THE RECORD
February 06, 2002

Fiat Lux

by Ed Deak

There was a large public forum held at Williams Lake on Tuesday the 26th, over the proposed changes by the Liberals to the forestry act, especially of the appurtenance clause on the demands of the US government. This is the law that specifies that the processing of timber in the same locality where it was cut. It has been a long standing bone of contention for our foreign owned lumber companies, who are itching to take our timber and export the raw logs, leaving nothing for our people.

Clauses such as this run counter to the so called market economy that is being pushed on the world by the USA and her satellites. Anybody who doesn't agree with this economy is labeled a terrorist. It is this economic model that is being taught at the universities as the ultimate economic efficiency and the road to wealth and prosperity.

Prominent economists in the past, including Galbraith, have long maintained that over a certain size corporations cease to be market oriented and become planning economies. Like the Soviets were. They simply can not afford to rely on the vagaries of popular fads. They must create trends, fashions and obsolescence. With unlimited resources they are buying governments and gradually enslaving all countries that come under their power. We should take a good look at what is happening in Argentina right now, because we are on the list to be ruined and taken over. Campbell is one of the little pawns in this game.

The US tariffs on our softwood have little, or nothing to do with the protection of their lumber producers. They are part of the long standing designs for the colonization of Canada.
The plans for the corporate dictatorship over the whole world have been in the works for about thirty years. In 1973 the Rockefeller family and their associates decided that there's too much democracy and engaged the Polish born, Canadian and US educated Zbigniew Brzezinski to organize the Trilateral Commission, and with the help of major corporations from the USA, Europe and Japan put an end to it. They've been slowly working on this plan ever since.

In 1975 they commissioned and published a book, titled The Crisis of Democracy, by Crozier, Huntington and Watanuki to show that democracy can not work.

Also was about that time the Chicago School of Economics professor Milton Friedman came out with his theories, based on the fraudulently distorted and misquoted writings of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, praising the benefits of unlimited greed and exploitation. This is now called neo-classical theory and is being taught in universities all around the world. If the professors want to keep their jobs they have to ignore all the contradictions and criminal actions advocated in the theory and teach it as the epitome of economic science.

In the following years over a hundred so called "conservative economic think tanks" were established across North America, one of them the Fraser Institute. Their job is to act like scientific establishments, while passing propaganda from the corporations, the controlled media, the public and governments as sound economic advice. The aim is to remove all controls, regulations, taxation and responsibilities from corporations and all democratic decision making powers from the public through privatization of services and uncontrolled money creation by the banks. Currently we are in the state of extreme monetary inflation which is enabling the stock and money markets to control life all over the globe, while producing nothing for the public.

The aims of these would be rulers became clear during the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement talks. Mulroney won the 1984 elections on an anti FTA platform, but was in Washington two days later to get his orders from Reagan and came back as a dyed in the wool free trader. He almost lost it in 1988, when the public started to wake up, until a multi million dollar propaganda campaign by big business put him over the top. Five years later Chrétien was smarter. He promised to re-negotiate the already completed NAFTA, but instead of public consultations he signed it in virtual secret. to prevent the public from knowing what he gave away.

Softwood was left out of the NAFTA because Chrétien was afraid the NDP government would sue the federals over the loss of resource control. Then came the secretly negotiated Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI), which would have removed all public control over our resources and closed all the mills. It failed, thanks to the French government, who became alarmed that the MAI will bring on a revolution in France. The MAI is now being renegotiated under the FTAA and GATS treaties.

Now we are in a time when this dream of total rule by big business is finally becoming a reality under the Campbell Liberals who follow brutal, exploitative policies along the Fraser Institute/Friedmanite lines. They protect the unlimited profitability of corporate shares while destituting humanity and destroying the environment. The Liberals are doing a big song and dance routine on how they are working on solutions, but in reality they are taking orders from Washington and the whole thing is running on long laid down tracks.

Once public control is lost over the forest resources, with the removal of the appurtenance clause, the Labour Code will be changed to permit the easy decertification of labour unions. Then the mills will force their workers to get out of union contracts and rehire them at minimum wages, with the promise of instant firing at the slightest show of dissatisfaction.

The Liberals are in hurry to get all this done as they know that once these laws are passed they immediately become enshrined in NAFTA and WTO rules and no future government can change them. This is called "free trade." When the original FTA was signed by Mulroney and Reagan Canadian democracy was laid on it's death bed and is now in the final stages of it's agony.

Corporate donations to the BC Liberal Party show exactly who is running the government. Between 1996 and 99 the largest donor was the US owned Weyerhaeuser Corporation with $197,767, followed by the also US owned Weldwood with $152,352. Sixty-seven percent of the Liberal funds came from corporations. It is obvious that now they are demanding their profits from their investment in the Campbell gang.

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