TEAMSTERS’ HOFFA WARNS AGAINST NORTH AMERICAN UNION

            “Saying he is convinced ‘the Bush administration has a master plan to erase all borders and to have a super-government in North America,’ James P. Hoffa, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, celebrated the Senate’s 75-23 vote Tuesday night to block the Department of Transportation’s Mexican truck demonstration project.”

U.S. SENATE REJECTS NAFTA MEXICAN TRUCK INFLUX 75-23

            “In an exclusive interview with WND, Hoffa argued that the Bush administration push to allow Mexican trucks into the U.S. is symptomatic of a larger administration plan advanced by multi-national corporations to create a European Union-style regional ‘super-government’ in North America.

            “ ‘Congress has now spoken out and said Mexican trucks cannot come into the United States until they meet our standards,’ Hoffa told WND.”

U.S. HOUSE VOTES 411-3 TO BLOCK NAFTA TRUCK SCHEME

            “He noted the Senate seconded the House’s overwhelming 411-3 vote to pass the Safe Roads Act of 2007, a bill also targeted to block the Mexican truck project. …

            “ ‘President Bush has been determined to jam through this Mexican truck demonstration project because of big business pressure and pressure from President Calderon of Mexico,’ he answered directly.  ‘Big business wants cheap trucking so they can make more money. …

            “ ‘But if you want the real answer,’ Hoffa explained, ‘it’s about money, and it’s about the pressure of these big companies wanting to get this Mexican truck deal done now, because they realize that Bush is a lame duck and they figure that if they don’t get this done now, they’re not going to get this done with a Democratic president in the White House.’ …”

HOFFA DENOUNCES BUSH ANTI-SOVEREIGNTY MASTER PLAN

            “ ‘I think the Bush administration has a master plan to erase all borders and to have a super-government in North America,’ he argued.  ‘There’s talk about mega-ports down in Mexico and superhighway toll roads built with foreign money right into the heart of America.

            “ ‘I think those things are real and the Mexican truck demonstration project is just one piece in that larger puzzle,’ Hoffa continued.  ‘The Bush administration figures that once the Mexican trucks get started, the rest will be easy.

            “ ‘I think that the whole plan of this Mexican truck demonstration project is part of a larger overall plan,’ Hoffa contended.  ‘The goal to basically erase that border so Mexican trucks can run across that border, unload trucks with no security, no supervision, and have them run all the way through from some port on the Pacific Ocean down in Mexico to Kansas City, Detroit and then to Montreal.”

NAU STRATEGY REFLECTED IN BUSH TACTICS

            “ ‘I am convinced that the plan to create a North American Union is what is going on,’ Hoffa asserted.  ‘I am convinced big business wants that.  Big business hates any types of standards. …

            “ ‘Big business doesn’t want to have anything slowing down commerce coming across the borders,’ he said.  ‘And to do that, they have to erase all standards and they have to have one type of a North American government that would be over Canada, Mexico and the United States.

            “ ‘I believe there is such a plan,’ he insisted.  ‘I believe the Mexican truck demonstration project is part of it.  I have seen enough to know that this is going on right now.’ …”

BUSH’S SECRECY IS BY DESIGN

            “ ‘Bush won’t speak openly about the Security and Prosperity Partnership because he doesn’t want anybody to know anything about it,’ Hoffa emphasized.  ‘If the American people knew openly about the plan to build superhighway toll roads with foreign money or the plan to create a North American common market and regional government, we would rally to stop it.  The Bush administration hasn’t even openly consulted Congress about SPP.’ ”  Source:  Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily, 9/14/07

GWB’S MEXICAN SPP ALLY SAYS THAT IT BECOMES MEXICAN TERRITORY WHEN A MEXICAN CITIZEN SETS FOOT

            “ ‘Mexico does not end at its borders. … Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.’  That astonishing claim by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in his state of the nation address at the National Palace Sunday, brought his audience wildly cheering to its feet.”

WHY DOES BUSH LET THIS GO UNREBUTTED?

            “Were the United States a serious nation, Calderon’s claim that Mexico extends into the United States would have produced an instant demand from the U.S. ambassador for clarification.  Failing to receive it, he would have packed his bags, and the United States would be on the verge of severing diplomatic relations.

            “In an earlier time, U.S. troops would be rolling to the border.  For this is not the first time an arrogant Mexican ruler has made a claim to extra-territorial rights inside the United States and, indeed, to U.S. territory.  Mexico’s presidents have gotten into a habit of suborning treason against the United States.”

ATZLAN IN WORD BECOMES ATZLAN IN DEED

            “In 1995, President Ernesto Zedillo told a Dallas audience of U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, ‘You are Mexicans, Mexicans who live north of the border’ – i.e., you owe loyalty to Mexico, not Uncle Sam.

            “In 1997, Zedillo brought a Chicago gathering of La Raza to its feet by exclaiming, ‘I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.’

            “In 1998, Mexico changed its constitution to restore citizenship to Mexican-Americans who have taken an oath of allegiance to the United States and renounced loyalty to any other country.

            “Purpose:  loosen their ties of loyalty to the United States, re-knit their ties of loyalty to Mexico, and persuade Mexican-Americans to vote Mexico’s interests in the USA.  Put Mexico first, even if you have taken an oath of allegiance to the United States.

            “In June 2004, President Vicente Fox took the Zedillo road to the Mexican-American community in Chicago.  There, he, too, declared:  ‘We are Mexicans that live in our territories, and we are Mexicans that live in other territories.  In reality, there are 120 million that live together and are working together to construct a nation.’

            “President Fox was saying that the construction of his nation is taking place – inside our nation.  Is that not sedition?”

IT’S NOT EVEN “DUAL LOYALTY”

            “In 2005, the head of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad, Carlos Gutierrez, asserted, ‘The Mexican nation goes beyond the borders that contain Mexico.’  What these [Mexican] politicians are saying is that Mexico extends into the United States, and the first loyalty of all men and women of Mexican ancestry is, no matter where they live, to Mexico.

            “Mexico’s rulers believe in a nation of history, blood and soil that pre-existed, and supersedes, any pledge of allegiance any Mexican may make to another country, especially to the United States. …

            “At the Quebec summit, Bush mocked the idea of a merger of a North American Union as a fantasy of conspiracy theorists.  ‘It’s quite comical actually, to realize the difference between reality and what some people on TV are talking about.’ …

            “Is Bush oblivious to what his friend Vicente Fox laid down in Madrid in 2002 as the long-term strategy of Mexico?  ‘Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States … an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the goal of attending to future themes as important as … the freedom of movement of capital, goods, services and persons.  The new framework we wish to construct is inspired in the example of the European Union.’ ”

45 MILLION HISPANICS ARE NOW IN U.S.

“Today, already, there are 45 million Hispanics in the United States, perhaps half from Mexico, and 37 million immigrants.

            “Now, Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies projects – using official Census Bureau figures of 1.25 million legal and illegal immigrants entering and staying in the United States every year – a U.S. population of 468 million by 2060.

            “We will add as many people – 167 million – in the next half-century as the entire population of the United States when JFK was elected.

            “Some 105 million of these folks will be immigrants and their children.  That 105 million is equal to the entire population of Mexico, whence most of these folks will be coming.

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #813, September 15, 2007

BUSH, IN HIS OWN WORDS, IS COMMITTED TO “HEMISPHERIC INTEGRATION” 

            “The cheering gallery for SPP is hysterically chanting that its goal is not a North American ‘union’ modeled on the European Union (and that anyone who thinks otherwise must be peddling conspiracy fears).  But the SPPers candidly admit they want North American ‘integration,’ which may be a distinction without a difference.

            “President Bush started down this trail back on April 22, 2001 when he signed the Declaration of Quebec City in which he made a ‘commitment to hemispheric integration.’  After a Communist dictator took over Venezuela, ‘hemispheric’ was quietly scaled down to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of just North America.” 

CSIS REPORT DUE ON SEPTEMBER 30

            “The lobbyists for integration are bringing heavy-artillery reinforcements to their cause:  a pro-integration report written by a prestigious think tank, the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).  The report is now being translated into Spanish and French so it can be presented to all three governments on September 30. …” 

“ECONOMIC INTEGRATION” AND “LABOR MOBILITY” ARE CODE WORDS FOR NAU

            “A 25-page advance peek at the report has been released under the caption ‘North American Future 2025 Project.’  The core of the plan for America’s future is North American ‘economic integration’ and ‘labor mobility,’ key words that are repeated again and again in this report.” 

TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION OF GOODS, CAPITAL, AND LABOR

            “The threat to good American jobs is obvious from the redundancy of demands to import cheap labor without limits:  ‘international migration of labor,’ ‘international movement not only of goods and capital, but also of people,’ ‘mobile labor supply,’ ‘North American labor mobility,’ ‘flows of labor migration,’ and ‘free flow of people across national borders.’ ” 

SEEKING A “CHEAP LABOR” NORTH AMERICAN WORK FORCE

            “The CSIS report explains that ‘border infrastructure means the ‘efficient flow of labor across North American borders’ so we can ‘pool the human capital necessary to source a competitive North American workforce.’  It’s unlikely that U.S. workers want to ‘pool’ their jobs with Mexico where the median minimum wage is $5 a day.” 

INTEGRATION OF GOVERNMENTS IS A KEY GOAL

            “Slyly revealing the plan to integrate governments as well as economies, the report states:  ‘to remain competitive in the global economy, policymakers must devise forward-looking, collaborative policies that integrate governments.’

            “In an attack on the unique American patent system and fountainhead of our innovation superiority, the report calls for ‘harmonizing legislation’ with other countries in the area of intellectual property rights.  The report also calls on us to ‘harmonize’ our regulations of all kinds by adopting ‘unified North American regulatory standards.’ …”

 WALL STREET JOURNAL, PRE-MURDOCH, LEADS THE CHEERS

            “The favorite business authority Peter F. Drucker wrote in his 1993 book Post-Capitalist Society that the European Union ‘triggered the attempt to create a North American economic community, built around the United States but integrating both Canada and Mexico into a common market.’

            “He gleefully added, ‘So far this attempt is purely economic in its goal, but it can hardly remain so in the long run….  The economic integration of the three countries into one region is proceeding so fast that it will make little difference whether the marriage is sanctified legally or not.’

            “The Open Borders/economic integration crowd includes people who are very influential in the business and media establishments.  When Mexican President Vicente Fox called for a North American Union modeled on the European Union, the late Robert Bartley, longtime editorial editor of the Wall Street Journal, said, ‘He [Fox] can rest assured that there is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports his vision … this newspaper.’ ”  Source:  Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, August 2007, pp. 1, 2

USING STEALTH AND DECEPTION SPP INCREMENTALLY PUSHES NORTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION 

At the Hudson Institute panel conference held on August 13 in Washington concerning “The Montebello Summit and the Future of North America”, Dr. John Fonte offered these remarks:

            “My vision of the future of North America is rather different from the one you have heard.  I see a 21^st century North [America] consisting of three independent democratic nation states, the United States, Canada, and Mexico.  There would be reasonable cooperation and security and trade, but as sovereign democratic states, they would rule themselves.  For example, American border security would be determined by Americans.  Canadian trade, economic, and energy policies would be determined by Canadians.  And if some of those – America didn’t like some of those policies, well, that is called democracy.” 

NAU PROPONENTS WOULD SUBSTITUTE NORTH AMERICAN IDENTITY FOR NATIONAL HISTORY

            “Mexican education and cultural policy would be determined by Mexicans.  Thus, Mexican schools, for example, would continue to promote Mexican identity to Mexican students, not, as recommended by the Council on Foreign Relations, to, quote, give students a greater sense of North American identity.  I would expect that most ordinary citizens in the United States, Canada and Mexico, would prefer their educational institutions focused on their own national identity and history. …” 

THERE IS NO CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION FOR SPP – THE BASTARD CHILD OF NAFTA

            “On the first point, democracy deficit, the SPP has some very far-reaching goals:  the harmonization of regulation, standards, border immigration policies.  The legal and constitutional authority for SPP is supposedly in the fine print in NAFTA.  But, as has been pointed out, there is no congressional authorization for SPP.  There have been no funds appropriated by Congress directly for SPC – SPP.  There is little oversight or congregational hearings, no real public involvement.  It is not a treaty, no real transparency, except for the material released reluctantly after freedom-of-information requests.” 

SECRET DECISIONS SECRETLY ARRIVED AT

            “Actually, just as an aside, I was rather astounded by the last panel when the question was, should we know who was actually attending these meetings, and the person on the panel said, well, that really wouldn’t serve any purpose if you essentially know who is coming or not.  This tells us something about the mindset at work. …” 

SPP PRIORITIZES COMMERCE OVER NATIONAL SECURITY

            “It’s clear that the SPP document, as it states, the immediate number-one priority is, quote, ‘to facilitate the movement of people across borders of North America.’  Now, unlike Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, SPP does not put – does indeed put commerce over security.  Remember Smith put security over commerce in The Wealth of Nations. …” 

IT WOULD BE DANGEROUS TO ABOLISH PASSPORTS

            “[Jim] Edwards says the SPP reports prioritize speed over security.  I think that is right.  We’ll give you an example here.  The North American Competitiveness Council report of February 2007 [has] the following recommendation:  Develop and adopt a low-cost, easily attainable ID and citizenship-verification document as an alternative to a passport.  And that is almost an invitation to fraud given what we know about fraudulent documents in the immigration business in the last 10 years.” 

SPP WOULD ELIMINATE U.S. BORDERS

            “[SPP] priorities are vaguely written and ambiguous, but implicit is the suggestion there should be one border for all of North America.  Indeed, there is a discussion by the traveler screening system working group of one card….  Well, this is an absolutely crucial issue.  Are we talking about one border for North America, or when you cross the Mexican-Guatemalan border, are you in the United States, in which case our security is dependent on Mexican-border security. …” 

BUSH ADMINISTRATION SEEKS “A TRANSNATIONAL LABOR FORCE”

            “One of the problems is this process has been dominated by corporate special interests and not by the national security interests, by border security interests of the United States.  And I believe that overall that proposals in SPP would actually weaken border security.

