Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #791, June 15, 2006
THERE’S NO WALL TO PROTECT AMERICA FROM BUSH’S NAFTA SUPER-HIGHWAY
“The Texas segment of the NAFTA Super Corridor is moving rapidly toward approval. When built, the Trans-Texas Corridor, or TTC, will be a major super-highway with six lanes moving in each direction, twelve lanes across in total, described in the 4,000 page draft environmental study as including separate lanes ‘for passenger vehicles and large trucks, freight railways, high-speed commuter railways, and a corridor for utilities including water lines, oil and natural gas pipelines, and transmission lines for electricity, broadband and other telecommunications services.’ …
“The idea is to extend the rebuilt I-35 NAFTA super-corridor highway all the way from Laredo, Texas, to Canada, with extensions in Canada to be built out to Montreal in the east and Vancouver in the west. In Mexico, the super-corridor will connect via Mexican railroads with the port at Lazaro Cardenas.”
A BIG BOOST FOR CHICOM IMPORTS
“A core design feature is to create a hub in Kansas City. Here the ‘Lazaro Cardenas – Kansas City Transportation Corridor’ will open up a north-south route through the United States to bring in containers from the Far East. As described by Kansas City’s Smart Port website: The Lazaro Cardenas – Kansas City Corridor refers to a trade route linking Kansas City to key Asia-Pacific Markets via a ships-to-rail terminal at the port of Lazaro Cardenas in the State of Michoacan, Mexico. Thanks to an innovative series of international agreements, infrastructure improvements and new technologies, this corridor is a reality. …”
FOREIGN CHEAP LABOR PRODUCTS FOR U.S. CONSUMPTION
“The NAFTA Super Corridor plan is ultimately to reduce the transportation costs of using cheap labor in China, South Korea and Indonesia to produce goods for American markets. Bypassing West Coast ports in the U.S. means bypassing U.S. union wages. Mexican port and rail transport are expected to keep the shipping costs low. Also, allowing free access to the U.S. [by] Mexican trucks means that the containers can be moved through the U.S. by Mexican nationals, again bypassing Teamster union wages and benefits typically paid U.S. truck drivers.”
PANAMA CANAL CIRCUMVENTED
“To get a feel for how transportation planners are influenced by globalist economic thinking, consider this 2005 analysis written by Leonard Krouner in the Voice of San Diego: The Los Angeles/Long Beach and Seattle/Tacoma harbors are the only two West Coast ports between Alaska and Chile that can be used by super-cargo ‘post-Panamax’ ships with a 4,000 standardized cargo container capacity. The ability to off-load, move, unload, store and distribute cargo from these ships requires expansion of California’s transportation infrastructure. Delays increasing costs for cargo movement at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port such as those extant during the 2003 longshoreman labor unrest, and the 2004 arrival of too many ships in a single time period with cargo for distribution prior to the Christmas holidays are motivating mega importers Wal-Mart and Home Depot to invest in warehouse facilities in less expensive states such as Georgia.”
NORTH AMERICAN UNION OF U.S.-MEXICO-CANADA
BYPASSES CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION
“None of this would be possible without the extensive work being done by the U.S. Department of Commerce working groups charged with implementing by new regulations the Strategic and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP. The SPP agreement was reached between President Bush, President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin during their March 2005 summit meeting in Waco, Texas. The Bush administration plan is to create a North American Union along the model of the European Union, put in place by administrative regulations and departmental working groups under the SPP umbrella.”
COMMERCE AND TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS DIRECTED
TO GIVE MEXICO FREEDOM FROM INSPECTION
“The U.S. Department of Transportation is actively working on a Free and Secure Trade program that would create special lanes to allow trucks from Mexico to cross the U.S. border with minimal electronic inspection, reducing the U.S. border with Mexico to no more than a speed-bump for authorized Mexican trucks entering the country.”
SCOTUS AIDED BUSH’S NAFTA SCHEME
“On June7, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen ruled in favor of the Bush administration’s argument that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration lacked the authority to exercise environmental controls to prevent Mexican trucks from openly operating in the U.S. under NAFTA. This ruling was key in the Bush administration’s determination to open U.S. borders to Mexican trucks under the trade agreement. Had the Supreme Court decided otherwise, the NAFTA Super Corridor project would have suffered a setback.”
