Translating Wingnut-ese for the reality based community.

[Cross posted to Salon.com]

Murh.. Muhahaha… Kudos to Salon for getting this turkey to give an interview; as noxious as he is, I’m glad I have a chance to beat Glenn Greenwald to the punch a bit, I imagine he will be able to tear this guy apart much better than I.

Before we start peeling apart the spin and defenses, lets take a look at the man’s history. The Wikipedia bio of Jerome Corsi, member of the Constitutional party (originally called the U.S. Taxpayers Party), which has such august supporters like Pat Buchanan, Bob Smith, and minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist. Lovely company he keeps, old school. “constitution in exile” and “anti-UN New World order” paranoids. Read the full Constitutional party entry, it’s pretty hair curling.

In the interest of space and because it’s getting late, I’m just going to give the reality-based translation to the first page of his questions, with a link back to the original page.

What's the book about?

It's about the coming merger with Mexico and Canada. I make the argument that just as in Europe, it was a 50-year stealth plan by the intellectual elites and government officials planning to create a European Union, to go from originally a trade agreement, the coal and steel agreement, the original agreement, step by step incrementally building an argument and getting the votes needed to end up with the European Union. They went through a European common market, a European customs union, European community, finally European Union with its own currency, the euro. I'm saying the plan here is the same. Multinational corporations and elites pushing to have NAFTA advance into what it is now, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, ultimately a North American community, and if we don't stop it it will end up as a North American Union with its own currency, the "amero," the a-m-e-r-o, replacing the dollar and the other currencies in Canada and Mexico.

Translation:

How us pure Americans are going to get our bodily fluids sapped and impurified by those Icky Brown People, and the French, I mean Canadians.

What you seem to foresee, however, is something that would go further than the European Union and actually dissolve the United States.

The United States could remain as a country in a North American Union the same way Italy, France and Germany remain as countries in the European Union, but there's a significant loss of sovereignty so that now the European Union dictates from the nameless bureaucrats in the working groups in Brussels, in Luxembourg, the laws which the legislatures in the various countries -- Germany, France, Italy, etc. -- can pass. And if it's not approved they can't pass the law. So you basically have a European Union regional government becoming supreme and the governments of the individual countries becoming secondary in sovereignty to the regional government's dictates and rulings.

Evil liberals have destroyed the nations of Europe, who are soon going to soon be Muslim because they didn’t keep out those icky brown people. If we don’t go into full frothing paranoid mode, we won’t be able to invade other countries at will, because The current iraq war is going so well.

So what's the motive on the part of the American government and American corporations in forming this North American Union? That wasn't much discussed in your book.

I pointed out very clearly that the motive here is a multinational corporate model, that our multinational corporations largely are beyond borders already. I pointed this out extensively when I discussed how the North American Competitiveness Council, which is an advisory group under the Security and Prosperity Partnership, was constituted almost entirely of multinational business groups that are constituted to advise SPP. The agenda there is that, you know, American labor is too expensive for the multinational corporations. Our manufacturing jobs are increasingly going to China and our high-skill jobs -- I mean take a look at Bill Gates and Microsoft: He's one of the top billionaires in the world, yet evidently he does not have enough billions. Rather than being thankful to U.S. citizens for buying Microsoft products over decades ... he's pushing for another billion dollars. He wants unlimited H-1B visas to get computer scientists in an unlimited capacity from India and he's threatening that if he can't get that here in the United States, he'll form a subsidiary in Canada and get his Indian computer scientists through Canada. As opposed to -- evidently the sons and daughters of American citizens graduating from colleges in computer science are too expensive for Bill Gates. And it's that type of an agenda that is already beyond borders, which is pushing for global profits at the expense of the U.S. manufacturing or the U.S. middle class.

The icky brown people (and French) are going to take our jobs and stuff. Never mind we ran a political hit job that handed re-election to the shrub, bosom buddy with the Enron, Wal-Mart, Halliburton, and any other multi-national that was willing to pay up. Never mind that.

See? translating a frothing wingnut is easy, fun for the entire family!

Update: added block quotes for this entry, since it's just confusing going back and forth