Posted on 06/15/2006 5:47:10 AM PDT by Trupolitik
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of an office implementing a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that apparently could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress.
As WND reported, the White House has established working groups, under the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the Department of Commerce, to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.
The groups, however, have no authorization from Congress and have not disclosed the results of their work despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
Tancredo wants to know the membership of the SPP groups along with their various trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements reached with counterparts in Mexico and Canada.
Tancredo's decision has been endorsed by Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project.
"It's time the Bush administration to come clean," Gilchrist told WND. "If President Bush's agenda is to establish a new North American union government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, then the president has an obligation to tell this to the American people directly. The American public has a right to know."
Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, "We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public."
WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups nor any congressional committees taking charge of oversight.
Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.
We are being sold down the river by the Dems and the Republicans.....
....yeah God Bless Tom T. but we need to act too if it comes down to it.
Yawn, the tin foilers outrage of the second.
I've got no problem with Mexico and Canada as joining the US as states no. 51 and 52...but just as states. We already have a Union.
Tom is right on! This is a worrisome development. It looks like President Bush is more in favor of trade barriers, not border barriers!
Would be nice to have a straight response from the White House.
As olezip drives in his Toyota.
Good fences make good neighbors Period.
Obviously the need for oil (Canada's and Mexico's) a big part of this direction, as well as having more direct control/cooperation with anti-terror interdiction in the entire Western Hemisphere.
Fine, then I demand to know why tom tancredo accepted a public taxpayer paycheck from the Dept. of Education for 12 years.
You would give these 2 leftist powers 4, count em, 4 Senators....I think not....
Same way we cant make PR the 51st state. To many socialists.
As WND reported, the White House has established working groups, under the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the Department of Commerce, to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.
OMG!! Not (cue the ominous music) Working Groups!
Yeah, world nut daily says so, so it is not a tin foil issue anymore.
JMO, you don't wear tin foil, you chew it up and eat it.
Crawl back under your rock Dane. Go help some illegals cross the border or something.
Beware of the stonecutters..
I think part of the problem is that some people are worried that this is seen as a purely republican issue. It's not, it's a continuous thing that's been going on since the first Bush administration, through the Clinton administration on to today.
The ultimate goal of both parties seems to be the same.
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