Posted on 08/29/2006 2:40:02 AM PDT by Marius3188
This is a "mind-boggling concept," exploded Lou Dobbs. It must cause Americans to think our political and academic elites have "gone utterly mad." What had detonated the mild-mannered CNN anchor?
Robert Pastor, vice chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America, had just appeared before a panel of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to call for erasing all U.S. borders and a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala.
Under the Pastor-CFR plan, the illegal alien invasion would be solved by eliminating America's borders and legalizing the invasion. We would no longer defend the Rio Grande.
"What we need to do," Pastor instructed, "is forge a new North American Community. ... 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 tolls."
The Pastor-CFR project for "economic integration" of Mexamerica is on the drawing board. North-south highways and railways would be built to weld us together as the American Union was welded together by the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, and Ike's Interstate Highway System.
Speaking in Madrid in 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox declared: "Our long-range objective is to establish with the United States ... an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the goal of attending to future themes as important as ... the freedom of movement of capital, goods, services and persons. The new framework we wish to construct is inspired in the example of the European Union."
Critical element of the Fox post-NAFTA agenda: absolute freedom of movement for persons between Mexico and the United States – a merger of the nations. Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Debrez put it succinctly in April 2005. What Mexico is about is "complete integration" of the two nations.
To appreciate what Fox, Debrez, Pastor and the CFR wish America to merge with, consider a few excerpts from the State Department information sheet on Mexico.
While hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens marched beneath Mexican flags in U.S. cities on May Day to demand amnesty, Mexico's constitution "prohibits political activities by foreigners, and such actions may result in detentions and deportations."
"Crime in Mexico continues at high levels, and it is often violent, especially in Mexico City, Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo (and) Acapulco," State warns U.S. travelers. "Low apprehension rates and conviction rates of criminals contribute to the high crime rate."
"Women traveling alone are especially vulnerable. ... Victims ... have been raped, robbed of personal property or abducted and then held while their credit cards are used at various businesses and automatic teller machines. ... Kidnapping, including the kidnapping of non-Mexicans, continues at alarming rates."
When Fox proposed his merger of America and Mexico in a North American Union, Robert Bartley, for 30 years editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, declared him a "visionary" and pledged solidarity: "He (Fox) can rest assured that there is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports his vision ... this newspaper."
The American people never supported NAFTA, and they are angry over Bush's failure to secure the border – but a shotgun marriage between our two nations appears prearranged. Central feature: a ten-lane, 400-yard-wide NAFTA superhighway from the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, up to and across the U.S. border, all the way to Canada. Within the median strip dividing the north and south car and truck lanes would be rail lines for both passengers and freight traffic, and oil and gas pipelines.
As author Jerome Corsi describes this Fox-Bush autobahn, container ships from China would unload at Lazaro Cardenas, a port named for the Mexican president who nationalized all U.S. oil companies in 1938. From there, trucks with Mexican drivers would run fast lines into the United States, hauling their cargo to a U.S. customs inspection terminal – in Kansas City, Mo. From there, the trucks would fan out across America or roll on into Canada. Similar superhighways from Mexico through the United States into Canada are planned.
According to Corsi, construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the first leg of the NAFTA superhighway, is to begin next year.
The beneficiaries of this NAFTA superhighway project would be the contractors who build it and the importers and outlet stores for the Chinese-manufactured goods that would come flooding in. The losers would be U.S. longshoremen, truckers, manufacturers and taxpayers.
The latter would pay the cost of building the highway in Mexico and the United States, both in dollars and in the lost sovereignty of our once-independent American republic.
BTTT. This SO needs the publics attention!
I have thought this the answer all along. If so many million Mexicans want to be American citizens, let them join the union.
We would have 32 more states and a Republican majority in Congress for the next century. Although crime, taxes and, when that volcano goes, would all be HUGE problems, I think it's inevitable.
Canada, on the other hand, is a problem. While some of the western provinces might be on board, the Quebecois wouldn't go for it. Not that we would want them anyway.
And that border at the south of Mexico would be a lot easier to defend.
"We would have 32 more states and a Republican majority in Congress for the next century."
Did you forget a sarcasm tag?
As for Canada, that's easy. Simply exclude the Left wing eastern provinces. Let 'em join Eurabia.
What we'll do for oil. Instead of cowtowing to the terrorists, merging our nation with others, and bleeding off our future leaders in combat, how about we get off oil?
Last year when we bought our home (we are on the outskirts of Memphis, TN) both the realtor and inspector mentioned this Highway coming that would run from Canada to Mexico. We were told we didn't have to worry about it because it would be a few miles from us. So, a lot of people seem to know about it and are planning the route!
