Posted on 10/04/2006 5:56:49 AM PDT by NapkinUser
Judicial Watch uncovered documents that shed new light on the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” announced by President Bush, former Mexico President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on March 23, 2005.
The expressed goal of the partnership is to create “a safer, more prosperous North America” through enhanced cooperation between the United States, Mexico and Canada. Critics, however, charge that it is a veiled attempt to erase the borders between the countries, creating a “North American Union,” much like the “European Union,” with a common currency. (Under such an arrangement, the U.S. would obviously sacrifice aspects of its sovereignty.) Little has been reported about the inner workings of the partnership in the mainstream press, which is one reason why Judicial Watch decided to investigate.
Our investigations team is still in the process of analyzing the documents released to Judicial Watch in response to its Freedom of Information Act request. But what we have uncovered so far is intriguing. The partnership’s “working groups,” include officials from 10 federal agencies, including Commerce, State, and Homeland Security. These officials, in cooperation with representatives from Mexico and Canada, are addressing a wide variety of topics behind closed-doors, including the movement of goods between countries, traveler security, energy, environment and health.
Some of the more disturbing material, we found in documents concerning the North American Competitiveness Council. The council consists of 30 members, 10 each from the United States, Mexico and Canada, and is responsible for making recommendations to the partnership on a variety of topics. Judicial Watch uncovered its recommendations and meeting minutes. To give you a sampling of just how dangerous this partnership could become, here is what the council recommended on border enforcement: “A reasonable grace period should be established at border crossings, during which time people lacking documents are educated about their options and allowed to pass.” Can you imagine the chaos created at the U.S. border with Mexico if such an insane policy were ever enacted?
While these documents raise many additional questions, one thing is clear about the North American partnership announced just over a year ago: This is not simply a theoretical exercise. These “working groups” are spending your tax money to this project. The project is not about the North American capitals “synchronizing their watches” and making sure they have the right numbers to call in case of emergency. It is about changes in policy and regulations on a host of important issues–including border security. And it’s all happening without any fanfare or much media scrutiny. Judicial Watch will continue to push for transparency in this process.
Sat on your [bleeps] way, way too long!
Yes, I can imagine. The naysayers will be along any minute now with their tinfoil jokes. This is the problem, the Constitution is the fundamental law of the land. Congress should have exclusive say on the border matter and be accountable to their constituents. Anything these 30 flunkies say on the border issue ought to be void. But that is not going to happen. More and more these organizations will sprout up and lay down guidelines that will be the defacto law of the land overruling the Constitution. The People have totally lost control of its government. As a result the government will acquire total control over The People, the Constitution being a dead letter.
I wish that they would find the papers from the MARCH 5th meeting. It spelled it right out.
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