THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 177, September 15, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S EFFORTS TO
COVER UP THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION:
MYTHS, FACTS, TRUTH
By Tom DeWeese
THE SECURITY & PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH AMERICA: THE PROPOSED NORTH AMERICAN UNION OF THE
U.S.A., CANADA, & MEXICO -- ITS THREAT TO THE SOVEREIGNTY & INDEPENDENCE OF THE AMERICAN NATION -- PLACING
AT RISK AMERICA'S CULTURE & COMMON NATIONAL IDENTITY, ITS BORDER SECURITY, ITS WEALTH, ITS SYSTEM OF
GOVERNMENT, & ITS ENTIRE WAY OF LIFE
FULL STORY:
“Conspiracy theories.” “Fringe nuts.” “Lies.” “Myths.” These are the words being used by Bush administration officials
and others to brand those who have reported on the activities of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
(SPP), currently operating out of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Opponents have charged that the SPP will result in the
establishment of a North American Union, much on the same lines as the European Union.
In response to its critics, the SPP has added a “SPP Myths Vs Facts” section to its website at www.SPP.gov. According to
the “Myths Vs Facts” document, the SPP is simply a “dialog” among the three countries to “enhance prosperity.” It goes
on to say the SPP is not an agreement, nor is it a treaty. It says “no agreement was ever signed.”
The truth is that, on March 23, 2005, U.S. President Geotge W. Bush met at his ranch in Crawford, Texas with Mexican
President Vicente Fox and Paul Martin (then Prime Minister of Canada) in what they called a Summit. The three national
leaders then drove to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where they issued a press release announcing their signing of an
agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).
This year, on March 31, 2006, Bush. Fox and new Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, met in Cancun, Mexico. This
time, their press release celebrated what they called the first anniversary of the SPP.
The use of the word “dialog” is a carefully selected euphemism designed to make the SPP sound like an innocent
discussion among friends. To admit that it is anything more, would force the U.S. government to provide constitutional
justification for its actions.
Moreover, the SPP says it won’t change our court system or legislative process and that it respects the sovereignty of
each of the three nation-states. And, says the SPP Myths and Facts document, it strongly rejects the idea that it is
creating a European Union-like structure.
That defense is almost laughable, in light of the massive activity taking place in the SPP office located in the U.S.
Commerce Department.
First, one must know that the European Union was also originally sold to the nations on the European continent as
simply a trade and security framework. The idea, said proponents, was to create an economic structure to allow a
combined European economy to compete with the United States and other economic powerhouses. Only a few years
later, nations were told they needed a common currency to provide seamless trade. At the same time, the working groups
organizing the EU policy began to morph into what today has become a European Union parliament, which now is
working to create a means of taxation, regulation of commerce, and a court system.
Now, in offices buried in the bureaucratic structures of the United States, Canada and Mexico, twenty “working groups”
are hard at work writing policy initiatives for the SPP, covering a wide range of issues, including those relating to the
manufacture and movement of goods across the borders of the three North American nations; creation of a common
energy policy and common environmental regulations over the three nations; regulation of E-commerce and information
communications and technologies; establishment of financial services, including loan policy and foreign aid policy;
oversight of business facilitation, and creation of the rules under which businesses will operate in the three nations;
establishment of food and agriculture policy; and oversight of transportation and health policy.
These policy directives will infringe on every aspect of our lives. Can anyone seriously accept the Bush administration’s
explanation that nothing really important is going on here? That this is only a friendly discussion taking place? That
nothing will change in the way our government operates? If that were so, then why are we doing it? Why are so much
time, money, and energy being taken up in an effort that means nothing? The answer, of course, is that lots is going on.
It’s no accident that the SPP is working out of the NAFTA office of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was the precursor to the Security and Prosperity Partnership. According to
investigative journalist, Jerome Corsi, a key part of the SPP plan is to expand the NAFTA tribunals into a North
American Union court system.
Under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA Agreement, a tribunal conducts a behind closed-doors “trial” to decide the cases
dealing with how state and federal laws may damage NAFTA business. If NAFTA investors believe state or federal laws
damage their NAFTA businesses, under the tribunal, the investor may sue the government, and taxpayers will foot the
bill. The NAFTA tribunal decision trumps the U.S. courts, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, the Bush
administration insists the SPP will have no effect on our court system.
The SPP says it is a myth that Congress is not involved or supportive of its actions. The truth is, to date, there has been
no legislation passed by Congress to permit the SPP's actions. No taxpayer funds have been appropriated. One “hearing”
was held in Senator Richard Lugar’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was a friendly affair, with friendly “dialog.”
No tough questions were asked. No one was held accountable for SPP actions.
Meanwhile, members of Congress are beginning to become aware of the SPP activities at the Commerce Department.
Representative Tom Tancredo (Republican - Colorado) is demanding that the Bush administration fully disclose the
activities of the SPP, which Tancredo says, has no authorization from Congress.
Specifically, Tancredo wants to know the membership of the SPP working groups. To date, no one knows who is involved,
or who is performing the work to create the policies of the SPP. Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told World Net
Daily that the work has not been disclosed because “We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups
distracted by calls from the public.” Yet the SPP denies it is working in secret.
