THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 133, July 15, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
GOODBYE AMERICA, HELLO NORTH AMERICAN UNION
By Alan Caruba
NATIONHOOD, NATIONALISM, INTERNATIONALISM, & INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL & ECONOMIC ARRANGEMENTS:
THE SOCALLED SECURITY & PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP & THE PROPOSED NORTH AMERICAN UNION -- THREAT TO
NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY, U.S. BORDER SECURITY, THE MARKET ECONOMY,
CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, & THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE OF ACCOUNTABILITY OF PUBLIC
POLICY DECISION-MAKERS TO THE LEGISLATURE & THE GENERAL PUBLIC -- THE SECRETIVE PROCESS WHEREBY THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE IS BEING UNDERMINED, A PROCESS INVOLVING THE
HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT & A CONSORTIUM OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
FULL STORY:
In a month, August 20 and 21, the leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico will sit down together in Montebello,
Quebec, to discuss making the borders between these three nations disappear. They will discuss progress on a vast
highway project passing through America to link Mexico with Canada.
So far, no one has asked the citizens of these three nations whether they want to do this. It is not up for a vote in the U.S.
Congress and, indeed, Congress has no supervision over the gnomes in the U.S. Department of Commerce who are busily
“harmonizing” the laws under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).
We’re told, since this is not a treaty, Congress has no constitutional oversight obligation. I guess it’s more like a nice big
handshake between the Presidents and Prime Minister of these three nations, Heads of Government who, let’s face it, just
know better than the rest of us. I mean, do Canadians really think they’re in charge of Canada? Americans should have a
say about programs affecting America? Or has anyone asked Mexicans if they want to be part of some “harmonized”
configuration not unlike the European Union?
Last time I checked, the European Union lacked a constitution because some of its member states, notably France, had
rejected the one that was offered. The Constitutions of the United States, Canada, and Mexico are about three sovereign
states determining their own respective regulations and laws. So far, fourteen U.S. states -- member-states of the American
federal union -- have passed resolutions in their respective state legislatures directing the U.S. national government to
abandon further activities involving SPP.
Part of the opposition is directed at what is generally called the NAFTA Superhighway -- an exceptionally wide corridor
that would include rail lines, freeways, and pipelines from Mexico to the Canadian border. The Texas legislature passed a
law intended to slow down the highway project with a two-year moratorium. The vote in the Texas House of
Representatives was 137-2 in favor of the moratorium. The Texas Senate passed it with only four votes in opposition, but
the Governor vetoed it in late June, thus opening the door to the seizure of the private property needed for the
Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC).
It turns out that Texas had already signed a 50-year lease with a private Spanish company named Cintra, a lease that
permits no competition in the form of building and maintaining new government roads or improving existing ones going in
the same direction.
Why are we not surprised to know that SPP was kicked off in 2005 by a meeting in Crawford, Texas, of the then-Heads of
Government of the three nations -- a meeting hosted by U.S. President George W. Bush, a former Governor of Texas?
Bush has been a leading proponent of the “immigration reform” legislation that more than two-thirds of Americans polled
say they do not want. Tucked into those “reforms” were provisions to advance SPP. A Teddy Kennedy amendment to S.
1348 asserts that, “It is the sense of the Congress that the United States and Mexico should accelerate the implementation
of the Partnership for Prosperity to help generate economic growth and improve the standard of living in Mexico, which
will lead to reduced immigration.” Oh, yeah? And here I thought the economic well being of Mexico was the job of the
Mexican government.
As this is written, the President and the Congress have the lowest popularity ratings ever. Perhaps it has something to do
with a secretive process involving the highest levels of government and a consortium of multinational corporations who
are eager for the nation-busting North American Union and the superhighway?
Indeed, “secretive” was the mode of operation for SPP from the beginning. Last year, from September 12 to 14, a gathering
sponsored by something called the North American Forum, brought together some very powerful people, but the media
was not informed about it, nor has a list of attendees been available. One Canadian commentator has written that, “There is
no better indication that these meetings and the SPP itself, constitute a parallel governing structure — unaccountable to
any democratic institution or the public.”
This is not the way America, Canada, and presumably, Mexico are supposed to be governed. The public outcry against the
proposed immigration reform bill was enough to kill it in its present form.
In his book, The Late Great U.S.A. ($25.95, WND Books), Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., warns that, “There are movements
afoot in Mexico, Canada, and the United States similar to those in Europe that led to the formation of the European Union[,]
[movements] that, if left unchecked, will erode U.S. sovereignty and lead to a North American Union.”
Perhaps when Congress begins to raise our taxes, authorize a superhighway and offer yet another amnesty to millions of
illegal aliens, the American people may take notice and want to do something about it. By then, however, it will be too late.
That’s what President Bush is counting on. Meanwhile, he has a big calendar counting down the days to January 20, 2008,
when he can start cashing in on having sold out the rest of us.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Culture, Patriotism, & American National Identity
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
Infrastructure Problems & Issues:
Energy, Transportation, Water & Sewer Systems,
Security Systems, Education, & Parks & Recreational Facilities
The Anglosphere -- The English-Speaking World:
The U.S.A., Britain, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand
Canada: America's Northern Neighbor & Ally
Latin America -- Economics, Politics, Political Regimes,
& Relations with the United States of America:
Problems & Opportunities for the U.S.A.
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THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
American Government -- Constitutional System
The Constitution of the United States of America
The American Political System -- Politics &
Government in the U.S.A.: Political Science Course
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
English Antecedents
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
Colonial & Early American Antecedents
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The U.S. Constitution -- Ratification & Adoption
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The U.S. Constitution -- The Scheme of National Government
The American Constitutional System -- Principal Characteristics:
Constitutionalism, Republicanism, Separation of Powers,
Checks & Balances, Legislative Bicameralism,
& Balanced Government
The American Constitutional System -- Principal Characteristics:
Federalism -- Fedural Union of States
The U.S. Constitution -- Underlying Political Theory:
The Federalist -- Selected Essays
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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