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North American Union: Remaking Three Nations

by Diane Alden

Jerome Corsi conducted an excellent investigation into the upcoming "North American Union." Corsi broke ground that the mainstream media continue to ignore. With respect to border issues, illegal immigration, U.S. trade policy, national security and the integrity of the nation-state of America, his conclusions are ominous.

Corsi writes:

"The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), signed by President Bush with Mexico and Canada in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005, was fundamentally an agreement to erase our borders with Mexico and Canada. ... The SPP 'working groups' organized within the U.S. Department of Transportation are signing trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements with Mexico and Canada designed to accomplish the open borders goal incrementally, below the radar of mainstream media attention, thereby avoiding public scrutiny. Congress is largely unaware that SPP exists, let alone knowledgeable about the extensive work being done behind the scenes by the executive branch to advance the agenda articulated by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) to establish a North American Union as a new regional super-government by 2010."

This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to the goal of North American integration when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.

The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people." The SPP Web site is almost verbatim the CFR outline for the North American Union. It also declares creation of a "common security perimeter" that will require us to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations" with Mexico and Canada.

A precursor to the "Summit of the Americas" at Waco in 2005: Before the events of 9/11 stopped him, President George W. Bush signed the Declaration of Quebec City on April 22, 2001, which was a "commitment to hemispheric integration." It was full of overblown rhetoric and it has been followed up by many speeches including his second inaugural address in 2005 – all of them loaded with U.N. double talk such as "interdependent," "greater economic integration," and "sustainable development."

In any event, the Summit of the Americas in Waco in 2005 gave birth to the Security Prosperity Partnership. The summit was simply a post-9/11, post-Iraqi invasion continuation of Bush's desire to promote the concept that commerce and material interest are at the core of what drives men and nations. His zeal to create a North American Union is one more example of a kind of messianic attempt to recreate the world believing that economics, trade and commerce trump all other desires or questions.

No More Borders – No More United States of America

Corsi figured out not long ago why nothing is being done about the porous borders and the reason why George W. Bush and the establishment shakers and movers want open borders.

He writes in Human Events Online:

"The June 2005 ‘Report to Leaders' references that the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was announced at the Waco summit in March 2005. Yet, the SPP declaration was neither a treaty nor a law. The legal status of the declaration was not much more than a press release issued by President Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin. Still, somehow SPP.gov conveys the impression that the Waco declaration created de facto a new NAFTA-plus legal status between the three countries that is designated the ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,' or ‘SPP' for short."

Like Bill Clinton, George W. Bush has claimed powers for the executive branch that give the presidency the power of a benevolent dictator while reducing the Congress to some sort of rubber stamp or Greek chorus. Insiders claim that the influence of Dick Cheney and others have impacted Bush's attempt to claim powers that Cheney and others believe were destroyed when Richard Nixon left office.

As it is, the creation of the North American Union will depend on the misuse of the regulatory system and incremental implementation through regulations to create the NAU. U.S. bureaucrats and agencies caving to the will and dictum of institutions such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank, World Court, NAFTA tribunal, or "study groups" composed of "stakeholders" and "experts" is the process making the NAU a reality.

Rule by Regulation: How to Overthrow a Republic

The SPP sets as one of its goals: Regulatory Cooperation to Generate Growth. What that includes is "harmonization" of economies – rules and regulations created by a group of unknowns and "experts" that impact all aspects of life. The result will be an end to U.S. sovereignty, America as a nation-state.

You may ask: So, how can they do this without Congress knowing about it?

Dr. Corsi claims, "I cannot find U.S. congressmen or senators who will identify any specific congressional examination or oversight that [has] been exercised over these SPP working groups that apparently have been convened to implement what amounts to only a joint press release declared from the trilateral summit in Waco." [Summit of the Americas, Waco, Texas, 2005]

Corsi also believes the Bush administration is creating a North American Union through the regulatory system fabricated by unelected bureaucrats and agency appointees as well as NAFTA or trade tribunals. The new court system would trump U.S. laws and courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Everything would take second place to expanding and promoting the "harmonization" or "integration" of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

According to Dr. Corsi:

"Chapter 11 of the NAFTA agreement allows a private NAFTA foreign investor to sue the U.S. government if the investor believes a state or federal law damages the investor's NAFTA business. … Under Chapter 11, NAFTA establishes a tribunal that conducts a behind closed-doors ‘trial' to decide the case according to the legal principals established by either the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes or the UN's Commission for International Trade Law. … U.S. laws can be effectively overturned and the NAFTA Chapter 11 tribunal can impose millions or billions of dollars in fines on the U.S. government, to be paid ultimately by the U.S. taxpayer."