Additional congressional reaction has come from Senator John Cornyn (Republican -Texas). He had introduced a bill,
“The North American Investment Act” (S.3622). Incredibly, the bill contains near exact language from the book by Robert
Pastor entitled Toward a North American Community. Pastor’s book is largely considered to be the blue print for
the creation of the North American Union. Much of the contents of the book later appeared in a report from the Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR) entitled Building a North American Community. That report was issued just a week
before the Summit in Waco.
However, once these facts were demonstrated to Senator Cornyn, he immediately took efforts to assure S.3622 would
not be voted on in the Senate. His spokesman stated that Senator Cornyn “is adamantly opposed to any ‘North
American Union’ being formed like the EU had been formed in Europe.” Regardless of how the Bush administration
spins it, there is no congressional authorization for SPP actions or spending.
The SPP denies that it is planning to create a common currency for the North American Union, a unique currency some
have called the “Amero.” However, on April 6, 2006, the SPP announced the formation of the Financial Services Working
Group. According to its own news release, the Financial Group will focus on “enhancing processes for addressing
banking, securities, and insurance issues.” It goes on to say, “U.S. financial regulatory agencies will play a critical role in
the SPP.”
In truth, the SPP is being put into place incrementally. It will take years before everything is in place. It took the European
Union several years to create the Euro. However, the guiding documents from Dr. Pastor’s book and the CFR report call
for the creation of a North American currency. It is obvious, if one dissects the double speak of the bureaucratic language
of the SPP, in order for it to reach its goal to “reduce the cost of trade,” “combat counterfeiting,” and “facilitate trade”
among three nations trying to act as one, the drive for a single currency will not be questioned.
NAFTA was the first step in creating a North American Union. It was sold as a means to enhance trade among the North
American nations. All were promised greater exports, better jobs, and better wages. In truth, NAFTA is an unmitigated
failure for all but a very few. The U.S. trade deficit has soared to almost $1 trillion per year, while the U.S.A. has lost some
1.5 million jobs, and real wages in both the U.S.A. and Mexico have fallen significantly. Yet, the agenda is set, and so our
government presses on.
The latest objective is the NAFTA super highway on which construction is planned to begin next year. It would bisect
Texas from its border with Mexico to Oklahoma. It will travel on to Kansas City where an “inland port” is now in the final
planning stages.
Plans call for a ten lane, limited access highway to parallel I-35 It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two
express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and natural gas
pipelines, electric towers, cables for communications, and telephone lines. The highway will require the taking of more
than 500,000 acres of private land and is estimated to displace a million Americans from their property. Eminent Domain
will be the tool of choice for the massive land grab – now made easier by last year’s Supreme Court ruling in the Kelo
case.
The Kansas City Smart Port will be literally the first checkpoint on a highway that will run all the way from Colombia
through the heartland of the United States. Mexico will have a facility on the KC Smart Port site that it now insists will be
Mexican sovereign land.
To make the NAFTA super highway reality, the borders of the three nations must disappear. Immigration will simply
become “migration.” Border laws cannot exist. “Harmonizing” of our societies is becoming the catch phrase.
The SPP says its purpose is to guarantee security and prosperity for the three nations. The NAFTA model has already
proven there will be no prosperity. The NAFTA super highway is proof there can be no security as we pave the way for
more illegal aliens to flood the nation, as truckloads of illegal drugs fly up the highway and terrorists just hitch a ride.
The United States is the most unique nation on earth. Our nation was created out of the fundamental idea that free
people, living under a genuinely representative government of constitutionally limited powers, a government with the
constitutional obligation and mandate to observe and protect the people's basic rights and liberties, would be happy
and prosper beyond imagination. The idea worked. Now, the Bush administration is ignoring this historic fact to
“harmonize” us with Canada, and especially with Mexico, which is not a free country, has no property rights, and has
just proved its unworthiness of conducting free and fair elections. At risk are our culture, our wealth, our constitutional
democratic system of government, and the once proud American way of life.
Americans must now understand that the battle to stop the North American Union is the last stand for a free and
independent United States of America. That is not a “Myth.” It is the truth.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
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Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Immigration, Illegal Aliens, & U.S. Border Control
The Anglosphere -- The English-Speaking World:
The U.S.A., Britain, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand
Canada: America's Northern Neighbor & Ally
Latin America -- Economics, Politics, Political Regimes,
& Relations with the United States of America:
Problems & Opportunities for the U.S.A.
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THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
American Government -- Constitutional System
The Constitution of the United States of America
The American Political System -- Politics &
Government in the U.S.A.: Political Science Course
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
English Antecedents
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
Colonial & Early American Antecedents
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The U.S. Constitution -- Ratification & Adoption
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The U.S. Constitution -- The Scheme of National Government
The American Constitutional System -- Principal Characteristics:
Constitutionalism, Republicanism, Separation of Powers,
Checks & Balances, Legislative Bicameralism,
& Balanced Government
The American Constitutional System -- Principal Characteristics:
Federalism -- Fedural Union of States
The U.S. Constitution -- Underlying Political Theory:
The Federalist -- Selected Essays
Tom DeWeese is the Publisher and Editor of The DeWeese Report and President of the American Policy Center, a
grassroots activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia. The Center maintains an Internet website at
www.americanpolicy.org.
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