BUSH
ADMINISTRATION IN DENIAL OF 'NORTH AMERICAN
UNION
' PLANS
By
Tom DeWeese
September 19, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
�Conspiracy
theories.� �Fringe nuts.� �Lies.� �Myths.�
These are the words being used by officials of the Bush
Administration and others to brand those who have reported
on the activities of the Security and Prosperity Partnership
of North America (SPP), currently operating out of the U.S.
Department of Commerce. Opponents have charged the SPP will
result in the establishment of a North American Union, much
on the same lines as the European Union.
In
response to its critics, the SPP has added a �SPP Myths Vs
Facts� section to its website at www.SPP.gov. According to
the �Myths Vs Facts� document the SPP is simply a
�dialog� among the three countries to �enhance
prosperity.� It goes on to say the SPP is not an
agreement, nor is it a treaty. It says �no agreement was
ever signed.�
The
truth is, on March 23, 2005, President Bush met at his ranch
in
Crawford
,
Texas
with Vicente Fox and Paul Martin (then PM of
Canada
) in what they called a
Summit
. The three heads of state then drove to
Baylor
University
in
Waco
, where they issued a press release announcing their signing
of an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America (SPP).
This
year, on March 31, 2006, Bush. Fox and new Canadian PM,
Stephen Harper met in
Cancun
,
Mexico
. This time their press release celebrated what they called
the first anniversary of the SPP.
The
use of the word �dialog� is a carefully selected
euphemism designed to make the SPP sound like an innocent
discussion among friends. To admit that it is anything more
would force the government to provide Constitutional
justification for its actions.
Moreover,
the SPP says it won�t change our court system or
legislative process and that it respects the sovereignty of
each nation. And, says the SPP Myths and Facts document, it
strongly rejects the idea that it is creating a European
Union-like structure.
That
defense is almost laughable in light of the massive
activity-taking place in the SPP office located in the
Commerce Department.
First
one must know that the European Union was also originally
sold to the nations on the European continent as simply a
trade and security framework. The idea, said proponents, was
to create an economic structure to allow a combined European
economy to compete with the
United States
and other economic powerhouses. Only a few years later
nations were told they needed a common currency to provide
seamless trade. At the same time, the working groups
organizing the EU policy began to morph into what today has
become a European Union parliament, which now is working to
create a means of taxation, regulation of commerce and a
court system.
Now,
in offices buried in the bureaucratic structures of the
United States, Canada and Mexico, twenty �working
groups� are hard at work writing policy initiatives for
the SPP, covering a wide range of issues including, the
manufacture and movement of goods across the borders of the
three North American nations: creating a common energy
policy and common environmental regulations over the three
nations; regulating E-commerce and information
communications and technologies; establishing financial
services, including loan policy and foreign aid policy;
overseeing business facilitation, creating the rules under
which businesses will operate in the three nations;
establishing food and agriculture policy; and overseeing
transportation and health policy.
These
policy directives will infringe on every aspect of our
lives. Can anyone seriously accept the Administration�s
explanation that nothing really important is going on here?
That this is only a friendly discussion taking place? That
nothing will change in the way our government operates? If
that were so, then why are we doing it? Why are so much
time, money and energy being taken up in an effort that
means nothing? The answer, of course, is that lots is going
on.
It�s
no accident that the SPP is working out of the NAFTA office
of the Department of Commerce. The North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) was the precursor to the Security and
Prosperity Partnership. According to investigative
journalist, Jerome Corsi, a key part of the SPP plan is to
expand the NAFTA tribunals into a North American Union court
system.
Under
Chapter 11 of the NAFTA Agreement, a tribunal conducts a
behind closed-doors �trial� to decide the cases dealing
with how state and federal laws may damage NAFTA business.
If NAFTA investors believe state or federal laws damage
their NAFTA businesses, under the tribunal the investor may
sue the government and taxpayers will foot the bill. The
NAFTA tribunal decision trumps the
U.S.
courts, all the way to the Supreme Court. Yet, the Bush
Administration insists the SPP will have no effect on our
court system.
The
SPP says it is a myth that Congress is not involved or
supportive of its actions. The truth is, to date, there has
been no legislation passed by Congress to permit its
actions. No taxpayer funds have been appropriated. One
�hearing� was held in Senator Richard Lugar�s Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. It was a friendly affair with
friendly �dialog.� No tough questions were asked. No one
was held accountable for their actions.
Meanwhile,
members of Congress are beginning to become aware of the SPP
activities at the Commerce Department. Representative Tom
Tancredo (R-Colo.) is demanding the Bush Administration
fully disclose the activities of the SPP, which he says, has
no authorization from Congress.
