August 21, 2007
Meanwhile, in Quebec…
…the Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) conference is underway, as reported here by World Net Daily.
Leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico have begun their discussions of the Security and Prosperity Partnership behind closed doors here at the five-star Fairmont Le Chateau resort in Montebello, Quebec.
For me, the three words that jump right out of that opening paragraph are behind closed doors, this because:
The only “civilians” actually scheduled to attend the SPP closed-door sessions were representatives of the 30 multi-national corporations appointed by the Chambers of Commerce of the three nations to constitute the North American Competitiveness Council, or NACC.
Today’s confidential sessions are scheduled to involve top-level trilateral working group bureaucrats meeting with NACC business members.
The NACC’s representation consists not of congressional or parliamentary officials who are answerable to the citizens of their respective countries, but of, solely, financial/business elites who stand to gain the most from a unionized continent, in terms of both expanded fortunes and power under an umbrella of corporate say-so in how the people of The United States, Mexico and Canada are governed…
The U.S. Department of Commerce has set up the NACC to serve as the chief policy adviser to the 20 SPP trilateral working groups that have been “integrating” and “harmonizing” North American administrative laws and regulations across a wide spectrum of public policy issues.
…and the authority vested in them as a group places them in the position to tailor the North American Union agenda to their specifications under the approving eyes of the leaders of the three countries involved.
It would seem that our very sovereignty as an independent republic is being “integrated” and “harmonized” away by a bunch of individuals who hold their policy making sessions in private, out of earshot of the media, the people and those the people have elected to fulfill responsibilities that the NACC, as part of the SPP organization, has now usurped.
As WND previously reported, the NACC is expected to dominate the SPP agenda.
“The SPP is pursuing an agenda to integrate Mexico and Canada in closed doors sessions that are getting underway today in Montebello,” Howard Phillips, the chairman of the Coalition to Block the North American Union, told a press conference in Ottawa.“We are here to register our protest,” Phillips added, “along with the protests of thousands of Americans who agree with us that the SPP is a globalist agenda driven by the multi-national corporate interests and intellectual elite who together have launched an attack upon the national sovereignty of the United States, Canada and Mexico.”
Connie Fogel, head of the Canadian Action Party, agreed with Phillips.
“Canadians are complaining that the SPP process lacks transparency,” Fogel told the press conference. “Transparency is a major issue, but even if the SPP working groups were open to the public, we would still object to their goal to advance the North American integration agenda at the expense of Canadian sovereignty.”
SPP = NAU (North American Union). The term “Security and Prosperity” is nothing more than sugar coating.
As I’ve written before, while some fellow conservatives whose opinions I respect and mostly agree with have said that We, the People would never let an NAU happen, what we are looking at here defies every concept upon which our own government, that of the United States of America, is based. Here we have two presidents and a prime minister presiding over a board staffed by heads of corporations from their three countries, whose intention is to create policies for all three that should rightfully be created by the elected policy makers of these countries for application in their respective countries only.
This is unprecedented on this continent, and we have already seen the results of a unionized Europe, so…
Where are the strong, concerted, bilateral protests from the Senate and the House of Representatives, whose members are not even included in these SPP conferences?
Sure, only a relative handful of citizens here and in Canada (I haven’t read anywhere of any Mexicans protesting, but why should they? Inclusion in a continental union would merely be another form of welfare, at the expense of U.S. taxpayers and Americans’ jobs, for Mexico) seem to see the SPP agenda for what it really is, while the rest can one day soon read “While America Slept II”.
MORE FROM CNS, and Washington Times Editor-in-Chief Wesley Pruden weighs in.
http://hardastarboard.mu.nu/wp-trackback.php?p=730
August 21st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I hope Bush didn’t give away the farm. In my opinion he should have been sitting across the table with a shot gun at the head of the Mexican Presidnet telling him, “we’ll talk after you stop sending your people into my country.” But I know THAT didn’t happen.
Soverienty is what keeps us strong and anything that takes away from that weakens this nation!
August 21st, 2007 at 3:00 pm
It’s disturbing and needs to be exposed, but the blogosphere only has limited reach.
August 21st, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I agree, Seth. It’s extremely disturbing and I don’t like it one little bit! This is definitely not the way this country works and why in the world should this meeting be held behind closed doors if everything is on the up and up? I absolutely HATE THIS!
