Posted: 09/25/2006
The Bush Administration’s efforts to cover up the North American Union Myths, Facts -- Truth By Tom DeWeese
“Conspiracy theories.” “Fringe nuts.” “Lies.” “Myths.” These are the words being used by officials of the Bush Administration and others to brand those who have reported on the activities of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), currently operating out of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Opponents have charged the SPP will result in the establishment of a North American Union, much on the same lines as the European Union.
In response to its critics, the SPP has added a “SPP Myths Vs Facts” section to its website at www.SPP.gov. According to the “Myths Vs Facts” document the SPP is simply a “dialog” among the three countries to “enhance prosperity.” It goes on to say the SPP is not an agreement, nor is it a treaty. It says “no agreement was ever signed.”
The truth is, on March 23, 2005, President Bush met at his ranch in Crawford, Texas with Vicente Fox and Paul Martin (then PM of Canada) in what they called a Summit. The three heads of state then drove to Baylor University in Waco, where they issued a press release announcing their signing of an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).
This year, on March 31, 2006, Bush. Fox and new Canadian PM, Stephen Harper met in Cancun, Mexico. This time their press release celebrated what they called the first anniversary of the SPP.
The use of the word “dialog” is a carefully selected euphemism designed to make the SPP sound like an innocent discussion among friends. To admit that it is anything more would force the government to provide Constitutional justification for its actions.
Moreover, the SPP says it won’t change our court system or legislative process and that it respects the sovereignty of each nation. And, says the SPP Myths and Facts document, it strongly rejects the idea that it is creating a European Union-like structure.
That defense is almost laughable in light of the massive activity-taking place in the SPP office located in the Commerce Department.
First one must know that the European Union was also originally sold to the nations on the European continent as simply a trade and security framework. The idea, said proponents, was to create an economic structure to allow a combined European economy to compete with the United States and other economic powerhouses. Only a few years later nations were told they needed a common currency to provide seamless trade. At the same time, the working groups organizing the EU policy began to morph into what today has become a European Union parliament, which now is working to create a means of taxation, regulation of commerce and a court system.
Now, in offices buried in the bureaucratic structures of the United States, Canada and Mexico, twenty “working groups” are hard at work writing policy initiatives for the SPP, covering a wide range of issues including, the manufacture and movement of goods across the borders of the three North American nations: creating a common energy policy and common environmental regulations over the three nations; regulating E-commerce and information communications and technologies; establishing financial services, including loan policy and foreign aid policy; overseeing business facilitation, creating the rules under which businesses will operate in the three nations; establishing food and agriculture policy; and overseeing transportation and health policy.
These policy directives will infringe on every aspect of our lives. Can anyone seriously accept the Administration’s explanation that nothing really important is going on here? That this is only a friendly discussion taking place? That nothing will change in the way our government operates? If that were so, then why are we doing it? Why are so much time, money and energy being taken up in an effort that means nothing? The answer, of course, is that lots is going on.
It’s no accident that the SPP is working out of the NAFTA office of the Department of Commerce. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was the precursor to the Security and Prosperity Partnership. According to investigative journalist, Jerome Corsi, a key part of the SPP plan is to expand the NAFTA tribunals into a North American Union court system.
Under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA Agreement, a tribunal conducts a behind closed-doors “trial” to decide the cases dealing with how state and federal laws may damage NAFTA business. If NAFTA investors believe state or federal laws damage their NAFTA businesses, under the tribunal the investor may sue the government and taxpayers will foot the bill. The NAFTA tribunal decision trumps the U.S. courts, all the way to the Supreme Court. Yet, the Bush Administration insists the SPP will have no effect on our court system.
The SPP says it is a myth that Congress is not involved or supportive of its actions. The truth is, to date, there has been no legislation passed by Congress to permit its actions. No taxpayer funds have been appropriated. One “hearing” was held in Senator Richard Lugar’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was a friendly affair with friendly “dialog.” No tough questions were asked. No one was held accountable for their actions.
