Posted on 08/21/2006 5:13:48 AM PDT by NapkinUser
The problem with the Bush administration is that not enough of its officials have read the U.S. Constitution. Take, for example, Section 2 of Article 2. When dealing with foreign nations, it says that the President shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur .
So, why is President Bush and his administration seeking to establish a North American Union that would, in effect, abolish the borders between Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America?
Moreover, it would involve our government in so many common regulatory mandates with these two nations as to render the sovereignty of the United States a memory of what national self-governance is supposed to be.
The name of this effort is called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) and, guess what, it has not been submitted to the Senate for its oversight or concurrence because, by some magic of governmental definition, it is not a treaty. Instead, its administration is buried in the bowels of the Commerce Department.
It does have, however, the blessing of the political and corporate elites of all three nations. A visit to the SPP website says it was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing.
It is an attack on American sovereignty. In the smoothest and most soothing writing you will find anywhere, the website spells out the wonders of SPP. They include the North American Competitiveness Council, the North American Energy Security Initiative, the North American Emergency Management plan, and plans for smart, secure borders. And right now there are working groups whose purpose is to improve productivity, reduce the costs of trade, and enhance the quality of life.
And if you like snake oil, permit SPP to sell it to you by the barrel, but the boxcar, and by the tanker.
The SPP didnt start out as an idea the presidents of the three nations started kicking around on March 23, 2005 in Waco, Texas, but it became the official policy of the United States at a special summit convened by President Bush and joined by then Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Like so many really bad foreign policy concepts, SPP owes its origins to the Council on Foreign Relations; in this case, CFRs Task Force on North America. Its report, Building a North American Community envisions the elimination of U.S. borders in just five years. Like termites eating away at the sovereignty of the United States of America, this grandiose scheme is a major threat to American security and prosperity.
The Marxist majordomo of this task force is Professor Robert Pastor who told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee The best way to secure the United States today is not at our two borders with Mexico and Canada but at the borders of North America as a whole. Oh, yeah????
This surely explains why Mexico is doing such a great job of stopping the drug smugglers or the one million Mexicans who each year consider the U.S. border a mere fiction in their pursuit of jobs President Bush keeps telling us Americans wont take. This is pure bunk and dangerous bunk at that.
I have many Canadian friends, but it seems to me Canada took too long to discover it had some fanatical Muslims in its midst who were plotting terrible things. Frankly, I want us to cooperate against a common enemy, but I do not want to place the responsibility for Americas security in anyones hands, but our own.
A North American Union promises not only security, says SPP, but prosperity too. Without SPP, however, the three nations already do more than $800 billion in trilateral trade.
Surely the U.S. needs Mexicos help to improve our economy? As the economist, Robert J. Samuelson, noted in a June column, The subtext for the United States immigration debate is Mexico. Why doesnt its economy grow faster, creating more jobs and higher living standards? The answer to that has something to do with the endemic corruption that infests all levels of Mexicos governmental and business sectors. Something is very wrong when Mexicos economy must literally depend on the billions its illegal aliens send home from the U.S.
In 2002, the then-Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castanega explained to the local press that destroying the border involved the metaphor of Gulliver, of ensnarling the giant. Tying it up, with nails, with thread, with 20,000 nets that bog it down: these nets being norms, principles, resolutions, agreements, and bilateral, regional and international covenants.
Bush43 is carrying out Bush41s daft and dangerous new world order and his indifference to Americas illegal immigration crisis is symptomatic of the SPP objectives.
On June 15, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba, and Canadian Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier joined North American business leaders to launch the North American Competitiveness Council. The objective is the promotion of regional competitiveness in the global community.
As if the floundering economies of the member nations of the European Union were not warning enough, it is proposed that the United States enter into a similar union.
A lot of corporations with global interests like this idea. Among those sponsoring the North American Union are FedEx Corporation, Mittal Steel USA, General Motors Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Campbells Soup Company, Gillette Inc., Merck & Company, and Wal-Mart Stores.
Since the United States is already a signatory to NAFTA and CAFTA, why is SPP necessary? Just how many treaties, agreements and protocols are necessary to promote trade and economic growth?
Just how many nets and norms, traps and snares, will ultimately undermine U.S. prosperity, drive down the wages of Americas middle class, and improve the ability of the Mexican drug cartels to deliver their goods?
Like termites eating away at the sovereignty of the United States of America, this grandiose scheme, hatched in some darkened cavern of the Council on Foreign Affairs, is a major threat to American security and prosperity.
It was been introduced by fiat, by executive action, by a summit of the three nations leaders, and the time is long overdue for the Senate to demand to exercise its Constitutional responsibility and right to determine if it wishes to give its consent to yet another entangling alliance.
This is not your website.
So I should pay more for an American product instead of saving money for my kids college funds? Is that what you mean?
'Sounds just like the European Union.'
Nah, some of the eu countries had referenda on whether to join - bet the US doesn't get one. . .
You've cornered the market on that. I wouldn't dream of trying to compete with you.
No you have not.
'Simply annex all of Canada, with the exception of Quebec (which would be allowed to declare sovereignity), then admit each of the provinces individually as states.'
I think you'd have to ask Elizabeth II as she still owns Canada. Anyways, remember what happened last time we tried to 'annex' Canada - we lost! :)
The last time I commented on the NWO/Illuminati....I got flamed as a tinfoil wearing mad man.
OK....but I honestly think that current politics no longer addresses many issues and that the bad guys have done an end run....
Hey I voted for Bush twice and have voted straight republican since Nixon....but I am convinced that there are dark things going on and that the typical republican just deosn't want to see it...and believes that there is a political solution for everything....I don't buy that anymore.
Look closely at the Patriot Act and at NAFTA and the new Animal ID System that is also via treaty.
Frankly, I trust No one anymore.
A brilliant example of someone who can marshal facts, but who can't figure out what they mean, so it must be threatening.
Then why don't you stop?
But you 'free traders' might have cause to when the USA is no more.
What is a 'free trader'?
So what does that make you? A statist?
Hedgetrimmer makes it plain that she is a very confused person.
Yes it has, I noticed when driving by a weigh station, it had a North American transponder sign. Under the surface it has begun.
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