Specifically,
Tancredo wants to know the membership of the SPP working
groups. To date, no one knows who is involved, or is
performing the work to create the policies of the SPP. Geri
Word, who heads the SPP office told World Net Daily that the
work has not been disclosed because �We did not want to
get the contact people of the working groups distracted by
calls from the public.� Yet the SPP denies it is working
in secret.
Additional
congressional reaction has come from Senator John Cornyn
(R-TX). He had introduced a bill, �The North American
Investment Act� (S.3622). Incredibly the bill contains
near exact language from the book by Robert Pastor entitled
�Toward a North American Community.� Pastor�s book is
largely considered to be the blue print for the creation of
the North American Union. Much of the contents of the book
later appeared in a report from the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) entitled �Building a North American
Community.� That report was issued just a week before the
Summit
in
Waco
.
However,
once these facts were demonstrated to Senator Cornyn, he
immediately took efforts to assure S.3622 would not be voted
on in the Senate. His spokesman stated that Senator Cornyn
�is adamantly opposed to any �North American Union�
being formed like the EU had been formed in
Europe
.� Regardless of how the Administration spins it, there is
no congressional authorization for SPP actions or spending.
The
SPP denies that it is planning to create a unique currency
some have called the �Amero.� However, on April 6, 2006,
the SPP announced the formation of the Financial Services
Working Group. According to its own news release, the
Financial Group will focus on �enhancing processes for
addressing banking, securities, and insurance issues.� It
goes on to say, �
U.S.
financial regulatory agencies will play a critical role in
the SPP.�
In
truth, the SPP is being put into place incrementally. It
will take years before everything is in place. It took the
European Union several years to create the Euro. However,
the guiding documents from Dr. Pastor�s book and the CFR
report both call for the creation of a North American
currency. It is obvious, if one dissects the double speak of
the bureaucratic language of the SPP, in order for it to
reach its goal to �reduce the cost of trade,� �combat
counterfeiting,� and �facilitate trade� among three
nations trying to act as one, the drive for a single
currency will not be questioned.
And
finally, there is the issue of the NAFTA super highway.
NAFTA was the first step in creating a North American Union.
It was sold as a means to enhance trade among the North
American nations. All were promised greater exports, better
jobs and better wages. In truth, NAFTA is an unmitigated
failure for all but a very few. The
U.S.
trade deficit has soared to almost $1 trillion per year; The
U.S. has lost some 1.5 million jobs and real wages in both
the
U.S.
and
Mexico
have fallen significantly. Yet, the agenda is set and so our
government presses on.
The
latest objective is the NAFTA super highway on which
construction is planned to begin next year. It would bisect
Texas
from its border with
Mexico
to
Oklahoma
. It will travel on to
Kansas City
where an �inland port� is now in the final planning
stages.
Plans
call for a ten lane, limited access highway to parallel I-35
It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two
express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for
people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and
natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for
communications and telephone lines. The highway will require
the taking of more than 500,000 acres of private land and is
estimated to displace a million Americans from their
property. Eminent Domain will be the tool of choice for the
massive land grab � now made easier by last year�s
Supreme Court ruling in the Kelo case.
The
Kansas City
Smart
Port
will be literally the first checkpoint on a highway that
will run all the way from
Columbia
through the Hartland of the
United States
.
Mexico
will have a facility on the KC Smart Port site that it now
insists will be Mexican sovereign land.
To
make the NAFTA super highway reality, the borders of the
three nations must disappear. Immigration will simply become
�migration.� Border laws cannot exist. �Harmonizing�
of our societies is becoming the catch phrase.
The
SPP says its purpose is to guarantee security and prosperity
for the three nations. The NAFTA model has already proven
there will be no prosperity. The NAFTA super highway is
proof there can be no security as we pave the way for more
illegals to flood the nation, as truckloads of illegal drugs
fly up the highway and terrorists just hitch a ride.
The
United States
is the most unique nation on earth. We were created out of a
radical idea that free people, with their freedoms protected
by the government would be happy and prosper beyond
imagination. The idea worked. Now, the Bush Administration
is ignoring this historic fact to �harmonize� us with
Canada
and especially
Mexico
, which is not a free country; has no property and has just
proved its unworthiness of conducting free and fair
elections. At risk are our culture, our wealth, and the once
proud American way of life.
Americans
must now understand that the battle to stop the North
American Union is the last stand for a free and independent
United States
. That�s not a �Myth� it�s the truth.
�
2006 Tom DeWeese - All Rights Reserved
Tom
DeWeese is president of the American Policy Center and
Editor of The DeWeese Report , 70 Main Street, Suite 23,
Warrenton Virginia.
(540) 342-8911
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