Meanwhile, members of Congress are beginning to become aware of the SPP activities at the Commerce Department. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) is demanding the Bush Administration fully disclose the activities of the SPP, which he says, has no authorization from Congress.
Specifically, Tancredo wants to know the membership of the SPP working groups. To date, no one knows who is involved, or is performing the work to create the policies of the SPP. Geri Word, who heads the SPP office told World Net Daily that the work has not been disclosed because “We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public.” Yet the SPP denies it is working in secret.
Additional congressional reaction has come from Senator John Cornyn (R-TX). He had introduced a bill, “The North American Investment Act” (S.3622). Incredibly the bill contains near exact language from the book by Robert Pastor entitled “Toward a North American Community.” Pastor’s book is largely considered to be the blue print for the creation of the North American Union. Much of the contents of the book later appeared in a report from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) entitled “Building a North American Community.” That report was issued just a week before the Summit in Waco.
However, once these facts were demonstrated to Senator Cornyn, he immediately took efforts to assure S.3622 would not be voted on in the Senate. His spokesman stated that Senator Cornyn “is adamantly opposed to any ‘North American Union’ being formed like the EU had been formed in Europe.” Regardless of how the Administration spins it, there is no congressional authorization for SPP actions or spending.
The SPP denies that it is planning to create a unique currency some have called the “Amero.” However, on April 6, 2006, the SPP announced the formation of the Financial Services Working Group. According to its own news release, the Financial Group will focus on “enhancing processes for addressing banking, securities, and insurance issues.” It goes on to say, “U.S. financial regulatory agencies will play a critical role in the SPP.”
In truth, the SPP is being put into place incrementally. It will take years before everything is in place. It took the European Union several years to create the Euro. However, the guiding documents from Dr. Pastor’s book and the CFR report both call for the creation of a North American currency. It is obvious, if one dissects the double speak of the bureaucratic language of the SPP, in order for it to reach its goal to “reduce the cost of trade,” “combat counterfeiting,” and “facilitate trade” among three nations trying to act as one, the drive for a single currency will not be questioned.
And finally, there is the issue of the NAFTA super highway. NAFTA was the first step in creating a North American Union. It was sold as a means to enhance trade among the North American nations. All were promised greater exports, better jobs and better wages. In truth, NAFTA is an unmitigated failure for all but a very few. The U.S. trade deficit has soared to almost $1 trillion per year; The U.S. has lost some 1.5 million jobs and real wages in both the U.S. and Mexico have fallen significantly. Yet, the agenda is set and so our government presses on.
The latest objective is the NAFTA super highway on which construction is planned to begin next year. It would bisect Texas from its border with Mexico to Oklahoma. It will travel on to Kansas City where an “inland port” is now in the final planning stages.
Plans call for a ten lane, limited access highway to parallel I-35 It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for communications and telephone lines. The highway will require the taking of more than 500,000 acres of private land and is estimated to displace a million Americans from their property. Eminent Domain will be the tool of choice for the massive land grab – now made easier by last year’s Supreme Court ruling in the Kelo case.
The Kansas City Smart Port will be literally the first checkpoint on a highway that will run all the way from Columbia through the Hartland of the United States. Mexico will have a facility on the KC Smart Port site that it now insists will be Mexican sovereign land.
To make the NAFTA super highway reality, the borders of the three nations must disappear. Immigration will simply become “migration.” Border laws cannot exist. “Harmonizing” of our societies is becoming the catch phrase.
The SPP says its purpose is to guarantee security and prosperity for the three nations. The NAFTA model has already proven there will be no prosperity. The NAFTA super highway is proof there can be no security as we pave the way for more illegals to flood the nation, as truckloads of illegal drugs fly up the highway and terrorists just hitch a ride.
