We're doomed.
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.
Tell me what the agenda is, then.
Bump.
"Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press"
For thirty years that certainly appeared to be the policy coming out of Rome. Pay the victims and very quietly move the priests to a location where they would have a new batch of boys to molest was the unspoken policy or so it looked. Very few priest were ever kicked out of the Church during the 60's or 70's and not a heck of a lot were punished in the 80's or 90's either!
If this is anti-Catholicism, tough. Look at the facts and learn.
We're doomed.
DOJ threw everything they had at Tyson. The jury ruled not guilty. Given that fact, widespread prosecution is a waste of time and money.
LOL
Totally serial.
Now where have I heard that argument before?
Could it beeeeeee....Manbearpig?
Another bigot heard from.
They aren't telling us anything.
It's crazies like Corsi and I guess yourself who are reading between the lines and putting things together that I just don't see.
Sorry if that upsets you, but what are you going to do? NOthing except bitch about it on the internet.
And as your vehemence grows, I will be here to laugh at every post.
Hell JIMROB was making fun of you just last night. He's as conservative as they come. If he sees it, MAYBE there's something to the notion that Corsi is leading you all by the nose.
No kidding. This thread is an unexpected treasure-trove.
LOL
maybe they are searching for Manbearpig and had to settle for Corsi?
nah :)
Nah, Corsi is half-man, two-thirds bear, but only one-third pig.
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If the DOJ couldn't get a conviction, they didn't try, just like enforcement agencies don't try to enforce the law.
This is clear: if the chief executive himself doesn't want to threaten the illegal alien status quo, and he has said outright he doesn't, why do you think the DOJ will make any significant effort?
Be that as it may, though, the chief executive is required to keep it up. Or has he the discretion to say that if a try doesn't work, he'll just ignore the law?
No, you can give me no rationale for the president's negligence in this matter. He simply wants a consolidation, as his meeting and agreements with Canadian and Mexicans leaders say he does.
Got a link to the Tyson case? I'll bet you a quarter the DOJ threw it deliberately.
You know what's disappointing? They made me a keyword, but this is the only article that has it as a keyword.
I thought I rated higher. Ah, well.
Then you agree that policy-- e.g., laws, regulations, spending is being discussed? That this policy is guided by an agenda, one of fostering greater cooperation between the respective countries? That is real big of you.
The policies are enumerated in the article, the length of which you complained. One such policy is:
-- Implement a border-facilitation strategy to build capacity and improve the legitimate flow of people and cargo at our shared borders.
The flow of people across our Southern border has been a source of some controversy lately. I would think that any U.S. policy concerning the flow of people across our border would be the legitimate concern of Congress. Don't you? But Corsi's point, which you have not refuted, is that this whole initiative is moving forward neither at Congress's behest nor with its oversight.
Gotta go now. You boys have fun.
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