Posted on 06/14/2006 1:22:02 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk
Author Jerome Corsi and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., will be guests tomorrow on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show to discuss the White House's effort to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress.
Corsi and Tancredo will join Liddy for the entire 11 a.m. hour, Eastern time, and take calls from listeners.
Corsi reported this week that Bush administration working groups 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.
The groups, working under the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the Department of Commerce, are 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 trilateral agreement, signed as a joint declaration not submitted to Congress for review, led to the creation of the SPP office within the Department of Commerce.
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.
I tried googleing and yahooing "working groups" too and I can't seem to find a definition, just that they are everywhere and seemed to have started in (what else) the Clinton Administration.
Nothing in Mirriam-Webster, hedge?
What is a "working group" and where do they get their authorization as a function of the US government?
I just realized, you could contact Rep. Tancredo or Prof. Corsi and ask them what a "working group" is.
You should be able to tell us what a "working group" is, since there are many associated with NAFTA and "free trade".
In thinking and stating that this SPP is coming down the pike, most of us are not indulging in wild-eyed conspiracy talk. Thanks to the SPP website, which every freeper should at least check out, we know the broad outline of the plan and the stated intentions of the planners. But since this is being kept at a very low level of public information, we still haven't the faintest clue on its implementation ... or as Sam does, to compare us to the UK in regard to the EU .... what our eventual level of participation is going to be.
IMHO, the economic/financial integration seems an already done deal ... a ramp-up of NAFTA.
Common currency? NAU Passports? Open Borders? Shared Security?
We need to know immediately what the particular tripartite working groups are doing with these issues. What is our level of commitment to these concepts which are so obviously on the table? These issues are serious enough to warrant any American citizen's close attention.
I think it fair to say that there has been some attempt to keep this under the public radar. It is also fair to surmise that this planned integration, on whatever level, is inextricably linked to the goverment's obvious unwillingness to control illegal immigration and maintain border security. If those given to conspiracy theory find this provocative, they can certainly be forgiven, if not necessarily indulged.
And now it is your turn to find the Constitutional Authority for the above.
That is certainly true, and one would of course hope that this referendum, and citizenship regulation would both hold true here.
In regard to border control, it is certainly much less rigorous within the EU than I think we would always need with Mexico. Citizens of EU member states certainly have freedom of movement within the EU, while remaining citizens of their home country. The attempt to control movement from outside of the EU is problematical. There is, as you know, an enormous illegal alien probem.
I'm still working on the definition of "protectionism" you asked for some time ago. I was completely stumped, since I figured you understand English.
I hate trying to figure this out ... not my job ... but I tend to think the Commerce Department working groups probably are legal, or at least that a darn good constitutional case could be made for them.
What concerns me is more on a practical level. There has been little or no oversight, no presentation of their work, and up until now, a news blackout, whether intentional or not.
Now would be a good time for the Department of Commerce to report out on the results and progress of their working groups to appropriate congressional committees.
I for one, and I hope my congressman, would really like to know what the heck is going on. Right now.
Minutemen Book Prompts Calls for Congressional Investigation
Authors of upcoming book “Minutemen” uncover White House efforts to create a regulatory agency with Mexico and Canada while keeping Congress in the dark. Jerome Corsi to announce findings while appearing with Rep. Tancredo on national radio on Thursday.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 15, 2006 -- Revelations in an upcoming book by the founder of the Minuteman Project and the co-author of “Unfit for Command” may result in a Congressional investigation of the White House, this according to the authors. At issue are the Bush Administration's secretive efforts to establish a North American regulatory agency with Mexico and Canada.
“Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders” (World Ahead Publishing; hardcover: $25.95; ISBN 0977898415) is authored by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome R. Corsi and scheduled for nationwide release on July 25. But shocking information contained in the book is already causing concern among lawmakers who are worried that the Bush Administration is ceding America's border sovereignty to a North American trans-national bureaucracy without their approval.
While researching their highly anticipated book on illegal immigration, the authors uncovered evidence suggesting that the Bush Administration established an office in the Department of Commerce to collaborate on regulation with the Mexican and Canadian governments and without oversight from Congress. Corsi is scheduled to join Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) on the nationally syndicated G. Gordon Liddy Show on Thursday as he calls upon Congress to investigate this previously secret initiative.
The office in question is tasked with implementing the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a tri-lateral accord signed last year by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. According to the State Department's website, the SPP is intended to “protect North America from external threats…implement a border-facilitation strategy…pursue regulatory cooperation…and (enhance) environmental stewardship.”
“The SPP was never authorized by Congress, and no congressional committee has oversight of the SPP working groups,” claims Corsi, whose 2004 book “Unfit for Command” helped defeat John Kerry’s presidential bid. “The Administration has also refused to disclose the results of those working groups. It seems like President Bush doesn't want Americans to know that a North American version of the European Union is being created right under their nose, and without congressional approval.”
“Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders” is a selection of the month for the American Compass Book Club, and an alternate selection for the Conservative Book Club, History Book Club, and Military Book Club. It will be available in bookstores nationwide in late July.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/6/emw399505.htm
Corsi has an upcoming book? I'm shocked.
From your keyboard to God's ears. Amen!
Your #609 is a really educational link. Folks here would be well-served by going and reading it. It's pretty long, so I'll resist the temptation to post it.
Establishment politicians beware. Corsi has a talent for rocking their world, you know.
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