THE OAS AND THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEMPosted on 05/30/2006 10:01:14 AM PDT by NapkinUser
In March 2005 at their summit meeting in Waco, Tex., President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin issued a joint statement announced the creation of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). The creation of this new agreement was never submitted to Congress for debate and decision. Instead, the U.S. Department of Commerce merely created a new division under the same title to implement working groups to advance a North American Union working agenda in a wide range of areas, including: manufactured goods, movement of goods, energy, environment, e-commerce, financial services, business facilitation, food and agriculture, transportation, and health.
SPP is headed by three top cabinet level officers of each country. Representing the United States are Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Representing Mexico are Secretario de Econom�Fernando Canales, Secretario de Gobernaciarlos Abascal, and Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Luis Ernesto Derbéz. Representing Canada are Minister of Industry David L. Emerson, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety, Anne McLellan, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Stewart Pettigrew.
Reporting in June 2005 to the heads of state of the three countries, the trilateral SPP emphasized the extensive working group structure that had been established to pursue an ambitious agenda:
In carrying out your instructions, we established working groups under both agendas of the Partnership – Security and Prosperity. We held roundtables with stakeholders, meetings with business groups and briefing sessions with Legislatures, as well as with other relevant political jurisdictions. The result is a detailed series of actions and recommendations designed to increase the competitiveness of North America and the security of our people.
This is not a theoretical exercise being prepared so it can be submitted for review. Instead, SPP is producing an action agreement to be implemented directly by regulations, without any envisioned direct Congressional oversight.
Upon your review and approval, we will once again meet with stakeholders and work with them to implement the workplans that we have developed.
And again, the June 2005 SPP report stresses:
The success of our efforts will be defined less by the contents of the work plans than by the actual implementation of initiatives and strategies that will make North America more prosperous and more secure.
Reviewing the specific working agenda initiatives, the goal to implement directly is apparent. Nearly every work plan is characterized by action steps described variously as “our three countries signed a Framework of Common Principles …” or “we have signed a Memorandum of Understanding …,” or “we have signed a declaration of intent …” etc. Once again, none of the 30 or so working agendas makes any mention of submitting decisions to the U.S. Congress for review and approval. No new U.S. laws are contemplated for the Bush administration to submit to Congress. Instead, the plan is obviously to knit together the North American Union completely under the radar, through a process of regulations and directives issued by various U.S. government agencies.
What we have here is an executive branch plan being implemented by the Bush administration to construct a new super-regional structure completely by fiat. Yet, we can find no single speech in which President Bush has ever openly expressed to the American people his intention to create a North American Union by evolving NAFTA into this NAFTA-Plus as a first, implementing step.
Anyone who has wondered why President Bush has not bothered to secure our borders is advised to spend some time examining the SPP working groups’ agenda. In every area of activity, the SPP agenda stresses free and open movement of people, trade, and capital within the North American Union. Once the SPP agenda is implemented with appropriate departmental regulations, there will be no area of immigration policy, trade rules, environmental regulations, capital flows, public health, plus dozens of other key policy areas countries that the U.S. government will be able to decide alone, or without first consulting with some appropriate North American Union regulatory body. At best, our border with Mexico will become a speed bump, largely erased, with little remaining to restrict the essentially free movement of people, trade, and capital.
Canada has established an SPP working group within their Foreign Affairs department. Mexico has placed the SPP within the office of the Secretaria de Economia and created and extensive website for the Alianza Para La Securidad y La Prosperidad de Améica del Norte (ASPAN). On this Mexican website, ASPAN is described as “a permanent, tri-lateral process to create a major integration of North America.”
The extensive working group activity being implemented right now by the government of Mexico, Canada, and the United States is consistent with the blueprint laid out in the May 2005 report of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), titled “Building a North American Community.”
The Task Force’s central recommendation is the establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter. (page xvii)
The only borders or tariffs which would remain would be those around the continent, not those between the countries within:
Its (the North American Community’s) boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe. Its goal will be to guarantee a free, secure, just, and prosperous North America. (page 3)
What will happen to the sovereignty of the United States? The model is the European Community. While the United States would supposedly remain as a country, many of our nation-state prerogatives would ultimately be superseded by the authority of a North American court and parliamentary body, just as the U.S. dollar would have to be surrendered for the “Amero,” the envisioned surviving currency of the North American Union. The CFR report left no doubt that the North American Union was intended to evolve through a series of regulatory decisions:
While each country must retain its right to impose and maintain unique regulations consonant with its national priorities and income level, the three countries should make a concerted effort to encourage regulatory convergence.
The three leaders highlighted the importance of addressing this issue at their March 2005 summit in Texas. The Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America they signed recognizes the need for a stronger focus on building the economic strength of the continent in addition to ensuring its security. To this end, it emphasizes regulatory issues. Officials in all three countries have formed a series of working groups under designated lead cabinet ministers. These working groups have been ordered to produce an action plan for approval by the leaders within ninety days, by late June 2005, and to report regularly thereafter. (pages 23-24)
Again, the CFR report says nothing about reporting to Congress or to the American people. What we have underway here with the SPP could arguably be termed a bureaucratic coup d’etat. If that is not the intent, then President Bush should rein in the bureaucracy until the American people have been fully informed of the true nature of our government’s desire to create a North American Union. Otherwise, the North American Union will become a reality in 2010 as planned. Right now, the only check or balance being exercised is arguably Congressional oversight of the executive bureaucracy, even though Congress itself might not fully appreciate what is happening.