            “Let’s look at immigration, labor mobility.  [The] SPP document states temporary work entry – quote, ‘The three countries have forwarded a trilateral document setting out each country’s domestic procedures to modify NAFTA’s temporary appendix of professionals, providing a mechanism for more North American professionals to be given temporary entry.’  Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez said, quote, ‘Work must continue to formalize a transnational labor force that could work in any North American country.’ …”

CONGRESS – NOT THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE – SHOULD SET IMMIGRATION POLICY

            “This is absolutely not a technical issue.  It’s decided in our [C]onstitutional system not by the [S]ecretary of [C]ommerce in consultation with the Chamber of Commerce and foreign governments – by the Congress of the United States of America.  And as we have witnessed recently, in the United States Senate, a bipartisan majority, 37 Republicans, 15 Democrats or so have very different ideas from the Bush administration and from business about what immigration and security policy should and should not consist of. …

            “What we have often in SPP, in North American discussion is an end run around an immigration debate.  Now, there is intellectual framework, and Mr. [Robert] Pastor will be talking about this I’m sure for a North American vision.

            “I want to look briefly at the Council on Foreign Relations’ report.  No, it’s not technically part of SPP, but it’s certainly part of the intellectual framework, part of the vision.  And a lot of the same people are involved.  There [are] two permanent things here that I want to talk about.  One is a trade – the trade tribunal and the other is the promotion of North American identity. …

            “Is that what we really, really want?  In a way, having the world divided into different trading blocks is a negative on free trade to an extent. …” 

CONTROL OF U.S. TRADE BY CONGRESS COULD BE SET ASIDE BY TREATIES U.S. DID NOT RATIFY

            “[T]he Council on Foreign Relations … recommended establishing a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution because the current ad-hoc panels are not capable of building institutional memories or [establishing] precedents.  As demonstrated, quote, ‘by the WTO appeals process, a permanent tribunal would likely encourage, faster, more consistent, more predictable resolution disputes.’  Well, that is exactly the problem.  The structure of the World Trade Organization is different from the GATT, the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs.

            “It’s more transnational and less international.  Cornell University professor Jeremy Rabkin, a lot of you know, writes that the appellate of the World Trade Organization should be taken seriously as a threat to sovereignty … the appellate body, could build a body of case law from the international treaties the United States did not sign, as standards for setting trade disputes.” 

BE WARNED BY EU’S USURPATION OF NATION-STATE DECISION MAKING

            “It’s already building a constituency of transnational actors, not just global [corporations] but [inaudible] – activist NGOs that could in large measure, through courts, bypass the legislative decision-making process of the democratic nation states.  Indeed, this is exactly what happened in the European nation states.  Look at the writing of Alec Sweet Stone, A British expert, generally favorable to the EU, but he describes the history of what happened in Europe over a 20-year period.  The European Court of Justice established a body of independent case law, became the arbiter not just of trade but of social policy, and gradually, step by step, achieved dominance over democratically elected European parliaments.  That is the history of the last 40 years in Europe.” 

CFR PUSHES NORTH AMERICAN vs. NATIONAL IDENTITY

            “The Council of Foreign Relations report, ‘Building American – North American Community’ also recommends building North American identity.  It says, quote, ‘encourage – we should encourage in imaginative ways to build North American connections, have research institutes, engage in new concepts such as the North American community, developing curricula that would permit citizens of our three countries to look at each other in the past in different ways.

            “Now, for those of us who have spent years examining history curricula, the subtext of this is clear enough.  This is historical revisionism.  Let’s rewrite the history of American history not as a story of the American people but as a story of North America.  The Council on Foreign Relations also recommends, quote, ‘developing training programs for elementary and secondary teachers who would give some students a greater sense of North American identity.’

            “Again, these are code words that are clear enough:  translation, promoting new North American identity that will challenge the allegedly outmoded conceptions of American, Canadian, or Mexican identity.” 

CFR WOULD PUSH SPANISH, NOT ENGLISH

            “Another CFR recommendation:  greater effort should be made to recruit Mexican language teachers to teach Spanish in the United States and Canada.  Well, on the contrary, most Americans would like to see greater efforts at assisting immigrants learn English.  The CFR recommendation is in direct conflict with U.S. national interests and our traditional policy of Americanizing newcomers into the mainstream of American civic life by promoting the [use] of the English language.  This is a direct challenge to the goal of assimilation.” 

SPP PUSHES NORTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION BY STEALTH

            “Well, there is a lack of popular support.  The leaders of the SPP project admit such, that their vision of North America doesn’t quite have the popular support now.  Notes from the Banff meeting (of the North American Forum) state the following:  quote, ‘Most people are not compelled – they don’t find the North American integration vision compelling, so there is a need to demonstrate the concept’s success.’  Another SPP document [declares], while a vision of an integrated North America is appealing, working on the infrastructure might yield more benefit and bring more people on board:  evolution by stealth, evolution by stealth indeed.” 

ENACTING SPP’S ELITIST AGENDA AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE

            “One could ask why government funds are used for propaganda purposes to promote North American integration, which is simply one vision of North America.  [There] are others, and this is a particular partisan vision – it’s a particular, let’s say, elite vision.  There is no wonder that many members of Congress and the general public are suspicious of the project.”  Source: Transcript of conference, 8/13/07

SPP BEGAN WITH NAFTA 

            “The study, Negotiating North America:  The Security and Prosperity Partnership, by Hudson [Institute] Senior Fellow Christopher Sands and University of Alberta Professor Greg Anderson traces the SPP back to its origins in NAFTA and the US-Canada and US-Mexico Smart Border Accords that were adopted after September 11, 2001. …”

EXCLUSION OF CONGRESS IS AN INTRINSIC FLAW

“The exclusion of the US Congress from an active role in the SPP is legally defensible, but politically poisonous for the SPP.  Congress must be brought into the SPP process, although it may now be too late to do so, forcing the leaders to launch a new process.” 

DEMAND THAT SECRECY BE ENDED IS REASONABLE

            “Special interests demands for greater SPP transparency are reasonable, and should be met.  The North American Competitiveness Council established at the Cancun summit was a good step, but the SPP must be opened up to NGOs and citizen groups as well.”  Source:  Christopher Sands, Hudson Institute Press Release, 8/17/07 

RED CHINA WILL CONTROL MONITORING OF NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY 

            “Radio sensing stations to track traffic and cargo up and down the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway corridor are being installed by Communist China, operating through a port operator subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc.

            “The idea is that RFID chips placed in containers where manufactured goods are shipped from China will be able to be tracked to the Mexican ports on the Pacific where the containers are unloaded onto Mexican trucks and trains for transportation on the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway to destinations within the United States.

            “NASCO, a trade association based in Dallas, Texas, has teamed with Lockheed Martin to use RFID tracking technology Lockheed Martin developed for the U.S. Department of Defense’s projects in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as at U.S. military stations throughout the world.” 

TROJAN HORSE REPLACES THE MONROE DOCTRINE

            “China has a central position in applying the RFID technology on I-35, given [Hutchison] Port Holdings’ 49 percent ownership of Savi Networks, the Lockheed Martin subsidiary that will get the job of placing the sensors all up and down the NAFTA Superhighway.

            “Nathan Hansen, a Minnesota attorney, has archived on his blog a series of NASCO documents obtained under a Minnesota Data Practices Act.

            “Among these documents released by Hansen is a Letter of Intent between NASCO and Savi Networks which details how NASCO and Lockheed Martin intend to implement NAFTRACS.

            “The letter calls for Savi Networks to establish RFID sensors along the I-35 NAFTA trade corridor, with tracking designed to begin at Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas, and include ‘inland points of data capture’ positioned at Laredo, San Antonio, Dallas, Kansas City, the Ambassador Bridge, and Winnipeg.

            “Data captured by the RFID sensors would be sent to a data collection center that NASCO has named ‘The Center of Excellence.’

            “The Center of Excellence data collection center will be integrated into Lockheed Martin’s militarized Global Transport Network Command and Control Center that is installed and operating at the Lockheed Martin Center for Innovation or ‘Lighthouse’ facility in Suffolk, Virginia. …

            “A contract signed with NASCO authorizes Savi Networks to place a system of RFID sensors along the entire length of I-35 to track RFID equipped containers which travel the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway, including those Chinese containers that enter the continent through the Mexican ports of Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas. …”

HUTCHISON WHAMPOA EXPANDS RED CHINA’S INFLUENCE

            “Hutchison Ports Holding operates the ports at Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas, as well as both ends of the Panama Canal.”  Source:  Jerome Corsi, www.WorldNetDaily.com, 8/18/07

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #813, August 31, 2007

RON PAUL FORTHRIGHTLY CRITIQUES BUSH PUSH FOR NAU 

HUMAN EVENTS:  “You mentioned the so-called ‘North American Union.’  What comprises that, who’s behind it and why do you even think it’s even real?

CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL:  “I think it’s very, very clear.  The government has their own website – the Security and Prosperity Partnership that came out of NAFTA.  There have been agreements signed.  Congress is totally ignorant of the whole thing, although there are funds to study the production of the NAFTA Superhighway.  They’re talking about the ‘Amero’ as a currency.  It’s exactly what happened in the early stages of the European Union. 

HE:  “You believe there is some movement afoot within our government to join us with Canada and Mexico to join us into one country?”

PAUL:  “Ultimately.” 

HE:  “Who’s behind that?”

PAUL:  “Those people who are really in charge of our government.” 

HE:  “Is the President behind this?”

PAUL:  “He is certainly in support of it.  That’s why he doesn’t support us on immigration.  Because he really doesn’t care about the borders, he cares about this union.  Some people theorize that the United Nations is a move towards one world government.  Well, we don’t have one world government, but we ought to be concerned about it.  Whether it’s the UN, the WTO, the IMF or the World Bank, more and more power gravitates to these organizations.  Just as NAFTA does.”  Source:  Human Events, 8/13/07, p. 18

CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL BACKS TCC’S Coalition to Block the North American Union 

            “I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute a statement to this important event, and I applaud [T]he Conservative Caucus and my friend Howard Phillips for their hard work in the cause of freedom and US sovereignty.

            “As we all know, the Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America (SPP) was signed by the leaders of the US, Canada, and Mexico in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.  The agreement set the United States on a course to surrender even more of its sovereignty and security in a scheme that will ultimately erase the borders between the US, Canada, and Mexico.

            “What is most troubling about the SPP is that because it is neither a treaty nor a formal agreement Congressional oversight has been virtually non-existent.  Congress has had no role in what many see as a plan for a North American union.  Nor, to its discredit, has it demanded one.”

NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY IS A REALITY

            “The chief project thus far of the SPP is the so-called ‘NAFTA Superhighway’ which would connect Mexico, the United States, and Canada, cutting a wide swath through the middle of Texas and up through Kansas City.  Offshoots would connect the main artery to the west coast, Florida, and the northeast.  Millions would be displaced by this massive undertaking, which would require eminent domain actions on an unprecedented scale.  Though the costs of this undertaking will be socialized, the profits will no doubt be privatized, as a Spanish construction company, it is said, plans to build the highway and operate it as a toll road.”

SUPRA-NATIONAL OVERSIGHT INSTITUTIONS ARE OPENLY PLANNED

            “The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union – complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union.  According to the US-government run SPP website, this Partnership will create new supra-national organizations to ‘coordinate’ border security, health policy, economic and trade policy, and energy policy between the governments of Mexico, Canada, and the United States.  It sounds like a recipe for trans-national socialism and the further destruction of the US economy.  Terrorists surely dream of a borderless North America, where they can move from country to country unmolested.”

VIRGIL GOODE’S HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 40 MERITS SUPPORT

“Congress has thus far ignored its responsibility to exercise Constitutional authority in this matter, as it unfortunately has shirked its responsibilities in so many other matters.  Fortunately, Congressman Virgil Goode (R-VA) has introduced a resolution, H. Con. Res. 40, to remedy this problem.  This resolution, of which I am an original co-sponsor, urges the United States not to engage in the construction of the NAFTA Superhighway System, disapproves of SPP plans to implement regulations that would create a North American Union with Mexico and Canada, calls on the President to oppose any such proposals that threaten U.S. sovereignty.  We must demand that American sovereignty be protected!”  Source:  Statement of Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. (R-Tex.), for presentation at August 20, 2007 TCC-hosted Coalition to Block the North American Union press conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

PRESIDENT BUSH:  TEAR DOWN THE WALL OF SECRECY 

            In my August 20 remarks as Chairman of the Coalition to Block the North American Union, I had this to say at a well covered news conference at the Marriott Ottawa hotel:  “Recently, the supposed fiftieth anniversary of the European Union (EU) was celebrated.  But 50 years ago there was no European Union.  The EU was launched with the formation of the European Iron and Coal Community.  Culminating step-by-step in the Maastricht Treaty, approved in 1993, the European Union came into being.

“That Union has now, with capitals in Strasbourg, Luxembourg, and Brussels, achieved significant dominance – judicially and legislatively – over what was once the authority of the national governments now part of the European Union.

“In 1993, I led a delegation of some two dozen Americans to visit eight of the countries which were considering approval of the Maastricht Treaty.   During our visit to Luxembourg, that country’s Foreign Minister addressed us, unaware of our skepticism concerning the Maastricht agreement.  He confided to us that, if the people of his country had any idea of what was planned for them, they would rise up in protest.  But the plans of the governing elites were kept secret from the people and, incrementally, those New World Order elites achieved their goal of a European Union.

“In similar fashion, behind closed doors, step-by-step, the leaders of Mexico, Canada, and the United States are setting the stage for, first, a North American Community and, ultimately, a North American Union (NAU), in which new transnational bodies would gain authority over our economy, our judiciary, and our lawmaking institutions.” 

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND A NORTH AMERICAN BOUNDARY PERIMETER

“Advocates of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) acknowledge that economic integration is their objective, and that they favor the eventual establishment of a border around the perimeters of Canada and Mexico, with no border control separating the United States and Mexico, or the United States and Canada.

“In Europe today, citizens of the 27 constituent states of the European Union can travel virtually at will from country to country.  Border control has been surrendered.  Each person who enters one EU country is free to travel through any and all of the others with virtually no restrictions.

“That is what the elites of the United States, Canada, and Mexico have in mind for us.  That helps explain why the Montebello meeting is being held behind closed doors, with little access to SPP deliberations by the general public or even by the media and elected politicians from the three countries.

“That is why the Coalition to Block the North American Union of which I am Chairman is conducting this news conference.  Our message to Messrs. Bush, Harper, and Calderon is similar to the one which Ronald Reagan delivered to Mikhail Gorbachev when he said ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall.’

“Our message is ‘President Bush, President Calderon, Prime Minister Harper, tear down the wall of silence and let the people see what you are scheming to do.’ ”  Source:  Statement of Howard Phillips, at August 20, 2007 Coalition to Block the North American Union press conference he hosted in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

MONTEBELLO SPP CONFERENCE MOVES BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TO INCREMENTALLY INTEGRATE U.S., CANADA, AND MEXICO IN A NORTH AMERICAN UNION – WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION OR OVERSIGHT BY U.S. CONGRESS 

            From 8:30 A.M. until 12:30 P.M. on August 13, I participated in a Washington, D.C. conference sponsored by the Hudson Institute concerning “The Montebello Summit and the Future of North America”.

