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.
The people with the power are in your face with it. They tell you exactly what they're going to do. Hint: it's only a conspiracy theory when those who have the means to execute it say they're not going to do it. When those same people say it's so, it becomes a fact.
Do you understand this simple idea? Yes, I'm being condescending, but someone has to shame a nut or we'll have more of them. 
Sorry. You're taking agenda from a think tank and grafting it onto some administration actions. That's the way these things work. That's the "proof".
uh oh....I've got a keyword too...I'm SO skeered!!! LOL
What are they going to do? Come arrest me for treason? Seriously what will they do beyond bitching about this on the internet? And when it doesn't come to pass (and believe me it won't, but have you noticed there is a distinct lack of a date, over than "by 2010"??) they will have moved onto another form of paranoia and nuttiness that will outshine this one.
I'm sure that will all go over REALLY well.
Damned nutcases.....
LOL
We also need to get the Karl Rove Weather Machine back. I know he gets the name, but in reality he only leases it.
Well, of course. You're not a True® Conservative™.
If the owner of this forum, or anyone else, believes a thing is true, that does not make it true. Likewise, if he doesn't believe a thing, that doesn't make it false.
I'm going to believe a man when he says he going to shoot me tomorrow. That is the default for someone with enough sense to breathe. If he's lying, fine. If he's not I live.
You wear your tin-foil hat.
Nice try but idiotic
LOL
right.
Corsi most assuredly is the issue.
He wants to sell more books.
Buchanan has played the same game over and over again.
You probably fell for that one too.
Actually, aluminum foil won't block the rays, you know, you need to find real tin foil. I hear it's expensive; you'll need a lot of it when work on the project gets to the point that even you can't ignore it.
With a reply from a out and out chickensh!t who hates to see the facts in print.
You're a tinfoil kook, B4, and you always have been. It's no wonder you'd buy this conspiracy globaloney.
Chemtrails anyone?
Read my lips, "A new world order."
Here at this (once-conservative) website, we're swatted away like pesky flies.
Because Tyson was using the employee verification system, the jury was not willing to convict. If the feds can't determine who is legal, how can Tyson?
Further down in the article you will notice, "In a policy shift in 1999, the INS decided to focus on apprehending foreign criminals and smugglers and detecting benefit fraud rather than preventing unauthorized workers from holding jobs". And, "Ziglar said the INS ran out of investigators long before he got down to the task of enforcing employer sanctions".
As usual, you have zero clue about what you are talking about.
I have reread your post and you seem to be informed. How about our 850 billion dollar trade deficit and landing ChiCom imports in Mexico. Then sending them north via sealed rail shipments and trucks. You post as if there is no substance to this all
You don't just stop after what you're tried doesn't work. You fix the problem with EO's, legislation or change of strategy. You raid Tyson again, for other counts. Just because you got out of one count of an illegal act, doesn't mean you can't be prosecuted on other counts.
The case fell on points that could easily be fixed. Goodness. The claim that the top management didn't know what their manager were doing would be mooted in the next case, since they had been warned.
Not to mention trying to prosecute several companies for conspiracy! Do one, get the others if they haven't changed their ways. I don't buy it. If the executive wanted to crack down effectively on illegal hiring, it would.
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