own elections.
Now, the Bush Administration through Secretary of State Colin
Powell, after being pressured by Eddie Bernice Johnson and her
globalist gulag, has invited members of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to observe the
upcoming presidential election. Of course, this raises a
tremendous potential for corruption, political shenanigans,
and electoral catastrophe.
When asked about their objectives, OSCE spokeswoman Urdur
Gunnarsdottir said: “We monitor, we publicize what we see. You
can call it political pressure.”
This makes it very clear what would happen if a disputed
ballot count were to occur, similar to the situation in
Florida in 2000. Imagine having a group like OSCE step into
the fray and add fuel to the fire! Whose side would they be
on? The leftist Democrats in Congress who support them, of
course!
The American Policy Center has contacted the State Department
and is waiting for answers. Unfortunately, the State
Department has no answers. We were told to call the OSCE,
because apparently, the OSCE can do whatever they want in this
situation. Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and ten of his
congressional colleagues have sent a letter to Colin Powell
demanding that he immediately explain this abhorrent
situation.
In his weekly column, sovereignty champion Rep. Ron Paul
(R-TX) had this to say about the OSCE debacle:
“We should be wary about organizations like the OSCE that seek
to involve themselves in our electoral process. The OSCE in
particular has a terrible record in the newly-democratic
countries of central Europe, where it normally operates.
According to groups that follow the conduct of the OSCE, this
organization does much more to undermine free elections than
to promote them.
“In Bosnia in 1996, for example, the OSCE gave its seal of
approval to parliamentary elections despite the fact that an
impossible 107 percent of the possible voting-age population
had voted. In 1998, the OSCE observer team that was to monitor
the cease-fire between the Serbs and Albanians was caught
sending targeting information back to the US and European
Union in advance of the US-led attack on Serbia. This year,
the OSCE approved the election of Mikheil Saakashvili in the
former Soviet Republic of Georgia with a Saddam Hussein-like
97 percent of the vote! There are dozens more similar
examples…
“Asked last week about monitoring the US elections, an OSCE
spokesperson displayed the arrogance typical of these
international bureaucrats, responding that, ‘The U.S. is
obliged to invite us.’
“The real issue goes much deeper than this election, foreign
monitors, and the corrupt OSCE, however. The real issue is the
sovereignty the United States voluntarily gives up every time
it joins an international organization like the United Nations
or the OSCE. We have unwisely joined organizations like this
so as to meddle in the elections of other member countries,
but when they wish to meddle in ours we cry ‘foul.’ We want it
both ways -- to meddle in the affairs of other countries but
to be immune from their meddling in ours. But it doesn’t work
that way. Having created this monster, it is now coming back
to haunt us.
“We send more than 25 million dollars to the OSCE each year,
financing almost ten percent of the organization’s budget. It
is time to end this waste of money. We need to end our
membership and participation in the OSCE immediately.”
** Action to Take **
1. Call the White House and DEMAND that President Bush remove
us from the OSCE and disallow ANY foreign monitoring of
America’s 2004 presidential election. President Bush caved to
political pressure from these left-wing Democrats and he WILL
NOT reverse his decision unless THOUSANDS of Americans rise in
protest against the OSCE monitors. White House Switchboard:
(202) 456-1414. Comment Line: (202) 456-1111. President Bush’s
e-mail: president@whitehouse.gov
*** The Newest, Greatest Threat To Property Rights: “Invasive
Species”
If you have foreign weeds, grass, trees, or shrubs on your
property (and you most certainly do) you’re in trouble. Under
“Invasive Species” provisions currently sitting in the
Senate’s version of the Federal Transportation Bill (S. 1070),
your property could quickly become the target of radical
environmentalists and bureaucrats.
Imagine the Endangered Species Act on steroids. Now multiply
its devastating effect on property rights by one million. That
should give you a pretty good idea of what “Invasive Species”
legislation will mean for property owners in every state,
county, and city in this nation.
“Invasive Species” is the radical greens’ and international
socialists’ key to controlling every square inch of land in
the United States.
This nightmare all began when Bill Clinton signed Executive
Order 13112 in 1999, creating an “Invasive Species Council” to
monitor and control “alien species.” What are alien species?
According to Clinton’s Order, “alien species means, with
respect to a particular ecosystem, any species, including
seeds, eggs, spores, or other biological material capable of
propagating that species, that is not native to that
ecosystem.”
Most agricultural crops and animal species clearly fall within
the definition of “alien.” Domesticated pets, many
houseplants, and Kentucky bluegrass used in most lawns and
golf courses would also be defined as alien species. Indeed,
this is all the greens and their allies in the federal
government need to control all land in the U.S.
Think the Invasive Species monster can’t get any worse? It
already has. Because in 2001, the Invasive Species Council
issued a management plan that states: “Council member agencies
will work with Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) and
other relevant bodies to expand opportunities to share
information, technologies, and technical capacity on the
control and management of invasive species with other
countries, promoting environmentally sound control and
management practices.”
And just what is the Global Invasive Species Programme? A
quick trip to the GISP website reveals it is:
- The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
- The United Nations Environmental, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
- The Convention on Biological Diversity
- The Nature Conservancy
- The International Union for the Protection of Nature
- DIVERSITAS: An International Programme of Biodiversity
Science (another UNESCO project)
It’s very easy to see how Invasive Species legislation will
open the door to almost total federal and international
control over private property in the United States. And that’s
why greens in the Senate are trying to sneak it in the Federal
Transportation Bill -- without proper debate.
It must be stopped.
There is no time to lose.
Both the Senate and the House have already passed their
respective versions of the Federal Transportation Bill, and
are currently conferencing to put forth a single bill.
Fortunately, the House version of the Federal Transportation
Bill does not include any Invasive Species language. But the
Senate version does.
S. 1072 contains provisions that allow for government to
control your land using Invasive Species policy. Specifically,
it would give the Department of Interior the power to decide
which plants, animals, fish, birds and insects are “invasive.”
Once it’s discovered your property is home to an invasive
species, the feds will have all the justification they need to
oversee, manage, and regulate your property.
This is why we must make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the House
version is the one that emerges from conference -- NOT THE
SENATE!
**Action to Take**
1. Call property rights FRIEND, Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and
ask him to make sure that NO INVASIVE SPECIES LANGUAGE appears
ANYWHERE in the final Transportation Bill. Senator Inhofe is
the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee and
a FRIEND of property rights. Be polite, and explain why the
Invasive Species provisions in S. 1070 are so incredibly
dangerous for property rights in America. Property rights
advocates are counting on him! Senator Jim Inhofe’s phone
number: (202) 224-4721. To e-mail Senator Inhofe go to:
http://inhofe.senate.gov/contactus.htm
2. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) has become the greens best buddy
on this Invasive Species scam. He’s the number one advocate
for the ruinous Invasive Species language in S. 1070 --
property rights be damned. Perhaps you’d like to call or
e-mail Senator Crapo with your regards and thoughts on this
matter. (In other words: GIVE HIM HELL, and tell him why any
Invasive Species language in the Transportation Bill will pave
the way for MASSIVE property rights abuse in the years to
come!) Senator Mike Crapo’s phone number: (202) 224-2806. To
e-mail Senator Crapo go to: http://crapo.senate.gov/contact/email.htm
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