Where is talk radio on this subject. Sound the alarms.
In March 2005 at their summit meeting in Waco, Tex., President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin issued a joint statement announced 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 Mexico Canada
Reporting in June 2005 to the heads of state of the three countries, the trilateral SPP emphasized the extensive working group structure that had been established to pursue an ambitious agenda:
In
carrying out your instructions, we established working groups under
both agendas of the Partnership – Security and Prosperity. We held
roundtables with stakeholders, meetings with business groups and
briefing sessions with Legislatures, as well as with other relevant
political jurisdictions. The result is a detailed series of actions
and recommendations designed to increase the competitiveness of North America
This is not a theoretical exercise being prepared so it can be submitted for review. Instead, SPP is producing an action agreement to be implemented directly by regulations, without any envisioned direct Congressional oversight.
Upon your review and approval, we will once again meet with stakeholders and work with them to implement the workplans that we have developed.
And again, the June 2005 SPP report stresses:
The
success of our efforts will be defined less by the contents of the work
plans than by the actual implementation of initiatives and strategies
that will make North America
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. U.S.
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 some 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. Mexico
Canada Mexico North America
The extensive working group activity being implemented right now by the government of Mexico Canada United States
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
What will happen to the sovereignty of the United States United States
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 North America
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.
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