Posted on 05/22/2006 3:42:25 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
by Jerome R. Corsi
The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin.
A joint statement published by the three presidents following their Baylor University summit announced the formation of an initial entity called, “The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). The joint statement termed the SPP a “trilateral partnership” that was aimed at producing a North American security plan as well as providing free market movement of people, capital, and trade across the borders between the three NAFTA partners:
We will establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders.
A working agenda was established:
We will establish working parties led by our ministers and secretaries that will consult with stakeholders in our respective countries. These working parties will respond to the priorities of our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable goals.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has produced a SPP website, which documents how the U.S. has implemented the SPP directive into an extensive working agenda.
Following the March 2005 meeting in Waco, Tex., the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published in May 2005 a task force report titled “Building a North American Community.” We have already documented that this CFR task force report calls for a plan to create by 2010 a redefinition of boundaries such that the primary immigration control will be around the three countries of the North American Union, not between the three countries. We have argued that a likely reason President Bush has not secured our border with Mexico is that the administration is pushing for the establishment of the North American Union.
The North American Union is envisioned to create a super-regional political authority that could override the sovereignty of the United States on immigration policy and trade issues. In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Pastor, the Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University, stated clearly the view that the North American Union would need a super-regional governance board to make sure the United States does not dominate the proposed North American Union once it is formed:
NAFTA has failed to create a partnership because North American governments have not changed the way they deal with one another. Dual bilateralism, driven by U.S. power, continue to govern and irritate. Adding a third party to bilateral disputes vastly increases the chance that rules, not power, will resolve problems.
This trilateral approach should be institutionalized in a new North American Advisory Council. Unlike the sprawling and intrusive European Commission, the Commission or Council should be lean, independent, and advisory, composed of 15 distinguished individuals, 5 from each nation. Its principal purpose should be to prepare a North American agenda for leaders to consider at biannual summits and to monitor the implementation of the resulting agreements.
Pastor was a vice chairman of the CFR task force that produced the report “Building a North American Union.”
Pastor also proposed the creation of a Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment with the view that “a permanent court would permit the accumulation of precedent and lay the groundwork for North American business law.” The intent is for this North American Union Tribunal would have supremacy over the U.S. Supreme Court on issues affecting the North American Union, to prevent U.S. power from “irritating” and retarding the progress of uniting Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into a new 21st century super-regional governing body.
Robert Pastor also advises the creation of a North American Parliamentary Group to make sure the U.S. Congress does not impede progress in the envisioned North American Union. He has also called for the creation of a North American Customs and Immigration Service which would have authority over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.
Pastor’s 2001 book “Toward a North American Community” called for the creation of a North American Union that would perfect the defects Pastor believes limit the progress of the European Union. Much of Pastor’s thinking appears aimed at limiting the power and sovereignty of the United States as we enter this new super-regional entity. Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency which he has coined the “Amero,” a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso.
If President Bush had run openly in 2004 on the proposition that a prime objective of his second term was to form the North American Union and to supplant the dollar with the “Amero,” we doubt very much that President Bush would have carried Ohio, let alone half of the Red State majority he needed to win re-election. Pursuing any plan that would legalize the conservatively estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the United States could well spell election disaster for the Republican Party in 2006, especially for the House of Representative where every seat is up for grabs.
Mr. Corsi is the author of several books, including "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" (along with John O'Neill), "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" (along with Craig R. Smith), and "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians." He is a frequent guest on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. He will soon co-author a new book with Jim Gilchrist on the Minuteman Project.
"...a plan to create by 2010 a redefinition of boundaries such that the primary immigration control will be around the three countries of the North American Union, not between the three countries. We have argued that a likely reason President Bush has not secured our border with Mexico is that the administration is pushing for the establishment of the North American Union."
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Slam dunk. A no-brainer. The Bush dynasty has been working for this for MANY years -- papa-Bush let it out of the bag some time ago. These utopian, ONE AMERICA elitists are on a mission, an agenda...that has nothing to do WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE and their will, their soverignty, their country, thier lives, their wealth, and their government as defined in our founding documents. I call it elitist tyranny and deceit.
Careful, you might wind up labeled as a tin-foil wearing conspiracy theorist...
But why else would GW be so resistant to the idea of building a REAL wall/fence and the booting of illegals?
I call it treason....
#1) Access to cheap labor by businesses
#2) Trying to prop up Fox's government
Not long ago I would have reached for my Tin-Foil hat, but now it seems more likely than not.
There's always drug money to consider.
I see the tin foil hats have come out of hiding.
One of the more dreadful things I've ever read. Anyone know of any good planets someone could move to?
The other name considered to replace the peso and dollar was "pissar".
We get the Canadian and the Mexican oil, We get the Canadian great plains (doubling our food supply) AND THATS ABOUT IT. REALLY BAD DEAL.
But why else would GW be so resistant to the idea of building a REAL wall/fence and the booting of illegals?
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No other reason, really. Bush is working very hard to redefine America, its borders, its demographics, its soverignty, all without the permission or involvement of the American people. This is the height of politcal insanity and madness, especially when viewed in the framework of the founding principles of this country. Yes Bush has forgotten who, and what country, he works for and the people of his country. He serves only his warped, personal political agenda.
Hopefully his agenda can be stopped and the damage to America stopped as well. The "silent" complicity of Washington is also treacherous. This "club" that is working hard to tear apart and redefine America is our worst enemy, far worse than Islamofascism or any foe we have faced.
The negative implications and obvious course path is staggering.
Did Tony Blair ask the English people before joining the EU? If I remember correctly he was going to put to a vote and dropped the plan after the disasterous outcome in France.
have you seen this article, yet?
Did Tony Blair ask the English people before joining the EU?
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Another classic example. Political elitism -- whereby they lose all sight of those they are responsible to. They operate with impunity and in a cloud of elitist arrogance.
Good, I will retire to Canada and bleed their health care system dry.
If Mexico was leased to Taiwan for 20 years we'd be screaming about competition from the powerhouse to the south.
Mexico is not a poor country, just the opposite: Rich in oil, precious metals, beaches, you name it.. yet they spend less than 10% of GDP on infrastructure, education and other necessities.
They are that.... I thought we voted to represent our interests, unfortunately the people we are electing don't seem to know that and too many are ready to let them keep on keeping on.
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