FTAA plans fit 200-year-old design.

In 1798, British scholar John Robison authored an expos6 of the machinations of a well-organized cabal whose goal was nothing less than ultimate control of the world. His Proofs of a Conspiracy supplied copious evidence about the Order of the Illuminati, its role in the disastrous French Revolution, and its tightly organized plot against mankind. George Washington was only one of several influential Americans who, after reading Robison's book, warned of the presence of the Illuminati within our shores. Simultaneously in Europe, the Abbe Augustin Barruel supplied an even more detailed analysis of the sinister brilliance of Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt and his designs in a monumental 1798 study entitled Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism.

Other historians, most notably England's Nesta Webster, Scotland's Monsignor George Dillon, and librarian of Congress James H. Billington, have chronicled the continuous progression of this determined conspiracy's drive toward world control. The efforts of such groups as the Italian Carbonari, the Anarchist followers of Michael Bakunin, and the Socialist and Communist descendants of Karl Marx gained impetus from the Illuminati and have sought to achieve Weishaupt's goal.

One of Weishaupt's top lieutenants, the German Baron von Knigge, gave his great energy and considerable talent to the efforts of the Illuminati soon after it had been created. Eventually disenchanted with the his superior, Knigge broke away from the Illuminati in 1784 and, according to Robison, "published a declaration of all that he had done in it." Of particular interest is Robison's pithy summation of Knigge's revelations: that "the aim of [the Order] was to abolish Christianity, and all state-governments in Europe, and to establish a great republic." In short, the Order sought to overturn society and establish a totalitarian world government.

In 1920, the Christian Science Monitor identified Weishaupt's Illuminati as the source of that period's world unrest and pointed to Robison's assessment of the Order's goals. In a remarkable summation, the newspaper's editorial listed current perils as "the obliteration of Christianity; the deification of sensuality; the proscription of property; the abjuration of all religion and morality; the repudiation of marriage, and as a necessary corollary the state adoption of children; universal license; and the wrecking of civilization and giving over of society to general plunder."

Jump ahead to our own times and note that the European Union, deceitfully paraded before its unsuspecting victims as a mere association of nations for the purpose of spurring trade, has accomplished several huge steps toward these goals. The EU's 2003 "Draft Constitution" stated that the EU "will have primacy over member states" and that it would function according to "the principles of the United Nations Charter."

In June 2004, after months of deliberations, delegates from the 25 EU nations completed work on a final EU Constitution. After rejecting pleas from within its own membership that the Constitution acknowledge God Almighty or, at very least, recognize Europe's Christian heritage, EU leaders crafted into their document numerous declarations of subservience to a world government under the UN.

Even without full ratification by its member nations, the European Union is already accomplishing, through gradualism and deception, the greatest consolidation of political power in the history of mankind--more than the conquests of Alexander the Great, Ghengis Khan, Suliyman the Magnificent, Stalin, Hitler or any of history's would-be rulers of the planet. Formerly independent nations are being reduced to subdivisions of an oligarchical structure located at EU headquarters in Brussels; the EU's formal turning away from Christianity has been accomplished; and the delivery of a significant portion of the world to the United Nations is well underway. In short, Knigge's "great republic" is being created.

In 2001, the internationalist Wall Street Journal advocated expansion of NAFTA so it could "evolve into something like the European Union." In 2002, President Bush's close friend, Mexican President Vicente Fox, stated as his "long-range objective" to have NAFTA expanded into "an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union." Mr. Bush has frequently stated his desire to have the United States take the lead in forming the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). By 2003, L. Ron Scheman's book, Greater America, formally advocated creation of the FTAA along the lines of the EU. And, as far back as 1994 during the announcement of a plan to create the FTAA, its proud sponsors including then-President Bill Clinton published a Declaration of Principles expressing "firm adherence to the purposes and principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter."

Do the plans to entangle this nation in an EU-like Free Trade Area of the Americas parallel the designs of a 200-year-old master conspiracy? Space allows only a small glimpse of the evidence that should lead anyone to an affirmative response to that important question. The plan to insert the United States into the FTAA must be blocked. Scuttling the FTAA could begin the unraveling of the entire sordid plot.