Such as this one?
Posted on 07/26/2006 2:39:27 AM PDT by Trupolitik
Robert Pastor intends to give away U.S. sovereignty to a newly forming North American Union exactly as he gave away the Panama Canal to Panama during Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
As we are taught in grade school, George Washington is the Father of our nation. If the North American Union comes into existence as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) asserts, then we all better get prepared for a new hero. Robert Pastor is the person most likely to be proclaimed the father of the North American Union, a designation consistent with his decades-long history of viewing U.S. national interests through the lens of an extreme leftist almost anti-American political philosophy.
Dr. Pastor’s early professional career involved a working association with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Here he participated on the Ad Hoc Working Group on Latin America, which produced a 1977 report, “The Southern Connection: Recommendations for a New Approach to Inter-American Relations,” arguing for the U.S. to abandon our anti-communist allies in Latin America in favor of supporting “ideological pluralism,” a code word for the revolutionary socialist forces taking hold in Latin America, including the communist Sandanistas and other revolutionary terrorist groups that were developing in countries such as El Salvador. Author David Horowitz’s discoverTheNetworks.org identifies the IPS as “America’s oldest leftwing think tank” that “has long supported Communist and Anti-American causes around the world,” with a place for KGB agents from the Soviet embassy in Washington “to convene and strategize.”
From February 1975 to January 1977, Dr. Pastor was executive director of the Linowitz Commission on U.S./Latin American Relations. The Linowitz Commission supported President Carter’s decision to negotiate a treaty to turn over the Panama Canal to Panama. Pastor left the Linowitz Commission to join become director of the Office of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs in the National Security Council in the Carter White House. There Pastor served as Carter’s “point man” in getting the Senate to narrowly vote for the Carter-Torrijos Treaty on April 18, 1978, despite staunch objections from conservative politicians including Ronald Reagan.
In December 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Pastor to be U.S. ambassador to Panama. Pastor’s nomination was approved by a 16-3 vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his confirmation looked virtually certain. The nomination failed, however, and was withdrawn by the administration in February 1995, after then-Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.) swore to prevent a Senate vote on Pastor’s nomination. Helms, who had vehemently opposed the turn-over of the Panama Canal, placed much of the blame squarely on Pastor, declaring when he opposed Pastor’s nomination that Pastor “presided over one of the most disastrous and humiliating periods in the history of U.S. involvement in Latin America.” Helms also claimed that Pastor bore responsibility for what Helms saw as “a Carter administration cover-up of alleged involvement by Nicaragua’s Sandinista government in arms shipments to leftist rebels in El Salvador.”
Dr. Pastor has also co-authored a 1989 book with his long-time friend, Jorge G. Castañeda, who began his career as a member of the Mexican Communist Party. Castañeda, a life-long admirer of the radical left, published in 1998 an admiring biography of the revolutionary “hero” Che Guevara. Castañeda, like Pastor, has sought to work in government positions to implement his theories, not satisfied to be a political scientist who writes books and teaches at universities. Castañeda too has mixed his career as a government employee by alternating time spent as an author of more than a dozen books and a university professor at various times on the faculties of the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and the New York University.
Castañeda was an aggressively pro-illegal immigration foreign minister when he accompanied President Vincente Fox in the U.S. in 2001. Those were the days when Vincente Fox was declaring himself to be the president of 100 million Mexicans at home and 23 million Mexicans in the United States. Castañeda also attended with President Fox on a three-day state visit to pre-9/11 Washington. There in a joint statement on Sept. 6, 2001, the two leaders announced a bilateral “Partnership for Prosperity,” which after 9/11 evolved into the trilateral summit statement of a “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” announced in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. Castañeda is probably best remembered for telling in 2001 a group of mostly Latino union workers that Mexico was going to press for “the whole enchilada,” intending to legalize all illegal Mexicans aliens in the U.S.
In his pressing enthusiasm for realizing the NAU, Robert Pastor argued in a 2004 article in CFR’s Foreign Affairs, entitled “North America’s Second Decade,” that the United States would benefit by giving up U.S. national Sovereignty. “Countries are benefited,” he wrote, “when they changed these [national sovereignty] policies, and evidence suggests that North Americans are ready for a new relationship that renders this old definition of sovereignty obsolete.”