The conference dealt with the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the North American Union (NAU).  The only speaker who made the case against the integration of North America (undermining the status of America as an independent Constitutional republic) was Dr. John Fonte.  Other speakers included Dr. Barbara Kotschwar of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Dr. Robert Pastor of American University, Daniel Schwanen of the Centre for International Governance and Innovation, Sidney Weintraub of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jaime Daremblum of the Hudson Institute (HI), former Democrat Congressman James R. Jones, Greg Anderson of the University of Alberta, Christopher Sands of the HI, and Ken Weinstein of the HI. 

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IS A KEY GOAL

In a paper entitled “Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership”, Professor Anderson and Mr. Sands made some of the following points: “The SPP process is the vehicle for the discussion of future arrangements for economic integration to create a single market for goods and services in North America….  The design of the SPP is innovative, eschewing the more traditional diplomatic and trade negotiation models in favor of talks among civil service professionals and subject matter experts within each government.  This design places the negotiation fully within the authority of the executive branch in the United States….” 

DECISION-MAKING BY TECHNOCRATS UNDERCUTS CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY

“The SPP is the successor to two previous efforts that had stalled or expired prior to 2005.  First, a set of trilateral working groups established in the NAFTA to look at harmonizing standards and eliminating differences in regulation….  The design of the SPP is creative in handling asymmetry by attempting a less political, technocratic negotiation process; however, this has raised issues of transparency and accountability that threaten the future of the SPP process”. 

SECRECY IS DESIGNED TO EXCLUDE POPULAR OPPOSITION

The authors acknowledge that “the process must be made more transparent to answer legitimate citizen concerns about potential outcomes.”  They go on to admit that “The design of the SPP is flawed by the exclusion of Congress from the process.” 

“POLITICIZATION” IS GOOD – CONTROL BY UNACCOUNTABLE BUREAUCRATS IS BAD

The authors oppose politicization (which is another word for accountability to American citizens) saying “The design of the SPP made it difficult to include special interest input without politicizing the negotiations.  … the inclusion of some interest groups and not others resulted in a further erosion of confidence in the SPP process.” 

MANIPULATION OF CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE IS THE SPP STRATEGY

The authors observed that “The United States [i.e. George W. Bush] faces three important challenges in designing and conducting negotiations under the SPP:  managing the asymmetry with smaller neighbors; managing Congress, which has a constitutional role on trade and must be persuaded to fund security measures; and the [sic] managing the pressures from special interests….” 

U.S. SURRENDERS ITS ADVANTAGES

According to the authors, in order to persuade Canada and Mexico to fully cooperate with the Bush administration, it is important for the U.S. to be “structuring negotiations in such a way that the U.S. advantages are minimized, treating negotiators for Canada and Mexico as equals and partners and avoiding any explicit resort to its advantages of size. … The United States has tried to overcome the defensive instincts of its neighbors by structuring negotiations in such a way that the U.S. advantages are minimized….  Incentives for cooperation rise in the presence of expectations about benefits from future cooperation.”  The authors also admit that “In the context of North America, and of deepening continental integration, the management of Congressional relations presents significant challenges for U.S. negotiators….”

AN INCREMENTAL MARCH TO THE NAU

Just as today’s European Union began 50 years ago with the creation of the European Iron and Coal Community, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement negotiations in the 1980s were a first step on the path toward a North American Union (NAU).  These were preceded by the Trade Act of 1974, which created the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

It is pointed out in the paper that “Perhaps the most important feature of the SPP design is that it is neither intended to produce a treaty nor an executive agreement like the NAFTA that would require congressional ratification or the passage of implementing legislation in the United States.”

CONGRESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT COULD UNDERCUT CONTROL BY THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH

“The SPP was designed to function within existing administrative authority of the executive branch.  Rules and standards could be set, law enforcement and national security prerogatives pursued, all within the broad parameters of constitutional authority or prior congressional authorization. … With presidential and cabinet-level political support, the dozens of objectives outlined under each of the 20 SPP working groups would proceed on the basis of trilateral consultation at the staff-level within respective government agencies already responsible for those policy areas.

“Shifting the substantive work of the SPP to the staff level, much as the NAFTA working groups had done, would ostensibly depoliticize the policy work being done by leaving it in the hands of technical experts.  Technocratic negotiations would reduce the power-politics dimension of the talks….”

It is asserted that “while shifting responsibility for agenda items to the staff-level could potentially de-politicize work on small issues, it also effectively removed it from the kind of public accountability normally associated with U.S. trade negotiations.”

It is also observed in the paper that “Another intervening factor that altered perceptions of the SPP between Waco and Cancún came in May of 2005 when the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States released its Independent Task Force Report No. 53, Building a North American Community.”  This report “recommended the establishment of a customs union and common security perimeter by 2010.”

The authors point out that “The U.S. Congress has no formal role in the SPP.  As criticism of the lack of transparency and public accountability of the SPP negotiations has grown, congressional interest and concern about the SPP has also grown.  There is now a handful of Members of Congress (concentrated, for now, in the House of Representatives) publicly opposed to proceeding with the SPP, and determined to convene investigations and oversight into the content of the talks.  Congressional hostility represents the biggest threat to the continuation of the SPP after Montebello, and after the end of the Bush administration….”

CONGRESSMAN WALTER JONES VOICES CONCERN OVER “PARTNERSHIP” WITH CANADA AND MEXICO; OPPOSES NORTH AMERICAN UNION

            “Congressman Walter B. Jones (R-NC) today expressed concern over the implications of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) on border security, American jobs and our nation’s sovereignty as President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon convene this week’s North American Leaders’ Summit in Montebello, Canada.

            “ ‘My Eastern North Carolina constituents are troubled by our weakly defended borders, our exploding trade deficit and the erosion of our national sovereignty,’ Congressman Jones said.  ‘As a result, many of them have expressed their concerns about our nation’s leadership role in the SPP.’ ” 

WHITE HOUSE IS ON THE RECORD RE NAU GOALS

            “The SPP is a trilateral partnership between the U.S., Mexico and Canada established in March 2005.  According to a White House document posted on the SPP’s website (www.spp.gov), the Bush administration and that of former Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minster Harper formed the SPP to, among other things, ‘facilitate further the movement of … persons within North America’ and to ‘maximize trade … across our borders by striving to ensure compatibility of regulations and standards and eliminating redundant testing and certification requirements.’  The document also announces that a series of trilateral working groups are convening to harmonize many of America’s regulations with those of Mexico and Canada.” 

BUSH TACTICS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

            “ ‘My constituents and I are extremely concerned about this “partnership” for many reasons,’ Jones continued.  ‘Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly states that Congress – not the executive branch – has the power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations.”  Also, many SPP working group meetings are held in secret, and the public, the press and members of Congress have no opportunity to participate or conduct oversight.’ ”

NAFTA IS A CONTINUING DISASTER

            “ ‘Since NAFTA was approved, the United States has lost 3.1 million manufacturing jobs.  More than 10 thousand illegal aliens now stream across our southern border every week.  The U.S. does not need its government equalizing standards and regulations that will result in more American jobs going to Mexico and more illegal aliens coming to America,’ Jones said.  ‘The SPP also appears to cast aside America’s sovereignty and takes another step towards combining the United States, Mexico and Canada into a single EU-style North American super state.’

            “ ‘While the American people and Congress understand the importance of promoting good relations with our neighbors, these concerns will only intensify if pursuit of the SPP continues out of public view and without congressional oversight or approval,’ Jones concluded.

            “Congressman Jones is an original cosponsor of H. Con. Res. 40, a resolution which states that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada.”  Source:  From Washington, D.C., August 20, 2007 Press Release issued by the office of Congressman Walter Jones (R-N.C.). 

PAT BOONE ADDS HIS VOICE 

“When patriot Nathan Hale proclaimed, as he was about to be executed by the British, ‘I regret that I have but one life to give for my country’ – he wasn't referring to Mexico.  He certainly wasn’t referring to Canada.

“No, he was willing and ready to die for the dream called America, under a declaration of independence from the purposes and perversions of other nations.  And like that hero, hundreds of thousands of other Americans have given their lives to preserve that dream, that vision of liberty, equality and independence.

            “Although we as a people have always rushed to help our neighbors in their times of trouble, and even sent our young men and women to help those who had been our enemies – our motivation, our character, our very DNA, has been our independence.  We’ve stayed fiercely free to make our own judgments, our own policies, our own determinations about what’s needful for America – and what we should and shouldn’t do about the concerns of others.

            “And now we’re faced – threatened – with the prospect of being lumped in with other countries and all their problems, their different motivations and philosophies, their corruptions and controversies, and with the attendant necessity to dilute or outright surrender our own best interests.  And the most horrible aspect of this appears to be the willing compliance of our elected leaders, all of whom have sworn to defend our interests, not dissolve them.”

CONGRESSIONAL DELIBERATIONS HAVE NOT OCCURRED

            “No matter the motivation or good intentions of these public servants, our Constitution demands that Congress be consulted to ‘advise and consent’.  As far as any of us can tell, this hasn’t been done, tho the plans for a North American Union are well under way.” 

WE THE PEOPLE MUST ACT

            “Friends, we are the militia of today, the citizen soldiers who must pick up our Media Muskets, and come to the aid of our country.  We wish our neighbors no harm, but their problems are for them to solve, as ours are for us.  And that’s the way it should be.

            “May we be emulators of Nathan Hale, but hopefully having to say only ‘We regret that we have only one life to live ..for our country’.”  Source:  Statement by Pat Boone on August 20, 2007 for the Coalition to Block the North American Union, released in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 

BUSH PLANS TO SEND MORE BILLIONS TO MEXICO 

            “Mexico and the United States are holding intensive talks to develop a plan for the United States to provide billions of dollars to Mexico to support its fight against drug cartels, but the negotiations are not likely to produce an agreement before next week’s trilateral meeting with Canada, officials from both countries said.

            “Both sides are trying to keep the details of the talks secret, but officials with knowledge of the issue said the aid would include money and training for the Mexican police, as well as advanced eavesdropping, surveillance and other spying technology.”  Source:  James McKinley, The New York Times, 8/14/07, p. A3 

BUSH IS OUT OF CONTROL 

            “Since 9/11, George W. Bush has been trampling all over the Constitution.  Unfazed by public opinion, the law or Congress, Bush seems to think he can get away with anything.” 

JULY EXECUTIVE ORDER IS A BRAZEN POWER GRAB

            “His most recent attempt (that we know of, at least) to expand his powers beyond all legal justification came in July 2007.  Falling conveniently under the rubric of national security, Bush issued an executive order which authorizes the government to freeze the financial assets of anyone who directly or indirectly aids someone who has committed or ‘poses a significant risk of committing’ violent acts ‘threatening the peace or stability of Iraq.’

            “Yet as Walter Pincus pointed out in the Washington Post, the text of the order, entitled ‘Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq,’ if interpreted broadly, ‘could cast a far bigger net to include not just those who commit violent acts or pose the risk of doing so in Iraq but also third parties – such as U.S. citizens in this country – who knowingly or unknowingly aid or encourage such people.’  In fact, the language is so broad that ordinary Americans who oppose the Iraq war could find their names on the list of persons who are perceived to be undermining ‘efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform’ in Iraq.  With public support for the war in Iraq plummeting, this could mean almost anyone.”

POSSE COMITATUS OVERTURNED

            “This executive order is just the latest example of Bush’s surreptitious attempts through various presidential directives, executive orders and stealth provisions to lay claim to a host of unprecedented powers.  For example, last fall, the Bush Administration engineered into a mammoth defense budget bill the insertion of two stealth provisions that authorize the president to use the military as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, disease outbreak, terrorist attack or any ‘other condition.’  And another ‘presidential directive’ issued in May 2007 allows Bush to assume control of the federal government following a ‘catastrophic event’ such as an earthquake, hurricane or another 9/11.”

CONGRESS COWERS

            “Undaunted by plummeting approval ratings, George Bush just keeps moving forward.  And our paper tiger Congress isn’t helping matters much, either.  As Jonathan Alter noted in Newsweek, right before leaving for their summer recess, Congress ‘sold out the Constitution to cover their political rears while keeping the rest of us mostly in the dark.’  Giving in to pressure from the White House, Congress passed the Protect America Act of 2007 (the title alone should be a warning that illicit motives are at work), which authorizes open-ended surveillance of Americans’ overseas phone calls and e-mails without the need for a warrant or security justification. …

            “Congress, with little spine, less integrity and too busy running for re-election, offers little attempt at oversight, enabling the president to ride roughshod over the Constitution.  And the media – the perfect accomplice in this stealthy, bloodless coup – content to inundate us with the latest celebrity scandal, says virtually nothing about Bush’s burgeoning powers.”

“WE THE SHEEPLE” SLEEP IN IGNORANCE AND INDIFFERENCE

            “All the while, most Americans continue to operate in blissful near-ignorance, unaware or uncaring that the republic is about to fall.  Yet, in the end, ‘we the people’ – not the president or the politicians – are the ones who will suffer the consequences.  They may justify violating our freedoms in the name of national security and the war against terrorism, but we will always be the ones to pay the price.

            “Let us not forget that presidents don’t give up power.  Furthermore, what George Bush is currently doing is preparing a toolbox of power for the next president, whomever that might be.  And the Constitution be damned.”  Source:  John Whitehead (founder and president of The Rutherford Institute), www.LewRockwell.com, 8/16/07 

ELITES WANT TO SUBORDINATE NATION-STATES TO A SUPERSTATE

            “… sovereignty is endangered by those who believe the world of nation-states is too disorderly for efficient global commerce and the peaceable resolution of disputes. … They prefer supranational arrangements like the European Union run by wholly unaccountable bureaucrats.”

JUDICIAL WATCH USES FOIA TO EXPOSE SPP USURPATIONS

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #813, August 15, 2007

AS CHAIRMAN OF COALITION TO BLOCK THE NAU, I PLAN TO CHALLENGE SPP IN CANADA ON AUGUST 20 

“Activists already are preparing to protest the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a trilateral initiative between the U.S., Canada and Mexico seen by critics as a major step toward a North American Union, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi, author of a new book on the subject, ‘The Late Great USA.’ ” 

SPP’S THIRD ROUND:  SUNRISE IN MONTEBELLO

“The meeting, which has received almost no mention in the U.S. mainstream media, is scheduled for Aug. 20 and 21 in Montebello, Quebec, at the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort.  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scheduled to host the Quebec summit, which will be attended by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and President Bush.