The United States is the most unique nation on earth. We were created out of a radical idea that free people, with their freedoms protected by the government would be happy and prosper beyond imagination. The idea worked. Now, the Bush Administration is ignoring this historic fact to “harmonize” us with Canada and especially Mexico, which is not a free country; has no property and has just proved its unworthiness of conducting free and fair elections. At risk are our culture, our wealth, and the once proud American way of life.
Americans must now understand that the battle to stop the North American Union is the last stand for a free and independent United States. That’s not a “Myth” it’s the truth.
Tom DeWeese is President of the American Policy Center and Editor of The DeWeese Report. www.americanpolicy.org
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I read these posts and the thought that comes to mind is that Americans are highly distracted, we all are. Read about the Apostles and the great's of the Bible and you will see they are of single purpose. We are called to be of single purpose- to love God with ALL our hearts, soul, mind and strength...to die to self and to SERVE our neighbors. Yet, in America our information comes in sound bites, our food comes at the drive thru, our kids walk thru the door at 9pm, our sleep comes in 5-6 hour spurts, and our devotion to what's really important suffers. Let's be frank, my specialty, we are too busy chasing the world to save it. Our marriage suffer, our kids suffer, and our society is at the brink of colapse. We must come together for the common purpose- not God, not salvation since these are the works of the HS. Our common purpose is rightousness!! We need to preach, live, and actively DEFEND rightousness always. (2 Chron 7:14) Only then will God restore our land. John Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 08/24/07 08:56:51 AM
Age 53, FL
Just as Adam fell from grace so can we as a nation. As a Christian Nation the United States of America’s failure to follow God’s teachings comes with a warning in the prayer from Deuteronomy Chapter 28. First we will ignore all of God’s commands, even taking them out of the court house, turning us into a secular humanist epicurean society. Second the alien among us will rise higher and higher. Then we will serve other gods. The Hindu prayer opening the Senate at the invitation of Democratic Senator Reid was a giant step in this direct. Have you picked a new god yet?
Today, God is testing us as a people just as George Washington lamented “since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people...”
God did not and does not provide the nation itself with direct revelations rather GOD working through the Spirit of his son, Jesus Christ provides for freedom of choice for everyone including individual leaders. The people of the nation must choose to follow Christ and elect Godly people to leadership positions. Jesus Christ wants us to fully understand that a true follower of Christ must freely make the choice to follow Him on his own accord as no external force or law will achieve victory over a man’s heart. Adam’s fall from grace proved that. As a Nation of Christian people the United States of America has been used by GOD to apply love and peace to a troubled world. However the political country itself is not the servant of GOD, GOD depends on individuals with faith and religion to obey his teaching with love and understanding as they use their worldly positions to help others and administer justice. The decisions they make should be based on understanding Gods love for his children.
We should look to be used as children of God to reach the world. Do you think God might be saying that if you will not go out I will bring the people to you? Look for the opportunity. Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 08/23/07 05:43:14 PM
Age 58, HI
If you really want to do something about it, the time will come with your vote. Ron Paul is the only answer out there politically. Check him out, just Google "Ron Paul" Click here to reply to this post
Re: The Bush Administration's Efforts To Cover up the North American Union
Posted On: 10/04/06 09:58:56 AM
Age 58, TX
Why is our own government trying to destroy this country? We have enough to worry about (terrorists, North Korea, Iran) without having to worry about our own government turning this GREAT county into an EU wannabe! Our ancestors didn't fight, and die, so this country could be part of some "New World Order"!! As large and bountiful as this country is, just WHO is pushing the idea that we "need to bond" with other countries to survive? We definitly don't need to bond with countries like Columbia, Venezula and MEXICO, whose people are flocking here illegally in droves. Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 10/01/06 02:15:43 PM
Age 54, MN
