Posted on 11/22/2006 5:29:38 AM PST by Dane
Beth Gorham, The Canadian Press Published: Tuesday, November 21, 2006
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. legislator who backs tough anti-immigrant measures and more security at the Canada-U.S. border is warning Americans that President George W. Bush is plotting to integrate the continent.
And he says Prime Minister Stephen Harper “buys into it.”
Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo, revered by some U.S. conservatives for his efforts to staunch the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico, said this week that Bush is a dangerous internationalist.
“He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that, it’s an idea. It’s not an actual place defined by borders. I mean this is where the guy is really going,” he told WorldNetDaily, a controversial conservative website.
“I know this is dramatic, or maybe somebody would say overly dramatic. But I’m telling you that everything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American union, it’s not something that’s just written about by right-wing fringe kooks,” said Tancredo, who is considering a run at the presidency.
“It is something in the head of the president of the United States, the president of Mexico, I think the prime minister of Canada buys into it...”
Tancredo followed up with an interview on the conservative Fox News network, where he said the borders will lose all their significance, serving merely as “speed bumps” in the flow of goods, services and people.
In October, Tancredo demanded the United States suspend work on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) signed last year by Canada, Mexico and The United States until Congress examines its goals and agreements, which include standardizing regulations and dismantling other barriers to trade.
The deal to collaborate on a wide range of trade and security issues is part of a larger plot to merge the countries in a European Union-like arrangement using a common currency, he said, with no oversight from legislators.
The congressman, who wrote a book on the border security issue called “In Mortal Danger,” is one of four members of Congress who’ve signed a resolution opposed to a union or a free trade “superhighway system.”
They’re not the only ones worried about closer ties between the three countries.
A coalition of American conservatives is organizing a grassroots effort to make it an issue in the 2008 presidential race and vow to campaign against any candidate, Republican or Democrat, who won’t side with them.
The movement was spearheaded in October by Howard Phillips, chairman of the public policy group Conservative Caucus, anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly and author Jerome Corsi.
The group is calling for a congressional investigation into the SPP and full disclosure of all documents when the new Congress run by Democrats begins in January. They’re getting support from the Minuteman Project that monitors the borders to deter illegal crossings, a group Bush has called vigilantes.
Supporters of the anti-union stand point out that a prominent three-country task force backed by Canada’s business elite has promoted an elaborate vision of a common economy and security perimeter.
The plan, released last year, drew fire from some Canadians who saw it as a dangerous surrender of sovereignty designed to benefit big business.
Tancredo, who has often talked about the “porous” Canada-U.S. border, stirred up controversy last year when he mused on a Florida radio show that America could destroy Islamic holy sites like Mecca if there’s another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
While beloved by many right-wingers and immigration hawks, Tancredo was recently labelled one of the 10 worst congressmen by Rolling Stone magazine.
The publication noted he wants to deport every undocumented worker in the United States, a proposal that would cost at least US$200 billion, and has called for halting all immigration, legal or otherwise.
Despite the fact that you are on the right side of the border issue, you are nonetheless a nut job because of your support of the Browns....:)
Bush hasn't been able to get a permanent tax cut passed, reform Social Security, or keep control of Congress, but he's going to merge Canada and Mexico with the U.S.? Give me a break.
While it would not surprize me that Tommy the Turnip would have said something as idiotic as this we must withhold judgment since it is in World Nut Daily.
Does it irritate you that NAFTA Chapter 11 was composed by the Reagan Whitehouse?
"Stopped-Clocker"
-A politician or pundit who makes enough sensible comments to gain a following, then later reviles him/her self to be an idiot, villain, conspiracy theorist, or incompetent.
Be careful what you wish for......
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
George W. Bush
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
George W. Bush
Bump that.
Mission accomplished!!
sw
"Despite the fact that you are on the right side of the border issue, you are nonetheless a nut job because of your support of the Browns....:)"
Wow have you hit a nerve! I picked this name a few years ago. The pseudo Browns have done all they can to keep me from being interested. They have become the Arizona Cardinals. Total losers. A culture of losing. An owner who couldn't be less interested, and just wants to make money. The Browns are so far lost now, I don't know if they'll ever be good again. I do know that if they started that "we are going to move" noise again, I'd drive up to Cleveland to help pack the trucks!
Go Buckeyes! :)
Sorry, your premise is stupid.
In all wars, priorities change. Were you to include the DATES on which those statements were made, you would find Bush to have been correct AT THE TIME, both times.
Nice try.
Just an observation.................
Anyone who has read CFR stuff and Listened to Davos speaches knows that that a north american union is what the transnational nazis are working on.
The reason Bush pushes Turkey so hard on the EU is because he sees Turkey as the quid pro quo for Mexico in the context of a North American Union. The reason the border is undefended is because the Mexicans migrants will serve to vote in the new union.
the pubbies have figured out however that most of the Mexican illegals -- when they get citizenship -- will vote democratic. This is what happened in California. Reagan granted the first amnesty 1986. Mexican showed their gratitude by voting democratic.
Now what do you two think of Tancredo sliming Canadian Prime Minister, Stephan Harper.
Brilliant idea!
Please RINO Wilson jumped on the anti-hispanic bandwagon with Prop. 187.
Nixon got close to a majority of the hispanic vote In California, as Bush did in 2004, natioanlly.
Just a question, if you agreed with a GOP candidate that you agreed with 85% of the time but that candidate would say "white trash" at every media opportunity, would you vote for that candidate.
Has anyone ever told you that your obsession with Tancredo is rather bizarre?
Uh excuse me, I ain't the one being quoted by the Canadian press, Tom tancredo is.
The Bay Buchanan that Pres. Reagan trusted and appointed?
Bay Buchanan began her political career as the national treasurer of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns in 1980 and 1984. President Reagan appointed her in 1981 to be Treasurer of the United States. Then age 32, she was the youngest person ever to hold that position. Since leaving public office, she has been featured as a regular or occasional political analyst on several television shows, most recently CNN's "Inside Politics." (defending the Bush administration most of the time, by the way!)
http://www.wmich.edu/~wmu/news/2003/0311/0304-x077.html
"I doubt SERIOUSLY that the people of Mexico will go along with this..."
As if they (and we) have a choice?
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