“Harper said in a statement announcing the SPP summit, ‘We share a continent with the United States and Mexico, and our people, our economies and our security are closely interconnected.’

“The first SPP summit was held in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.  The second … was held in Cancun, Mexico, in March 2006.” 

CANADIAN FOES OF SPP/NAU WILL ALSO BE THERE

“Canadian groups that say they oppose the SPP agenda of North American ‘deep integration’ are organizing to protest the meeting.

“The Council of Canadians held a March 30-April 1 ‘teach in’ titled ‘Integrate This! Challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.’  A brochure on the Council of Canadians website says SPP ‘is moving Canada quickly toward a continental resource pact, a North American security perimeter and harmonized military and security policies.’ ” 

HUSH!  THE PEOPLE MAY BE WATCHING

“The brochure argues SPP working groups ‘composed of bureaucrats and corporate leaders are quietly putting this “partnership” into action, and to date only industry “stakeholders” have been consulted.’

“WND reported the Canadian Action Party flew the Canadian flag upside down during its 2006 convention as a sign of distress and resistance of any integration into a North American regional government.”

CSIS PROTESTED

“WND also reported Canadian activists have protested ‘The North American Future 2025 Project’ undertaken by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank that plans to present its research results to the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament before the end of the year.

“Canadian activists have argued a major goal of the CSIS study is to identify Canadian oil and fresh water as continental ‘North American natural resources’ which, under SPP, could be diverted to U.S. cities without fair compensation to Canada.”  Source:  www.WorldNetDaily.com, 6/20/07 

SPP STRIVES TO BE NORTH AMERICA’S EU 

            “As officially characterized, the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) purports to advance ‘regional cooperation’ toward the three NAFTA partners’ common interests.  Primarily, this involves trade and commerce, including both goods and services.  However, in addition to the free flow of goods, SPP involves the free flow of people within the three nations’ external borders.  SPP also incorporates security and antiterrorism cooperation and integration. …

            “[M]any view the overarching, ultimate goal of SPP to be near-complete economic integration, similar to the European Common Market, the European Community, or the European Union models.  Concerns have been raised about SPP’s implications for continued U.S. sovereignty over such critical policy areas as immigration and homeland security. …

            “SPP represents the U.S., Canadian, and Mexican governments’ efforts at regulatory and other ‘harmonization’ among the three SPP partner nations.  These initiatives relate to such wide-ranging policies as trade, transportation, immigration, national security, law enforcement, and energy.  SPP is said to be the further implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.” 

CROSS BORDER MIGRATION IS A TOP GOAL

            “The March 23, 2005, joint statement of Presidents Bush and Fox and Prime Minister Martin indicated the SPP’s intent of liberalization in areas related to immigration.  The statement said, in part, that the ‘trilateral effort’ would ‘help consolidate our action into a North American framework’ to ‘[i]mplement common border security and bioprotection strategies[,] … a border facilitation strategy to build capacity and improve the legitimate flow of people and cargo at our shared borders[, and] … [r]educe the costs of trade through the efficient movement of goods and people.’ …” 

TRANSNATIONAL LABOR FORCE WOULD SERVE CORPORATE INTERESTS

            “A March 15, 2006, Washington, D.C., meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, providing the priorities of corporate interests for SPP, included, ‘Work must continue to formalize a transnational labor force that could work in any North American country on a temporary basis.’  In other words, the ‘guestworker’ concept would become more prevalent and possibly further undercut the wages and job security of American, Canadian, and Mexican natives. …” 

“NORTH AMERICA’S” INTERESTS TAKE PRIORITY

            “The trilateral ‘North American Forum,’ jointly chaired by former high officials from Mexico, Canada, and Reagan’s Secretary of State George Shultz, met in Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 12-14, 2006.  Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and U.S. Northern Command head Timothy Keating numbered among attendees, along with other government officials and corporate elites.

            “Conference notes (again disclosed under FOIA compliance forced by Judicial Watch) show that attendees considered the Mexican view advocating a change to where the three North American nations ‘are focused on the best interests of North America’ – not national interest.  The direction of Mexico’s influence over SPP was clear:  ‘Troops on [the] border send an enormously powerful negative message;’ ‘North America needs to be more competitive and yet security goals seem to interfere with this outcome[;] [c]losing borders with troops seems to be counter to a continental vision.’ …” 

EVOLUTION BY STEALTH IS THE STRATEGY

            “The use of a phrase like ‘evolution by stealth’ to describe the modus operandi for achieving any public policy change – particularly something as fundamental and sweeping as the SPP or a North American Union – is disturbing in the extreme.  To close observers, that troubling approach is all too familiar.

            “In the 1970s, globalist thinker Richard N. Gardner laid out an approach to eroding national sovereignty, one pursued by elites ever since. … Gardner characterized this, interestingly, as ‘an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece’ to ‘accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault’ of constructing U.N.-style, omnibus mechanisms. …” 

PRO-NAU ELITES WORK TO UNDERMINE GOVERNMENT “OF THE PEOPLE”

            “National security expert Frank Gaffney has noted the ultimate effects of an SPP regime that supersedes national sovereignty:

“Such rules are intended to govern trinational trade, transportation, immigration, social security, education and virtually every other aspect of life in North America.  There are new institutions being proposed, too, such as a North American Tribunal with authority to trump rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court. …

“Consider this fact:  By some estimates, as much as 85 percent of the rules, regulations and laws that govern everyday life in the U.K. have never been considered, let alone enacted, by the British Parliament.  Instead, they have been handed down as edicts by the unelected, unaccountable Transies who run the European Union from Brussels.” 

EU DEMONSTRATES ELITES’ POWER-GRAB STRATEGY

            “In fact, the 50^th anniversary of the European Union shows what could well be in store for Americans should the U.S. government continue to force the SPP and mass amnesty-guestworker legislation.  The EU began as a six-nation Common Market under the Treaty of Rome.  It evolved through stages, such as a European Economic Community, into the 27-nation European Union, complete with a common currency, the Euro.  This despite popular opposition at every step.  FT/Harris polls cited by the Christian Science Monitor found 44 percent of citizens in the EU’s five largest states believe their country has not improved by joining the union.  Critics cite too-quick expansion of the EU, lack of public input, and that ‘bureaucrats at EU headquarters in Brussels had become answerable to no one as they issued more and more regulations governing everyday life, from cheese production to environmental protection.’ …” 

AMERICA WOULD BE ABOLISHED

            “[T]he initiation of any tribunal that gives Canada and Mexico the ability to outvote America could lead only one direction.  That direction is the further diminution of American sovereignty, and with it the unfavorable position in politicized rulings, loss of control over immigration and border security, the redistribution of American wealth, the undermining and erosion of the American standard of living, and the eventual loss of American exceptionalism to a blended North American ‘culture’ that forsakes many aspects of American life taken for granted today.”  Source:  Dr. James Edwards, The Security and Prosperity Partnership: Its Immigration Implications, Center for Immigration Studies, June 2007 

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #813, May 15, 2007

POWERFUL CSIS PUSHES NAU 

            “As Washington think tanks go, there is probably none so high-powered, so connected to the international corporate and government elites as K-Street’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), whose board of directors is headed by former Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn. …

            “The CSIS board members include former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage, former Defense Secretaries William Cohen and James R. Schlesinger, the top executives from Exxon-Mobile and Time magazine and financier Felix Rohatyn, among a host of other CEOs in the world of high finance, defense, and energy. …

            “[W]hen CSIS reports that it has convened a number of working groups to study all the issues related – in contemporary parlance – to disappearing the borders that separate the United States from Canada and Mexico, and will submit to the legislatures of the three countries its proposals to join the three countries into one political, economic, and security bloc this September, one should salute their respective countries goodbye.” 

IS “NORTH AMERICA” TO REPLACE OUR AMERICAN REPUBLIC?

            “CSIS’s ‘North American Future 2025 Project’ was headed up by Mexican staff member Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup, who released a report in late April detailing the work of the study group and its proposals to create a highly bureaucratic European Union-style North America super-state that would be able to compete economically and militarily with India and China for control over trade and resources.

            “In the ‘summary,’ Peschard-Sverdrup informs the backers of the North American Union project that:  ‘The results of the study will enable policymakers to make sound, strategic, long-range policy decisions about North America, with an emphasis on regional integration.’ ” 

“INTEGRATION” OF U.S., MEXICO, AND CANADA IS THEIR GOAL

            “ ‘Specifically, the project will focus on a detailed examination of future scenarios, which are based on current trends, and involve six areas of critical importance to the trilateral relationship:  labor mobility, energy, the environment, security, competitiveness, and border infrastructure and logistics.’ …

            “ ‘In order to strengthen the capacity of Canadian, U.S., and Mexican administration officials and that of their respective legislatures to analyze, comprehend, and anticipate North American integration, the CSIS North America Project proposes to carry out a series of seven closed-door roundtable sessions. …” 

U.S. CONGRESS TO BE PUT ON NOTICE THIS SEPTEMBER

            “ ‘The final deliverable will be a report on options and policy recommendations on the future of North American integration that will be presented in September 2007 to the executive and legislative branches of the three governments of North America.  The report will be produced in the three official languages – English, Spanish, and French – as part of an effective dissemination strategy aimed at maximizing the policy impact of the report.’

            “Among the various discussion groups assembled at various ‘roundtables,’ one includes government officials from Mexico, the United States, and Canada who will examine ‘where North America and other global regions currently stand in key sectors, such as trade, demographics, infrastructure, natural resources (that is, energy and water), and science and technology.’ ” 

LIBERALIZATION OF TRADE AND IMMIGRATION IS PLANNED

            “Another ‘roundtable’ will study, and project from, trends on ‘the liberalization of trade and investment’ and the ‘international migration of labor.’

            “ ‘Such changes in the global economy,’ the report states, ‘have led to the creation of a new international division of labor – the shifting labor markets that arise from changing the geographic specialization of global production patterns.  Production now transcends national borders and is facilitated by advances in technology and communications as well as increased financial deregulation.  The changing global production system and the increasing demand for a mobile labor supply will inherently affect domestic and international labor markets and wages into the year 2025….

            “ ‘The free flow of people across national borders will undoubtedly continue throughout the world as well as in North America, as will the social, political, and economic challenges that accompany this trend.  In order to remain competitive in the global economy, it is imperative for the 21^st-century North American labor market to possess the flexibility necessary to meet industrial labor demands on a transitional basis and in a way that responds to market forces.  This demand will prompt policymakers to think creatively about prospective policy options.’ …” 

A SINGLE “SUPERSTATE” IS PLANNED

            “ ‘The three nations will have to overcome the bureaucratic challenges posed by their different political systems and legal regimes, particularly if the overriding future goal of North America is to achieve joint optimum utilization of the available water and to implement procedures that will help avoid or resolve differences over water in the face of ever-increasing pressures over this priceless resource.’ …

            “CSIS is fully capable of handling the transition of the three countries into one superstate, the document concludes, because it has been working on the full integration of the three countries since 1985.”  Source:  Paul Likoudis, The Wanderer, 5/10/07, pp. 1, 8

BUSH IMMIGRATION PROPOSAL WOULD GIVE STATUTORY AUTHORITY TO NAU

             “Rep. Edward Royce, a high-ranking conservative California Republican, said over the weekend that a White House-backed amnesty plan for illegal aliens has provisions which undermine the national sovereignty of the U.S. and help facilitate development of a North American Union, much like the European Union that supersedes the sovereignty of 27 European countries. …”

BUSH WOULD PROVIDE CAPTURED ILLEGALS WITH SPECIAL PRIVILEGES

 “Speaking to the California Republican Assembly (CRA) on April 21, Royce, the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, warned the audience that the Bush Administration is failing to protect U.S. borders not only from entry by illegal aliens but from potential terrorists.  He disclosed that Bush has complained to congressional Republicans that some of his friends are not happy with the building of a border fence between the U.S. and Mexico.  But the building of such a barrier is the law, Royce emphasized.

“Delivering a wide-ranging attack on the Bush-backed amnesty scheme, Royce said that one of the laughable ‘enforcement’ provisions of the bill requires that illegal aliens caught in the U.S. be provided with individual and group counseling, recreational programs, special religious services, private toilet and shower facilities, and clothes that are not ‘prison-style uniforms or jumpsuits.’ ”

VIA BUSH PLAN, $30 BILLION ANNUAL PRICE TAG ON SOCIAL SECURITY FOR ILLEGALS

 “Under the bill, he continued, amnesty recipients will receive Social Security benefits for their illegal work, costing billions of dollars and draining more money from the Social Security Trust Fund.  And once they become citizens and qualify for welfare, Royce said the additional cost to American taxpayers will be $30 billion per year.  He said the bill even allows U.S. companies under certain conditions to fire American workers and hire foreigners.”

 FLAKE, GUTIERREZ SCHEME FACILITATES NEW GOV’T OF NORTH AMERICA (NAU)

 “Reading from a congressional analysis of the bill, H.R. 1645, which is co-sponsored by Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, a Democrat, and Rep. Jeff Flake, a Republican, Royce said not only does it propose ‘mass amnesty’ for illegals but sets out an ‘immigration security strategy for North America’ and ‘a common security perimeter’ for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.  Such terms suggest creation of a North American Union.

“The bill, formally titled, ‘Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007,’ is considered the House version of the Sen. Ted Kennedy amnesty bill in the Senate.  Its amnesty provision is being euphemistically labeled a ‘pathway to citizenship’ for most of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.

“Royce called attention to Section 113 of the bill, ‘Reports on Improving the Exchange of Information on North American Security,’ which also says the three countries should develop ‘common’ biometric identification and security documents.”  Source:  Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media (www.aim.org), 4/23/07

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY IS EFFECTIVELY MOBILIZING STATE LEGISLATORS AGAINST THE NAU

             “17 state legislatures are working on resolutions to oppose formation of the North American Union.  Despite official denials from President Bush, members of Congress, and many administration officials, more and more individual state legislatures are taking no chances, and taking action.

            “Most of the resolutions are worded to cover all potential bases by opposing the North American Union, the Security & Prosperity Partnership, construction of NAFTA Superhighways, and the idea of a new continental currency known as the Amero. …” 

17 STATES ARE TAKING ACTION

            “If you are fortunate enough to live in one of the 17 states already in gear – Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington – you should immediately send your legislator AND your governor a letter fervently thanking and strongly supporting their efforts to protect you and your family from this insanity.

