http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.politics.e/ Posts for alt.politics.e Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:32:21 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.politics.e/the_last_3_lines_of_your_story_ended_in_2006_this_is_49452709t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.politics.e/the_last_3_lines_of_your_story_ended_in_2006_this_is_49452709t.html This is 2007. Are you stupid, asleep or ignorant?

"Sapien" ertd.com> wrote in message
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> 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, continue 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 for 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 21st 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 Mexican 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 Representative where every seat is up for grabs.
>

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