Posted on 05/19/2006 6:56:03 AM PDT by Dark Skies
President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.
Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA to include Canada, setting the stage for North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.
President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed.
The blueprint President Bush is following was laid out in a 2005 report entitled "Building a North American Community" published by the left-of-center Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR report connects the dots between the Bush administration's actual policy on illegal immigration and the drive to create the North American Union:
At their meeting in Waco, Texas, at the end of March 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin committed their governments to a path of cooperation and joint action. We welcome this important development and offer this report to add urgency and specific recommendations to strengthen their efforts.
What is the plan? Simple, erase the borders. The plan is contained in a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" little noticed when President Bush and President Fox created it in March 2005:
In March 2005, the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States adopted a Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), establishing ministerial-level working groups to address key security and economic issues facing North America and setting a short deadline for reporting progress back to their governments. President Bush described the significance of the SPP as putting forward a common commitment "to markets and democracy, freedom and trade, and mutual prosperity and security." The policy framework articulated by the three leaders is a significant commitment that will benefit from broad discussion and advice. 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 perspective of the CFR report allows us to see President Bush's speech to the nation as nothing more than public relations posturing and window dressing. No wonder President Vincente Fox called President Bush in a panic after the speech. How could the President go back on his word to Mexico by actually securing our border? Not to worry, President Bush reassured President Fox. The National Guard on the border were only temporary, meant to last only as long until the public forgets about the issue, as has always been the case in the past.
The North American Union plan, which Vincente Fox has every reason to presume President Bush is still following, calls for the only border to be around the North American Union -- not between any of these countries. Or, as the CFR report stated:
The three governments should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically diminishing the need for the current intensity of the governments’ physical control of cross-border traffic, travel, and trade within North America. A long-term goal for a North American border action plan should be joint screening of travelers from third countries at their first point of entry into North America and the elimination of most controls over the temporary movement of these travelers within North America.
Discovering connections like this between the CFR recommendations and Bush administration policy gives credence to the argument that President Bush favors amnesty and open borders, as he originally said. Moreover, President Bush most likely continues to consider groups such as the Minuteman Project to be "vigilantes," as he has also said in response to a reporter's question during the March 2005 meeting with President Fox.
Why doesn’t President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union. The administration has no intent to secure the border, or to enforce rigorously existing immigration laws. Securing our border with Mexico is evidently one of the jobs President Bush just won't do. If a fence is going to be built on our border with Mexico, evidently the Minuteman Project is going to have to build the fence themselves. Will President Bush protect America's sovereignty, or is this too a job the Minuteman Project will have to do for him?
Sorry, I meant to say at the end
"But Buchanan and Dobbs (unlike you) give those who favor EU style supranational harmonization a rhetorical advantage because it enables the latter to falsely present themselves as representing the free trade side against the economic isolationists."
BTTT.
March 14, 2005
Council on Foreign Relations
March 14, 2005 - Three former high-ranking government officials from Canada, Mexico, and the United States are calling for a North American economic and security community by 2010 to address shared security threats, challenges to competitiveness, and interest in broad-based development across the three countries.
Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of FinanceJohn P. Manley, former Finance Minister of MexicoPedro Aspe, and former Governor of Massachusetts and Assistant U.S. Attorney General William F. Weld make policy recommendations to articulate a long-term vision for North America in a Chairmen's Statement of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
Chief Executive of the Canadian Council of Chief ExecutivesThomas d'Aquino, President of the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales Andres Rozental, and Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University Robert A. Pastor serve as vice chairs of the Task Force. Chappell H. Lawson, associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the director.
The statement was released in Washington, DC today in advance of the upcoming North American Summit on March 23 in Texas with President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, and Mexican President Vicente Fox. It reflects the consensus of the chairs and vice chairs. In the spring, the Task Force will release its complete report, which will assess the results of the Texas summit and reflect the views of the full membership.
