Roy G. Callahan, USN, Ret.

1529 NW 143rd Street

Gainesville, Florida 32606
Tel: (352) 332-9144
Fax: (352) 332-9144
call6603@bellsouth.net
Monday, May 11, 2015
Senator Bill Nelson
716 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
Dear Comrade Nelson:
On May 6, 2015, I received an e-mail from you stating:
Thank you for contacting me regarding legislation that would renew our country's Trade Promotion Authority, or
TPA.
This legislation renews the President's authority to negotiate and expedite free-trade agreements as long as they
meet strict standards set by Congress, standards that ensure compliance with strong U.S. labor and environmental
protections.
I believe such agreements are a necessary component of keeping our economy strong. And under the bill I
supported in the Senate Finance Committee, Congress still maintains its authority to reject or approve such an
agreement.
I appreciate your taking the time to inform me of your views on this issue.
The last time I checked you raised your right hand and took an oath to support and defend the constitution. There is
nothing constitutional about the Trade Promotion Authority you support and you know it. You also know The TPA is a
bait and switch scheme that has nothing to do with genuine free trade nor is it confined to the issue of trade. These
agreements seek to transfer economic and political power to regional arrangements as stepping stones to global
governance under the guise of free trade.
Fast-track authority also compromises Congresss ability to regulate foreign trade. It transfers the initiative for
negotiating free trade agreements to the executive branch. When a completed trade agreement is ready for
congressional approval, it permits Congress an up-or-down vote on the agreement with no amendments or filibusters
permitted. It gives the executive branch a great deal of its exclusive power for regulating foreign trade by granting the
president fast-track negotiating authority absent Congressional oversight.
In testimony before the House and Ways Committee in June 1994, Newt Gingrich, said the following the regarding
World Trade Organization
I am just saying that we need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a
practical level significant authority to a new organization. This is a transformational moment .I agree this is very
close to Maastricht [the European Union treaty by which the EU member nations surrendered considerable
sovereignty], and twenty years from now we will look back on this as a very important defining moment. This is not
just another trade agreement. This is adopting something which twice, once in the 1940s and once in the 1950s, the
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U.S. Congress rejected. I am not even saying we should reject it; I, in fact, lean toward it. But I think we have to be
very careful, because it is a very big transfer of power.
Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution says, The Congress shall have Power to regulate Commerce with foreign
Nations. This is an essential component to our national sovereignty and independence.
Six years ago, the United States signed a trans-Atlantic economic integration plan with the EU. On February 12,
2014, President Obama said he intended to complete negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and to launch
talks on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union in this state of
the Union speech. On July 8, 2014, representatives from the United States and EU met in Washington, D.C., for one
week to begin negotiations on the TTIP with the goal of economic integration of the United States and EU.
Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute has written:
With economic integration will come political integration...One of the purposes of NAFTA and other international
trade agreements is to set the principles by which such decisions are to be made, including the critical question of
how to harmonize differing labor, consumer, environmental, and other standards. By whatever name, this is an
incipient form of international government.
Globalists, socialists, and communists promote regional blocs that destroy national sovereignty. The ultimate goal is
to merge regions allowing for world government. The TPA is a direct attack on this countys constitutional checks and
balances. It is represents and unconstitutional usurpation of the legislative powers of Congress and you know it.
The first sentence in the Constitution says, All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the
United States. (Article I, Section 1) The TPA destroys this requirement without amending the constitution. Passage
also eliminates congress ability to judge the pros and cons thus subjecting U.S sovereignty to the dictates of the
Trans- Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to foreign bureaucracies,
agencies, and courts that hate our constitution. As designed, these agreements subvert American sovereignty by
forcing economic and political integration with certain Pacific Rim nations and the European Union, respectively.
These facts and combined with your reply begs the question: Is there a part of the Communist Manifesto you do not
support and swear an oath to? A constituent wants to know.

Yours in the Bill of Rights,

Roy G. Callahan
Cuban Missile Crisis/Vietnam Veteran (Devil Dog)
Retired Investigator, Public Defenders Office, 8th Judicial Circuit
Copy to Senator Rubio, Representative Yoho et al.

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