Alan Keyes on Free Trade American Independent nominee for President; 2004 Republican challenger for IL Senate

We gave away portion of sovereignty when we entered WTO

One-on-one trade agreements; with tariffs for dumping

North American Union Superhighway subverts sovereignty

I think, however, we need to realize that this isn’t just about our borders. It’s not just about the Superhighway. We are in a situation where the sovereignty of the American people is being utterly subverted.

Free trade gives excessive authority to international groups

The American people must repudiate the policy of establishing unelected international bodies that act like the Supreme Court of the United States, striking down our domestic laws. We must repudiate disgraceful, profit-driven alliances with the despots in Beijing. And we must refuse to permit our representatives in Congress to volunteer for constitutional impotence by granting “fast track” authority to the president to strike back room trade deals without the advice and consent of the Senate.

North American Union is betrayal of our sovereignty

A: The simple answer to your question is yes. I would undo it all, because I believe that it represents not just a surrender of our borders, not just something that involves us in an understanding of trade that is not fair to our workers, not fair to our people. It is the betrayal of the sovereignty of the people of the United States. And by that, I don’t just mean sovereignty along the borders and physical control. We have elites who no longer listen to us. We say that we want secure borders first, and they refuse to give them to us. We say that we want respect for the sovereignty of the people of the US, and they refuse to give it to us. Time and time again, it has become clear that somewhere along the way, we have lost control of those who are supposed to represent the sovereignty of our people.

Trade sanctions on Saudi Arabia for persecuting Christians

• HUCKABEE: Yes.
• TANCREDO: Yes.
• COX: Yes.
• BROWNBACK: Yes.
• PAUL: No.
• HUNTER: No.
• KEYES: Yes.

China trade contingent on human rights & product safety

• HUCKABEE: Yes.
• TANCREDO: Yes.
• COX: Yes.
• BROWNBACK: Yes.
• PAUL: No.
• HUNTER: Absolutely. Yes. Good question.
• KEYES: Yes.

No NAFTA Superhighway from Canada to Mexico

• HUCKABEE: No.
• TANCREDO: No.
• COX: No.
• BROWNBACK: No.
• PAUL: No.
• HUNTER: No.
• KEYES: No.

Entering WTO gave away part of our sovereignty

Out of WTO: no legislation without representation

FORBES: If the WTO can’t get its act together, let it stay on the side & we take direct action in reducing trade barriers with our partners starting with the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, with Ireland & Britain. And we should do the same thing with Australia & other countries in the Pacific Rim. That way we can stop this discrimination against our products and the WTO can go its own way.

KEYES: [The WTO] violates the constitutional principle of no legislation without representation. Will you withdraw us from this unrepresentative body?

FORBES. I’m not going to withdraw us from that body. it’s supposed to be there to help reduce barriers. If it doesn’t, then we bid it goodbye.

Separate naturalization (legal) from border patrols

Keyes supports the following principles concerning immigration:
• Increase the immigration quota for computer & technology workers
• Establish English as the official national language
• Separate the INS into two bureaus: one for naturalization and one for border patrol
• Keyes says, “Continuing America’s generous reception of new citizens from all the peoples of mankind will require that we show an enlightened resolve to form these new Americans in our heritage of ordered liberty.”

Banks and American clout should help farmers

WTO allows dictators to decide our future - US out

WTO is not representative; hence unconstitutional

BAUER: I don’t like bureaucrats-they are out of the reach of the people. I don’t like HMO bureaucrats; I don’t like Washington bureaucrats that are trying to run the schools. And I don’t like WTO bureaucrats either. I think that when decisions are made that affect the way we live, that affect our jobs, those decisions ought to be made by people that we can reach, so if we don’t like what they’ve decided, we can get rid of them. And I believe that in the case of the WTO, it’s a system out of control.

Tariffs make foreigners share burden of US government