How easy it is to conclude by saying, "God is in control." While that is a true thing, it should not prevent and keep us from speaking out and getting involved in pursuing a resolution to this awful plan. Therefore, please let's stop apathetically concluding, God is in control when we still have the power to do something. Ultimately HE IS in control but don't forget, He has given us free will. Therefore, let us be busy to utilize our God-given freedom and abilities. Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 09/30/06 10:16:52 PM
Age 48, VA
I wonder if this is what the first President Bush meant when he said he wanted to create a "new world order"? Is the son finishing something his father started? I have heard many Bible commentators say that it is their understanding that the United States does not figure into the events of the end times, at least not any Biblical reference that can be definitely identified as the USA. I have heard several of them say that it was their opinion that the US would have declined from super-power status before the events of the end times take place. Looking at what is going on with Iran, N. Korea, and now the SPP and our own gevernment just makes me that much more certain that for us, time is short on this earth. I have no doubt that God's plan is unfolding exactly as it should, but it should make all of us that much more determined to carry the Gospel to every person everywhere. Time is short. Let's be busy with God's work! Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 10/02/06 08:46:33 AM
Age 70, OH
Just want to point out that this end time scenario is not Gods Plan, but the telling of it in the Bible is God foreseeing what Man will do. He gave dominion of this Earth, over to Man. God sees from the beginning to the End. Man is destroying himself. Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 09/28/06 12:28:11 PM
Age 56, CA
God is in control and this day for the United States had to come. It still leaves one with a discomforting feeling that the country who fought so hard for freedom and liberty is walking down a path of destruction. We as Christians also need to stand up and speak up for the freedoms and the liberty God granted this country and bring the Gospel back to the United States of America. We will be persecuted for our faith in Christ and we must prepare outselves for the battles to come for they will come sooner than we all want to believe. President Bush is an instrument of God and His plan for the world to come. Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 10/02/06 08:58:45 AM
Age 70, OH
No, we dont need to prepare for any battles; the battles ahead are not for His Children. And no, Bush is not ''Gods man''. He is doing the destruction of satan. I surely hope you know better than to think George is a christian, when his fruits show otherwise.
"bring the gospel back to american''? What does that mean? Imight point out that americans do not want the Gospel; they want their ears tickled. The Gospel didnt go anywhere; its still right here in my bible. Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 09/27/06 02:44:53 PM
Age 57, NC
I agree, but you can write all the artcles you want but this is all Gods master plan that has to take place as it is truly written in his Sacred Word. We just need to be ready for that day and not concern ourselves with these matters because we have no control at all and no real say so. Staying in the spirit of the Lord will occupy our souls. We must stay fed in the Word. Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 09/28/06 12:57:00 AM
Age 69, OR
Reguardless of your faith---we as Americans can not stand by and let this injustice stand. We have had two presidents who do not represent America. America can not sustain another CFR president.
If you are not up to par on CFR I suggest you get that way.
We are about to loose America --without a shot fired. Sad to say but intertainment is more important than FREEDOM to Americans.
We need to pull our heads out of the sand.
Partys to our politics only divides us.
There are Two partys???think about that!
We vote for representation--but the politicians have cut our choice to who they pick---Not or pick.
We blindly follow party lines. It is time Americans chose from the field--Not Partys. Click here to reply to this post
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Re: The Bush Administrations efforts The Bush Administration's Efforts To Cover up the North American Union
Posted On: 09/26/06 10:19:29 PM
Age 59, MI
This will be very bad for the propagation of the Gospel. Our rights to deseminate the Word of God will be curtailed, under threat of monetary penilty or jail time, because our Gospel will not be 'tolerated' by those in positions of power who wish to have us live under Mexican and Canadian laws. A time of persecution will have arrived in America. Click here to reply to this post
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Posted On: 09/26/06 10:15:13 PM
Age 59, MI
This will be very bad for the propagation of the Gospel. Our rights to deseminate the Word of God will be curtailed, under threat of monetary penilty or jail time, because our Gospel will not be 'tolerated' by those in positions of power who wish to have us live under Mexican and Canadian laws. A time of persecution will have arrived in America. Click here to reply to this post
