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.
Yes.
Trilateral.
It means three-way.
And not in a kinky way, either. It just means three-party talks. Guess what they call two-party talks?
Yep, bilateral. (I'll bet you thought Elton John was bilateral, right?)
And guess what quadrilateral means in geometry?
Go ahead, guess...
How true...it used to be the Dems leading the way into the New World Order with the Republicans (barely) holding them in check.
Now the Republicans are apparently heading the Nation into one big Globalist family, with the full support of the base..
Cartoons and stupid keywords the best you've got or is there something in the article you care to refute?
Since you have nothing to say which is educated or on point concerning the subject, see ya.
CUESPOOKYMUSIC; GLOBALISTSUNDERMYBED; MORETHORAZINEPLEASE; NOTTHISCRAPAGAIN; PARANOIA; THEBOOGEYMAN;
Hee hee.
That's all well and good, and if that is ALL it was, no one would have their knickers all bunched up.
This AIN'T no NAFTA or even NAFTA-Lite.
What scares a bunch of us is:
"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.'
WHAT PART OF "OPEN BORDERS" DON'T YOU GET OUT OF THIS?
"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.
IF THAT DOES NOT ADD UP TO A "NORTH AMERICAN UNION," PROPOSAL,THEN THOSE OF US WHO ARE "CONCERNED," MUST BE DISLEXIC, OR JUST PLAIN STUPID--OH YEAH, AND A BUCH OF CONSPIRACY THEORIST, AS "AMISHDUDE" CONTENDS.
Son (and I mean that in the most condescending way possible), the whole point is that this entire discussion is a paranoid delusional fantasy. There is no educated point to be made on the subject except the one in the previous sentence.
Same old crap, different title...and be careful about those Denver airport jokes...I'll be there tomorrow.
Dude, you have got to be trying to pull some chains on this. If you are SERIES downplaying these events, it's a HUGH insult to the truth. These globalists are not trying to hide any of this. It's been in plain site for decades now.
It's easier for them to show up, say nothing except one liners which I have concluded is the path that someone who has nothing to say always takes. They won't actually discuss the thread because there is no refuting the facts of the article.
Now, it's been a long time since I've gone to the Great White North but for time immemorial you didn't need a passport to go back and forth between the US and Canada, so this would seem to be an improvement, would it not?
I won't even get into the reverse vampires.
"Cartoons and stupid keywords the best you've got or is there something in the article you care to refute?"
"Honestly, I didn't do the keywords. I really didn't."
Nothing you can refute....just as I thought.
Looks like Amish Dude has already called in reinforcements to help in his quest to discredit the thread and the informed posters.
Expect to see a plethora of lame and ignorant posts.
They behave this way because they are for open borders and are, infact, globalists themselves?
The ultimate conspiracy theory - out in the open because no-one will believes conspiracies.
Another article by Corsi.
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