Posted on 06/13/2006 6:08:39 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada.
The membership of the working groups has not been published, nor has their work product been disclosed, despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
The groups, working under the North American Free Trade Association office in the Department of Commerce, are to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.
This trilateral agreement, signed as a joint declaration not submitted to Congress for review, led to the creation of the SPP office within the Department of Commerce.
The SPP report to the heads of state of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, -- released June 27, 2005, -- lists some 20 different working groups spanning a wide variety of issues ranging from e-commerce, to aviation policy, to borders and immigration, involving the activity of multiple U.S. government agencies.
The working groups have produced a number of memorandums of understanding and trilateral declarations of agreement.
The Canadian government and the Mexican government each have SPP offices comparable to the U.S. office.
Geri Word, who heads the SPP office within the NAFTA office of the U.S. Department of Commerce affirmed to WND last Friday in a telephone interview that the membership of the working groups, as well as their work products, have not been published anywhere, including on the Internet.
Why the secrecy?
"We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public," said Word.
She suggested to WND that the work products of the working groups was described on the SPP website, so publishing the actual documents did not seem required.
WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups. The closest to enabling legislation was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., on April 20, 2005. Listed as S. 853, the bill was titled "North American Cooperative Security Act: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to establish a program to bolster the mutual security and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and for other purposes." The bill never emerged from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In the House of Representatives, the same bill was introduced by Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla., on May 26, 2005. Again, the bill languished in the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.
WND cannot find any congressional committees taking charge for specific oversight of SPP activity.
WND has requested from Word in the U.S. Department of Commerce a complete listing of the contact persons and the participating membership for the working groups listed in the June 2005 SPP report to the trilateral leaders. In addition, WND asked to see all work products, such as memorandums of understanding, letters of intent, and trilateral agreements that are referenced in the report.
Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American Union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.
Referring to the SPP joint declaration, the report, entitled "Building a North American Community," stated:
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 CFR task force report called for establishment of a common security border perimeter around North America by 2010, along with free movement of people, commerce and capital within North America, facilitated by the development of a North American Border Pass that would replace a U.S. passport for travel between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Also envisioned by the CFR task force report were a North American court, a North American inter-parliamentary group, a North American executive commission, a North American military defense command, a North American customs office and a North American development bank.
That is merely a first step towards a one-world government.
Actually, the EU was the first step.
Correct statement!
Naive ignorance hopefully.
Tinfoil should be worn in abundance when reading this charlatan.
Don't bet that:
1) either will accept second billing as official language
2) our Constitution will survive in tact
3) our laws will be enforced as they are now
Loss of our sovereignty is good for no one except business.
no he's a businessman.
And judging from this thread and others, there is big business in whipping people like yourself into a frenzy. Hint: It sells books.
Everyone's luggage is confiscated and inspected by Kofi Annan himself.
I came to this conclusion a while back and have been posting my thoughts on it regularly on this forum.
The behavior of our president and certain members of the US senate has been very confusing relative to the illegal immigration issue, but I believe I finally understand the underlying dynamic of the situation. Many people think the president and certain senators:
1) have a heart for illegal immigrants- WRONG! or
2) are reaching out to illegals and trying to build their respective voting constituencies for the future- MOSTLY WRONG!
The overarching truth is, in their worldview, it's a world of business and sovereign nations only serve to restrict business operations and ultimately, profits. Who needs borders? Free trade, cheap labor, and open borders for all! Yep, they're all one world government whores sold out to their big business constituents. That's the only explanation that is consistent with their actions over the last 20 years. In truth, they've all sold us down the river for big business and a one world government which will benefit.... you guessed it.... big business.
I'm sure you were saying the same thing when he was helping the President win reelection. END SARCASM!
Quite true. And furthermore, a lot of these guys have also been brainwashed into believing that nationalism is the world's greatest evil, and that gradually doing away with nations is ultimately going to lead to the end of war for all time.
Needless to say they're a bunch of clueless idiots, but most of them really do believe this garbage.
No. Corsi's an anti-Catholic bigot, and for that reason alone deserves to be derided.
I see our rulers are trying to pull another fast one.
Glancing at the asinine keywords, there appear to be lots of ostriches here.
In a world without borders the laws have to mesh and I doubt that means the rest of the world will gain free speech or gun ownership. Quite the opposite I'm afraid.
Pingaroonie!
It's like this is a regular part of your life. That explains a lot. Thanks for the confirmation.
In the late 70s College classes were all focused on different aspects of "internationalism," in the sense that we are all one big interconnected economic world. The focus was that if we bind outselves with our business relationships, then we will be less likely to go to war.
I never understood why people so against capitalism impliedly endorsed it as a way to try to stop wars.
The main problem is that people of different nations have different political values and different ways of looking at the world. Very few nations think like the citizenry of the US. I think this is why the rest of the world is not as free.
I fear a gradual, very incremental mutual dependency with nations who will not recognize our sence of freedom. We will be dragged down to their level politically, legally, economically, and morally.
I think that the US will do by treaties what it could not do by constitutional amendments, all approved by the Senate, that will gradually erode our counstitutional rights. We will never be allowed to vote on this "Burkean accretions" which erode our rights.
FedGov-making the world safe for the modern American corporation.
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