August 21st, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Besides, it’s scarry!
August 21st, 2007 at 7:01 pm
hiya Seth!..Bush is giving away the farm
no doubt!..sigh.:(
August 21st, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I saw a snippet about this in the WaPo–presented in a postive fashion, of course.
I look for GWB to sell us out at this conference. After all, he has zero concept of national sovereignty.
And the sell-out will be accomplished in the name of humanitarianism and economics.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:25 am
Ken –
Calderone is the least of the three to have anything to worry about. No matter how these folks negotiations turn out, Mexico will benefit to the tune of billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. taxpayer dollars and stay rid of the 12 million + illegals now on our side of the border.
In my opinion, the largest security flaw in an NAU scenario would come from diplomatic circles — the Mexican government will surely insist that some of their own corrupt nino viejo (or however they phrase “old boy” in Spanish) network be involved in managing the securing of their airports, customs and immigration venues, coasts and southern border.
We’ve all referred to our own southern border as a sieve, BB once called it a “safety sieve”, LOL, but Mexican security, by contrast, would be a collander with all but the legs and the rim missing.
Al-Qaeda could probably open an account with some high ranking Mexican politician to insure that their people could get into North America via Mexico and have safe conduct into the U.S., with forged documents and a box lunch thrown in.
Shoprat –
I don’t know, Dan Rather’s once illustrious career didn’t fare all that well when he was braced by some bloggers on his bogus document.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:45 am
Shoprat –
Also, think about all those page views we get from people who don’t leave comments, who just stumbled across our sites via some search engine or other or via a blogroll.
What they read might start them re-thinking some of the POVs they’ve been force fed by the MSM, or give them a reason to start fact-checking the biased “news reports” they accept from the same media as “fair and balanced” journalism.
One visit to a single conservative site, through it’s blogroll, can open a casual visitor’s eyes to our side of the story.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
Gayle –
It’s very scary.
These 3 leaders are shutting out the media, our elected officials and everyone else except those whom they have hand picked to be involved, and we only have whatever they want to put up on their website as an account of what they’ve discussed and what they’ve agreed upon.
The changes we will see if the “SPP” stealth agenda reaches fruition will be extreme, and as I have quoted previously, as Richard Harris sung it,
Don’t let it be forgot
that once there was a spot
for one brief shining moment,
that was known as Camelot.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:26 am
Angel –
It sure looks that way — given the status and power of the attendees vs the “broadness” of the issues they are purportedly there to discuss, there can hardly be any reason to maintain the kind of total secrecy they do at all their conferences, other than that their discussions travel in directions that would be totally unacceptable to the vast majority of the citizens of their countries (except in Mexico, where their poverty stricken millions could care less as long as they can swarm into the U.S., smother the blue collar job market, glom onto tax financed social services, pack our emergency rooms like Times Square on a Saturday Night — meanwhile taking large chunks, from both sides of the border, out of our longshoremens’ and truckers’ livelihoods — and their drug gangs look forward to a time when the border is a mere street to cross en route to affairs of illegal commerce).
Bush, his two amigos and their “advisors” in NACC obviously view whatever sacrifices of freedom, personal survival, our national traditions, Constitutional Law and our very sovereignty as being worthwhile when looking at their version of “The Big Picture”.
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:09 pm
AOW –
If they pull this off, we will be one very large step closer to political globalization. Commerce is already there.
Those at the top of the international business community already trade and merge across all politics and political boundaries, the financial bottom line being their only concern, and these are the kind of people being “consulted” by the “SPP”’s prime movers.
Talk about a special interest group!
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:16 pm
I was reprimanded thoroughly by someone I consider a friend on my blog about the Mexican truckers being allowed to come in. Of course the North American Union was mentioned. It all ties in together. But some people just don’t seem to believe that this is happening… or possibly they don’t want to believe it. After all, I linked to the article and I didn’t put together the video. I don’t see how people can be so blind!
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:15 am
Gayle –
We can, as you replied to Goat’s comment, hope that he is right, but in this instance I think his skepticism is en route to becoming, eventuallly (by 2010), unpleasant surprise.
August 25th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I would love for him to be right. This is one case where I truly want to be wrong, Seth, and I pray that I am!
August 25th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Gayle –
So do I.