Cover Letter to Accompany CAFTA Reprint

Dear [Mr./Mrs. Business Leader or Other Local Opinion Molder]:

Your influence is urgently needed to prevent our representatives in Congress from making a tragic mistake by approving CAFTA, the so-called Central American Free Trade Agreement.

This highly controversial pact, negotiated over a year ago, has sat dormant until legislators could more easily be pressured to ensure passage.  It still faces stiff resistance in the House, but its sponsors have scheduled hearings and promised a vote as early as May.

As the measure heads to a vote, the CAFTA architects are desperately working to appease natural economic opposition to this scheme, from the textile industry and sugar producers, for example.

But there are plenty of other reasons to be concerned, such as the deceptions used to lure the U.S. into this and similar internationalist entanglements.  Even the �free trade� label is misleading.  As with NAFTA, CAFTA would promote highly regulated trade, subject to WTO rules.  Even the UN has its fingers in this pie.

Perhaps the greatest danger from CAFTA is that its globalist sponsors view it as a steppingstone to hemispheric union under a Free Trade Area of the Americas � a major expansion of NAFTA.

These dangers and others are documented in the reprinted article accompanying this letter, �CAFTA: Exporting American Jobs & Industry� by William Norman Grigg.  Please take a few moments to read it, and, if you are as convinced as I am that CAFTA would be a tragic mistake, take action.

The key to defeating CAFTA is to let our representatives in Congress know that their constituents are informed about CAFTA and watching.  Copies of the reprint sent to your colleagues can help send that signal. If congressmen think the public is not watching, too many will cave in to the arm-twisting. Also please visit www.STOPCAFTA.com for other resources, news updates, and a sample email letter to Congress opposing CAFTA.

Thank you for your attention.

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enclosure

� 2005 http://www.stoptheftaa.org/ is a campaign of The John Birch Society