Regionalism: The Threat is Not to National Sovereignty, but Local Autonomy
“Stop allowing yourself to be deceived.” — James Roguski
Relevance Over Truth
Truth is not a movement. Patriotism is not a feeling or a pep rally. In the Alt Media, the obsession with relevance has derailed reasonable discourse and sabotaged the foundational purpose of having an alternative to the mainstream in the first place.
Trying to be the first, the biggest, most popular voice on social media is a recipe for failure. Many platforms and influencers in the Alt media have sacrificed truth on the altar of relevance.
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes? (Jeremiah 5:30-31)
We must stop taking the bait and being mesmerized by the circus of the 24/7 news cycle and the onslaught of fakes, frauds, and grifters in the Alt media eager to seduce our support.
Why do we say The WHO is not the greatest threat to our sovereignty? Because, (1) Your federal and local governments are the enforcement mechanisms for all WHO or UN policies. (2) Their policies will be implemented locally via agencies, NGOs, advocacy groups, corporations, etc. The threat is regionalism.
Regionalism
The concept of regionalism is often presented as a pragmatic solution to global challenges through cooperation that enhances economic stability and security.
However, Regionalization, as it is being implemented by powerful Western interests, is the intermediate step between nationalism and globalism. It’s a step-by-step transfer of rights that STARTS LOCALLY.
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(Leave no one behind)
The process being employed at this moment is a strategic manipulation by agencies (stakeholders) working with the federal government and NGOs that are designed to entrap locals and incrementally dizzolve the autonomy of state and local governments which have been happily accepting grants, not noticing that they’re walking off a cliff.
The creation of regional super-governments serves as a transitional phase, blurring the lines between public and private, incrementally making it more palatable to the public while avoiding immediate backlash.
Conferences and advocacy groups invite local officials to participate in “visioning” meetings where new “best practices” are presented, promises made, palms greased, and egos stroked.
You can’t vote out the mayor or zoning planner of someone else’s city. But you could be invited to a planning or “visioning” meeting where you will be allowed three minutes to speak your mind on the matter. All dissenting opinions are tossed in the trash after the meeting because it wasn’t designed to hear your ideas. It was designed to give the impression that the public was involved in the process. It was “your idea.” The Delphi technique. You have been harmonized.
Stakeholder agencies work by a model that gradually empties out suburban and small cities. Eventually, these regional super governments will absorb local governments as citizens are pushed into “islands of human habitation,” now known by the softer language “Human Settlements” (Sustainable Development Goal 11).
The Paris Agreement, a binding international treaty, relies heavily on voluntary commitments and nonbinding agreements to achieve its goals. Local governments in the U.S. have implemented climate action plans and regulations inspired directly by the Paris Agreement through environmental NGOs and corporate partners.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO guidelines influenced public health measures at local levels. Although these guidelines were not legally enforceable, they still shaped the local response through local health departments and state regulations.
Likewise, initiatives like UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have heavily influenced education policies at the local level through NGOs and advocacy groups that promoted curriculum changes or programs that ingrained these international goals.
Local sovereignty will slip away. Your rights will be homogenized into consensus. The last thing they want is an informed and active public who understands what is happening and from where it is coming. As such, the entities advancing these agendas are quite happy for you and me and the rest of the people to be fixated on the Geneva cult.
Alex Newman, for The New American, writes,
“The Deep State’s globalist plan for what insiders refer to as the “New World Order,” basically, a global government… begins with submerging the sovereignty of nation-states into regional “orders” … regional governments… with the European Union serving as the premier example.” This is called “regionalization.”
Newman continues,
“…Eventually, these regional orders will be interwoven into an overlapping patchwork of multilateral regimes on the road to creating a truly global authority, perhaps under the United Nations or some less-discredited future global body.… In his book War or Peace, global government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations co-founder John Foster Dulles spelled it out clearly, ‘The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage…Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.’”
Dulles went on to argue that the existing UN Charter was strong enough to serve as the foundation for a world government. Newman adds,
“In a 1962 report headlined “A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations,” financed by the U.S. State Department, CFR member and longtime State Department official Lincoln Bloomfield argued, … “[E]ver larger units evolve through customs unions, confederation, regionalism, etc., until ultimately the larger units coalesce under a global umbrella.” Sound familiar?” (Newman, 2024)
The WHO and The UN are working hard to implement their goals at the local level, bypassing federal legislation — regionalism.