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 year or two ago you would have been told to don a tin foil hat. That doesn't happen anymore. You don't hear a peep out of the folks that loved to ridicule those that took the time to study and dig and investigate.
Our founding fathers warned us about these treaties, and agreements stealing our nation and our freedoms. When I first signed on back in 2000 I said we would not recognize our country in five years. I felt sorry for the flamers. I really did. This has had to hit them very hard.
"SHEISSEKOPF"
I'm pretty sure that kind of thing is not allowed, in any language.
I took two years of German in high school, and while I've forgotten a lot of it (since it has been a long time and I've never really used it) I still know what that means.
THE OAS AND THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEMI pointed it out to him and his answer was that it was meaningless and wouldn't ever happen, He voted yes!
Sadly I think that reflects the beliefs of many, including many here on FR, namely that America is what it is almost as if sheerly by happenstance and coincidence than actually due to what people that live here and have lived here have done to make it what it is.
As such, they think that the U.S. is impervious to the types of things that have brought other nations/empires/governments down. In fact, our government as it was actually intended and originally created has already been brought down and that is evidenced by the notion that our senators and many congressmen seem to believe that they can do whatever they want in spite of what the overwhelming majority of America, you know, their constituents, actually think, believe, and want for their states and for the country.
Assembly and operating instructions for electronics have been printed in English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese for decades.
Guess what there is a world market which drives such things?
Which representatives are threatened by your tagline?
Your slander of President Bush is reprehensible.
You are a lyin' Sack of S...
Your post sounds exactly like one from the depraved Bushwhackers who gather at DU. Maybe you should join them.
Are you afraid of the power of the Elks, too? Or how about the Royal Order of the Raccoons? They are about as powerful as the CFR, a "secret" society ANYONE can join.
This ridiculous crap never goes away as long as the gullible can post.
You guys would be hilarious if you were not so pathetic.
Your post is right on. People better wake up. That smell you smell isn't coffee, it's the sovereignty of the USA rotting like a corpse.
I see; so you be one of them BUSHLICKERS.. cleaning his heels.. and cleaning his boots.. I am not.. I have trouble seeing where 20 plus million brand new democrats IS A GOOD THING...
I'm NO BUSHLICKER... BUSHSUCKER.. or member of the White RINO House.. Bush really is the democrats most secret and useful MOLE.. even more useful than John Mclaim or Arlen Spectre..
The democrats are brilliant.. the more they attack the MOLE the more republican lemmings rally to his defense.. So that he can sign into law legislation NO DEMOCRAT could have possibly gotten thru a republican Congress..
You do know that John Mclaim and Arlen Spectre and George Bush are pretty much in unity on the immigration(insurgent) issue don't you?.. OH! and one more member of the pro-insurgent cabal.. should Not be forgotten.. THE DEMOCRATS.. Little wonder they are.. Inducting 20 plus million brand new democrats into their party will change the voting demographics in the U.S. for a long time if not forever..
All bogarded and steered by republicans.. that is the White RINO House and other RINOs.. Heroic effort by some republicans to stop it(in the house) is noted.. Blaming democrats for this seditious act won't work.. they have deny-ability.. BRILLIANT simply brilliant.. While all eyes are on the WAR(s) America is being changed from within.. BY REPUBLICANS.. not for the better but for the worse..
Yeah! you got me,, I'm no BUSHLICKER...
"You guys would be hilarious if you were not so pathetic."
I realize it must be terribly painful for you to pull your head out from that very tight hole you've stuck it in, but do try to face reality. Once you do, who knows, that pop you hear may be just the light bulb going off in your cranium.
I is beyond me why crackpots and liars such as you are allowed to post on a conservative site. Nothing I have ever seen from you is worth reading or not an embarassment to any sentient being.
Vemonous Bush hatred is NOT a conservative virtue though is certainly rampant among the Left. You obviously cannot live without it.
You haven't answered my question.
The smell is the stinking Illegalaphobes' crap.
You remind me of the glassy eyed Germans who were so enamoured of Hitler that they refused to see his crimes.
Still haven't answered my question.
Being reduced to comparing Bush to Hitler is not enough I'll bet you can go even LOWER.
Can you tell me WHAT?...
"I'm a Unite'er not a Divide'er"... MEANS?...
Since the SHRUB has spent most of his time Uniteing with Democrats and Dividing Republicans how is it that you can call (( ME )) a crackpot.. Your own pot is leaking badly..
Bush is either stuck on stupid -OR- guided and brilliant there is no doubt about that.. I prefer to think he is BRILLIANT.. and his policiys are ON PURPOSE... Malicious true and on purpose but not stupid.. There is an hidden agenda to be sure.. But its not really so hidden TO ANY WILL OPEN THEIR FREEPIN EYES.. We are being INVADED not against George Bush's will BUT IN CONCERT WITH IT..
The DOGS licking his boots are part of "the PROBLEM".. i.e. the dogs are republican/conservative dogs.. dumping on a FREE REPUBLIC..
"Still haven't answered my question."
What part of demanding our leaders uphold the rule of law don't you understand?
"Being reduced to comparing Bush to Hitler is not enough I'll bet you can go even LOWER."
If you are so committed to a party rather than Conservative ideals you are the problem. And I did not compare Bush to Hitler, I compared YOU to the German people for your blind support of a President who has shown his true colors and those colors do not represent the Red White and Blue.
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