Findings and recommendations:
o Build a North American economic and security community by 2010. To enhance security, prosperity, and opportunity for all North Americans, the chairs propose a community defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter.
o Create the institutions necessary for a North American community. The chairs propose annual summit meetings among the three countries and the creation of a North American Advisory Council to prepare for and implement the decisions made at the summits.
o Enhance North American competitiveness with a common external tariff. Over the last decade, nations around the world, from China to India to Latin America to the expanded membership of the European Union, have become increasingly integrated into the global market. To meet these challenges to North American competitiveness, the chairs recommend that the three governments negotiate a common external tariff on a sector-by-sector basis at the lowest rate consistent with multilateral obligations: "Unwieldy rules of origin, increasing congestion at ports of entry, and regulatory differences among the three countries raise our costs instead of reducing them."
o Develop a border pass for North Americans. The chairs propose a border pass, with biometric indicators, which would allow expedited passage through customs, immigration, and airport security throughout North America. "The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically reducing the need for physical scrutiny of traffic, travel, and trade within North America."
o Adopt a unified Border Action Plan. The three governments should "strive toward a situation in which a terrorist trying to penetrate our borders will have an equally hard time doing so no matter which country he elects to enter first. "First steps should include: harmonized visa and asylum regulations; joint inspection of container traffic entering North American ports; and synchronized screening and tracking of people, goods, and vessels, including integrated "watch" lists. Security cooperation should extend to counterterrorism and law enforcement, and could include the establishment of a trinational threat intelligence center and joint training for law enforcement officials. On the defense front, the most important step is to expand the binational North American Aerospace Defense Command to make it a multi-service Canada-U.S. command with a mandate to protect the maritime as well as air approaches to North America. Canada and the United States should invite Mexico to consider closer military cooperation in the future.
o Narrow the development gap with Mexico. While trade and investment flows have increased dramatically, the development gap between Mexico and its two northern neighbors has widened. "Low wages and lack of economic opportunity in parts of Mexico stimulate undocumented immigration, and contribute to human suffering, which sometimes translates into violence." Mexico must increase its rate of economic growth and decide on the steps it will take to attract investment and stimulate growth. As a matter of their own national interests, the United States and Canada should assist Mexico by establishing a North American Investment Fund, designed to channel resources for the purpose of connecting the poorer parts of the country to the markets in the north.
o Develop a North American energy and natural resource security strategy. Canada and Mexico are the two largest oil exporters to the United States; Canada alone supplies the United States with over 95% of its imported natural gas and 100% of its imported electricity. The three governments should expand and protect energy infrastructure, fully exploit continental reserves, conserve fossil fuels, and reduce emissions. "Regional collaboration on conservation and emissions could form the basis for a North American alternative to the Kyoto protocol."
o Deepen educational ties. "Given its historical, cultural, political, and economic ties, North America should have the largest educational exchange network in the world." To that end, the chairs recommend expanding scholarship and exchange programs, developing Centers for North American Studies in all three countries, and cross-border training programs for school teachers.
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Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments.
The Mexican Council on Foreign Relations(COMEXI) is the only multi-disciplinary organization committed to fostering sophisticated, broadly inclusive political discourse and analysis on the nature of Mexico's participation in the international arena and the relative influence of Mexico's increasingly global orientation on domestic priorities. The Council is an independent, non-profit, pluralistic forum, with no government or institutional ties that is financed exclusively by membership dues and corporate support. The main objectives of COMEXI are to provide information and analysis of interest to our associates, as well as to create a solid institutional framework for the exchange of ideas concerning pressing world issues that affect our country.
Founded in 1976, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives is Canada's premier business association, with an outstanding record of achievement in matching entrepreneurial initiative with sound public policy choices. A not-for-profit, non-partisan organization composed of the chief executives of 150 leading Canadian enterprises, the CCCE was the Canadian private sector leader in the development and promotion of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement during the 1980s and of the subsequent trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement.
The only reason NAFTA passed was because of illegal immigration. Both President GH Bush and Clinton lied saying it would stop illegal immigration. This country has been in a mess ever since. No one even bothers about enforcing laws.
