BayouVixen's Blog

The thought struck me a while ago while I was fending off the clouds of mosquitoes during the annual rite of mowing my yard.

We live in a country where an estimated half the black population believes fervently that the U.S. government created the HIV virus as a way to control population growth among black Americans, despite clear evidence the virus originated all on its own.

We live in a country where almost 15 percent of people -- that would be nearly half of those who openly call themselves "true liberals" -- are firmly and fully convinced that the collapse of the Twin Towers was engineered by the Bush Administration as a pretext for launching a war, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

We live in a country where a healthy segment of the partisan voting population believe without question that George W. Bush stole two elections through subterfuge, despite very clear evidence it was the other way around.

We live in a country where nearly two in three are fully convinced that "global warming" is a man-made phenomenon and the entire planet is going to burn up unless we do something immediately, despite a growing preponderance of evidence to the contrary.

We live in a country where the vast majority of the residents of poorer sections of New Orleans will tell you without question that the disaster that befell them was George Bush's fault, not that of Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who refused to call for federal help until the disaster was out of hand.

Yet many of the same believers of the above scenarios will look at you cross-eyed, bust up laughing and dismiss you as a lunatic when you try to tell them that the same George Bush they so revile is busy selling out our country to create a North American Union -- in spite of a plethora of evidence which (at least to conspiracy nuts like me) plainly indicates it to be the verified truth.

We all know, of course, that the Posse Comitatus Act prevents the federal government from using federalized troops to establish order and perform police actions on American soil. Did you also know that on Feb. 14, 2008, the commander of US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) signed an agreement with his Canadian counterpart which would enable the U.S. President to mobilize Canadian (and, presumably, Mexican as well) troops to charge into American cities in the event of a major "civil disturbance" to restore order?

It's the truth -- as is the fact that the President of the United States, through this agreement, entered into a treaty with a foreign nation that was not presented to Congress for ratification as required by the U.S. Constitution. Google it; interestingly enough, you can no longer access the NORTHCOM web site.

I'm sure you've all heard of the many meetings of the "Three Amigos" -- the leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico -- at events called the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the most recent of which took place in New Orleans April 21-22. Do you know how many new agreements and treaties have been reached between the three leaders?

Don't worry -- no one else does either. Where our government is normally quite keen to publicize its every good deed, every one of the SPP summits has passed in a veil of complete secrecy. Even Congressmen and Senators who have requested information have been met with silence.

I'm sure you've all seen the new billboard advertisements popping up all over town about how we need to "be prepared" to leave town in a hurry, presumably in the event of a hurricane. Isn't it interesting and entirely coincidental that NORTHCOM and other federal agencies practiced coordinating their activities the first week in May in a series of drills around the nations which simulated how they would react to a terrorist nuclear attack?

More than a year ago, the FBI warmed that Al Quaeda may have already smuggled components for a nuclear weapon into the United States, thanks to help from Mexican drug smugglers. The Border Patrol and local law enforcement have made several seizures of weapons, including assault rifles and explosives, over the last year or so -- including several shipments headed for Houston.

Ten years ago, me and a few others tried to tell Texas that George Bush was selling you a load of poop with his new "high-stakes" education program. We got laughed off as "social conservatives." Texas now enjoys a 25 percent dropout rate and unprecedented levels of violence in our public schools.

But y'all believe what you want to believe; stay tucked inside your comfortable little soccer mommy coccoons. After all, I'm just a conspiracy theorist.