            “If you live in the other states YOU must take immediate, and unrelenting, action to push your legislature into opposition to the madness of the globalists.  We cannot afford denial; any delay may well mean the destruction of what has been the finest nation in the history of the world. … 

“ACTION TO TAKE

            “1.  If you live in one of the 17 proactive states, write your legislators AND your governor.  Thank them for taking action to protect your civil liberties and our national sovereignty.  You can find info for your state legislature here www.statelocalgov.net

            “2.  If you live in one of the done-nothing (yet) states, pressure them to take action.  Contact your legislators AND your governor.  Phone calls and letters are the most effective way to contact your elected representatives; in this case, do both, as it will multiply your personal impact.  And don’t stop until you get the response you want. …

            “3.  Whatever state you live in, write Letters to the Editor to your local and statewide newspapers. Call into radio talk show programs.  Bring the subject up to those you interact with every day.   These are the surest ways to create awareness of the general populace, AND an excellent way to impact your legislature, as they monitor the media.

            “4.  Join the effort to Repeal NAFTA!  Since NAFTA is the foundation on which the SPP/NAU is being built, U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA would cripple efforts to establish the North American Union.  Help us drive a stake through this monster’s heart!

            “A.  Contact your Congressman and ask [that] they pressure House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rangel and House Energy, Commerce and Trade Committee Chairman Rush to release H. CON. RES. 22 to the full House for a vote.  H. CON. RES. 22 expresses ‘the sense of Congress that the President should provide notice of withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).’

            “Phone calls and letters are the most effective way to contact your elected representatives.  E-mails and faxes are many times ignored.  Members of Congress have been changing their e-mail addresses and fax numbers when we send out alerts.  If you prefer, though, you can send an e-mail by going to each member’s website at www.thomas.gov

            “Alternatively, you may phone the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate or House office you request.

            “If you choose to write, and do not know your Congressman’s mailing [address], you may simply address your letters as follows:  Office of Congressman (Name), United States House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515

            “B.  Contact the House Minority Leader, Rep. John Boehner.  The Minority Leader office number is (202) 225-4000; Rep. Boehner’s regular office number is (202) 225-6205.  Tell Rep. Boehner you oppose NAFTA requiring America to conform all of its domestic laws with those of Mexico and Canada – regardless of whether voters and their duly-elected representatives had previously rejected those policies.”  Source:  Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center’s APC NewsWire, 5/9/07

 EU REQUIRES ADHERENCE TO SODOMY IN POLISH SCHOOLS:  A MODEL FOR NAU? 

            “The Polish prime minister believes that teachers who push homosexual propaganda should be fired.  What homosexuality has to do with math, science, history, and other appropriate classroom subjects, I do not know.  The EU, however, is aghast, and has dispatched investigators to examine ‘the emerging climate of racist, xenophobic and homophobic intolerance in Poland.’  Might the investigation itself be racist and xenophobic?  The Poles aren’t like the French, the Germans, or the Dutch with regard to homosexuality.  The French, the Germans, and the Dutch want the Poles not to be like Poles, but to be like the French, the Germans, and the Dutch.  And isn’t that what the EU boils down to?  A thuggish, centralizing, culturally imperialist body seeking to achieve through political machinations what its domineering member states failed to do through conquest?”  Source:  The Flynn Files (www.flynnfiles.com), 4/27/07 

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #812, April 30, 2007

WILL HOUSTON BECOME RED CHINA’S GATEWAY TO AMERICA? 

            “Houston could be the new Wal-Mart of North America, replacing the West Coast as the delivery door for consumer goods delivered to the continent, with shipping and trucking plans that only enhance the concept of a combined North American Union.”

WIDENING OF PANAMA CANAL AIDS NAU OBJECTIVES

            “As Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez pushes for ‘major trilateral initiatives’ that would capture the vision of the integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, and state lawmakers fight a rearguard action to restore confidence in the U.S. sovereignty, officials in Houston are watching plans to expand the Panama Canal, and measuring the depth of the port’s water to see what limits there would be on ship sizes.

            “Jim Edmonds, chairman of the Port of Houston, told WND [WorldNetDaily.com] Houston already has 73 percent of the container market in the Gulf of Mexico, and 94 percent of the container market in Texas, and it is preparing to take advantage of the planned expansion of the Panama Canal.  ‘So, it would be logical to assume that whatever growth in Gulf container traffic that comes from the expansion of the Canal would most likely come into Texas,’ he told WND.” 

CALIFORNIA’S LIKELY LOSS IS GAIN FOR TEXAS

            “A Cambridge Systematics study completed for the Texas Department of Transportation in October 2006 confirms that the impact of the Panama Canal expansion ‘will be felt most heavily on and around the Port of Houston, the state’s largest container port and a key trading partner for goods shipped via the Panama Canal.’

            “The study also documented the move away from West Coast ports, noting that ‘the Panama Canal’s share of total container shipments between Asia and the United States has increased from 11 percent in 1999 to over 38 percent in 2004 and container volumes through the Canal are expected to grow by nearly 6 percent annually over the next several years.’

            “It also noted that Texas ports are expected to grow by more than 40 percent on average between now and 2035.  The report said when the canal expansion is completed in 2015, ‘the Port of Houston’s growth rate will most likely increase significantly, placing pressure on terminal operators, trucking companies, railroads, state and local transportation planning agencies, and other stakeholders in the maritime and transportation communities to maintain operational efficiency on or around port facilities.’

            “Edmonds told WND that the Port of Houston recently completed a project taking the depth from 40 to 45 feet, and that permits to go deeper – perhaps 50 feet – ‘are very challenging to come by in today’s world.’

            “So he said plans are being considered to deal with that.  ‘To handle post-Panamax ships, the Gulf Coast ports and probably the Florida ports will have [to] go to a trans-shipment scheme put in place,’ he said.  The huge post-Panamax ships will come into a facility in the Gulf or the Caribbean and the containers will have to be transferred to a smaller ship. …

            “WND previously has reported that an ‘all-water’ route through the Panama Canal into the Gulf of Mexico is planned as an alternative to West Coast ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach for container megaships from China and the Far East.” 

CHICOMS ARE THE BIG WINNERS FROM CONTROL OF PANAMA CANAL

            “Cambridge Systematics concluded that the Bayport Container Terminal ‘will approximately triple the available capacity for containerized traffic at the Port and allow it to more effectively handle Panamax and post-Panamax ships.’ …

            “ ‘The Port of Houston’s largest trading partner is Mexico,’ Edmonds told WND.  ‘There are 13,000 truck crossings per day at Laredo, Texas.  Most of those trucks are destined for the Port of Houston.  Mexico uses this port a lot for its import/export traffic.  So for many years we have been working on road and rail enhancements to move cargo back and forth from Mexico.  The Port of Houston has been an advocate of the I-69 corridor since its inception.’

            “ ‘I-69 is basically an upgrade of I-59 to a super-freeway system,’ Edmonds explained.  ‘About a year-and-a-half ago, the … Trans-Texas Corridor [TTC] project and I-69 merged their efforts. The scope of TTC planning is huge, involving auto lanes, truck lanes, rail lanes, plus broadband corridors and pipeline corridors, all together with a funding source.’

            “The TTC website now includes an I-69 section.  The funding source for TTC-35, the superhighway planned to be built parallel to I-35 from Laredo to the border of Oklahoma south of Oklahoma City, is Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish investment consortium.

            “ ‘I am hopeful that the south Texas segment of I-69 will be among the first to be upgraded,’ Edmonds said.  ‘I-69 is a good benefit for the Port of Houston.  I-69 goes from Mexico to Detroit and over into Canada.  I-69 is an excellent trade corridor.  I see I-69 over time as a real improvement to the ability to move cargo from Canada to Mexico and the Port of Houston needs to be a player in that.”  Source:  Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, 4/5/07 

TEXANS MUST CHOOSE:  FEDERAL FUNDS OR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS 

            “The Federal Highway Administration has threatened Texas with the loss of federal highway funds if the state continues with its legislative plan for a two-year funding moratorium on construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor [TTC].

            “In the 4-page letter, FHWA Chief Counsel James D. Ray advises Michael Behrens, executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation, some of the pending legislative proposals, if signed into law, ‘could affect the State’s eligibility for receiving Federal-aid highway funds.’ …

            “But the letter expresses concern that the Texas Legislature is nearing passage of a two-year moratorium blocking planned Trans-Texas Corridor toll-road projects.

            “ ‘We do not see the benefit of a moratorium if the State has already committed to legislation for a continuation of the program,’ Ray wrote, adding, ‘If Texas looses (sic) the initiative it now has, private funds now flowing to Texas will go elsewhere.’ ” 

NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY IS STRONGLY PUSHED BY GWB BUREAUCRATS

            “ ‘We stand ready to work with Texas officials to ensure continued compliance with all of the applicable Federal laws and regulations.  We wish to make sure that Texas can continue to receive the full benefits available under the Federal-aid Highway Program,’ he concluded.

            “David Stall, co-founder of the website CorridorWatch.org, alerted WND the federal agency was preparing the letter.

            “During a Wednesday morning teleconference, James Ray, chief counsel and acting deputy director of the FHWA, reportedly told the Trans-Texas Corridor Citizens Advisory Committee that the federal agency was preparing a letter to place the Texas Department of Transportation on notice that the proposed action by the Texas Legislature would jeopardize access to federal highway funds. …

            “ ‘As you might guess, we greatly object to federal interference in state affairs and the attempt to influence public policy at the state level,’ Stall told WND via e-mail.

            “Stall told WND that Ray’s letter was prompted by a request from Texas Rep. Mike Krusee, Williamson County, who sent a note to the FHWA asking for an opinion specifically on HB1892, the House version of the moratorium.

            “Krusee, a Republican, is a long-time supporter of the TTC toll-road project.  In November 2006, he was re-elected with barely 50 percent of the vote in a campaign in which his TTC support was contested.”  Source:  Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, 4/27/07

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #805, January 15, 2007

"GlobeSecNine – a private equity firm composed largely of top-ranking government and military officials from President George H. W. Bush’s administration – has investment ties with the communist Chinese firm [Hutchison] Ports Holdings that is joint-venturing to place cargo reading sensors on the planned North American superhighway.

"The Interstate-35 Super-Corridor is to run from the Mexican port of Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific, cross the border at Laredo, Texas, and continue on through Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and north into Canada."

"On April 21, 2005, Savi Technology, Inc., then a private company, created Savi Networks LLC, a new joint venture company, with [Hutchison] Ports Holdings to install active RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) equipment and software in participating ports around the world and to provide users with the information, identity location and status of their ocean cargo containers as they pass through such ports. …"

"Tom Ridge, the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, joined the Savi Technology board April 5, 2005, just prior to the deal. Savi Networks was capitalized at $50 million from the joint venture partners. Savi Technology holds a 51 percent interest in Savi Networks while HPH holds the remaining 49 percent.

"On the same day, April 21, 2005, HPH made a concurrent $50 million investment in Infolink Systems, Inc., the parent company of Savi Technology, which provided HPH with 10 percent of Infolink on a fully diluted basis.

"On May 4, 2005, GlobeSecNine, made a $2 million strategic investment in Infolink Systems, Inc., the parent company of Savi Technology.

"On June 8 of this year, Lockheed Martin acquired Infolink Systems, Inc., thereby acquiring Savi Technology, Inc.

"A spokesperson for Lockheed Martin confirmed to WND that the HPH interest in the joint venture subsidiary, Savi Networks, survived the acquisition of Infolink by Lockheed."

"As WND previously reported, Savi Networks is currently negotiating a contract with North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc., NASCO, the Dallas-based trade organization that advocates developing continental trade corridors along Interstates 35, 29 and 94. The contract will allow Savi Networks to establish sensors along the super-corridor that would read RFID tags placed on containers transported by truck and train, including containers from China and the Far East which enter the North American continent at Mexican ports, including Lazaro Cárdenas on the Pacific."

"GlobeSecNine's chairman of the board is Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser to Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He also was chairman of President George W. Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001 to 2005. From 1982 to 1989, Scowcroft also served as vice chairman of Kissinger Associates.

"Other GlobeSecNine principals include David D. Miller Jr., former ambassador and special assistant to the president and senior director on the National Security Council for counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics; Gen. Al Gray, former commandant of the Marine Corps and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; John Lawn, former administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

"A Feb. 16, 2005, announcement on the website of the Scowcroft Group advised that the Scowcroft Group and GlobeSecNine had formed a strategic alliance to pursue private equity investment opportunities in the homeland defense and security sectors. The investments were expected to be funded by GlobeSecNine through its alliance with the $1.5 billion Bear Stearns Merchant Banking fund. …

"The website of GlobeSecNine has been closed to public access. The company is listed as operating from offices in Arlington, Va." Source: Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, 12/8/06

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #806, January 31, 2007

"This year President Bush and the Democratic-led Congress should launch a new Association of American Free Trade Agreements (AAFTA). The AAFTA could shape the future of the Western Hemisphere, while offering a new foreign and economic policy design that combines trade, open societies, development and democracy. In concert with successful immigration reform, the AAFTA would signal to the Americas that, despite the trials of war and Asia’s rising economic influence, U.S. global strategy must have a hemispheric foundation."

"Successful and sustainable international strategies must be constructed across administrations. Ronald Reagan called for free trade throughout the Americas, opened U.S. markets to our Caribbean neighbors, and completed an FTA with Canada. George H.W. Bush completed negotiations for a North American FTA, offered trade preferences to the Andean countries …. Bill Clinton secured the passage of Nafta, launched work on a Free Trade Area of the Americas, and backed Plan Colombia."

"George W. Bush enacted FTAs with Chile, the five states of Central America and the Dominican Republic. He also completed FTAs with Colombia, Peru and Panama. If Congress passes these agreements, the U.S. will finally have an unbroken line of free trade partners stretching from Alaska to the tip of South America. Not counting the U.S., this free trade assembly would comprise two-thirds of both the population and GDP of the Americas.

"The AAFTA would draw together these 13 partners to build on the gains of free trade. It could also include the island states of the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act. Starting with a small secretariat, perhaps in Miami, the AAFTA should advance hemispheric economic integration; link development and democracy with trade and aid; improve working and environmental conditions; and continue to pursue the goal of free trade throughout the hemisphere. It might even foster cooperation in the WTO’s global trade negotiations. The AAFTA might be connected to an academic center, which could combine research and practice through an association among universities in the Americas. …"

"To launch the AAFTA, the president and the congressional leadership must stand up to America’s populist protectionists, too. The new chairmen of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees, Charles Rangel and Max Baucus, have signaled that trade may offer the best economic policy opportunity to work with the president. As Finance Committee Chair in 2001-02, Sen. Baucus worked closely with Sen. Grassley to authorize the negotiations for these FTAs. Rangel helped push preferential trade for Africa and the Caribbean. In response to urgings from New Democrats and Blue Dogs, the U.S. is the only country that includes mutual labor and environmental commitments in its FTAs, backed by enforcement. The administration worked with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and its developing country partners to check their laws with core ILO standards. In cooperation with Sen. Baucus, the administration developed special environmental review and comment procedures for Cafta, strengthening the role of local NGOs. The AAFTA offers more: an opportunity to design labor and environmental partnerships that would complement the rules in the FTAs. The alternative – ignoring Latin America or defeating FTAs to court economic isolationists – would leave the causes of workers and the environment to unlikely friends: poverty and populism." Source: Robert B. Zoellick (former U.S. trade representative and Deputy Secretary of State, and now vice chairman, International, at Goldman Sachs), The Wall Street Journal, 1/8/07.

