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.
Youngstown, eh? That was the home of GUS HALL, head of the USA Communist Party!
Speaking of Commies, I have to relate the family wisdom my brother (XJarhead) & I received from my late Grandfather:
"In the beginning -- they called themselves anarchists .. and they killed a President."
"Then they called themselves Communists."
"And now (circa 1970's) they have a new name -- LIBERALS!!"
LOL! Creamed who? Better re-read last nights post sweetheart. Are you living in an alternate reality!
The EU has failed largely due to easy roads into formerly productive European countries by riffraff from third world or borderline third world nations! Mexico is exactly such a nation!
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.
Oh yeah, I really see Mexico caring about the security of anything, let alone the U.S. or Canada. Mexico and security are oxymorons.
I really hope there is a very strong third party candidtate in '08.
Your last post to me was 'some truth' suey, and I knocked you into kingdom come in response.
I beat the pants off of you, boy......and you know it.
You think that there is 'some truth' to saying that it would have been a good thing to have John Kerry as our President now........a left-wing, elitist TRAITOR.........rather than President Bush.
You're nuts........and so is everyone who agrees with you.
Like I really care what the both of you think.
He Bushbot. Wahts up?
And they expect anyone to take them seriously?
Speaking of seriously..........I have seriously had enough of this thread.
It's been fun. Now go buy some tinfoil, ya hear? :)
These MIT guys have provem that tin foil hats are a government conspiracy related to mind control in the 1.2 to 1.5 gigahertz range.
From you that is a compliment.
Very important facts. Nice to see someone else well informed and alert.
May God have mercy on us and direct us in our affairs in thie crucial era.
And then we will have to build a wall across southern Mexico to keep all of Central and South America out.
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One microscopic sized consolation would be that such a wall would be a LOT shorter and cheaper! LOL.
You are a complete waste of time. I come on this forum to learn and to converse with my peers as we exchange ideas. If I wanted to deal with 5 year olds, I'd be teaching kindergarten.
I beat you to a pulp............hehe.......
From me.........a strong life-long intelligent conservative.........it is a compliment to be derided because you think it might have been better to have a LEFTIST TRAITOR as President now, than a man of integrity, character and strength like George W. Bush.
You are a confused boy, suey. Now leave me alone. I like to converse with intelligent conservatives......and you don't qualify on either count.
Several times on these threads you have stated how conservative and intelligent you are. Apparently everyone is wrong if their ideas do not conform to your point of view. They can not possibly be a conservative if they do not agree with you.
Regarding my desire for a leftist traitor as president over Bush; please re-read and do not parse that particular post as you have attempted to do so several times. You are being disingenuous.
You are a confused boy, suey. Now leave me alone. I like to converse with intelligent conservatives......and you don't qualify on either count.
Apparently only intelligent conservatives, that is intelligent by your personal tandards, only have a legitimate point of view.
Unlike you, I encourage spirited disagreement and debate. I encourage it in the people that work for me, and I expect it amoung my friends. In the work that we do it is vitally important that we think out of the box because it enables us to solve problems. Apparently anything that upsets you myopic world you can't handle so we shall leave it at that. Continúe bebiendo al amigo de la Kool Aid.
I hope so. There are days... ; ).
Only one point I will counter.......I encourage spirited debate, as has been evidenced by thousands of my posts on this forum, but it needs to be with someone rational.
Since your posts are not, it is far wiser to ignore you than to attempt to engage in debate with one who is incapable of reasoning.
Adios, suey.
And good luck with your conspiracies and with the searing logic of your 'Koolaid' and 'Bushbot' argumentation. I know that most people around here are deeply impressed with it. \sarc
Oh.......and next time ping me when you mock me, so that you don't break the FR code of conduct by doing behind my back, OK?
Maybe not by all these bashers, but by anyone who counts.
Good night, friend.........and thanks for protecting me against the dishonorable.
You sound like John Edwards and his two Americas.
Too bad there are those that live with their heads in the sand.
You asserted that a small work group of nobodies, who aren't even an official part of the CFR and have absolutely no power, are more dangerous to this country than an international Islamic terrorist organization that flies airplanes into buildings killing thousands of innocent Americans. You say things like this and expect to be taken seriously? There are a lot worse places to put your head than in sand.
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