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.
Let's keep the North American superstate on the table please (BTW, I am running for supreme emperor of the NAU, so please vote for me. I will be ruthless but fair. But ruthless.)
You are aware that he is reacting to the visceral attack on whites by the Left, as if it is per se evil to be white, and it is their racism he is condemning, not espousing a neo-NAZI reprise. And way too many, such as Karl Rove, apparently have a penchant to castigate policy disputes as racism...he recently told J.D. Hayworth when JD wouldn't budge on the Fence and No Amnesty, "You just have a problem with Brown People."
Sorry, the guy just leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I don't really care about what he says about anything.
I guess we could all say the same about Karl Rove.
At least we agree that Steyn is a genius.
The problem isn't that Larry fights the racist anti-racists with fire. The problem is that he uses race as frequently and casually as one would use a napkin. He is, by far, not the worst at this, I would even conjecture he is not conscious of it, but it is enough to make me suspicious of him and his status as an also-ran makes my ignoring him quite easy.
You claim that the Bush administration is secretly coordinating the effort to implement these desires. After all, the Birchers talked of conspiracies of Communists, even though Communist plans were well-known.
Knock it off.
Do you see black helicopters on the horizon?
It's amazing how some people on this thread deny the obvious, and their sole method of "debate" is name calling. Kind of reminds me of liberals.
Cal - in case you haven't seen this one yet.
"Chemtrails anyone?"
Tell you what I'll do chickensh!t. I will pay for your round trip ticket (your choice of airline), your room in a 4 star hotel for a week and I'll give you $5000 to play the slots with IF I cannot show you chemtrails from the Reno, Nevada valley floor during your 7 day stay.
If I do show them to you, you pay all the bills yourself and give me a single $1.00.
Come on gambler, take me up on my offer and you'll learn the difference between condensation trails and chem trails, guaranteed. Ask my friends if I'm known for pissing my money away on fools like you.
I think I stopped reading this thread at around 150.
Sounds like a very fair proposition to me.
"Did ya happen to see that Hasert has put a halt on the Shamnesty Plan of McLame and Fat Teddy? LOL!"
I'd heard about it, but I didn't have to read up
on it. McCain is our senator, but I wish he'd move
to Canada and run for something there [preferably the
border with a whole lot of angry people chasing him].
Thanks for telling me about Hasstert's move.
tick tock tick tock....
crickets...
"Do you see black helicopters on the horizon?"
Yes I do. And if the American Public doesn't soon, slavery is right around the corner.
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