Mexico, United States, Canada... One Nation, Under Socialism
Last March, President Bush met in Waco with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin to announce the creation of a "Security and Prosperity Partnership" for North America (SPP). Building on the North American Free Trade Agreement, the SPP would deepen the economic, political, and security relationships between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Within weeks, literally hundreds of tri-national initiatives had been organized to begin the process of knitting the three nations together in a new "partnership" with a common trade policy and a common security perimeter.
Robert Pastor of the Council on Foreign Relations, who is one of the co-architects of the SPP's blueprint, has explained that the vision behind that initiative calls for citizens of the U.S., along with Mexicans and Canadians, to cease thinking of themselves as citizens of their respective countries, and embrace a new identity as "North Americans." This would mean the abolition of the United States , the repudiation of our Declaration of Independence, and the abandonment of our constitutional Republic in favor of a North American version of the socialist European Union.
And the process wouldn't stop there. Already, through the Central American Free Trade Agreement, the campaign to amalgamate the Americas has encompassed six nations of Central America and the Caribbean. Negotiations for creating the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas are presently stalled, because the Marxist government of Brazil has rallied opposition within Mercosur, a trade bloc composed of South American nations. That group seeks creation of a more overtly socialist trade bloc for South America. However, those promoting the FTAA have not relented in their drive to consolidate the entire Western Hemisphere into a EU-style mega-state.
"From the U.S. perspective ... we remain committed to trying to achieve free trade in the Western Hemisphere," stated Deputy Secretary of State (and former U.S. Trade Representative) Robert B. Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State during an October 6 press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil. "And, as I said at a number of occasions, there is always two ways to do this: you could do it all at once in the Free Trade Area of the Americas ... or we can just keep doing it group-by-group-by-group. So... one of the things I spent considerable time on earlier this year was completing our congressional action on the Central American Free Trade Agreement. So that's with five countries in Central America and the Dominican Republic.... We are getting close to completing a free trade agreement with Panama. We hope to try in the coming month or two to be able to complete an agreement with some of the Andean countries, so Colombia, Peru, Ecuador. We already have a free trade agreement with Chile. So, you know, I hope that again progress will be made at the global level. We will continue with these bilateral or sub-regional agreements, and ... I hope again that the environment will be conducive at some point to do this with Brazil and the Mercosur countries as well."
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Abolishing the USA
The New American - October 3, 2005 Issue
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The United States of America is being abolished. Piecemeal. Before our very eyes. By our own elected officials -- under the guidance and direction of unelected elites. Incredible? Certainly. But, unfortunately, true nonetheless. (Read "Abolishing the USA" online; buy pdf or reprint.) (Online letters to Congress to: Stop Continental Integration in the Name of Security! and Help Stop the Merger of the U.S. with Mexico and Canada!)
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Zoellick Confirms U.S. Pursuing "Plan B" Regarding the FTAA
scoop.co.nz - October 14, 2005
On October 6 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Robert B. Zoellick, participated in a press conference in Brazil where he confirmed that U.S. strategy regarding a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is currently to pursue "group-by-group-by-group" free trade agreements rather than trying to complete one agreement for the entire Western Hemisphere. In Zoellick's words: "From the U.S. perspective, you know, we remain committed to trying to achieve free trade in the Western Hemisphere. And, as I said at a number of occasions, there is always two ways to do this: you could do it all at once in the Free Trade Area of the Americas and I tried to come up with the base-line idea to make that happen or we can just keep doing it group-by-group-by-group. So ... one of the things I spent considerable time on earlier this year was completing our congressional action on the Central American Free Trade Agreement." (www.STOPtheFTAA.org)
Zoellick Confirms Doha WTO Negotiations Have Priority Over FTAA Negotiations
Brazzil Magazine - October 11, 2005
During his visit to Brazil this week, Robert Zoellick, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, explained why WTO negotiations are now a higher priority than FTAA negotiations: "[T]he United States has, back again in 2003, has tried to come up with a framework for the ALCA, the FTAA negotiations, which will allow us to move forward with all the countries in the hemisphere and that would include a framework for negotiating some of these issues with Mercosur customs union, but we wanted to try to do that within the overall context of the ALCA (FTAA) because, frankly, the United States and Brazil were co-chairs. It would seem a little odd if together we would sort of just go our own way and leave the others out of the process. But, for a variety of reasons, that idea of a baseline did not really develop in the ALCA (FTAA) negotiations and so it's my sense now that the area where there is the greatest potential in the near term is to move forward Doha, the WTO negotiations." (STOPtheFTAA!)
Commerce Secretary Says WTO Progress Higher Priority Than FTAA
U.S. State Department - October 14, 2005
According to comments by Commerce Secretary Gutierrez on October 14, "The WTO is the big objective -- the FTAA is smaller, but would [still] be very big." He went on to affirm that the U.S. government's ultimate goal for the Western Hemisphere is still the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). (www.STOPtheFTAA.org)
FTAA -- A Main Theme for the 6th Summit of the Americas
NewsAhead.com - October 12, 2005
The theme for the 6th Summit of the Americas will restate the goals of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The summit is scheduled for November 4-5 and will cover a range of issues from terrorism to recent natural disasters - but mostly will cover the current and future status of the FTAA.
Canadian PM Says Security and Prosperity Partnership Affirms Value of NAFTA
Liberal Party of Canada Press Release - October 7, 2005
According to Paul Martin, Canadian Prime Minister, "A strong north America is not a geopolitical agenda. It's a people's agenda. This was the rationale behind the Security and Prosperity Partnership signed last March, in Texas, by President Bush, President Fox, and me.... It was in every way an affirmation of the abiding value of NAFTA."
Chertoff, Chao Tout Bush Amnesty Program
AP (via Yahoo!) - October 18, 2005
Regarding solving the problem of illegal immigration, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate panel on Tuesday, "We're going to need more than just brute enforcement.... We're going to need a temporary worker program as well." In testimony before the same panel, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao provided a general outline of the same temporary worker plan that President Bush proposed in early 2004. Although GOP congressional leaders have recommended that Congress should first take up the border enforcement issue, then later take up the temporary worker issue, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said his panel would go ahead and address comprehensive immigration reform now, explaining, "It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency." (Help Stop the Merger of the U.S. with Mexico and Canada -- Urge Your Representative & Senators to Oppose All "Guest Worker"/"Temporary Worker" Amnesty Bills.)
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