Posted on 07/15/2005 8:24:24 PM PDT by twas
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."
"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
"Community" is sometimes called "space" but the CFR goal is clear: "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely." The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."
The CFR document lays "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." The "common security perimeter" will require us to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations" with Mexico and Canada, "harmonize entry screening," and "fully share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals."
This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.
It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet "vigilantes" on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona.
A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference that "we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders." The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa report "represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership."
The CFR document calls for creating a "North American preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages.
Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for "a seamless North American market" and for "the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico."
The document's frequent references to "security" are just a cover for the real objectives. The document's "security cooperation" includes the registration of ballistics and explosives, while Canada specifically refused to cooperate with our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
To no one's surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico.
The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.
The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.
The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.
Here's another handout included in the plan. U.S. taxpayers are supposed to create a major fund to finance 60,000 Mexican students to study in U.S. colleges.
To ensure that the U.S. government carries out this plan so that it is "achievable" within five years, the CFR calls for supervision by a North American Advisory Council of "eminent persons from outside government . . . along the lines of the Bilderberg" conferences.
The best known Americans who participated in the CFR Task Force that wrote this document are former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and Bill Clinton's immigration chief Doris Meissner. Another participant, American University Professor Robert Pastor, presented the CFR plan at a friendly hearing of Senator Richard Lugar's Foreign Relations Committee on June 9.
Ask your Senators and Representatives which side they are on: the CFR's integrated North American Community or U.S. sovereignty guarded by our own borders.
Actually, that is being discussed by representatives from the three countries. Its chance of coming about, zero.
Ah, but just think of the diversity that would bring.
When I wear my tin-hat I have to doo-doo multiple times.
I have no idea why you say it's chances are zero. It's being implemented as we sit here discussing it.
FR has more frogs in its pond than the average pond, I'm a'fearin' :-)
Is it hot down there? It is up here. :)
this is true.
and the reason it will happen is that there are 535 people who are either for it or can easily gain political favors/capitol by voting for it. Our only hope now is that the EU implodes and that the WTO (a facades, really) goes with it.
Rome decayed from within, notwithstanding all those in foreign lands that ought its destruction.
The parallel of today to then is eerie, if you ask me.
ought=sought
CFR=One world government.
And what Franklin said about giving up liberty for "security" is equally relevant today.
It's called FTAA, btw.
"Its chance of coming about, zero. "
Why would you think that? They have been working on this for 35 years and called it NAFTA. Just what do you think NAFTA was really all about? The standard of living adjustment was what NAFTA was out to accomplish so this could come about.
Why do you think there is no great effort put into stopping or returning illegal aliens to MX? They come here to work, first thing a Mexican does on Friday is pay his tote ur note car lot, buy a case of bear and send money home which elevates the standard of living in MX. Then our Government subsidizes the movement of our manufacturing process jobs that built America to Mexico to build there economy and raise the standard of living on the other end.
I'll bet you 10 Ameros I'm right. BTW Ameros will be the new currency for our integrated North America
And what will they call it? Mexicanarica? Canmexirica? Amecanmex? or CFR Moronia?
Time to can all those integrating politicians, first they are destroying families and foundation of the countries, now "integrating" the crap out of them. I hope EUweeenia blows up and screws the rest of WTOism, NWOism and other socialist isms.
Oh yeah, what if you learned that the Bilderberg Group, The Skull and Bones, and a dozen other secret societies were behind it? Would that convince you? Does the name Henry Kissinger mean anything to you?
The foil really starts to irritate your scalp when your hair is thinning, as mine is. Still the voices, the voices won't go away.
Atlas shrugged.
Politicians and diplomats always forget basic human nature.
I agree with everything you say. However, for it to happen it would have to be approved by two thirds of the Senate. Ain't gonna happen.
If all those secret groups really control things we have no voice anyway so what difference does it make? As I said to PROSOUTH, it will never get through the Senate.
Such a plan will have to be approved by the Senate and it won't be. It would probably be in the form of a treaty which would require a 2/3 approval. I don't think that is possible.
One of the biggest problem Rome had was that as it expanded the people within the empire were Roman in name only. They had no loyalty to the Roman state but rather to their ethnic group or place of origin. This was true even if the person was living in Rome itself.
There are many parallels here to the Roman decline.
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