Posted on 08/21/2007 7:28:55 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
A likely upshot of President Bush's meetings with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts in Canada, will be a further impetus to the effort to engage in what is euphemistically called the "harmonization" of the three countries' economies, regulatory systems and policies. The effect will be to contribute to...a significant, and possibly irreversible, erosion in the nation's sovereignty.
... the essence of the most successful political experiment in history — the United States of America — is the sovereign power entrusted by the people via our Constitution to our elected, accountable representatives.
Unfortunately, such sovereignty is endangered by those who believe the world of nation-states is too disorderly for efficient global commerce and the peaceable resolution of disputes.... They prefer supranational arrangements like the European Union, run by wholly unaccountable bureaucrats.
The trouble ...is that a lot of folks who value their freedoms ... generally don't fancy such arrangements. They see them for what they are: big government on steroids, unwieldy, unchecked and unresponsive to the will of the ruled.
So it is necessary for the Tranzies to resort to extraordinary means to supplant national governments. The European Union's architects have acknowledged privately they could never have pulled it off if the publics of the Continent's various nations understood what was afoot.
Today, we know a similar effort is at work behind the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) on the agenda at the Montebello Summit. ...Thanks to Freedom of Information Act requests pursued by Judicial Watch, we know there are some two-dozen trilateral "working groups" whittling away our sovereignty — er, "harmonizing" our rules and regulations on immigration, the environment and health care with those of Mexico and Canada. This effort, as one of the SPP's admirers has put it, involves the nation-state's "erosion by stealth..."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
They run the most powerful economy ever. They are in touch with that.
Though the idea is bad anyway. The government (de facto and de jure) should be accountable to the citizenry.
In the EU, too much legislation and decrees are passed without much direct control by the average EUer.
No state is sovereign that does not control its borders. And no need to be so overbearingly nasty, this is supposed to be a civil discussion, not a slinging match.
Up to this point in time “We the people” still have control of this country. We will continue to have this control IF we want to excercise this right. If we don’t and if we don’t care about the NAU being our government, then we will loose that right. Remember, many people of Canada and Mexico would love to have our Constitution govern them.....but their governments wouldn’t.
America does not have borders, it has frontiers.
You could include Mexico, too (after a lot of work to bring the former up to some sort of parity with other states).
Canada's population is growing, not declining.
The Vatican still has yet to join the UN.
Most Mexicans recognize that they lost the land in the Mexican-American War (and Gadsen Purchase), and even tend to not so much blame the United States, but their own inept government.
Most Mexicans seem to recognize that they lost the land in the Mexican-American War (and Gadsen Purchase), and even tend to not so much blame the United States, but their own inept government.
After a massive transfer of wealth to bring the former up to some sort of parity with other states, while reducing their wealth by the same amount...
And Canadians pay a lot of taxes.
So, you type for all illegal aliens? (rhetorical).
Many illegal aliens recognize that the United States has the right to deport them, and that their illegality is illegal--they merely want that to change (which isn't such a big surprise).
And now, should stop posting on this thread--seems as though potentially one of the only figurative 'comment hogs' on FR.
Yes, obviously one of the goals our overlords have decided upon is income leveling among the three nations. They will not be satisfied until we are as miserable as the Mexicans, but where will we go? Canada is already well on the way to socialism, Mexcio is a socialism wannabe but doesn’t have the resources to really put it in place. Of course we are the stumbling block, because we will resist. That is why this is all going on behind the scenes. Read Gaffney’s entire article and weep.
Their very presence shows their disregard for our laws and sovereignty.
Mexico comes from a different legal and social perspective. It is my impression that Mexicans tend to be on the socialist side. It would not be a good mix with the United States and would overwhelm us and destroy us. It is my impression that few Mexicans understand the Lockean traditions of freedom, self determination and accountability. (At least the activists are more of the entitlement bendt.)
Also, can you imagine the criminal, social, health, educational probelms we would have to allocate resources toward addressing?
As for Canada, are you prepared to have each province enter as an equal state with the same amount of Senators as New York, California etc. This causes balance of power issues just like bringing in states west of the Mississippi did pre-Civil War. How would that affect our politics?
(I do think that most Americans would not mind folding in Canadians into their nation, but I think the Canadians would probably mind a great deal.)
Where are all the “paleocons” who scream about Gaffney being a Trotskeyite or a neocon?
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