Posted on 05/22/2006 3:42:25 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
by Jerome R. Corsi
The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin.
A joint statement published by the three presidents following their Baylor University summit announced the formation of an initial entity called, “The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). The joint statement termed the SPP a “trilateral partnership” that was aimed at producing a North American security plan as well as providing free market movement of people, capital, and trade across the borders between the three NAFTA partners:
We will establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders.
A working agenda was established:
We will establish working parties led by our ministers and secretaries that will consult with stakeholders in our respective countries. These working parties will respond to the priorities of our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable goals.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has produced a SPP website, which documents how the U.S. has implemented the SPP directive into an extensive working agenda.
Following the March 2005 meeting in Waco, Tex., the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published in May 2005 a task force report titled “Building a North American Community.” We have already documented that this CFR task force report calls for a plan to create by 2010 a redefinition of boundaries such that the primary immigration control will be around the three countries of the North American Union, not between the three countries. We have argued that a likely reason President Bush has not secured our border with Mexico is that the administration is pushing for the establishment of the North American Union.
The North American Union is envisioned to create a super-regional political authority that could override the sovereignty of the United States on immigration policy and trade issues. In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Pastor, the Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University, stated clearly the view that the North American Union would need a super-regional governance board to make sure the United States does not dominate the proposed North American Union once it is formed:
NAFTA has failed to create a partnership because North American governments have not changed the way they deal with one another. Dual bilateralism, driven by U.S. power, continue to govern and irritate. Adding a third party to bilateral disputes vastly increases the chance that rules, not power, will resolve problems.
This trilateral approach should be institutionalized in a new North American Advisory Council. Unlike the sprawling and intrusive European Commission, the Commission or Council should be lean, independent, and advisory, composed of 15 distinguished individuals, 5 from each nation. Its principal purpose should be to prepare a North American agenda for leaders to consider at biannual summits and to monitor the implementation of the resulting agreements.
Pastor was a vice chairman of the CFR task force that produced the report “Building a North American Union.”
Pastor also proposed the creation of a Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment with the view that “a permanent court would permit the accumulation of precedent and lay the groundwork for North American business law.” The intent is for this North American Union Tribunal would have supremacy over the U.S. Supreme Court on issues affecting the North American Union, to prevent U.S. power from “irritating” and retarding the progress of uniting Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into a new 21st century super-regional governing body.
Robert Pastor also advises the creation of a North American Parliamentary Group to make sure the U.S. Congress does not impede progress in the envisioned North American Union. He has also called for the creation of a North American Customs and Immigration Service which would have authority over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.
Pastor’s 2001 book “Toward a North American Community” called for the creation of a North American Union that would perfect the defects Pastor believes limit the progress of the European Union. Much of Pastor’s thinking appears aimed at limiting the power and sovereignty of the United States as we enter this new super-regional entity. Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency which he has coined the “Amero,” a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso.
If President Bush had run openly in 2004 on the proposition that a prime objective of his second term was to form the North American Union and to supplant the dollar with the “Amero,” we doubt very much that President Bush would have carried Ohio, let alone half of the Red State majority he needed to win re-election. Pursuing any plan that would legalize the conservatively estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the United States could well spell election disaster for the Republican Party in 2006, especially for the House of Representative where every seat is up for grabs.
Mr. Corsi is the author of several books, including "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" (along with John O'Neill), "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" (along with Craig R. Smith), and "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians." He is a frequent guest on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. He will soon co-author a new book with Jim Gilchrist on the Minuteman Project.
Why do people insist that W is some sort of one-world nut job.
Heck, one of my favorite things that W did right out of the gate in 2001 was going down to the UN conference in Mexico City and letting them know in no uncertain terms that the USA would not be a party to any currency trading-based global taxation scheme.
LOL. For the most part you are right, but we are going to have to refute these conspiracy theorists until they are less vocal.
Right now they are the loudest and most prolific of all FR posters. That can not stand.
The frustrating part to me is that it is VERY difficult to debate people to whom facts don't matter...only a suspicion of what facts might be.
It's all for our "safety." It's all to help in the war against "terrorists."
*wink, wink*
It diffuses whatever cockeyed fantasy conspiracy that they try to foist on this forum.
Actually, the more they do stuff like this the farther out they prove themselves to be, and the potentially more rational this forum becomes.
Even other Bush haters have to be embarrassed by this one.
But it's VERY obvious that the facts don't have any bearing on these 'discussions.'
It IS however, important for us to post the facts that refute the idiocy on these threads.
Most major players in the media and politics belong to the CFR. Cheney, Rice, Powell, Albright, the Clintons, and many others belong. Reagan did not, but was surrounded by cabinet members who did belong. It's believed that, out of the media, Brit Hume and Lou Dobbs are two of the only ones not in the club.
Exactly. A Maginot Line from the Gulf to the Pacific topped with barbed wire, machine guns, searchlights, bottle rockets and scarecrows will be foolproof against a dozen Al-Qaida terrorists with a dirty nuke suitcase bomb. It's not like Al-Qaida has ever used ships or planes for their attacks, so a wall makes perfect sense.
Donald Rumsfeld blew it up himself. /sarc
(Or should I say *wink, wink*?)
I like your style. ;)
The plane that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon actually was captured by Karl Rove and used for nefarious purposes. If you check the levee in New Orleans I'll bet you'll find plane parts there.
It was really Karl Rove?? You're kidding, right??
Yeah....right....we need those "Ameros" to help prevent terrorism.
: )
It really WAS Karl!
GWB is the guy that fired the missile from a Navy sub that shot down TWA 800.
The Neocons piloted the planes that went into the WTC.
Henry Kissenger planned the whole thing.
It MUST be true!! Lyndon LaRouche told me all of this himself!
Hmmmm. No reply to my question though.....must be true.
Does that mean that I piloted the plane in another life? Am I related to Henry Kissinger?? Is that why I have this heavy German accent, even though I was born in Youngstown, Ohio??
Oh where is that MotherShip when you need it??
This is all so confusing, YDR. Whatever shall we do??
Ummmmm...........Earth to Iamwhatever...........he DID answer.
You can get injured up there and see who bleeds dry first, you or the Canadian Health System.
Perhaps that's why it confused you. No imaginary conspiracies for you to figure out.
I'm not sure how a wall came into the discussion, but you're right - your way is much better, let's not do anything since the enemy can transport in a nuke anytime, if it hasn't already been done several times over.
Why do you think Jerry Corsi is writing stuff like this?
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