Characteristically, Dr. Pastor has seen the U.S. as a North American bully that needs to be restrained, for the good of the region and possibly even for the good of the world. On Oct. 21, 2003, he testified to the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs along these lines:
A new approach to the Americas needs to begin with some humility and a willingness to bridge the post-Iraq gap. The United States needs to realize that its power has limits and obligations. U.S. power can compel other governments to take our agenda seriously, but if we brandish it or ignore other views, we unintentionally invite resistance or simply no cooperation. To achieve our goals in the region (and elsewhere), we need to listen more and lecture less.
In 2004, Dr. Pastor declared his support for the presidential campaign of John Kerry. Dr. Pastor’s 19-page curriculum vitae (c.v.) on the website of American University where he is currently a faculty member documents that Dr. Pastor has served as an adviser to every Democratic Party presidential candidate for three decades, since he first supported Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Dr. Pastor was the co-chair of the May 2005 CFR report, “Building a North American Community,” argued that the Security and Prosperity Partnership signed by President Bush with Mexico and Canada on March 23, 2005 should become by 2010 a “North American economic and security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter.” According to his published c.v., Dr. Pastor was the “principal editor” of this CFR report as well as the vice chair of the task force that produced it.
The May 2005 CFR task force report made clear that the borders between the U.S. and Mexico and between the U.S. and Canada would be erased, with the only border to be protected to be around North America. As the report stated on page 3, the boundaries of the North American Union “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.” The “outer security perimeter” referred specifically to the border around Canada, the U.S., and Mexico -- such that the borders between these countries would be virtually erased. Dr. Pastor left no doubt about his view of U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada in his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
Instead of stopping North Americans on the borders, we ought to provide them with a secure, biometric Border Pass that would ease transit across the border like an E-Z pass permits our cars to speed through toll booths.
Note that Dr. Pastor’s reference was to “North Americans,” a term he meant to replace the current designations of “Mexicans,” “Americans,” and “Canadians,” much as he also was arguing for the NAU to replace the USA.
Dr. Pastor himself proclaims that the May 2005 CFR task force report on which he was vice chair and principal editor was a “blueprint” for the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP.gov). In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate, Dr. Pastor informed the Foreign Relations Committee of this link:
Entitled “Building a North American Community,” the report offered a blueprint of the goals that the three countries of North America should pursue and the steps needed to achieve these goals.
The CFR report, under Robert Pastor’s direction, recommended expanding the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) into a North American military command, creating a North American Development Fund to help pay for Mexico’s economic development, establishing a North American Union Court to resolve disputes, establishing a North American Advisory Council to serve as the NAU executive branch, and creating a North American Inter-Parliamentary Group to act as NAU lawmaker. These recommendations derive directly from Robert Pastor’s many published books and papers, as well as his extensive professional testimony to Congress and groups such as the Tri-Lateral Commission. His most comprehensive statement of his views on creating the NAU by transforming NAFTA into a political entity were expressed in his 2001 book, "Toward a North American Community", where he also advocated the creation of a common NAU currency, the Amero, as first proposed by Canadian economist Herbert Grubel.
Critics who argue that the NAU is a “conspiracy theory” are well advised to take a hard look at Robert Pastor. With U.S. policy toward Latin America, Dr. Pastor first approached the issue in writing (for the radical IPS, as we have noted), next as a university professor, and finally as a government official. Had John Kerry won the 2004 presidential election, Robert Pastor most likely would have emerged with a government position from which he could have pursued his NAU agenda. Given the re-election of George Bush, Dr. Pastor has surfaced within the CFR, an influential “think-tank” NGO whose history of impacting U.S. policy would suggest the CFR impact on SPP.gov could easily be more than academic.
Odd that liberals drop that ideal when looking to detroy the last vestiges of the nation's foundational libertarian (small government) philosophies.
Deal wit it!
It seems that Pastor, and SPP, are following along the same lines as Jean Monnet and the long road to creating the European Union. Many have compared Pastor to Monnet.
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“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection (...). The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.”
--Jean Monnet, the “father of the European Community”, August 5, 1943
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http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/monnet.htm
“To create Europe is to create peace”
In 1950, in the face of rising international tensions, Jean Monnet felt that the time had come to attempt an irreversible step toward uniting the European countries. In his house in Houjarray, he and his team conceived the idea of the European Community. On 9 May 1950, with the agreement of Chancellor Adenauer, Robert Schuman made a declaration in the name of the French government. Prepared by Jean Monnet, this declaration proposed placing all the Franco-German production of steel and coal under a common High Authority open to the other countries of Europe. “Through the consolidation of basic production and the institution of a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and the other countries that join, this proposal represents the first concrete step towards a European federation, imperative for the preservation of peace,” declared Robert Schuman. Soon the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands replied favourably. Thus the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was born, laying the foundation of the European Community. In 1952, Jean Monnet became the first President of the High Authority.
