The Sept. 12 guest editorial by William Rusher (“The GOP is set”) listed five Republican candidates that he felt could easily win the nomination for president. What is interesting is that five of the Republican candidates are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Mr. Rusher picked four of the five. The CFR Republicans are Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson. Mr. Rusher, as well as the rest of the controlled media, has placed the CFR members on center stage. The Democrats are not left out at all. The CFR Democrats are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson.

Should we worry whether they are CFR members or not? The CFR is on a fast-track course to abolish the sovereign U.S.A. by 2010, literally forcing us to become part of a North American Union. Mexican truckers have already been given authorization to run their long-haul rigs throughout the United States; San Antonio, Texas, is advancing the city’s goal to establish itself as a North American Free Trade Agreement inland port; and a Mexican customs inspection facility is planned for Kansas City, Mo. NASCO (Tri-National Advocacy for Efficient, Secure, Environmentally Conscious Trade & Transportation) has figured out a way to cash in on the Chinese containers passing along the NAFTA superhighway from the Mexican ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas to U.S. and Canadian destinations. The first “North American Union” driver’s license, complete with a hologram of the continent on the reverse, has been created in North Carolina. Note that all this is without congressional approval or oversight.

The powerful U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, along with Mexican and Canadian counterparts, launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership on March 23, 2005, at a meeting in Waco, Texas, with George Bush, Mexico’s President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. The tri-national agreement, hatched below the radar in Washington, contains the recommendations of the Independent Task Force of North America to remove the U.S. borders and establish a North American Union similar to the European Union and replace the dollar with a currency called the amero.

The NAFTA “superhighway” linking Mexico, the U.S. and Canada is already underway. A Texas legislator tried to stop this massive mile-wide structure, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry vetoed the bill. The governor is a Bilderberger with the same CFR viewpoint. The Bush administration has limited the 854 miles of border fencing called for in the Secure Fence Act to just 18 miles as part of the SPP “open border” policy.

Congress is just now starting to wake up by having several bills to stop the forward progress of the NAU. Nineteen states are in the process of passing legislation to stop it, as well. Twenty-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives — 21 Republicans and one Democrat — urged President Bush to back off when he attended the third SPP summit meeting in Montebello, Quebec. The Senate just voted 74-24 to pass an amendment removing funding from the Department of Transportation bill for the Mexican trucking in the U.S.

What is Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, doing? He still has his thumb in his mouth.

The CFR member actions are considered treason under the U.S. Constitution, and if you support a member candidate, then you are a problem as well. Most past presidents came from a pool of CFR members as the present presidential candidates for the 2008 election. Candidates do not advertise their CFR membership to the public. They pose as “liberals” and “conservatives” to control all aspects of the debate. The CFR has really stacked the deck for the 2008 election.

To bolster CFR support, the controlled media blacks out non-CFR candidates. For example, Republican candidate Ron Paul won the Maryland Straw Poll, Alabama Presidential Straw, was victorious in New Hampshire and has won a number of Internet polls including MSNBC, all this without a word from the press. It’s because grassroots America has figured out how to get around this blackout by going to independent news organizations on the Internet and discovering that there is a real candidate supporting our sovereign nation.

Whether you’re on the Internet or not, don’t buy into the media’s portrayal of Fred Thompson as a new Ronald Reagan. As senator, Fred Thompson voted for such things as expanding the welfare state, federal involvement in education, expanding trade with Communist nations and subsidizing abortions. By being a CFR member he supports preemptive war and would place the North American Union as a top priority.

In contrast, Rep. Ron Paul sets himself apart from other Republicans by being decidedly anti-war while supporting American independence and sovereignty. He is referred to as “Dr. No” by his colleagues because of his refusal to support unconstitutional bills. You can quickly find out more by going to http://www. ronpaul2008.com/issues/.

(Snyder lives in Napa.)