Connie Fogal, leader of the Canadian Action Party, was nominated as a finalist in Sonoma State University’s Project Censored “Most Censored News Stories of 2007-08 Awards” for her article, “North American Union: The SPP is a ‘hostile takeover’ of democratic government and an end to the Rule of Law,” published Aug. 2, 2007, by Global Research, about the integration of Canada, the United States and Mexico.

From Sonoma State University’s letters to Fogal: “On behalf of the Project Censored staff, faculty and students, we thank you for your courage and professionalism in investigative reporting. We would be interested in having you discuss the Top 10-winning article that you wrote, as well as your thoughts and experiences with regard to media and information manipulation in the U.S.”

From Fogal’s article: “Since March 2005, under the direction of three senior cabinet ministers of each country, about 100 working groups of unelected officials from government and industry have been meeting at taxpayer expense deciding on and directing the implementation of the restructuring of the apparatus of governance and the form of rule over the people. Their command goes out down the chain of bureaucracy expending vast amounts of taxpayer dollars implementing the changes in our border crossings, in our airports on and to our roads and highways, in our personal identification systems, in our health, in our vaccines, over our food supplements, in our pesticide safety levels, in our schools and universities, in the exploitation of our natural resources — our rivers, lakes, oil, gas — in immigration, over our right of habeas corpus, in our right of due process, our right to assemble and our freedom of speech.”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, has been eliminated while those people we have elected stand idly in the sidelines apparently blissfully oblivious, or deliberately careless of the termination of their policymaking role except as a rubber stamp. They have permitted an undemocratic elite to control them and the operation of government. It is by us, the general citizenry, that members of Parliament and members of legislative assemblies and city councilors, and senators and congressmen, are supposed to be ruled in all matters, not by the military/industrial/complex that General Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about on his final address to his nation. The prime minister and presidents, along with their most senior cabinet members and officials, really now do apply a ‘Divine Right of Kings’ mentality to their role. They have metamorphosed into a cancer rotting the life out of our democracies.”

In September 2007 I delivered Jerome Corsi’s book, “The Late Great U.S.A.,” to the office of Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena. Corsi’s book details how the SPP is being implemented through NAFTA, through the executive branch, without congressional oversight.

Thompson returned the book to me, along with the following letter, dated Oct. 17, 2007:

“Dear Mr. Eggers,

I am returning the book you left at my office. We clearly disagree on whether this is a legitimate issue.

For the life of me, I don’t understand why you can’t accept what I have been repeatedly telling you. I am not going to vote, I will never vote, to abandon our sovereignty. Moreover, nobody, nobody, will ever vote to change our American flag into a hybrid that incorporates the flags of Canada and Mexico. It is pointless to continue a conversation that is at best speculative and at worst political nonsense.

“These are unsettling times, Mr. Eggers, and we need reasoned debate by reasonable people, not self-serving propaganda offered up by ideologues like Mr. Corsi.

Sincerely,

Mike Thompson”

What does Thompson mean by “sovereignty” vote, when most everything is happening through the executive branch, through NAFTA, which Congress did vote for? Are “reasonable people” citizens with ideals similar to Thompson, and “ideologues” people opposed to a North American Union, such as Fogal, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, meaning there can never be a “reasoned debate?” What does Thompson mean by a “hybrid” flag? The countries in the European Union still have their flags. There is still a British Parliament, as there is a United States Congress, but they “rubber-stamp” what central planners in Brussels direct them to, as citizens have methodically lost their representation.

Fogal: “In recognition of our sovereign democratic rights and powers promulgated by the respective founding fathers of three nations, the Canadian Action Party calls upon all Canadians to join with our neighbors in the USA and Mexico to stand and defend our distinctive nations not to call for debate and discussion on integration. We must demand sovereignty and independence, we must make a sound and sight so that uninformed citizens can be alerted.”

Fogal is scheduled to speak in Sonoma State University’s seminar series Sept. 11, 7-10 p.m. For information, call 664-3160.

See Fogal’s entire article at www.canadianactionparty.ca.

(Eggers lives in Napa.)