I’ve got to admit, it took me a while to catch on to what was really going on.
This is a difficult
confession for me to make, because I like to think of myself as someone who
“gets it” and can usually see “The Big Picture.”
And yet, the truth is this:
From time to time, there
were some things being reported in the news that I found very puzzling, and
left me, as the saying goes, “scratching my head.”
For example, I remember
hearing that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had expressed her
opposition to Mothers’ Day as “sexist,” and had proposed a more androgynous
“Parents’ Day.”
“Ok,” I thought, “she’s a Liberal.
But why is she talking about this?”
And, during the
confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, there were
questions about whether or not she believed in using foreign law to interpret
the U.S. Constitution.
I did not understand why
such a question was being asked. “Shouldn’t they be more interested,” I thought
at the time, “with her views on, for example, abortion and the death penalty?”
Then, last year, there was a fight in the Senate
over the Law of the Sea (LOST). I remember reading the following:
Ceding authority to the ISA /International
Seabed Authority/ would mean that the sovereignty currently held by the U.S.
over the natural resources located on large parts of the continental shelf
would be lost.
So, why were some Democrats
(including then-Senator John Kerry) eager to pass this treaty? (Btw, the Dems
lost on LOST).
And during Obama’s push for
gun control, there was talk of the United Nations taking control of guns in the
U.S. “What in the world,” I thought, “does the U.N. have to do with our Second
Amendment rights?”
Then, two weeks ago, I came across a Wall Street
Journal interview with former Senator Jon Kyl, entitled “American Sovereignty and Its Enemies.”
And suddenly, “The Big
Picture” became all too horrifyingly clear.
Because all of these news
items were, in fact, very connected, by a term called “transnationalism.”
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