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 haven't gone there either. I'm already up to my eyeballs in crap that ticks me off. He!! of it is, the SCOTUS "thingy" is way too important to ignore. I just don't know what to think about it yet.
As long as this isn't being blared away on TV, and thus into the lastest gossip on Oprah, the CFR is just something to chuckle about.
Goodbye sovereignty. This is against the Constitution, illegal...disgusting.
You do realize this now leaves you and everyone else on this thread open to wearing Tin Foil Hats?
The "Illuminati" is pretty much witchcraft labelling.
I agree that our world is more regulated and organized by a private few with a huge amount of money, and the Carlyle Group, the Bush family, all that...etc., etc., BUT, it's more a case of the very rich being able to accomplish things that the working classes, and even the richer or even wealthy, cannot.
But these secret classifications issues...and as to this one, particularly, it is moreso a reference in spiritual-of-the-psychic-acts area than anything. As if they are grand, archetype witches or something.
It's crazy making stuff and shouldn't even be encouraged in any way, as to labelling people and such.
The Bush family is entrenched in a certain financial privilege, security level presumptions that most people will never experience. I think Bush's evaluation process originates in that area, more than anything, that he has never known a struggle, or even that one would be possible, where his very survival is concerned. Nor has his father, nor any in his family.
Not experiencing that is akin to able bodied people with no understanding of what it is like to be disabled, to be physically limited to some point that is non recoverable. You know it when it occurs to you, but it remains an abstract issue otherwise. And isn't "bad" so much as it is what it is. I consider Bush's existence -- being born to a family of wealth, social positioning, influence and just abundance in all material things, that he's never known certain limitations nor is likely not to.
I agree that he has little understanding about the border security requirements and expectations by most citizens. And that, I chalk up to the things I just explained...to him, it's all about these deals among certain interests and he is not in touch with how that impacts others, nor that he should be asking first. A lot of people born of his privilege make similar assumptions just like swimming: without thinking about it.
But several people influential in other political groups and nations are similarly affected, as is Bush: the Monarchy in the U.K., the Gates family, etc.
"Ensure Border Security..."
That makes no sense. If we can't defend our borders now, how are we going to defend the borders of three different nations?
Notice that none of the recommendations are "adopt a common currency" like they have in Europe. That would be the final straw with the vast majority of Americans.
Remember, the CFR has no real power.
George Bush is a dangerous, dangerous man to conservatism.
You are full of it, and prove that it is easy for the left to divide and conquer Conservatives.
I am glad I do not have to go to war with you "sunshine patriots". Your hate for President Bush is clouding your judgement.
LLS
I must've missed the day the U.S. switched from being a constitutional republic and became a liberal democracy.
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No they don't. They are probably a helluva lot more pro-defense than the Bushites & their neocon globalist allies. They don't, however, believe that the US should be the world's policeman & they take seriously the foreign policies of our Founding Fathers rather than the "make the world safe for democracy" nonsense from Woodrow Wilson & Karl Marx.
I remember classical liberals warning about the CFR back in the 70s at Ole Miss.
One of the few things they were right about.
I don't wish to relax our sovereignty or cultural compatibility with anyone not up to it.
I can't think of any other nation qualified.
With the possible exception of the honorable Rep's. RON PAUL & Tom Tancredo.
Sounds like a cross between socialism and scientology.
What is the Illuminati?
They are the shadowy group who wants to control the global market on recycling aluminum cans.
Exactly! A RINO victory is a step back for any and all conservative causes. What's worse, it marginalizes the very base of the Republican Party.
I think it's time we took our party back from the Liberals who have infiltrated it.
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