Here's some snips from one Barron's article I was reading about IPS:
For Socialist Alternatives
Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly, Aug 23, 1976
DAVID KELLEY
(snip)
Participatory democracy is also seen as a means of reaching collective decisions about the use of economic resources. As Raskin [IPS co-founder] put it, the goal is to "use the productive wealth of the society for the people in the best possible way. And the way you define the best way is through dialogue and through modes of community participation and organization, on the ward level, on the village level, on the city level."
That doesn't happen in Russia. Nor can it happen in any unit the size of a nation. Hence, for the New Left, the goal is a radically decentralized economy, in which everyone can literally come together-and participate.
However decentralized, the economic units in New Left ideology are not the individuals of capitalist theory, but communities. Indeed, the purpose of decentralization is precisely to make socialism work. As Alperovitz himself put it in a 1972 essay, the goal is to maintain "both the socialist vision and the decentralist ideal."
(snip)
Under the aegis of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal poverty program in the sixties spawned the concept of community development corporations (CDCs). These are private, non-profit organizations, often led by radicals; they are designed to provide economic services to members of a community, and in theory are open to all who wish to join. CDCs have received millions in aid from OEO and the Model Cities program.
IPS Fellow Milton Kotler suggested, in his Neighborhood Government (1969), that such corporations could expand their powers to the point at which they function as governments. In particular, he recommended that they be given the power to tax; to regulate business within the boundaries of the neighborhood they serve; and to acquire property by eminent domain. In this way, miniature socialist states could grow within the existing political structure.
Here is a newer snip about Pastor with some other details:
http://www.miami.edu/eucenter/pastorfinal.pdf
Dr. Pastor is Vice President of International Affairs, Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University. He was National Security Advisor for Latin America (1977-81). From 1985-2002, Dr. Pastor was Professor at Emory University and Fellow and Founding Director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program and the Democracy Program. At the Carter Center, he founded and served as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Freely-Elected Heads of Government, a group of 32 leaders of the Americas, chaired by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Dr. Pastor has been a foreign policy advisor to each of the Democratic Presidential Candidates since 1976. President Bill Clinton nominated him to be Ambassador to Panama, and he served as the Senior Advisor to the Carter-Nunn-Powell Mission to restore constitutional government in Haiti in 1994. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New (2001)and Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean (2001). Dr. Pastor was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, a Fulbright Professor in Mexico, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University.
I'd like to know more about this little puke's family background? His parents ethnicity and whether they are Hispanic. As it is, my guess is he's Italian at least on his dad's side
Such as this one?
Thanks for adding meto your ping list. I really don't like stars on a green flag. Sickening! The North American Union eagle is holding fig leaves and what?
Just so you know, Trupolitik is the pingmaster. I just cobbled the list together.
Hummingbird would like to be added to the list.
I had never heard of "communitarian government" so I looked it up. Socialism bigtime. What galls me is that this is another George Washington University professor, Etzioni and the taxpayers are paying for this mess.
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/platformtext.html
I read most of the projects and activities. Diversity with unity.LOL! This nutball has probably never done a hard day's work in his life. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The following is his discription on the CFR list.
http://www.geocities.com/benribqqq/cfr2005roster.html
Etzioni, Amitai (aka Werner Falk) – founder and director of The Communitarian Network; a Zionist terrorist
Close! Born in NJ.
:-)
Viva Mexifornia! Viva!
Its nice to see that you are so well informed...Dr. Corsi IS Catholic.
I'm going to be sick. This Pastor critter is Jewish. (So am I) I searched and could find nothing like this. Thanks!
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My county library has what they call "Biography Resource Center". I can access it from home with my library card ID. I just retrieved the same information you got and it was from "Contemporary Authors Online"
Thanks much. I'll remember this little trick. This Pastor biography is not found on the internet
Its nice to see that you are so well informed...Dr. Corsi IS Catholic.
Jerome Corsi was on Hannity and Colmes last night and said as much. Colmes tried to tar Corsi with the anti Catholic, anti Jewish remarks he made a few years ago on FR. I for one could care less if a man of his stature let off some steam here
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