"[A]nyone who is even remotely familiar with the evolution of the European Coal and Steel Community into the European Union is well aware of how the EU was built upon a foundation of lies piled upon lies. It is telling to note that the European Union celebrated its 50^th birthday on May 6, 2004, which the naïve observer might think to be somewhat curious considering the EU was established only 12 years ago, by the Treaty on European Union in 1992. …

"[T]he Eurofascists managed to hoodwink the prime minister of the United Kingdom, as Lady Thatcher herself confessed in her memoirs: ‘The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. Looking back, it is now possible to see the period of my second term as prime minister as that in which the European Community subtly but surely shifted its direction away from being a community of open trade, light regulation and freely co-operating sovereign nation-states towards statism and centralism … . We had to learn the hard way that by agreement to what were apparently empty generalizations or vague aspirations we were later held to have committed ourselves to political structures which were contrary to our interests.’ " Source: Vox Day, www.WorldNetDaily.com, 1/8/07

"In an interview with CNBC, a vice president for a prominent London investment firm yesterday urged a move away from the dollar to the ‘amero,’ a coming North American currency, he said, that ‘will have a big impact on everybody’s life, in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.’

"Steve Previs, a vice president at Jefferies International Ltd., explained the Amero ‘is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.’

"The aim, he said, according to a transcript provided by CNBC to WND, is to make a ‘borderless community, much like the European Union, with the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso being replaced by the amero.’

"Previs told the television audience many Canadians are ‘upset’ about the amero. Most Americans outside of Texas largely are unaware of the amero or the plans to integrate North America, Previs observed, claiming many are just ‘putting their head in the sand’ over the plans. …

"The speculation on the future of a new North American currency came amid a major U.S. dollar sell-off worldwide that began last week. Yesterday, the dollar also reached new multi-month low against the euro, breaking through the $1.30 per euro technical high that had held since April 2005. …

"Many analysts worldwide attributed the dramatic fall in the value of the U.S. dollar at least partially to China’s announcement last week that it would seek to diversify its foreign exchange currency holdings away from the U.S. dollar. China recently has crossed the threshold of holding $1 trillion in U.S. dollar foreign-exchange reserves, surpassing Japan as the largest holder in the world. …"

"U.S. trade imbalances with China have hit a record $228 billion this year, largely reflecting a surging flow of containers from China with retail goods headed for the U.S. mass market. …

"In February 2007, a virtually unprecedented top-level U.S. economic mission is scheduled to travel to China. Included in the mission are Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Jr., Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke." Source: Jerome Corsi, www.WorldNetDaily.com, 11/28/06

"Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

"Pastor, a professor at American University, says that in such a case the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP – launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in Waco, Texas – could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar just as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe."

"In May 2005, Pastor was co-chairman the Council on Foreign Relations task force that produced a report entitled ‘Toward a North American Community,’ which he has claimed is the blueprint behind the SSP declared by President Bush, Mexico’s then-President Vicente Fox, and Canada’s then-Prime Minister Paul Martin. …"

"At American University in Washington, D.C., Pastor directs the Center for North American Studies where he teaches a course entitled ‘North America: A Union, A Community, or Just Three Nations?’ As WND previously has reported, Pastor is on the board of the North American Forum on Integration, the NAFI, a non-profit organization that annually holds a mock trilateral parliament for 100 selected students drawn from 10 universities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

"Pastor had published an interview in Spanish in the Oct. 24 issue of Poder y Negocios. He told the magazine crises can force decisions that otherwise would not be made. …

" ‘What I’m saying is that a crisis is an event which can force democratic governments to make difficult decisions like those that will be required to create a North American Community,’ he said. ‘It's not that I want another 9/11 crisis, but having a crisis would force decisions that otherwise might not get made.’ …"

"Pastor was asked what North American leaders would need to do to move toward integration. ‘We need to form a customs union to move North American integration to a new level,’ Pastor argued. ‘A customs union would eliminate rules of origin on the border and agree to a common external tariff. This would not be easy but not as difficult as NAFTA was, and it would lead to efficiencies in our economies and in the end contribute to a better standard of living for all parties.’

"Pastor also called for a North American Investment Fund to invest in Mexico’s infrastructure.

" ‘If we had a North American Investment Fund,’ Pastor explained, ‘over the long term, you would narrow the income gap between Mexico and the U.S.’

"WND previously reported Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, dropped his support for legislation (S. 3622) he introduced in the 109th Congress to create a North American Investment Fund after WND pointed out the proposed law would advance an important part of Pastor’s agenda to create a North American Community. …

"The idea seems to be to put new structures in place that change the look of the landscape. WND pointed out to Pastor that this step-by-step approach is the same approach taken to create the European Union. The memoirs of Jean Monnet, regarded as the architect of European unity, finally disclosed he had used a strategy of deceit, knowing his plan to form a European Union would never succeed if it were openly disclosed." Source: Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, 12/15/06

"The Texas segment of the NAFTA Super Corridor is moving rapidly toward approval. When built, the Trans-Texas Corridor, or TTC, will be a major super-highway with six lanes moving in each direction, twelve lanes across in total, described in the 4,000 page draft environmental study as including separate lanes ‘for passenger vehicles and large trucks, freight railways, high-speed commuter railways, and a corridor for utilities including water lines, oil and natural gas pipelines, and transmission lines for electricity, broadband and other telecommunications services.’ …

"The idea is to extend the rebuilt I-35 NAFTA super-corridor highway all the way from Laredo, Texas, to Canada, with extensions in Canada to be built out to Montreal in the east and Vancouver in the west. In Mexico, the super-corridor will connect via Mexican railroads with the port at Lazaro Cardenas."

"A core design feature is to create a hub in Kansas City. Here the ‘Lazaro Cardenas – Kansas City Transportation Corridor’ will open up a north-south route through the United States to bring in containers from the Far East. As described by Kansas City’s Smart Port website: The Lazaro Cardenas – Kansas City Corridor refers to a trade route linking Kansas City to key Asia-Pacific Markets via a ships-to-rail terminal at the port of Lazaro Cardenas in the State of Michoacan, Mexico. Thanks to an innovative series of international agreements, infrastructure improvements and new technologies, this corridor is a reality. …"

"The NAFTA Super Corridor plan is ultimately to reduce the transportation costs of using cheap labor in China, South Korea and Indonesia to produce goods for American markets. Bypassing West Coast ports in the U.S. means bypassing U.S. union wages. Mexican port and rail transport are expected to keep the shipping costs low. Also, allowing free access to the U.S. [by] Mexican trucks means that the containers can be moved through the U.S. by Mexican nationals, again bypassing Teamster union wages and benefits typically paid U.S. truck drivers."

"To get a feel for how transportation planners are influenced by globalist economic thinking, consider this 2005 analysis written by Leonard Krouner in the Voice of San Diego: The Los Angeles/Long Beach and Seattle/Tacoma harbors are the only two West Coast ports between Alaska and Chile that can be used by super-cargo ‘post-Panamax’ ships with a 4,000 standardized cargo container capacity. The ability to off-load, move, unload, store and distribute cargo from these ships requires expansion of California’s transportation infrastructure. Delays increasing costs for cargo movement at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port such as those extant during the 2003 longshoreman labor unrest, and the 2004 arrival of too many ships in a single time period with cargo for distribution prior to the Christmas holidays are motivating mega importers Wal-Mart and Home Depot to invest in warehouse facilities in less expensive states such as Georgia."

"None of this would be possible without the extensive work being done by the U.S. Department of Commerce working groups charged with implementing by new regulations the Strategic and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP. The SPP agreement was reached between President Bush, President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin during their March 2005 summit meeting in Waco, Texas. The Bush administration plan is to create a North American Union along the model of the European Union, put in place by administrative regulations and departmental working groups under the SPP umbrella."

"The U.S. Department of Transportation is actively working on a Free and Secure Trade program that would create special lanes to allow trucks from Mexico to cross the U.S. border with minimal electronic inspection, reducing the U.S. border with Mexico to no more than a speed-bump for authorized Mexican trucks entering the country."

"On June7, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen ruled in favor of the Bush administration’s argument that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration lacked the authority to exercise environmental controls to prevent Mexican trucks from openly operating in the U.S. under NAFTA. This ruling was key in the Bush administration’s determination to open U.S. borders to Mexican trucks under the trade agreement. Had the Supreme Court decided otherwise, the NAFTA Super Corridor project would have suffered a setback."

"I continue to argue that a ‘follow the money’ strategy must be utilized to understand why President Bush has refused to close our border with Mexico, pushing instead for ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ legislation that would allow the vast majority of illegal immigrants now in the U.S. to remain under a ‘guest worker’ or ‘pathway to citizenship’ provision. The underlying agenda of the Bush administration seems to be to create a NAFTA-plus environment in which workers, trade and capital will be allowed to flow unimpeded within the trilateral North American community consisting of the United States, Canada and Mexico." Source: Dr. Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, 6/1/06

"Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn."

"Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new "SENTRI" system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City. …"

"NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor [sic] Coalition Inc., a ‘non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.’ Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system."

"The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road."

"The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in [plain] view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.

"A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks." Source: Jerome Corsi, Human Events ONLINE, 6/12/06

"In March 2005 at their summit meeting in Waco, Tex., President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin issued a joint statement [announcing] the creation of the ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America’ (SPP). The creation of this new agreement was never submitted to Congress for debate and decision. Instead, the U.S. Department of Commerce merely created a new division under the same title to implement working groups to advance a North American Union working agenda in a wide range of areas, including: manufactured goods, movement of goods, energy, environment, e-commerce, financial services, business facilitation, food and agriculture, transportation, and health.

"SPP is headed by three top cabinet level officers of each country. Representing the United States are Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Representing Mexico are Secretario de Economía Fernando Canales, Secretario de Gobernación Carlos Abascal, and Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Luis Ernesto Derbéz. Representing Canada are Minister of Industry David L. Emerson, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety, Anne McLellan, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Stewart Pettigrew. …"

"Reviewing the specific working agenda initiatives, the goal to implement directly is apparent. Nearly every work plan is characterized by action steps described variously as ‘our three countries signed a Framework of Common Principles …’ or ‘we have signed a Memorandum of Understanding …,’ or ‘we have signed a declaration of intent …’ etc. Once again, none of the 30 or so working agendas makes any mention of submitting decisions to the U.S. Congress for review and approval. No new U.S. laws are contemplated for the Bush administration to submit to Congress. Instead, the plan is obviously to knit together the North American Union completely under the radar, through a process of regulations and directives issued by various U.S. government agencies.

"What we have here is an executive branch plan being implemented by the Bush administration to construct a new super-regional structure completely by fiat. Yet, we can find no single speech in which President Bush has ever openly expressed to the American people his intention to create a North American Union by evolving NAFTA into this NAFTA-Plus as a first, implementing step."

"Anyone who has wondered why President Bush has not bothered to secure our borders is advised to spend more time examining the SPP working groups’ agenda. In every area of activity, the SPP agenda stresses free and open movement of people, trade, and capital within the North American Union. Once the SPP agenda is implemented with appropriate departmental regulations, there will be no area of immigration policy, trade rules, environmental regulations, capital flows, public health, plus dozens of other key policy areas countries that the U.S. government will be able to decide alone, or without first consulting with some appropriate North American Union regulatory body. At best, our border with Mexico will become a speed bump, largely erased, with little remaining to restrict the essentially free movement of people, trade, and capital."

"Canada has established an SPP working group within their Foreign Affairs department. Mexico has placed the SPP within the office of the [Secretario] de Economia and created [an] extensive website for the Alianza Para La Securidad y La Prosperidad de [América] del Norte (ASPAN). On this Mexican website, ASPAN is described as ‘a permanent, tri-lateral process to create a major integration of North America.’ "

"The extensive working group activity being implemented right now by the government of Mexico, Canada, and the United States is consistent with the blueprint laid out in the May 2005 report of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), titled ‘Building a North American Community.’

"The Task Force’s central recommendation is the establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter. (page xvii)

"The only borders or tariffs which would remain would be those around the continent, not those between the countries within:

"Its (the North American Community’s) 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. (page 3)"

"What will happen to the sovereignty of the United States? The model is the European Community. While the United States would supposedly remain as a country, many of our nation-state prerogatives would ultimately be superseded by the authority of a North American court and parliamentary body, just as the U.S. dollar would have to be surrendered for the ‘Amero,’ the envisioned surviving currency of the North American Union. The CFR report left no doubt that the North American Union was intended to evolve through a series of regulatory decisions:

"While each country must retain its right to impose and maintain unique regulations consonant with its national priorities and income level, the three countries should make a concerted effort to encourage regulatory convergence.

"The three leaders highlighted the importance of addressing this issue at their March 2005 summit in Texas. The Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America they signed recognizes the need for a stronger focus on building the economic strength of the continent in addition to ensuring its security. To this end, it emphasizes regulatory issues. Officials in all three countries have formed a series of working groups under designated lead cabinet ministers. These working groups have been ordered to produce an action plan for approval by the leaders within ninety days, by late June 2005, and to report regularly thereafter. (pages 23-24)"

"Again, the CFR report says nothing about reporting to Congress or to the American people. What we have underway here with the SPP could arguably be termed a bureaucratic coup d’etat. If that is not the intent, then President Bush should rein in the bureaucracy until the American people have been fully informed of the true nature of our government’s desire to create a North American Union. Otherwise, the North American Union will become a reality in 2010 as planned. Right now, the only check or balance being exercised is arguably Congressional oversight of the executive bureaucracy, even though Congress itself might not fully appreciate what is happening." Source: Jerome Corsi, Human Events, 5/30/06

"When President George W. Bush met the Mexican and Canadian heads of state in Cancun, Mexico, in April 2006, he said the meeting celebrated the first anniversary of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and was a follow-up to last year’s Summit in Waco, Texas. At last year’s meeting on March 23, 2005 at Bush’s ranch and at Waco, George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin ‘committed their governments’ to the ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America’ and assigned ‘working groups’ to fill in the details.

