Posted on 03/18/2005 5:55:13 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
OTTAWA - Mexico wants its North American neighbours to move more quickly towards integration on a continental scale, the country's foreign secretary said on Friday.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Jorge Castaneda was in Ottawa on Friday, meeting for the first time with Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham. "We would like to continentalize as much as possible," he said.
Castaneda said the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 brought to the fore the idea of harmonizing several policy areas across the continent.
What Mexico wants, he said, goes beyond the continental perimeter idea that has been discussed at length in Canada in the wake of Sept. 11. Castaneda said it includes a more continental approach to social issues, immigration and energy.
"We have been pushing for this. And we have been encountering a receptive ear both in Canada and the United States at a certain level of intensity," he said. "We would like to move more quickly. We would like to move more deeply."
Mexican President Vicente Fox has spoken in the past about those deeper moves, such as adopting a common currency, a customs union, and the entire elimination of border controls.
The anti Christ's new world order plan
ten nation world wide confederacy
Canada the USA and Mexico one big happy family
With allegiance to the anti Christ...
All it takes is the Judas Goat to lead us there...
imo
No doubt the corrupt of Mexico would like to extend their web into the US. Addicting drugs and illegal labor are the first wave, and the next will be acquisition of political power and business interests.
But you are assuming this would be put up to a vote. What makes you think it wouldn't be imposed by judicial fiat?
[No room for sarcasm]
It won't be voted on because the educational institutions,the universities and NGOs in America have said that the American people won't accept it.
And look at the European Union constitution. They railroaded integration into Europe through trade, and now that its time for the people to confirm it, all their polls says the people are overwhelmingly against it.
One question we should be asking Mexico is why they want to annex the countries north of their border instead of south.
Could it be that those counties are dirt poor and they would drive down every standard of living in Mexico to the lowest common denominator?
That's exactly what would happen to the US if we united with Mexico.
The riches we made and earned would be sucked into the vacuum of Mexico.
Ross was right.
I wonder if they are just looking for welfare money?
I'd vote against any constitution as long as the EU constitution. It was written by lawyers to create centralized unaccountable power for bureaucrats. The US Constitution was written to be concise and nontechnical so that ordinary people could read and understand it. Unfortunately we have overeducated lawyers in the US who use deconstructionism to invent all sorts of extentions to the Constitution that have absolutely no basis in the Constitution's text.
"Mexico wants its North American neighbours to move more quickly towards integration on a continental scale..."
When we decide to renew America's Manifest Destiny, it will be on OUR terms, Mr. Castaneda. When it happens it will be because of turds like you and your governing elite.......but nice of you to invite us over.
Right. If you won't fix your country, just spread the joy.
Free Mexico.
They can start by making it legal for me to carry my .357 into Mexico!
I agree yet lets just annex central america as it's cheaper to build a functional fence at the darian gap than at the CONUS/Mexican Border. The darian gap is one fine sh*t filter when the jungle is properly allowed to works on it's own !
Then we could build that Bush Pilot-EOD titty bar in Belize with franchises in Guymas, San Carlos and Thongcun !
This article was written from a Canadian point of view - one where their press chooses to ignore how their Liberal government is screwing the pooch by allowing every Muslim radical from around the globe sanctuary (indeed, some Islamic communities there have carven out "Shar'ia Law territories").
At least the Canadian press has the excuse of ignorance to fall upon.
Fellow FReepers accuse me of being overly harsh about Mexico and it's parasitic strategies, but Canada remains the primary Western hemisphere gateway to Islamic terrorism due to their self-neuteredness in the name of diversity and acceptance. If they did that for noble reasons that would have credibility. Unfortunately Canada does this for the sole purpose of showing the rest of the world how they're far more accepting of alien cultures and ideas than the "non progressive and hidebound" U.S.A.
While Mexico is our proactive enemy indulging in comic-book-villain outrageousness, Canada serves as the Islamists' unwitting tool to establish the goal of the Western side of the Grand Caliphate. Are you prepared to convert?
Bottom line - until those countries establish sensible policies we owe them no allegiances whatsoever and have every right to improve our security measures for self preservation. If that inconveniences cult fanatics (Canada) or unskilled parasites (Mexico) I suggest they begin practicing on the world's smallest violin. America is for America's citizens first, foremost and always. If Liberal bleeding hearts feel otherwise they can explain on this site why we should welcome and coddle America's enemies and leaches. Better yet - if they feel so much for these people they can pony up the costs they incur on the rest of us.
Can I be the bush pilot at the titty bar?
--Boot
Gotta have a note from Mom and yer in Troop !........:o)
I agree, annex them by their vote, get rid of their corruption and establish a democracy of sorts in Mexico.
They sure can't call that what they have now!
"I bet most of those very poor people will vote their wallets (Democrat) and not their social values (Republican"
If Mexico got real property rights, rule of law, free enterprise, it would rapidly catch up to America in standard of living.
And with Mexico's young and huge population, it would seem to me that the flow of funds would be out of Mexico. To elderly Americans. Infact can you imagine how dramatically it would change the SS debate with so many young people added?
However I don't doubt there would be other costs with Mexico, like the schooling and healthcare.
continentalize = atzlan
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