Under communitarian law, citizens are expected to surrender their freedoms to ever-tightening worldwide communitarian social values and controls. Our Constitution protects our freedom from this kind of Orwellian intrusion into our lives.

Niki Raapana, who has researched international law and legal documents since 1999, claims our United States government has adopted the communitarian “legal foundation,” which is woven into our international agreements, such as NAFTA and CAFTA, with communitarian law “designed to overrule all national law, including the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

Communitarian law is a “global to local law,” which bypasses our Constitution and representation process, with the top level of government “controlled by international courts and appointed councils,” the middle level of government consisting of “regional trade unions, parliaments, and councils” and the bottom levels consisting of “minor bureaucrats running local operations using facilitators to achieve consensus within small councils.”

Also, woven into their treaties and trade agreements, communitarian law is the law of the European Union, with the European Court of Justice often referred to as the “communitarian court.”

Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato summed up Europe’s communitarian law in a La Stampa interview, July 13, 2000: “The new entity is faceless and those who are in command can neither be pinned down nor elected … That is the way Europe was made, too: by creating communitarian organisms without giving the organisms presided over by national governments the impression that they were being subjected to a higher power … I don’t think it is a good idea to replace this slow and effective method, which keeps national states free from anxiety while they are being stripped of power.”

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said, “Communitarianism is a collectivist philosophy that explicitly rejects individualism. It does not merely relegate individualism to a subordinate position, but is openly hostile to it. It is an ideology of ‘civic society,’ which is nothing less than one version of Post-Marxist collectivism, which wants privileges for certain wealthy and influential organized groups, and in consequence, a renewed feudalization of society.”

According to Raapana, communitarianism incorporates both capitalism and communism, often referred to as “The Third Way” and is being implemented by a “bi-partisan network” of like-minded public servants. Raapana warns, “By calling it communism, the left can laugh at the “stupid right” and the right assumes they already know everything they need to know about it, which means neither side will look at communitarian laws and programs that are rapidly changing our republic into a global communitarian regional government.”

After attending the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, President Bush signed onto the UN Agenda 21 (Sustainable Development) plan to save the Earth from the “destructive impacts of human development on the global environment.” The following year, sustainable development became the government’s Trojan horse for communitarian “change” with President Clinton establishing the “President’s Council on Sustainable Development,” with every county in the United States now under the international sustainable development master plan.

NGOs are the thousands of Non Government Organizations accredited by the United Nations to work with local governments around the world to implement sustainable development. The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is an NGO based in Toronto, Canada, which has partnered with Napa County cities (and cities around the world), with community bureaucrats trusting ICLEI’s climate change science and implementing their communitarian solutions.

The following is from ICLEI’s June 18, 2009 Summary Report on ICLEI’s World Congress 2009: “Radical change requires radical decision makers.” “It means we have to move from 5 percent C02 reduction targets to 80 percent (by 2050).” “The global crisis requires us to look at all issues in an integrated way water, energy, bio-diversity, planning, land use, waste and governance.” “You are the decision makers and we as ICLEI are to empower you to take on that challenge.”

Raapana says that communitarians believe neighborhoods should be governed like “Chinese collectives.” A disgusted city council member in Sonoma County (also under ICLEI directives) told me her city’s “green plan” looked like “something out of Communist China.”

To help Americans bypass the media’s “information blackout,” Raapana and her daughter, Nordica Freidrich, created the Anti-Communitarian League Web site and wrote the book, “2020 Our Common Destiny,” which covers, among many important facts, the communitarian global to local framework adopted by the Bush and Clinton administrations.

As Raapana said, “My journalism classes were all based on the whole idea of a ‘free’ press. It literally blew me away to find out that is a lie … The material in 2020 is factual and verifiable. You won’t find any conspiracy theory in here. But you will find current events, history and probably a lot more than you bargained for.”

When campaigning for Obama, former President Clinton said America is a “much more diverse country … It’s not a more liberal country, it’s a more communitarian country …”

(Eggers lives in Napa)