The Bush Administration covers-up the "North American Union" plot against Canada
Myths, Facts - Truth?
by Tom DeWeese, Special Guest Columnist
"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 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 "dialogue" 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 "dialogue" 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 defence 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 a lot 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 his or het 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.
Myths, Facts - Truth?
by Tom DeWeese, Special Guest Columnist
"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 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 "dialogue" 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 "dialogue" 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 defence 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 a lot 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 his or het 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.
