Ron Paul: Our National Sovereignty is Under Threat
St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN) — Eight Republican presidential hopefuls sparred during their debate in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Wednesday, November 28. Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul responds to a question about talk of a North American Union. – Seekster (Youtuber from Arlington, TX): Now, I’ve met a lot of your supporters online, but I’ve noticed that a good number of them seem to buy into this conspiracy theory regarding the Council of Foreign Relations and some plan to make the North American Union by merging the United States with Canada and Mexico. These supporters of yours seem to think that you also believe in this theory, so my question to you is, do you really believe in all of this, or people are just putting words in your mouth? – Ron Paul responds: Well, it all depends on what you mean by “all of this”, the CFR exists, the Trilateral Commission exists, and it’s a [quote] “conspiracy of ideas”, this is an ideological battle, some people believe in Globalism, others of us believe in National Sovereignty. And there is a move on toward a North American Union, just like early on there was a move on for a European Union and eventually ended up. So we have NAFTA, and ‘moving forward a NAFTA highway, these are real things, it’s not somebody made this up, it’s not a conspiracy. They don’t talk about it and they might not admit about it, but there’s been money spent on it, there was legislation passed in the Texas Legislature unanimously to put a hold on …