Posted on 03/24/2007 4:36:59 AM PDT by Man50D
While the Bush administration insists the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership is just a dialogue with Canada and Mexico, a State Department cable released to WND shows Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez pressing to implement major trilateral initiatives to help "capture the vision of North American integration."
The cable was among some 150 pages of State Department SPP documents recently released to WND under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Howard Phillips, who has formed a coalition to block development of a "North American Union" and formation of NAFTA superhighways, told WND the document "makes clear that the agenda of SPP is to pursue major economic integration that redefines U.S. businesses into a 'North American' definition."
By leading with economics, SPP is crafting a North American regulatory structure that transforms U.S. regulations by 'harmonizing' them with Mexican and Canadian regulations, all without specific congressional approval," said Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus.
The State Department communiqué, dated May 20, 2005, documents a March 13, 2005, meeting between Gutierrez, Mexican Secretary of Economy Fernando Canales and Canadian Privy Council Assistant Secretary Phil Ventura. The meeting was held just prior to the announcement of SPP at the trilateral summit with the country's three leaders in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.
The cable notes Gutierrez opened the discussion by stressing that the July 23, 2005, "Report to Leaders" needed "to show results" that would be "enduring and create an on-going process."
Gutierrez suggested each working group should propose one "big ticket" issue, rather than the "50-60 smaller initiatives" that were then in the SPP "matrix," allowing the "SPP ministers" to capture the attention of the "SPP leaders" with major North American integration goals that were both tangible and important.
"This memo gives us an important 'behind the scenes' look at the trilateral bureaucratic process that gave rise to the "Report to Leaders.
The 2005 "Report to Leaders" on the SPP website, Phillips noted, resulted from a detailed process of trilateral bureaucratic meetings that led to cabinet-level discussions within the three governments. The end result, he said, was for the report to "focus on the major SPP working group initiatives that could advance the goal of North American integration."
Phillips contended a "close reading of the document makes a lie of the SPP 'myth vs. facts' contention that SPP is just a 'dialogue.'
"The document quotes Canada's Ventura as stating that the three countries should prepare a joint document declaring their trilateral intention to 'integrate' a list of industries, including automobiles, pharmaceuticals, textiles, furniture, and steel," he argued. "Ventura said the more 'trilateral integrated' industries that could be listed, the better."
At the meeting, Gutierrez proposed that the SPP ministers think in terms of a trilateral "integrated" auto industry creating a "Made in North America Vehicle by 2009." He also suggested announcing "an IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Violation Free Zone by 2010" and that SPP ministers should hold weekly conference calls to advance the agenda.
"The economic route being pursued behind closed doors by SPP working groups is a replay of the exact stealth route taken in Europe," Phillips noted.
"Right now the EU is celebrating with a series of television commercials the evolution over a 50-year period from an initial coal and steel agreement to a full-fledged European Union regional government with the euro as a regional currency," he said.
The recently uncovered State Department memo, Phillips added, makes clear the same bureaucratic process of regional integration is being implemented in North America within working group and minister meetings that are closed to the public and the press.
"The State Department memo also makes clear that Gutierrez is a major moving force driving the North American integration agenda for the Bush White House," Phillips said.
Supporting Phillips' contention, the State Department cable noted in the last paragraph the meeting got off to a slow start, but under Gutierrez's leadership "it resulted in concrete ideas and direction for the working groups."
But it'll be snuck through by the politicians.
Where do I go to stop paying taxes???
This isn't going to make the US better. It'll make Mexico better and perhaps Canada, but the US? nah
If they didn't respond to the moonbats, the moonbats would whine about their silence.
I love Canada! The people are nice and the beer is much better than ours. Going there again this May.
As far as I can tell, he repeated the same, initial objections to the transcript as the agents' union, then fell silent. I never received the impression that he bothered to read it.
If you think it would be a good investment, why don't you buy some?
I already own my little piece of Texas.
You'd better buy all of it, before a foreigner or a foreign company buys (or leases) anything.
A 'Security Perimeter" with Mexico is smoke and mirrors. Makes the U.
S. citizens feel safe while abolishing our border with Mexico.
That is what the 'Security Perimeter' is about. Nothing more, nothing less.
Notice in the 2nd paragraph they mention these documents that they got via FOIA. Oh yes yes, see see, this is the smoking gun, proof of the plot to destroy America.
Problem is, you have to take their word for it because they don't provide any info/link to the documents because they don't want you to read them.
OTOH, In this WND article thread, in which Judicial Watch got the documents via FOIA, they do provide a link in the last line of the article. Problem is, if you read the document it doesn't live up to expectations as a smoking gun. In fact, if they are trying to use that document as proof, they will have a hard time selling their goofy ideas.
Now, returning to the article above, we see in the 3rd paragraph that they let it slip when they use the phrase, "economic integration", which is exactly what it is.
Economic integration is occurring worldwide, yet economic integration with Mexico is bad? No. Is the extensive integration of the North American energy markets bad? No.
Corsi wants you to bend over a little further so as to make is easier for him to blow smoke up your ass.
Corsi was yowling last summer about his own FOIA request (not Judicial Watch's). You see, Commerce was dragging its feet . . . proof of conspiracy, and all that. He finally got the documents he requested in the Fall, made one or two oblique references to them, and then hasn't written a word about them since. Boosted the sales of his book, however, with WND's help. By how much, he doesn't care . . . he just wants you to forget.
"You'd better buy all of it,"
Oh, don't think I wouldn't like to. I would be a far better steward.
Get moving then. I'm tired of the whining.
If Corsi got 150 pages of documents from FOIA, the least he could do is let us read the juicy ones.
What can be contributed to a moonbat thread? Idiots who believe that secret plans for an NAU are in motion are idiots. If that means you're an idiot, I'm sorry.
I don't know about you, but I have the funny feeling a duck is nibbling at my ankles.
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