Go here for the official NAFTA website.
http://www.naalc.org
Just don't click on the part that says Mexico will give foreign workers health care like the U.S. does. Mexico gets a pass as they won't pay for anyone. They just expect more and more of U.S. Taxpayer money.
Now go and click on the borderless map, then the table of contents. This gives rights to illegal aliens going against our constitution.
Since you are a newbie to this site and a free trader, are you going to admit to the socialization of these treaties? By the way, the activities of the secretariat and ministers are explained on this site. You know the annointed ones who were not elected and get to have closed door hearintgs. Totally unAmerican.
It's Continent Security--aka incontinent borders.
Thanks for the references. It will take me a day (or more) to read through some stuff and absorb it all.
I don't have much time to do that today.
A couple of other things... You wrote:
But giving in unions, Democrats, etc. on some of these issues is sometimes needed to increase freedom of trade.
I disagree. See tagline. It diminishes out sovereignty and freedom in the name of "free trade". New requirements placed on USA businesses, and jurisdiction of foreign courts or other quasi-governmental bodies is not a positive step, IMO.
And...
But I think both are eminently justified, as proven by the opposition of Teacher's unions.
I don't see these issues as two dimensional. Opposition by one group does not rise to the level of "proof" in my estimation.
Hey! You forgot the Bilderbergers.
I'm guessing the Intermodal Transportation institute is a Clinton construct. The term you were looking for turned up these proceedings.
http://www.du.edu/transportation/Resources/pdfs/Summit.pdf#search='Joanne%20Casey%20iti'
What gall. I haven’t seen anything like it since the organized “rallies” that enabled Hitler to take over Germany and the Communists to take over Eastern Europe. “Protest” my foot! It was well-organized sedition, and should be treated as such!
Amen to that! Where are the office holding patriots standing up and calling it what it is? They're cowards. Pissants that should be driven from office, ridiculed and spat on in public.
Smith Act of 1940 This is the U.S. statute that ought to apply to the organized gathering of tens of thousands of foreign nationals calling for the overthrow of our country.
What a joke. That whole CFR vision of the future is a fantasy that wouldn't work if they do implement it. It's as blindly utopian as Marxism.
You start your post with this and ask me at the end if I'm a troll. You're on the wrong site buddy.
"Haven't you ever heard of "The United States of America"? It is the free, creative, prosperous nation that all these other nations that you say we are dependent on are flocking to get into because their countries stink!"
This very powerful and free nation has been forming alliances since before it had its Constitution. That you are unaware of that does not surprise me in the least. I have no trouble imagining that your knowledge of this nation and its history barely extend beyond your own driveway.
"NORAD? NATO? NAFTA? UN? You could remove every one of them from the face of the earth and you would still have what we have now: The United States supplying the prosperity and the security of the world as best it can ALONE! "
True. But try taking away NORAD and NATO during the hottest days of the Cold War and see where you'd be. Long term alliances with strong allies are a positive for all countries involved. Kind of like having longterm friendships. You've heard of those?
"Dilute it with these other inconsequential entities and you will have diluted freedom, security and prosperity. That's what I see our administration doing."
That is because it appears all you can really see is the dying azalea bush at the end of your driveway. For anyone with even superficial exposure to the real world, the importance of alliances and treaties in our history lifts them far above the level of "inconsequential". Enjoy your freedom to remain ignorant. Great Americans have paid for it fighting alongside great men from allied nations all over this world.
It is much easier to shriek ignorance than explain reality. As soon as you engage any one of these folks in a discussion based on facts, they run away. Watch what happens if anyone takes the opportunity to discuss the CFR publication mentioned earlier in this thread. None of them will be able to discuss the document without referring to another "article" that explains what the document is "really" saying. The reason the MSM has any influence remaining is because too many people still would rather be told what to think than process the facts themselves. It's easy, and lazy. And it makes any rational person's head spin.
Nation busting bump.
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