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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2271

In unity, as we all know, there is strength. But strength for whom? Well, the unifiers, of course. When a collection of squabbling states become united under, say, a Bismarck, as in Germany of the latter part of the 19th century, or in Italy, under Garibaldi, at about the same time, those rulers gain the revenues, assets, and services of the united states, and the strength that naturally accompanies those acquisitions. History is, among other things, the story of such acquisitions of strength. It tells the story of schemers and plotters, such as Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Bismarck, or wars – too numerous to list – and the rise and fall of empires. Unification led, ultimately, to Hitler and Mussolini, whose activities are grist for the historian’s mill.

But what of the people themselves – the unified? History doesn’t deal with them, but they are the raison d’être of the whole shebang. Why struggle to become a ruler, without someone to rule? Without their work, there is nothing worth fighting about. It is to gain their (involuntary) servitude that plots are hatched, and wars fought. What of these subjected peoples? Do they benefit from unification? Maybe they do, and maybe not. The desire to consolidate power burns so brightly in the bosom of every politician that it scarce matters what becomes of the people brought into subjugation, except that they continue to produce, and remain passive.

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Have you heard of the Amero? It has been proposed as a new currency for Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Who made the proposal? Robert Pastor, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of "Toward A North American Community." The U.S. Congress would be replaced – not by nothing, unfortunately!!! – but by something even worse: a "North American Parliamentary Group." And who would control the "volume of money" in this union? The creators and issuers of the Amero. It would enter the ring to do battle with the yuan and the euro. The winner would be "absolute master of all industry and commerce" in most of the industrialized world. The centralization of power would have taken a giant step toward totality.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein148.html