Posted on 06/13/2006 6:08:39 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada.
The membership of the working groups has not been published, nor has their work product been disclosed, despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
The groups, working under the North American Free Trade Association office in the Department of Commerce, are to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.
This trilateral agreement, signed as a joint declaration not submitted to Congress for review, led to the creation of the SPP office within the Department of Commerce.
The SPP report to the heads of state of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, -- released June 27, 2005, -- lists some 20 different working groups spanning a wide variety of issues ranging from e-commerce, to aviation policy, to borders and immigration, involving the activity of multiple U.S. government agencies.
The working groups have produced a number of memorandums of understanding and trilateral declarations of agreement.
The Canadian government and the Mexican government each have SPP offices comparable to the U.S. office.
Geri Word, who heads the SPP office within the NAFTA office of the U.S. Department of Commerce affirmed to WND last Friday in a telephone interview that the membership of the working groups, as well as their work products, have not been published anywhere, including on the Internet.
Why the secrecy?
"We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public," said Word.
She suggested to WND that the work products of the working groups was described on the SPP website, so publishing the actual documents did not seem required.
WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups. The closest to enabling legislation was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., on April 20, 2005. Listed as S. 853, the bill was titled "North American Cooperative Security Act: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to establish a program to bolster the mutual security and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and for other purposes." The bill never emerged from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In the House of Representatives, the same bill was introduced by Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla., on May 26, 2005. Again, the bill languished in the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.
WND cannot find any congressional committees taking charge for specific oversight of SPP activity.
WND has requested from Word in the U.S. Department of Commerce a complete listing of the contact persons and the participating membership for the working groups listed in the June 2005 SPP report to the trilateral leaders. In addition, WND asked to see all work products, such as memorandums of understanding, letters of intent, and trilateral agreements that are referenced in the report.
Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American Union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.
Referring to the SPP joint declaration, the report, entitled "Building a North American Community," stated:
The Task Force is pleased to provide specific advice on how the partnership can be pursued and realized.
To that end, the Task Force proposes the creation by 2010 of a North American community to enhance security, prosperity, and opportunity. We propose a community based on the principle affirmed in the March 2005 Joint Statement of the three leaders that "our security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary." Its boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe. Its goal will be to guarantee a free, secure, just, and prosperous North America.
The CFR task force report called for establishment of a common security border perimeter around North America by 2010, along with free movement of people, commerce and capital within North America, facilitated by the development of a North American Border Pass that would replace a U.S. passport for travel between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Also envisioned by the CFR task force report were a North American court, a North American inter-parliamentary group, a North American executive commission, a North American military defense command, a North American customs office and a North American development bank.
nah it's those damn Free Masons....
However, from NewsMax:
There was a lot more; he claimed the Catholic Church was a criminal institution for sheltering abusive priests. He said: "Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press"
These were dredged up by James Carville in 2004, which is why Corsi had to basically hide during the Swiftboat Vets controversy. John O'Neill was smart enough to keep him at arms length and never mention his name.
Nasty folks. We all know that XML is the first step to conquering the world.
And get this:
IEEE 802.15 Working Group for WPAN
Do you know what WPAN stands for?
Neither do I, but it sounds really nefarious.
Bump!
Thanks for the ping.
Thanks for the reply. It seems to me as if Corsi has issues with the Church, not Catholicism itself. However, I do think he was over the top about the pope. I still think Corsi is providing a valuable service by bringing the subject of sovereignty into discussion. There have been some good FR threads about this recently.
After all, we cannot have the little people trying to undo our good works...
Thanks for da pingie!
OK, I agree with what Corsi said if your post is true. Am I a Catholic bigot?
Pope is senile. Nothing wrong with calling an old sick man senile whose body and mind had been giving up on him for quite some time. Happens to most everyone if you live long enough. He was a fine God fearing, God Loving Man. He got old and sick. Senility happens.
He called the Catholic Church criminal due to the mass cover up (and ongoing) of the child rapists. THE CHURCH IS CRIMINAL FOR THIS.
Yes.
Geri Word, who heads the SPP office within the NAFTA office of the U.S. Department of Commerce affirmed to WND last Friday in a telephone interview that the membership of the working groups, as well as their work products, have not been published anywhere, including on the Internet. Why the secrecy?"We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public," said Word.
She suggested to WND that the work products of the working groups was described on the SPP website, so publishing the actual documents did not seem required
Contact names and identification, and document publishing is not being made public. But that doesn't mean anything's a secret, just ask them, they'll tell you "it's not required."
The elites sell out American sovereignty in plain sight.
Herein lies the answer to the question so many have asked: "Why would our leaders expend so much political capital for open borders that are opposed by such an overwhelming majority of America's citizens?"
It's simply to meet their globalist long-term goals.
After all, they are so much smarter than the sovereign citizens of these United States...they know what's best for us simpletons.
And the usual pack of attack jackals are attempting, through crude ridicule, to marginalize those who raise legitimate objections to this sellout...too many are getting the truth, doncha know...can't have that...might screw up their scam...
Now I know you're delusional!
And he's still around. I don't understand.
You know......everything you've said might very well be true or that may be the 'stated' purpose of this new highway system and inland port but, the inescapable fact is that we're still dealing with the most corrupt, narco driven gov't in this hemisphere by far and for anyone looking at this relationship objectively the facts prove that Mexico has latched onto our body politic like some kind of parasite and the results have been disastrous.
We've heard so much crap over the years from the media and politicians about how positive it would be to have open borders and a free flow of people (+ all the other BS) and now we see hospitals being bankrupted, billions of our tax $ going to people who would just as soon spit on you and me if given the chance, a varied assortment of IMPORTED criminals in our jails, increased cases of TB and other diseases that were almost eradicated in the US, fake ID's being used to scam even more welfare $and services, etc........all this so a number businesses can have cheap, untaxable labor?......if this isn't the true definition of NATIONAL SUICIDE I don't know what is!
Now, you and others can try as hard as desperately possible to dress up this pig of a country but there's no way many of us will ever believe that any dealings we have with Mexico in giving them access to the interior of this country for anything will result in anything very postive for our country. Sure, it'll line the pockets of the same connected families in both countries but if you're naive to think this new arrangement will much of a benefit to us you're dreaming......what this new port will be is a beachead for further Mexican expansion into our interior.
yep.
Don't you Amish guys frown on using electricity?
Why are you posting on a computer? Isn't this the Devil's handiwork?
God forbid the general dumb public find out what's going on.
Electricity is the work of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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