"The Faceless Minions Of The New World Order"

A "recipe for transnational socialism," blueprints for a top-secret superhighway from Mexico to Alaska, "master-planners" building a Trojan Horse that contains secret agents intent upon carrying off a coup d'etat, elaborately planned by a shadowy elite.

Ron Paul, Pat Boone, Connie Fogal, the John Birch Society, Maude Barlow, the Conservative Caucus: More convergence on the far left and the far right.

A subtle pattern begins to emerge. . .

UPDATE: Ron Paul, the extreme-right Texas Republican who is running for president of the United States, enjoys the enthusiastic support of a section of the Vancouver activist set. The "Canadians for Ron Paul" (if that isn't embracing "continental integration," I don't know what is) set up a booth on the lawn in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery recently. They say they hope to influence American tourists to register as Republicans when they get home, to vote for Paul. The leaflet they were distributing ("Bring Our Troops Home Now") points out that Paul "has never voted to raise taxes," "votes against the welfare state," and "votes for conservative principles."

And now we have famous Vancouver marijuana activist Marc Emery campaigning for Paul, too. "We have a saying up here: 'American politics is far too important to leave to the Americans,' " says Emery. Actually, we don't have any such saying up here, but it's worth trying to imagine how we'd respond to some impudent Yankee celebrity who said: "We have a saying down here: 'Canadian politics is far too important to leave to the Canadians'. " If he ever set foot north of the border after that, he'd want to be awfully careful about himself.

Which brings me to the most amusing irony of the recent "Stop The North American Union" hubbub. The Vancouver protest march was organized by "No One Is Illegal" - which is against the existence of borders, including the Canada-U.S. border.

Badda-bing, tish.