The Future of North America: Beyond Free Trade

Brookings Institution ^ | 2/12/02

[hedgetrimmer]

Q: A question to yourself and to President Bush and President Fox, as well. You've been talking about cooperation, what you, Prime Minister, referred to as the new generation of success or the next generation of success. Keeping in mind in front of us the European Union, how much is this partnership a first step toward continental integration? If so, how far would you like to go and can you give us some sort of a road map, and perhaps give us a distinction between partnership and integration?

--Text of news conference with Bush, Fox and Martin in Waco Texas at the trilatera conference, March 24, 2005

[AntiGuv]

Once we're done importing third world status, what's beyond that??

[hedgetrimmer]

Paul Martin--We're talking about big progress.

President Bush--We started to advance this idea in Quebec City, as a matter of fact, in 2000 with the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. To me that's the most practical extension of the recognition of the realities that we're all going to be facing as the 21st century evolves.

So the division you asked about in your question as to what kind of union might there be, I see one based upon free trade that would then entail commitment to markets and democracy, transparency, rule of law.
To this extent, we have entered into an agreement with the Central American nations called CAFTA.


(Keeping in mind in front of us the European Union, how much is this partnership a first step toward continental integration? )

[dennisw]

Barf alert needed here.

[hedgetrimmer]

Not freedom, not liberty, that much is certain.

[Just mythoughts]

Where do you think this is allllll leading to.

Has not globalism been the goal???

[EagleUSA]

This is a scary situation. One of the theories (because the Bush admin. does not feel it has to explain itself to its citizens) is the concept of continental integration is a big part of the reason Bush will not do anything about the illegal immigration issue. If it is, we are in a world of hurt -- and we have little to say about it at the moment....right or wrong???

Is Washington "secretly" forcing something upon the American people they, in majority, most likely do not want???

Opinions???

[hedgetrimmer]

"They are going to lay out a plan of action that leads Canada, Mexico and the United States toward deeper integration," said Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, director of the Mexico Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"This North American initiative is the beginning of redefining the relationship between our three countries," he said.

--President Bush will try to ease tensions at economic summit
March 21, 2005

[hedgetrimmer]

It has to be global government. Hemispheric integration is but a step along the way.

[spodefly]

Come get a load of this twaddle. The masks are coming off, and the "future" is plain to see ...

[Just mythoughts]

"It has to be global government. Hemispheric integration is but a step along the way."

I think the most common term used now days is 'democracy'. Establishing 'democracies' would/could be the vehicle for the world populace for voting on who's who of global governor.

Note that there is no other nation in this world that declared that "right" are endowed by the Creator and no man/government can take.

That is what this left vs. right fight comes down to.

[Travis McGee]

This is a long dry article, but important to understand how America's elites plan to ram a "North American Union" down our throats, like it or not.

"Bienvenidos a Aztlan. Oprima el numero dos para Ingles."

[hedgetrimmer]

One of the theories (because the Bush admin. does not feel it has to explain itself to its citizens) is the concept of continental integration is a big part of the reason Bush will not do anything about the illegal immigration issue

This is correct. This movement within our government was first made public in 1994 at the first Summit of the Americas. In that Summit and subsequent summits, directives about "migrants" have been issued and implemented. The Summit directives say that migrants should freely move about the continent(which is the illegal immigration) they should have the same rights as the "nationals"(free education, health care, right to belong to unions etc) they should be able to collect social security from the US and take it back to their home countries, and they shouldn't have to pay so much for remittances( hence the acceptance of the matricula consular phony ids for opening bank accounts and a federal effort to get financial institutions to lower the cost of moving money out of the country. All this information is in the Summit papers, no one but educational institutions and think tanks seem to be aware of it because the MSM doesn't report the facts.

Is Washington "secretly" forcing something upon the American people they, in majority, most likely do not want???

Washington, the Council of the Americas, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Organization of American States, the Summit of the Americas, the United Nations and foreign business interests all are pushing for this "continental integration". Not the citizens of this country, a majority of us want to keep our Constitution and our sovereignty. The government is even going so far as to enlist the aid of immigrants to work as agents of their home countries to convince the Congress to pass trade agreements like CAFTA to speed the integration along. They are not enlisting citizens or even asking them their opinion. Citizens do not have a lot of influence in Washington these days.

Immigrants Enlisted for Trade Pact

[hedgetrimmer]

The link in post #14 shows how hard the federal government is lobbying to get the CAFTA passed. They have asked immigrants to represent their home countries to the Congress to get them to vote Yes on CAFTA.

They are not asking native born citizens to contact Congress and express their opinions about the trade agreement.

CAFTA furthers the hemispheric integration and paves the way for the FTAA, which will seal our fate.

[Travis McGee]

Just look at federal funding to see the agenda. Hundreds of billions for the DHS to (supposedly) protect us from terrorists, but no money for 2,000 measly Border Patrolmen, or a decent standard border fence.

They want open borders much more than they fear terrorism.

[hedgetrimmer]

They want open borders much more than they fear terrorism.

They don't have to fear terrorism. They have all the protection. Its the citizens that have to fear, and we don't appear to have too many people in Congress who do their constitutional duty to protect our rights these days.

[spodefly]

You know that feeling you get when you are so pissed off that you can feel the muscles twitching in your face above your lip (happens to me on the right side)?

That's what I feel when I read about this crap.

Who in the hell are these son of a bitches to be casually discussing relieving me of my freedoms, my Constitution, and my Nation? I owe ZERO allegiance to "North America". My family has not fought and died for this country for 250 years just to have some smug globalist assholes plotting the demise of this nation's sovereignty like they are planning a bake sale.

[dennisw]

We are becoming integrated with Mexic0 and Central America via illegal immigration. All their children born here are legal and will be a big pressure group in a few decades. This isn't the America I grew up in, it isn't even the America of 20 years ago

[hedgetrimmer]

Its a long article but it shows the planning process that is going on behind the trade agreements.