Bilbray sworn in to House to replace former Randy Cunningham
Thought you would find this amusing:
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.
Uh no, I've posted many times before here that I want a wall along the entire Southern border (Israeli-style preferable, but the Minuteman pattern would probably be a good compromise.)
Guess again. Better yet, actually educate yourself instead of reading a couple of tinfoil websites and being whipped into hysteria. With a huge infrastructure of parallel free roads, why would smugglers use a new tollway with cameras (and at some, booth operators) at pay plazas all along the route? Do you understand what an inland port really is? It is about shifting taxing from arrival ports to after the goods leave the inland port's warehouses, thus removing a financial incentive to warehouse and repack at the port where the ship is unloaded. Lots of jobs in that warehousing and redistribution, that will be done in America instead of the Mexican port city.
It is also about measures to speed the movement of goods so they aren't delayed for days at the border crossings. Some of it is paperwork efficiency, some of it involves sealing methods. Not foolproof, but not as scary as the tinfoils assume. GPS can track the movement of every truck, and while a vandal might be able to occasionally break into a train container, it can't happen systematically because the railroads (which have their own police force in addition to the local, state, and fed agencies) concentrate forces wherever problems start to occur. So then drug cartels have to pull inside jobs at the unloading facilities. Which is easier for them to pull that off at, in a border community or a GOP-voting suburb of Kansas City? And again, Kansas City isn't unique, there are many other municipalities that are or are setting up to function as inland ports.
You guys see one map on a website marketing a single proposal and assume there aren't dozens (actually hundreds) more proposals, with some already built and functioning for years. Are you aware that we have been bringing in containers from Canadian ports for years? Vancouver, Halifax, Montreal, and now Prince Rupert, shipped to the Midwest and Northeast for years now. The only reason more hasn't come in from Mexico was we used to have the capacity at closer west coast US ports with better rail and highway infrastructure. Now that those are reaching capacity, the overflow will go to further out ports, with Mexico being next in line. These (and other projects) are just improving the linking infrastructure, like we did years earlier to the US and Canadian ports.
And they don't need batteries.
It's truly sad when teachers like AmishDude have the whole summer off and then don't do a better job educating themselves. Apparently, AmishDude has been loving himself a bit too much.
Are you aware of how ignorant you look with that post?
Yet your tagline states that you want to be beamed up by Scotty to a ship populated and owned by a federation of Earth's countries. How ironic.
Bilbray sworn in to House to replace former Randy Cunningham
Thought you would find this amusing:
Those who fancy wearing checkered pants had best wonder how they'll look in stripes.
He's not fooling me. He's open borders. Just like the rest who 'protest too much' and get away with breaking FR rules by making personal attacks every time a new thread about immigration is posted.
He, like Bush, will sell out the sovereignty and security of our country, it seems, to the lowest bidder. He, Bush and the rest of the republican sell outs......for $$ and big business,and the democrats for votes, unions, and the catholic church.
LOL
well didn't you know? He has to equip the UN divisions headquartered under the airport....
Could you fill me in on his anti-Catholicism? I've been a big fan or Corsi's and hope this isn't true.
It's amazing these guys ever get caught. It would be interesting to know if anyone from these defense contractors went to jail? I suspect this is a low yield haul compared to what a US Senator socks away in his or her number Swiss account.
I'm more concerned about the Stonecutters..
Nice rant...Sure, the super highway and inland customs office has some appeal to some...
Business people in Europe love the E.U. but the general population doesn't care much for it...And the 'American Union' may appeal to you but I'll guarantee most U.S. Americans won't be too imressed once they figure it out...
This is only one phase of the sellout of America...The plan also includes the free movement of 'labor'...
And the same people are proposing elimination of the dollar, peso and the Canadian funny money to be replaced by a single currency...
But this plan is out...It's no longer a secret...You call us kooks when the whole thing is staring you in the face...I don't believe you are calling us kooks for believing in the NWO, you're calling us kooks for not going along with it...
Now is your chance to let us all know how smart you are. Please explain 'working groups' and maybe we can all understand your position more clearly.
You're right. Here we have an article which is well written and full of citations, and there is no logical argument against it at all. I can't imagine that an undecided reader would be swayed in theiur opinions by these lines of debate.
I hadn't heard that either, and I would love some information. Let's see if we get any, or will it be a, "throw it against the wall, and see if it sticks" deal.
Oh, come on, if the NWO were really moving, they would at least be handing out business cards by now. If you're going to have a good secret cabal, you have to let everyone know about it.
Citations? Citations of what?
Nefarious meetings? Between people? Who talk to each other?
How dare they!
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