"A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, 2005 where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference that ‘we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders.’ The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa report ‘represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership.’ "

"This plan was spelled out in detail in a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) 59-page document. It describes a five-year plan for the ‘establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community’ with a common ‘outer security perimeter.’ ‘Community’ means creating ‘a common economic space … for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely.’ That means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. ‘Common perimeter’ means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada."

"The CFR plan calls for ‘a more open border for the movement of goods and people’ and ‘the freer flow of people within North America.’ The ‘common security perimeter’ will require us to ‘harmonize visa and asylum regulations’ with Mexico and Canada, ‘harmonize entry screening,’ and ‘fully share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals.’

"This plan would create a ‘North American preference’ so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages. Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for ‘a seamless North American market’ and for ‘the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico.’ "

"Senator Richard Lugar held a friendly hearing before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee at which American University Professor Robert A. Pastor (a member of the CFR Task Force) testified that President Bush is a staunch supporter of North American integration dating from the Guanajuato Proposal which he and Vicente Fox signed in February 2001." Source: America’s Future, Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub, President, May/June 2006, p. 1

"The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin. A joint statement published by the three presidents following their Baylor University summit announced the formation of an initial entity called, ‘The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America’ (SPP). The joint statement termed the SPP a ‘trilateral partnership’ that was aimed at producing a North American security plan as well as providing free market movement of people, capital, and trade across the borders between the three NAFTA partners: We will establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders."

"A working agenda was established: We will establish working parties led by our ministers and secretaries that will consult with stakeholders in our respective countries. These working parties will respond to the priorities of our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable goals. The U.S. Department of Commerce has produced a SPP website, which documents how the U.S. has implemented the SPP directive into an extensive working agenda.

"Following the March 2005 meeting in Waco, Tex., the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published in May 2005 a task force report titled ‘Building a North American Community.’ We have already documented that this CFR task force report calls for a plan to create by 2010 a redefinition of boundaries such that the primary immigration control will be around the three countries of the North American Union, not between the three countries. We have argued that a likely reason President Bush has not secured our border with Mexico is that the administration is pushing for the establishment of the North American Union."

"The North American Union is envisioned to create a super-regional political authority that could override the sovereignty of the United States on immigration policy and trade issues. In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Pastor, the Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University, stated clearly the view that the North American Union would need a super-regional governance board to make sure the United States does not dominate the proposed North American Union once it is formed: NAFTA has failed to create a partnership because North American governments have not changed the way they deal with one another. Dual bilateralism, driven by U.S. power, [continues] to govern and irritate. Adding a third party to bilateral disputes vastly increases the chance that rules, not power, will resolve problems."

"This trilateral approach should be institutionalized in a new North American Advisory Council. Unlike the sprawling and intrusive European Commission, the Commission or Council should be lean, independent, and advisory, composed of 15 distinguished individuals, 5 from each nation. Its principal purpose should be to prepare a North American agenda for leaders to consider at biannual summits and to monitor the implementation of the resulting agreements. Pastor was a vice chairman of the CFR task force that produced the report ‘Building a North American Union.’ "

"Pastor also proposed the creation of a Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment with the view that ‘a permanent court would permit the accumulation of precedent and lay the groundwork for North American business law.’ The intent is [that] this North American Union Tribunal would have supremacy over the U.S. Supreme Court on issues affecting the North American Union, to prevent U.S. power from ‘irritating’ and retarding the progress of uniting Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into a new 21^st century super-regional governing body."

"Robert Pastor also advises the creation of a North American Parliamentary Group to make sure the U.S. Congress does not impede progress in the envisioned North American Union. He has also called for the creation of a North American Customs and Immigration Service which would have authority over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security."

"Pastor’s 2001 book ‘Toward a North American Community’ called for the creation of a North American Union that would perfect the defects Pastor believes limit the progress of the European Union. Much of Pastor’s thinking appears aimed at limiting the power and sovereignty of the United States as we enter this new super-regional entity."

"Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency which he has coined the ‘Amero,’ a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexico peso."

"If President Bush had run openly in 2004 on the proposition that a prime objective of his second term was to form the North American Union and to supplant the dollar with the ‘Amero,’ we doubt very much that President Bush would have carried Ohio, let alone half of the Red State majority he needed to win re-election. Pursuing any plan that would legalize the conservatively estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the United States could well spell election disaster for the Republican Party in 2006, especially for the House of [Representatives] where every seat is up for grabs." Source: Jerome Corsi, (humaneventsonline.com), The Free Press, 6/16/06, p. 2

"Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has quietly introduced a bill to create a ‘North American Investment Fund’ that would tap U.S. and Canadian taxpayers for the development of public works projects in Mexico.

"Despite assurances this week from White House press secretary Tony Snow that President Bush opposes the idea of a European Union superstate for North America, the effort, by one of the president’s loyal supporters in the Senate, is sure to spark new questions about negotiations between the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico on issues ranging from security to the economy.

" ‘Currently, a significant development gap exists between Mexico and the United States and Canada,’ Cornyn said. ‘I believe it is in our best interests to find creative ways to bridge this development gap.’ …"

"Senate Bill 3622, co-sponsored by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., specifically authorizes the president to ‘negotiate the creation of a North American Investment Fund between the governments of Canada, of Mexico, and of the U.S. to increase the economic competitiveness of North America in a global economy.’ …

" ‘The purpose of this fund is to reinforce efforts already underway in Mexico to ensure their (sic) own economic development,’ Cornyn said. ‘The funding would make grants available for projects to construct roads in Mexico, to facilitate trade, to develop and expand their education programs, to build infrastructure for the deployment of communications services and to improve job training and workforce development for high-growth industries.’ …"

"Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of Bush’s immigration policies – has been most outspoken. ‘A regional prosperity and security program?’ he asked rhetorically in a recent cablecast. ‘This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are – we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They’re intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I’m right when I said yes. But this is – I mean, this is beyond belief.’ "

"Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, ‘In Mortal Danger,’ may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate. Responding to a WorldNetDaily report, Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.

"Tancredo wants to know the membership of the Security and Prosperity Partnership groups along with their various trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements reached with counterparts in Mexico and Canada."

"Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minutemen, welcomed Tancredo’s efforts. ‘It’s time for the Bush administration to come clean,’ Gilchrist said. ‘If President Bush’s agenda is to establish a new North American union government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, then the president has an obligation to tell this to the American people directly. The American public has a right to know.’ "

"Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, ‘We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public.’ WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups nor any congressional committees taking charge of oversight.

"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." Source: Joseph Farah, www.WorldNetDaily.com, 7/13/06

"Transportation Secretary Maria Cino promises to release plans within months for a one-year, NAFTA pilot program permitting Mexican truckers beyond the limited commercial zone to which they are currently restricted.

"The program will likely involve about 100 Mexican trucking companies, the Department of Transportation says. …"

"Currently, the U.S. permits Mexican truckers only in commercial zones close to the border that extend no further than 20 miles from Mexico.

"While the American Trucking Association supports opening the border, other unions have joined in opposition with the Teamsters. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association came out this month in opposition to any Mexican truck pilot program.

"Todd Spencer, the association's executive vice president, said the program would jeopardize safety on U.S. roads and would lead to an influx of cheap Mexican labor.

" ‘A move by the U.S. Department of Transportation to open U.S. roadways to Mexican trucks puts the interest of foreign trade and cheap labor ahead of everything else, including highway safety, homeland security and the well being of hardworking Americans,’ Spencer said.

"In a letter to the Interstate Trade Commission, Spencer wrote: ‘The net effect of admission of Mexican trucks into the U.S. marketplace would undoubtedly be negative. The supposed benefits to consumers from speculative reductions in shipping rates would be offset by the societal costs that are difficult to measure, but are easy to identify.’

"Spencer told the commission that Mexican trucks are not up to U.S. safety standards, and if U.S. drivers earn less as a result of labor competition, they would have less money to invest in vehicle maintenance – leading to even more less safe trucks."

"The Teamsters have led opposition to the plan, saying the so-called ‘NAFTA superhighway,’ a north-south interstate trade corridor linking Mexico, Canada and the U.S., would mean U.S. truckers replaced by Mexicans, more unsafe rigs on American roads and more drivers relying on drugs for their long hauls.

"The August issue of Teamster magazine features a cover story on the plan for an enlarged I-35 that will reach north from the drug capital border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 1,600 miles to Canada through San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Duluth, while I-69 originating at the same crossing will shoot north to Michigan and across the Canadian border.

"Public proposals for the superhighway call for each corridor to be 1,200 feet wide with six lanes devoted to cars, four to trucks, with a rail line and utilities in the middle. Most of the goods will come from new Mexican ports being built on the Pacific Coast – ports being run by Chinese state-controlled shipping companies." Source: WorldNetDaily.com, 9/1/06

"The NAFTA superhighway, a north-south interstate trade corridor linking Mexico, Canada and the U.S., would mean U.S. truckers replaced by Mexicans, more unsafe rigs on American roads and more drivers relying on drugs for their long hauls, charges the International Brotherhood of Teamsters – the latest group to weigh in against the Bush administration plan.

"The August issue of Teamster magazine features a cover story on the plan for an enlarged I-35 that will reach north from the drug capital border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 1,600 miles to Canada through San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Duluth, while I-69 originating at the same crossing will shoot north to Michigan and across the Canadian border.

"Public proposals for the superhighway calls for each corridor to be 1,200 feet wide with six lanes devoted to cars, four to trucks, with a rail line and utilities in the middle. Most of the goods will come from new Mexican ports being built on the Pacific Coast – ports being run by Chinese state-controlled shipping companies.

" ‘Tens of thousands of unregulated, unsafe Mexican trucks will flow unchecked through out border – a very real threat to the safety of our highways, homeland security and good-paying American jobs,’ writes Teamster President Jim Hoffa. ‘The Bush administration hasn’t given up on its ridiculous quest to open our border to unsafe Mexican trucking companies. In fact, Bush is quietly moving forward with plans to build the massive network of highways from the Mexican border north through Detroit into Canada that would make cross-border trucking effortless.’ …

"Mexican drivers, of course, earn considerably less than their U.S. counterparts – about $1,100 a month. Hoffa says the NAFTA superhighway plan would ‘allow global conglomerates to capitalize by exploiting cheap labor and non-existent work rules and avoiding potential security enhancements at U.S. ports.’

"The drivers interviewed for Teamster magazine say they are completely at the mercy of their employers, the Mexican government and police – who are the first to rob them. All of those interviewed said they have killed people with their trucks on the highways and fled the accident sites. …"

"[Hoffa] adds: ‘If the Bush administration succeeds (with the NAFTA superhighway), American drivers and their families will be forced to share the roads with unsafe, uninsured trucks and millions of good-paying American jobs will be lost. And just one weapon of mass destruction in an unchecked container will be too many.’ " Source: WorldNetDaily.com, 8/28/06

"[A] planned Midwest "inland port" with a Mexican customs office will not be restricted to railroad traffic …. Kansas City SmartPort plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan. …"

"In the paper, [former executive director of North American International Trade Corridor Partnership and now president of Monterrey (Mexico) Business Consultants David W.] Eaton argued railroad transport should be developed as the first mode to bring containers from China through Mexican ports into the U.S., because ‘one unit train can carry the equivalent of approximately 250 trucks.’ …"

"A NAIPC summit meeting in 2004 was attended by Mexican officials…. Photographed on the first page of the summit executive summary is Robert Pastor, an American University professor who has written ‘Toward a North American Community,’ a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.

"Pastor also was vice chairman of the May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force entitled ‘Building a North American Community’ that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government." Source: Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, 7/6/06

"Government documents released by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal the Bush administration is running a ‘shadow government’ with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south, asserts WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi.

"The documents, a total of about 1,000 pages, are among the firs to be released to Corsi through his FOIA request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, which describes itself as an initiative ‘to increase security and to enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater cooperation.’

" ‘The documents clearly reveal that SPP, working within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is far advanced in putting together a new regional infrastructure, creating a "shadow" trilateral bureaucracy with Mexico and Canada that is aggressively rewriting a wide range of U.S. administrative law, all without congressional oversight or public disclosure,’ Corsi said. …

"Corsi told WND the documents reveal hundreds of internal meetings, memoranda of understanding and other referenced agreements that have not been disclosed. …"

"The SPP organizational chart Corsi obtained shows 13 working groups covering a wide range of public policy issues, including Manufactured Goods; Energy, Food & Agriculture; Rules of Origin’ Health; E-Commerce; Transportation; Environment; Financial Services; Business Facilitation; External Threats to North America; Streamlined & Secured Shared Borders; and Prevention/Response within North America.

"U.S. administrative-branch officers participating in these working groups are drawn from the U.S. departments of State, Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

"The released documents affirm that counterparts from official governmental agencies in Mexico and Canada are combined with the U.S. administrative branch to form new trilateral ‘working groups’ that actively rewrite U.S. administrative law to ‘harmonize’ or ‘integrate’ with administrative law in Mexico and Canada.

" ‘What we have here amounts to an administrative coup d’etat,’ Corsi told WND. ‘Where does the Bush administration get the congressional authorization to invite two foreign nations to the table to rewrite U.S. law?’ " Source: WorldNetDaily.com, 9/26/06

Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly observed in The American Conservative’s symposium on "What Is Left & What Is Right" (published August 28) that " ‘Bush ran as a conservative, but he has been steadily (some might say stealthily) trying to remold the conservative movement and the Republican Party into the Bush Party. And the Bush Party stands for so many things alien to conservatism, namely, war as an instrument of foreign policy, nation-building overseas, highly concentrated executive power, federal control of education, big increases in social entitlements, massive increases in legal and illegal immigration, forcing American workers to compete with low-wage foreigners (under deceptive enticements such as free trade and global economy), and subordinating U.S. sovereignty to a North American community with open borders."

Excerpts from an interview of Mrs. Schlafly conducted by The Wanderer follow here:

"Q. Over the past several months you have been writing more and more on the place of the United States in the ‘globalists’ agenda.’ In an article in early August, you wrote how the United States is being politically and economically transformed by ‘press release.’

"A. I think President Bush’s press secretary Tony Snow was asked recently at one of his press conferences about the North American Union and he retorted that we’re not having a European Union. What kind of answer is that? Most members of Congress don’t know about it; they are clueless. Some, whom our Eagles have challenged, have challenged, have gone to the Commerce Department and asked questions about it, but they have not received any answers yet. Commerce is stonewalling.