I guess this is another thing that isn't up for a vote??
http://www.geocities.com/benribqqq/cfr2005roster.html
and
http://www.cfr.org/about/annual_report/
It's a virtual Who's Who of the whole Liberal establishment!
We would have 32 more states and a Republican majority in Congress for the next century. Although crime, taxes and, when that volcano goes, would all be HUGE problems, I think it's inevitable. Canada, on the other hand, is a problem. While some of the western provinces might be on board, the Quebecois wouldn't go for it. Not that we would want them anyway. And that border at the south of Mexico would be a lot easier to defend.
I hope that was tongue in cheek, though as there is no /sarc, I fear you are serious, in which case, friend, you need to run--not walk--to the closest clinic for a brain scan (to see if its still there) as obviously, you have lost your freakin mind.
Or worse yet, perhaps you are one of those that agrees that "we" (the US) are the bane of the world and "merging" with Mexico and Canada will somehow temper this "evilness" by making us more like Europe, especially countries like France?
You must like the present situation with all the millions of illegals draining our economy and gaining a foothold in the governing process, because open the borders and the flood of poor, illiterate and many crime-prone illegals will soon occupy every city and state in this great (well, used to be) Republic of ours.
Oh yeah, you must also like paying taxes because with tens of millions of additional illegals being "welcomed" into our country, most will immediately apply (and of course, be granted) welfare benefits, medical benefits, social security benefits, tuition benefits, etc., etc., etc., and GUESS who will pay for all of these BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars worth of services?
In case you don't realize it chump, it will be you (if you are employed and paying taxes) and the rest of us, until such time as our country becomes bankrupt or dissolves into anarchy and ceases to exist as we know it today.
Wake up or get a life!!!!
PS Both sides of my family emigrated (LEGALLY) from Montreal (yes Quebecois) and though I have disowned most of my relatives who live in Canada (due to their liberal bent), Canadians, as liberal as they have become, are NOT (the last time I checked) a drain on our economy and those who do emigrate to this country, at least, "assimilate," including learning the language, accepting our values and traditions and consider themselves "AMERICANS," which is more than I can say for those "others" who you so willingly want to give unfettered and unconditional access to our country.
The next time some DumbA on FR tells you that the illegals are here to do the work Americans won't do......stuff this in their eye.....nimrods all...
This is exactly what I have been saying for about a year. Some here called me a nutjob and conspiracy theorist. Pat Buchanan, who occasionally masquerades as a nutjob and conspiracy theorist, has pegged this dead on.
What Bush, Fox, and the Canadian PM du jour have failed to recognize is that their goal to create Canameximerica will fall to ruin just as the EU did. When it came time to approve the EU Constitution, the Euroweenies finally woke up and realized that they did not want to abandon thir national identity to become lost as a generic "European". They wanted to continue to be French, German, Spanish, British, etc., and so on.
The same is true in this case. We don't want what the "One Worlders" are offering. Bush needs to pull his head out and get a clue now while he can still rescue some portion of his "legacy".
What failure my FRiend? They want a never ending tax base based on never ending immigration.... Notice bushes amnesty does ONE thing well, establishes taxes and accountability....for taxes.....
John Bolton! But maybe he's on it because he's against the way it works, like the U.N.?
No Bushes on it.
That's really sad. I would never allow politics to come between me and my family.
Sometimes it's best to put blinders on.
Allow me to clarify and amplify.
First of all, they are cousins and not immediate family.
Second of all, every time we got together, all they ever did was criticize our country (going back to when I came back from Nam) and how "we" were the problem with the world; were "bullies," overbearing, etc., and even during the height of the cold war, never supported our efforts to contain socialism/communism.
For my part, I used to point out how rotten their (socialized, cradle to grave, FREE) medical system was (and still is to this day) as well as all of their other "socialist" agendas and how much they all paid for their social programs in taxes, which always far exceeded our rates.
We still see each other occasionally (the last time about 18 months ago, when my Mom passed) and it was here in the US and probably due to the circumstances, was a rather civil reunion.
While not all Canadians are ultra-liberals and anti-American, the majority of those who are, can be found in the larger metropolitan areas and especially, in the province of Quebec.
As an aside, the separatist movement (of which most of my relatives supported--and to an extent still do--)is alive and well in Quebec.
Well, I'm sure Mr. Paster lives in a gated community, goes to work in a limo, and is independently wealthy. In short, he has no trouble coming up with these schemes as he jets his a$$ around the world.
It's a virtual Who's Who of the whole Liberal establishment!
You'd think this fact alone would give the 'Free Traders' on this board pause? I still want them to stand up and tell everyone how they would benefit from this merger.
Does anyone here know?
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