Case Study: The European Union
The European Union (EU) serves as a prime example of regionalism in action. Initially formed as an economic community to promote trade and cooperation among European nations, the EU has gradually expanded its scope and influence. Today, the EU exercises significant control over member states' economic, social, and political policies. This centralization of power has led to growing concerns about the loss of national sovereignty and democratic accountability.
The EU's evolution illustrates how regional bodies can incrementally increase their authority, often with the tacit consent of national governments seeking the benefits of integration. As member states find themselves bound by regulations and decisions made by distant bureaucrats with limited input from their own citizens and step by step local autonomy is dissolved and harmonized into the false consensus of Communitarianism.
North American Union
Look For It (Regionalism) Now In Your City
What do the pandemic ‘treaty’ and Sustainable Development Goals look like in your town? It looks like massive regional medical conglomerates. Being asked to answer the same questions every time you visit the doctor’s office. Have you traveled out of town or out of the country recently? Do you have any COVID symptoms? Are you experiencing anxiety or depression? Do you have enough food in your refrigerator? Are you safe at home? Does your spouse beat you? Do you feel like you were born in the wrong body?
It looks like walkable communities with mixed-use ‘SMART Growth’ development, a department store, movie theater, or pizzeria on the ground floor with stack-em-and-pack-em apartments on the upper floors. No parking, but enough bike lanes to host the Tour de France.
You know what I'm talking about because you've recently experienced some version of this. We all have. It looks like surveillance, or a mental health check at your home because you expressed a “problematic” viewpoint on social media or were accused of hate speech by someone in your community.
Mechanism of Influence
This is what the early stages of globalism look like. It won’t come from the UN or the WHO directly. It will come from your neighbors and perhaps even your own family members via the forces of therapeutic consensus — Communitarianism. It’s for the common good, and therefore it must be done to protect you from yourself, to protect the planet from YOU.
The matter of enforcement of policies imposed by international organizations was settled when the United States co-founded, signed the Charter, and became a founding member of the United Nations and The World Health Organization. You might not like the sound of it, but that is the reality of the situation.
What this tells us is that the first and most present danger to American sovereignty is the United States government, and of course, an apathetic citizenry. It always has been. Whatever the WHO or UN may ratify or advise, the United States will not lose its sovereignty or autonomy. Following the regulations and guidelines of the WHO is an act of sovereignty, not an imposition on it. The issue is not national sovereignty. The issue is local autonomy.
When the WHO declares a public health emergency of international concern, it could go one of two ways, in the US or any member state: (1) either the recommendations will simply be disregarded, or (2) federal agencies (HHS, CDC, etc.), state, and local governments will enforce them. That is the true clear and present danger to American sovereignty. If only it were clear to more of us.
One method these stakeholders use is pre-Written Legislation. This happens often when they give NGOs, activists, or perhaps a city council member "ready-made" legislation. It already had the UN’s or the WHO’s policy written right into the bill. It’s a real timesaver and such a convenient way to bring forth new and progressive policies in your hometown.
The process involves local people, your friends, and perhaps your own family advocating for these policies because they've been harmonized into the new progressive way of peace and safety. NGOs, corporations, and activist groups, otherwise known as stakeholders — individuals or organizations with some skin in the game — lobby local and state officials to adopt policies that align with these international agreements. It’s necessary! Necessity is the cry of tyrants.
That is how and who will enforce these policies, and they will do it because they are afraid to go against them so they go along to get along, or they have become true believers and feel they have the moral imperative to support and enforce these policies for the good of the community, for the good of people in the future.
These advocates are trained by the best. They do their due diligence. They’re constantly engaging in public awareness campaigns, handing out flyers, posting on social media, and actually getting out in the community and knocking on doors to build support for their initiatives: Smart Growth, or new medical checks policies, and nobody seems to know from where they have come.
This creates a perception of widespread public demand. Consensus is manufactured. Are you beginning to see? It wasn’t the WHO that put that new mixed-use vaccine clinic apartment complex in the center of your hometown. You did it. It was your idea. My friends, stop watching the Tedros-Trump circus all the time and start keeping an eye on your local officials. Better yet, BECOME a local official — while you still can.
Sovereignty and Autonomy
In the US, states and local governments have significant autonomy in many policy areas, especially those related to public health, education, and environmental regulations. This is a powerful truth in the structure of our great nation. But, if we sleepwalk through our lives, these international organizations will take advantage of this structure to leverage cities and whole regions of the nation bypassing federal legislation altogether — no need for Congress, and in many cases, there is no need for a vote at all.