"The government has had to deny that it is involved in any type of common security arrangement with Canada and Mexico. But its claims are completely unconvincing. The administration says that President Bush didn’t sign anything at Waco, but a year later, at Cancun, Bush and Fox and Martin celebrated the first anniversary of – what? – not signing anything?

"What else can explain why President Bush seems to be completely tone deaf on immigration? He is ruining this country, he is ruining the Republican Party, he is ensuring that the Republican Party will be defeated and will never again be a major party. What is his motivation? The only answer I can figure out is that he supports open borders." Source: Paul Likoudis, The Wanderer, 9/7/06, pp. 1, 9

"At the recent high-level confab of the North American Forum in Banff, an assistant U.S. secretary of state chaired a panel that featured a presentation by Prof. Robert Pastor, author of a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.

"State Department spokesman Eric Watnik confirmed to WND that Thomas A. Shannon attended the Sept. 12-14 meeting of the North American Forum in his official capacity as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs. …

"In numerous publications, professional presentations and testimony to Congress, Pastor has called for NAFTA to be evolved into a European Union-like regional government, ultimately complete with a legislative, judicial and executive institutional structure that would have supremacy over the United States. …"

"The North American Forum is a shell organization with no officer or business address, consisting of the three individuals who co-chaired the Banff meeting: George [Shultz], former secretary of state under President Reagan; Canadian Peter Lougheed, the former Alberta premier and former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta; and Mexico’s Pedro Aspe, the former secretary of the Treasury of Mexico." Source: Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, 9/28/06

"While several members of Congress have denied any knowledge of efforts to build ‘NAFTA superhighways’ or move America closer to a union with Mexico and Canada, four members of the House have stepped up to sponsor a resolution opposing both initiatives.

"Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va., has introduced a resolution – H.C.R. 487 – designed to express ‘the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union (NAU) with Mexico and Canada.’ " (note, the resolution has been reintroduced as H.C.R. 40 in the 110th Congress)

" ‘Now that Congress is preparing to take up the issues of the North American Union and NAFTA superhighways, we are moving out of the realm where critics can attempt to disparage the discussion as "Internet conspiracy theory," ’ explained Jerome Corsi, author and WND columnist who has written extensively on the Security and Prosperity Partnership – the semisecret plan many suspect is behind the efforts to create a European Union-style North American confederation and link Mexico and Canada with more transcontinental highways and rail lines. ‘This bill represents a good first step.’

"Corsi explained to WND that the Bush administration is trying to create the North American Union incrementally, under the radar scope of public attention. ‘Even today,’ said Corsi, [‘]SPP.gov has a ‘Myths vs. Facts’ section that denies the administration is changing laws or working to create a new regional government. Unfortunately, the many references on SPP.gov to Cabinet-level working groups creating new trilateral memoranda of understanding and other trilateral agreements makes these denials sound hollow.’ "

"The resolution introduced by Goode had three co-sponsors: Reps. Thomas Tancredo, R-Colo., Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Walter Jones, R-N.C.

"The ‘whereas’ clauses of the resolution lay out the case against the North American Union and NAFTA Superhighways as follows:"

"The resolution calls for the House of Representatives to agree on three issues of determination:

"1. The United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System;

"2. The United States should not enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada; and

"3. The President should indicate strong opposition to these or any other proposals that threaten the sovereignty of the United States."

" ‘As important as this resolution is,’ Corsi said, ‘we need still more congressional attention. Where is congressional oversight of SPP? We need congressional hearings, not just congressional resolutions.’

"H.Con.Res. 487 has been referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and to the Committee on Internal Relations for consideration prior to any debate that may be scheduled on the floor of the House of Representatives." Source: WorldNetDaily.com, 10/1/06

"The Department of Transportation, acting through a Security and Prosperity Partnership ‘working group,’ is preparing in 2007 to issue North American biometric border passes to Mexican, Canadian, and U.S. ‘trusted travelers’ according to documents released to WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi under a Freedom of Information Act request."

" ‘The FOIA documents show the organizational chart and the composition of a "shadow Department of Transportation" which includes formal membership from Mexico and Canada’s Departments of Transportation,’ asserts Corsi.

" ‘SPP has in effect created a fully-functioning trilateral Department of Transportation which will dictate policy to Mary Peters as soon as she is confirmed to replace [Norman] Mineta as U.S. secretary of Transportation.’ …"

" ‘Evidently SPP has decided to erase our internal borders with Mexico and Canada,’ Corsi told WND. ‘We have no trilateral treaty voted by two-thirds of the Senate that has authorized North American trusted traveler biometric cards to be issued to the citizens of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Yet this is exactly what the shadow administrative branch created within the Bush administration under the auspices of an SPP working group is doing.’

"The documents released to Corsi under the FOIA request reveal a pattern of e-mails that are regularly sent from within the Bush administration executive branch to a wide range of U.S. administrative-branch personnel with e-mail copies sent equally to administrative branch officers in the governments of Mexico and Canada.

" ‘This would be like President Bush putting partitions in the Oval Office,’ Corsi argued to WND, ‘so desks could be set up for Canada’s Prime Minister Harper and for Mexico’s new President Calderon as soon as he takes office.’

"The SPP.gov website in the Department of Commerce has added a new ‘Myth vs. Facts’ section which documents that the security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is neither a treaty nor a law.

" ‘Where is the constitutional authorization?’ Corsi asks WND. ‘The Bush administration has just decided to restructure the executive branch to include Mexico and Canada without bothering to notify the voting public or the U.S. Congress.’ " Source: WorldNetDaily.com, 9/27/06

"In March 2005, the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States adopted a Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), establishing ministerial-level working groups to address key security and economic issues facing North America and setting a short deadline for reporting progress back to their governments. President Bush described the significance of the SPP as putting forward a common commitment ‘to markets and democracy, freedom and trade, and mutual prosperity and security.’ "

"The policy framework articulated by the three leaders is a significant commitment that will benefit from broad discussion and advice. 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 threat of international terrorism originates for the most part outside North America. Our external borders are a critical line of defense against this threat. Any weakness in controlling access to North America from abroad reduces the security of the continent as a whole and exacerbates the pressure to intensify controls on intra-continental movement and traffic, which increases the transaction costs associated with trade and travel within North America. …

"Security cooperation among the three countries should also extend to cooperation on counterterrorism and law enforcement, which would include the establishment of a trinational threat intelligence center, the development of trinational ballistics and explosives registration, and joint training for law enforcement officials. …"

"To create a North American economic space that provides new opportunities for individuals in all three countries, the Task Force makes the following recommendations aimed at establishing a seamless North American market, adopting a North American approach to regulation, increasing labor mobility, and enhancing support for North American education programs.

"People are North America’s greatest asset. Goods and services cross borders easily; ensuring the legal transit of North American workers has been more difficult. Experience with the NAFTA visa system suggests that its procedures need to be simplified, and such visas should be made available to a wider range of occupations and to additional categories of individuals such as students, professors, bona fide frequent visitors, and retirees."

"To make the most of the impressive pool of skill and talent within North America, the three countries should look beyond the NAFTA visa system. The large volume of undocumented migrants from Mexico within the United States is an urgent matter for those two countries to address. A long-term goal should be to create a ‘North American Preference’ – new rules that would make it much easier for employees to move and for employers to recruit across national boundaries within the continent. This would enhance North American competitiveness, increase productivity, contribute to Mexico’s development, and address one of the main outstanding issues on the Mexican-U.S. bilateral agenda.

"Canada and the United States should consider eliminating restrictions on labor mobility altogether and work toward solutions that, in the long run, could enable the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico as well. …"

"It is this reporter’s opinion that in our dealings with Mexico, the more things change, they remain just about the same. ‘September 5, Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal made it official,’ declared Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party (PAN) and winner of Mexico's 2006 presidential election. Calderon is scheduled to take office December 1. …

"[T]he day after Calderon was declared the winner on September 5, he was on the telephone with George W. Bush. What does Calderon want from us? Among other things, a MIGRATORY ACCORD giving Mexico veto power over U.S. immigration policy. …"

"Calderon said, ‘In the coming two decades, I envision the whole North American region as a single region with a "free market," not just in goods, services and investments, but a FREE LABOR MARKET like the European Union.’ " Source: George Putnam, NewsMax.com, 9/22/06

"There have been conferences, academic papers, mock student parliaments and secret meetings on a confederation of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into [a] future North American Union, but, until now, few officials of any of the three countries have publicly called for the creation of a European Union-style merger.

"In a panel discussion on U.S.-Mexico relations last Tuesday at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Enrique Berruga, Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations, came right out and said a North American Union is needed – and even provided a deadline.

"Berruga said the merger must be complete in the next eight years before the U.S. baby boomer retirement wave hits full force.

"Another panelist, economist Mauricio Gonzalez, who works for the North American Development Bank, created as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, explained that illegal immigration was actually good for the U.S. economy. While it’s true, [he] said, that the immigrants bring down wages in the U.S., it is only by about 2 percent. In addition, he cited studies showing illegal immigrants do not drain U.S. social services.

" ‘NAFTA was a very important first step, but we need to start thinking outside the NAFTA box,’ Gonzalez said.

"Panelist Robert Rivard, editor of the Express-News and a former Newsweek correspondent in Latin America, spoke of the lingering impact of 9-6 – that is, Sept. 6, 2001, five days before the terrorist attacks, when the U.S. and Mexican governments were on the brink of a far-reaching immigration deal. In the wake of the terrorist attacks five days later, there was little chance Americans would accept more open borders and pardons for illegal aliens already in the country." Source: WorldNetDaily.com, 11/5/06

"Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez has declared advancing the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America to [be] one of his top goals, writing in a letter archived on the Department of Commerce website that ‘I have made the SPP one of my top priorities and will utilize the talents and expertise of the people across the Department of Commerce to ensure the SPP is a success.’ "

"Secretary Gutierrez began his letter with obvious enthusiasm:

"I would like to bring your attention to an exciting new initiative that is a high priority for President Bush, me, and the entire Bush Administration: the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). This initiative was announced on March 23, 2005, by President Bush, President Fox of Mexico, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. It establishes the framework under which the three countries will seek to create a safer and more prosperous North America over the coming years."

"Secretary Gutierrez next laid out an explanation of how ‘security’ and ‘prosperity’ fit together, using language that carefully replaced reference to the United States of America to language embracing the concept of ‘North America’ as an economic and political reality. …"

"This tautological language was designed to present objectives that looked obviously reasonable and important, almost Orwellian in their crafting. It takes attention to detail to note that the security and prosperity definitions virtually demand our borders with Mexico and Canada be erased, all in the interest of ‘streamlining,’ ‘shared borders,’ and ‘reducing the costs of trade,’ all the while protecting our environment, our food, and our health.

"The critical part of Secretary Gutierrez’s letter came next, however, when the Secretary of Commerce explained how trilateral cabinet-level working groups would be created in the three governments with a mission to rewrite a broad array of administrative laws all to be accomplished strictly within the executive branches of Mexico, Canada, and the United States." (Emphasis added) Source: Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., NewsWithViews.com, The Free Press, 9/22/06

"To be completed over the next half-century, the NAFTA Superhighway will ultimately carve a 4,000-mile path through the nation’s heartland en route from Mexico to Canada.

"Four football fields wide, the U.S. portions of the planned corridor will stretch from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, through Duluth, Minn. and into Canada, with spurs going from Chicago to Montreal, and Fargo, N.D. to Vancouver.

"The 10-lane limited-access highway – running parallel to Interstate 35 – will have three lanes each way for passenger cars; two lanes each way exclusively for trucks; plus rail lines in both directions for passengers and freight. The giant artery also will include a utility easement for oil and natural gas pipelines, a peppering of electric towers, cables for communication, and telephone lines."

"Mexican tractor-trailers will roar along the NAFTA Superhighway in designated lanes, checked electronically by the new state-of-the-art ‘SENTRI’ system. The blur of traffic will slow only at the first customs stop – a Mexican ‘Smart Port’ office to be located in Kansas City. … One of its most controversial elements involves the way China intends to use it to ship goods northward from Mexico."

"Hutchison Whampoa, the Chinese company that has moved to take control of many of the world’s most strategic ports, has teamed up with U.S. retailer Wal-Mart in a $300 million expansion of Mexico’s Pacific port of Lazaro Cardeñas. The goal is to ramp up the port’s annual handling capacity from 100,000 containers to 2 million containers by the end of the decade."

"That’s part of an ambitious plan to have giant container ships from China and the Far East land in Mexico – bypassing the West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (and, by the way, U.S. longshoremen) – and enter the U.S. heartland via a southern terminus of the NAFTA corridor.

"This giant Chinese footprint on the vast project has triggered concerns and questions from project watchers on both sides of the Rio Grande. Does the U.S. really need to stoke consumer hunger – and the trade deficit – with this new conveyor belt of cheap Chinese goods?"

"The ‘foreign invasion’ into American trade involves a Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte S.A., which, along with San Antonio-based Zachry Construction Corp., has bought the rights to operate and collect tolls on the Texas leg of the corridor for the next 50 years. …

"[A] growing cadre of critics is now warning of environmental destruction, massive land grabs via eminent domain, low-paid Mexican drivers putting thousands of U.S. truckers out of business, increased trade deficits, and unchecked drug trafficking. …"

"Miguel Pickard, an economist and researcher in Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, and an analyst with the International Relations Center, a policy studies institute based in Silver City, N.M., sees disturbing signs ahead.

" ‘NAFTA has been in effect almost 12 years, and a new stage, NAFTA Plus, is in the works, referred to as "deep integration," particularly in Canada,’ Pickard says. ‘The elites of the three NAFTA countries [Canada, the United States, and Mexico] have been aggressively moving forward to build a new political and economic entity. A "tri-national merger" is under way that leaps beyond the single market that NAFTA envisioned and, in many ways, would constitute a single state, called simply, "North America" ’." Source: Dave Eberhart, NewsMax, November 2006, pp. 24-25

"President Bush believes America should be more of an idea than an actual place, a Republican congressman told WND in an exclusive interview.

" ‘People have to understand what we’re talking about here. The president of the United States is an internationalist,’ said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. ‘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 this guy is really going.’

"Tancredo lashed out at the White House’s lack of action in securing U.S. borders, and said efforts to merge the U.S. with both Mexico and Canada is not a fantasy.

" ‘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 just is written about by right-wing fringe kooks. 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. ...

" ‘And they would just tell you, "Well, sure, it’s a natural thing. It’s part of the great globalization ... of the economy." They assume it’s a natural, evolutionary event that’s going to occur here. I hope they’re wrong and I’m going to try my best to make sure they’re wrong. But I’m telling you the tide is great. The tide is moving in their direction. We have to say that.’ " Source: Joe Kovacs, WorldNetDaily.com, 11/19/06