TRILATERALISM HAS AN ADDITIONAL MEANING
“I continue to argue that a ‘follow the money’ strategy must be utilized to understand why President Bush has refused to close our border with Mexico, pushing instead for ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ legislation that would allow the vast majority of illegal immigrants now in the U.S. to remain under a ‘guest worker’ or ‘pathway to citizenship’ provision. The underlying agenda of the Bush administration seems to be to create a NAFTA-plus environment in which workers, trade and capital will be allowed to flow unimpeded within the trilateral North American community consisting of the United States, Canada and Mexico.” Source: Dr. Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, 6/1/06
“Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.”
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE OF INSPECTIONS
“Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City. …”
NASCO FUNDED WITH YOUR TAXES
“NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor [sic] Coalition Inc., a ‘non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.’ Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.”
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT CONSIDERED – NOT CONSTITUTIONAL IMPACT
“The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.”
WHY IS THIS SCHEME TO END U.S. AS WE KNOW IT NOT DEBATED IN CONGRESS?
“The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in [plain] view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.
“A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.” Source: Jerome Corsi, Human Events ONLINE, 6/12/06
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #792, June 30, 2006
BUSH IS TREASONOUSLY MOVING TO SUBMERGE
OUR INDEPENDENT AMERICAN REPUBLIC IN A NORTH AMERICAN UNION
“In March 2005 at their summit meeting in Waco, Tex., President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin issued a joint statement [announcing] 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 are Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Representing Mexico are Secretario de Economía Fernando Canales, Secretario de Gobernación Carlos Abascal, and Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Luis Ernesto Derbéz. Representing Canada are Minister of Industry David L. Emerson, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety, Anne McLellan, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Stewart Pettigrew. …”
A SECRET COVENANT TO DESTROY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
“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. laws are contemplated for the Bush administration to submit to Congress. Instead, the plan is obviously to knit together the North American Union completely under the radar, through a process of regulations and directives issued by various U.S. government agencies.
“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.”
BUSH WANTS OPEN BORDERS WITH CANADA AND MEXICO
“Anyone who has wondered why President Bush has not bothered to secure our borders is advised to spend more 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. government will be able to decide alone, or without first consulting with some appropriate North American Union regulatory body. At best, our border with Mexico will become a speed bump, largely erased, with little remaining to restrict the essentially free movement of people, trade, and capital.”
MEXICO TELLS THE TRUTH
“Canada has established an SPP working group within their Foreign Affairs department. Mexico has placed the SPP within the office of the [Secretario] de Economia and created [an] extensive website for the Alianza Para La Securidad y La Prosperidad de [América] del Norte (ASPAN). On this Mexican website, ASPAN is described as ‘a permanent, tri-lateral process to create a major integration of North America.’ ”
THE CFR PLANNED IT TO TAKE EFFECT BY 2010
“The extensive working group activity being implemented right now by the government of Mexico, Canada, and the United States is consistent with the blueprint laid out in the May 2005 report of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), titled ‘Building a North American Community.’
“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. (page 3)”
U.S. CITIZENSHIP TO BE SUBORDINATE TO TRILATERAL BUREAUCRACY
“What will happen to the sovereignty of the United States? The model is the European Community. While the United States would supposedly remain as a country, many of our nation-state prerogatives would ultimately be superseded by the authority of a North American court and parliamentary body, just as the U.S. dollar would have to be surrendered for the ‘Amero,’ the envisioned surviving currency of the North American Union. The CFR report left no doubt that the North American Union was intended to evolve through a series of regulatory decisions:
“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. The Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America they signed recognizes the need for a stronger focus on building the economic strength of the continent in addition to ensuring its security. To this end, it emphasizes regulatory issues. Officials in all three countries have formed a series of working groups under designated lead cabinet ministers. These working groups have been ordered to produce an action plan for approval by the leaders within ninety days, by late June 2005, and to report regularly thereafter. (pages 23-24)”
A COUP D’ETAT, WHICH IS GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE
“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.” Source: Jerome Corsi, Human Events, 5/30/06
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin #794, July 31, 2006
BUSH COMMEMORATES FOUNDING OF SPPNA
“When President George W. Bush met the Mexican and Canadian heads of state in Cancun, Mexico, in April 2006, he said the meeting celebrated the first anniversary of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and was a follow-up to last year’s Summit in Waco, Texas. At last year’s meeting on March 23, 2005 at Bush’s ranch and at Waco, George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin ‘committed their governments’ to the ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America’ and assigned ‘working groups’ to fill in the details.
“A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, 2005 where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference that ‘we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders.’ The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa report ‘represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership.’ ”