Posted on 10/21/2005 12:23:51 AM PDT by janetgreen
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.
I think the crux of this argument is do we want to stand on principle or do we just want to win elections....i fall on the principle side.....to just win an election without firm conservative principles is mighty empty as far as i'm concerned.
Like what?
We can't buy Cuban cigars but go to Walmart and 3/4 of the goods there are from China...i still can't wrap my pea brain around that one.
Thank you for getting the word out! Not only should we contact our Senators and Representatives, but also President Bush and our Governors, in protest.
Send letters to the Editors of our local newspapers, and a link to this article to everyone in our address books.
If I replied to /sarcasm, sorry.
If you want an answer:
The UN, IMF, WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA
They aren't theories.
You bet he is: like father, like son
I believe that America must guard its sovereignty in order to survive, not the other way around.
I'm not at ALL like my father.... I was hoping (still hoping) he's different from Bush senior.
Unfortunately, Buchananites cringe at war with Islamofascits. It's what made me change camps.
You are exactly right...Walmart sales accounted for 6 cents out of every retail dollar spent in the United States as of a few years ago. That number is supposed to double. I don't know what their average profit margin is on their merchandise, but that is a hefty chunk of change heading to China each year. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious. We are financing the weapons that they will eventually attack us with. They have been investing heavily in fighter jets, naval ships and military technology. If you want get really scared, read the CIA annual brief on China some time. According to the report, China's highest ranking government officials consider war with the United States unavoidable within the next 20 years. But still we offer them favored nation trading status under the Clinton administration, we buy everything that they produce, we offer them satellite technology so that they can leap frog us into the 21 century by never having to develop the infrastructure for land based telecommunications. We allow them to steal technology and manufacturing secrets from our corporations because they dangle the carrot in front of us that we will be allowed to compete fairly in their emerging market (ha ha). When is anyone going to wake up?
ISLAMOFACISTS that is.
I thought you were nixing her post and posting a rebuttal
Now if your "no thanks" had come after your posting the rest of the article, it might have been easier on us older, slower, late nighters.
Then again maybe we just need to go to bed.
Good night Jim, Good night All. MRN
The saddest thing is....you could tell all this to the average american and their eyes would glaze over...to begin with they wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about and for the most part they wouldn't care....they're just waiting for the weekend to watch the ball games or the next nascar race...after they swing by wally world to pick up a 12 pack.
Madeleine K. Albright
Robert E. Rubin
lol I put /?? at the end of my post 'cause I didn't feel like it was really sarcasm. I've seen too many posts just like mine that were serious about the CFR being irrelevant and that anybody worried about the CFR's purpose was in need of a huge tinfoil hat.
I take what the CFR is up to quite seriously and would personally like to nuke them.
LOL! Blood pressure is going down now...
We need to deport every politician in Washington DC and start all over.
I'm sorry! Didn't mean to get your blood pressure up. I can relate to that tho. Lately I've had to take at least week-long breaks from FR because my anger has been getting the best of me.
Being a news and political junky can be hazardous to your health!
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