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.
Exactly my point in post #124.
And it's also populated by those useful idiots who swallow every bit of politically correct rhetoric and propaganda hook, line and enchilada. I'm sure you probably believe the crap about Mexicans just wanting to come here and work (when they cost us tens of billions in welfare expenses), that Fox just wants an "orderly movement of people" (when we see the borders overrun with any # of rapists, murderers and drug dealers) and businesses need to hire Mexicans to do the "jobs Americans won't do" (the perfect cover story for American businessmen who want to evade payroll taxes as well as pay minimal wages to Mexican workers because they know taxpayers will be stuck with other employee living expenses.
The point is a small % of those shipments coming in from Mexico and overseas will even be checked by customs and what better way to distribute drugs and other contraband across the whole country than by having an inland port right in middle America.
Part of Article VI of the Constitution:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Does this clause place treaties on the same level with the constitution as the "supreme Law of the Land?" If so, does it not follow that there can be treaties which are inconsistent with the constitutional terms?
My concern is that a president will enter into a treaty, and 2/3 of the Senate will ratify it, an it will erode our constitutional rights. Has this issue been dealt with in the context of treaties which, for example, provide for trials that do not include our constitutional rights?
I am concerned that the various trade agreements made or to be made in the furre will be the route by which our national life is irreparably harmed.
I see the cow dung fumes must've gotten to you.
Don't you have some hay to bale or something?
I would suspect under this new alliance many of our rights would be trampled because the bill of rights is deemed too ancient to be of any use. People just laugh and laugh at this but tell me, the Elites that have pushed the EU through even though people have rejected it, it is highly probable that North America has elites of this mindset as well.
I strongly agree with you. Our political leaders in both parties and in both the executive and legislative branches have prostituted themselves to global business conglomerates, to the detriment of freedom and health of this nation and its citizens. All for the idolatrous worship of the almighty dollar. Anything for a buck.
Here's the rub though: the so-called western "elites": the oligarchs, the greedheads, and the dreamers, are going to be relegated to the dustbin of history (where most of them belong) by coming world events in the years ahead.
It's easier for them to be ostriches than to accept the idea that the current occupant of the White House could be involved in such treachery against American workers/taxpayers. To many of them, he's a god who can do no wrong.
You would think Kofi would have enough baggage of his own.
That's right, the Neeeeeewwwwww World Order.
Which explains why the House is at a complete 180 with the Senate on illegal immigration. The corporations know exactly who they have to buy off to ram their agenda through.
With people in it!
And they have opinions!!!
It must be a conspiracy.
Oh, no. You've found out the secret. The Trilateral Commission is -- gasp! -- an organization. Of people. With opinions. Lock the doors, Mabel.
And a working group is?
Doesn't it?
True. When it all gets resolved. However, in the meantime, it grieves me because in their demise, they'll take a lot of naive followers down with them that swallowed their vision of grandeur... hook, line, and sinker.
As a matter of fact, I have not been affected by your posts, no.
I guess they've had to go a different route.
I wish one of these conspiracies would take hold already. I want in on the ground floor.
P.O.E. wrote:
> The ultimate conspiracy theory - out in the open because no-one will believes conspiracies. <
Yes, the situation is almost exactly parallel to what the John Birch Society taught us so wisely about the Communists:
The more evidence one finds that somebody isn't a Communist, the more one can be sure that the person in question actually IS a Communist -- because Communists are so devilishly clever.
So for example, the fact that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower never seemed to be a Communist is dispositive that he actually was. Q.E.D.
[Or at least that's how I remember the proof.]
And now that I think about it, was Eisenhower a secret member of the Bilderbergers?
[Oops, gotta run. A black helicopter just landed in my front yard.]
No surprise at all.
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