Advocacy and lobbying are legitimate processes in our system of government. They can and do serve good outcomes. But when citizens are unaware of the hidden tyranny in their own backyard, the potential for manipulation or undue influence is strong. These stakeholders are good at what they do. They know their objectives and they are motivated to achieve them. They’re good at fundraising, putting pressure on local officials, and creating strategic partnerships to persuade the wealthy members of a town or the local officials to adopt the specific policies they have been trained to push.
Policies influenced by international organizations are regularly being implemented without due diligence, adequate local debate, or even real public support. This directly undermines local autonomy and the democratic process. They use our energy and our skills to reshape our towns, cities, and our whole nation in the image of sustainability — in the image of an anti-human earth cult.
What do we do?
Local and state governments must maintain transparency, and the people who live there must participate in decision-making. You must critically evaluate the sources and motivations behind proposed policies in your city.
Coming soon we'll be presenting for you detailed instructions on how you and your friends and other concerned citizens can attend and politely derail these sham Delphi technique planning meetings and how to make an effective impact on your city council so that you can help keep your city and the ones you love from becoming sanitized, hypnotized, and neutralized.
Conclusion: “If you can keep it.”
September 17, 1787, was the final day of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The delegates, finally in agreement, emerged onto the street outside Independence Hall on that warm Philadelphia afternoon. They knew they had participated in the creation of something beautiful. A covenant between the American people and their government. A providential gift of God to the world that would draw millions to the shores of America in search of dignity and opportunity to make their own way and to live free from the cold sprawling fingers of oppression and dictatorship. Free men and women living free from tyranny, free to worship the one true God without persecution, and free to pursue life, liberty, and private property according to the moral law.
The Constitution established a federal republic, a system of government by and for the people, where elected officials are accountable to the people. However, there was also a sense of sober acknowledgment among the delegates that day. They knew that the Constitution and the fundamental human rights it secured would not survive if the people were not steadfast and vigilant in their personal duty to keep it.
Recorded as a firsthand account in the notes of Maryland delegate, Dr. James McHenry, were the words of Benjamin Franklin in response to a question posed by Mrs. Powel, a prominent Philadelphia woman who approached Franklin leaving the venue asking,
"Well, Doctor, what have we got—a republic or a monarchy?"
To which Franklin gave the heartening but sobering reply,
"A republic, if you can keep it."
Franklin understood the precarious conditional nature of such liberty and that a republic's life is not guaranteed; it depends on the vigilance, virtue, and participation of the people to preserve its principles and institutions. It would require a continuous effort from the people to participate actively in safeguarding their republic.
Whether or not the people would be free from tyranny, whether or not the nation would be led by faithful leaders, and whether or not an international organization would overrun the country would be up to the people.
Whereas the masses had always been considered too ignorant, disparate, or disengaged to govern themselves, history had almost exclusively seen monarchies, oligarchies, theocracies, and empires. Democracies and republics had been tried before, but the U.S. Constitution was unique.
Enshrining a distinctive and enduring blend of federalism, separation of powers, a written constitution, and a Bill of Rights that explicitly upheld and protected fundamental rights and individual liberties, this newborn Constitution was a unique form of government that placed the fate of the nation, the people, and their descendants in the hands of the people.
Freedom requires many things from its beneficiaries: wisdom, moral integrity, and faith, to name a few. “If you can keep it” is a call to action, reminding Mrs. Powel, then, and all of us now, that maintaining a republic involves more than just enjoying its benefits. It requires a commitment to civic duties such as voting, staying informed, and holding leaders accountable.
Our freedoms are not self-sustaining. Preserving our way of life and the safety and prosperity of those who will come after us necessitates our constant watchfulness and eager participation.
At a time when societal norms have drifted into a dark arbitrary sense of morality and America’s institutions have been captured by those who seem to be possessed of demons, this charge from Ben Franklin is still the strongest and only call to action we should need.
As history has shown, the love of convenience and the promise of security can lead to the gradual erosion of freedom. Only through vigilance and a commitment to preserving, first, our local autonomy, can we safeguard the rights of individuals and the sovereignty of our nation.
All that’s left to ask is, will you remain complacent, complaining, and waiting for the calvary to come to save the day? Or will you consider the lives of those who will come after you and the greatest temporal gift God bestowed on any nation ever? Will you “keep it?”
Citations:
Newman, A. (2020, October 10). Creating a new world order out of regional orders. The New American. https://thenewamerican.com/printmag/creating-a-new-world-order-out-of-regional-orders/?print=print
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