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.
Yep...it's just a coincidence that all of the naysayers just showed up right on cue with the same disinformationalist tactics.
Ping.
Most of your smarter FReepers see this for the crap that it is. Some stay away. Some post funny keywords. PITCHFORKERS is a new one. It reminds me. There's a thread about Fatah going to war with Hamas and that must put Patsy in a real quandry.
But I digress. Let us stick with the madness at hand before addressing new madness.
I know - I'm in denial too. I'd like to think otherwise, but all the evidence thus far proves us both wrong.
Only a completely brainwashed Bot would be that naive to think thet the Powers that Be would stop with a NAU.
That is merely a first step towards a one-world government.
Your ignorance of world politics is astounding.
You see, #62 is doing what you accuse me of.
No disagreement here.
I'll take western Canada, but eastern Canada and Mexico are out of the question.
The first line.
There is legilation in congress to include central america.
Just a concerted effor to kill the thread...A person would have to be an idiot not to believe this stuff...And these people aren't idiots so one has to conclude they support this anti-American move by our gov't...
This super highway is being built as we speak...The port of entry will be moved to Kansas City...I suspect that new facility is under construction as well...
Oh, yeah, man. But I'm embracing the conspiracy, Mr. Beale. I want in on the ground floor. I figure they will have awesome perks. Like all-you-can-eat shrimp at the underground meetings. And hot Canadian chicks as far as the eye can see. And all of the cheap Chinese goods you can buy.
But no cheap Japanese goods. That's sooooooo last millenium.
The unwillingness of all branches of the goverment of the District of Columbia to act upon the cries of the people of the USA to secure their borders is now explained. Always knew there was more to it than Republicrat haggling. We only know what we're supposed to know.
"I just want to know if it's the size of the JFK conspiracy or is it of Da Vinci Code proportions.
No, wait, this might be Area 51 stuff here."
You are either a supporter or extremely naive.
It's obvious that you have either not done any of your own research or you complicit in this treason.
Are you going to hang yourself over this?
Clearly you're an expert on representative government. Lets get a definition to work from, ok? What is a working group?
LOL
You know, I'm REALLY amazed that there isn't an implanted "666" in that stupid highway map that they took from the DOT website and superimposed their idiocy on.
BINGO BUMP! Fit right in with the H crowd.
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