Then, of course, there are terrible hemispheric agreements like CAFTA, passed last year by two votes. Full of hundreds of pages of bureaucratese, CAFTA gives an undetermined authority to foreign tribunals so as to make sure U.S. laws are "no more burdensome than necessary" on foreign trade.

Congress didn't pay attention to the details, the language, and the regulatory outline in CAFTA any better than they did in signing onto NAFTA, with its 400 pages of rules, regulations, and tribunals. They will most likely be just as obtuse when they will allow their arms to be twisted by powerful business and trade groups, as well as the Bush administration, to pass the upcoming Free Trade Act of the Americas after the November elections.

Additionally, when it comes to immigration and trade issues, you can count on U.S. efforts to protect itself from a human tide of illegal migration and bad trade deals being overturned by a supranational trade-related court or tribunal that will routinely and inevitably expand its power and scope. Meanwhile, count on Congress to stick its collective head in the sand.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Utopia

The SPP Web site is pretty clear on the effort to remake three sovereign nations: "The SPP builds upon, but is separate from, our long-standing trade and economic relationships. It energizes other aspects of our cooperative relations, such as the protection of our environment, our food supply, and our public health."

It also calls for the free movement of people and goods across borders. This is one of several reasons you and I are never going to see a workable border security plan or an end to illegal immigration come out of the Bush administration. It won't be necessary once the "plan" is implemented in full in the next 10 years.

As the SPP Web site tells us:

"Following the March 23, 2005, launch of the SPP, each nation established Security and Prosperity working groups to fulfill the vision of the North American Heads of State. The working groups will consult with stakeholders; set specific, measurable, and achievable goals and implementation dates; and identify concrete steps the governments can take to achieve these goals. An initial report is due to Heads of Government on June 23 with semi-annual progress reports thereafter."

The so-called prosperity "working groups" of experts and stakeholders cover a wide range of issues:

Manufactured Goods & Sectional and Regional Competitiveness
Movement of Goods
Energy
Environment
E-Commerce & Information Communications Technologies
Financial Services
Business Facilitation
Food and Agriculture
Transportation

The long and short of it: Misusing his office and ignoring his oath of office, George W. Bush's "security and prosperity" effort should have been nothing but a minor agreement between neighbors that would have retained the sovereignty and integrity of three nations: U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Instead it has become a shotgun wedding forced on us by a bunch of megalomaniac policy loons, out of control and out of touch, and certainly without the "consent of the governed."

Once more, we are witnessing an uncaring, uninformed George W. Bush rule by fiat, claiming powers to himself and the executive branch which cannot be found in the Constitution except through a disgraceful interpretation of the commerce clause.

I strongly urge you to read the documents on the SPP Web site, as well as Corsi's series on the NAU. Also important are the working papers of the CFR on "Building a North American Community," and American University's Richard Pastor on the same topic. These efforts are both illuminating and scary, to say the least.

I also urge you to pay attention to what your elected representatives, particularly those in the U.S. Senate, do. Forget partisan squabbles or tiffs involving "conservative" or "liberal" celebrities and newspeople. The nation is being lost because we are being sidetracked by rubbish that does not amount to a hill of beans.

Demand the Congress to stop the NAU from being more than one more awful, destructive economic agreement the leaders of the U.S. routinely sign.

Your freedom, country and system depend on what you do now.

Related Reading:

Jerome Corsi: President Quietly Creating 'NAFTA Plus'
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15059 


Jerome Corsi: North American Union Would Trump U.S. Supreme Court
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15623 


Jerome Corsi: Bush Administration Erases U.S. Borders With Mexico and Canada
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15809


The Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2005/july05/psrjuly05.html 


CFR Report: "Building a North American Community"
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf


Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America http://spp.gov


Robert Pastor: "A North American Community"
http://www.american.edu/internationalaffairs/cnas/PastorTrilateral.pdf

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