This ain’t yer grandaddy’s country
I bet you remember the first time your parents took you to see a fireworks show or a military parade. They, like their teachers, taught us to respect the country, the flag and the brave men and women fighting to protect freedom. But those days are numbered. The good ole’ U.S. flag, with its signature 50 stars and 13 bars, may very well become obsolete under a North American Union. Or is it just a security and prosperity perimeter?
Visit the Web sites for groups advocating the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, including the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
President Bush, Mexico President Vicente Fox and former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin signed the perimeter’s treaty. The council released in 2005 a proposal for U.S. leaders to establish a “North Atlantic security perimeter,” which they claim is receives support from North American trade planners and developers.
They also released in May a report titled “Building a North American Community.” These are the same trumpeters of the “free trade” policies, which benefit the upper echelon far greater than you or I. Most recent is an “International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor Secure Multi-Modal Transportation System,” under the North Atlantic Super Corridor Coalition. This is a project connecting transportation lines from Mexico to Canada through established routes, including I-35, or the “NAFTA Superhighway,” according to the NASCO Web site.
The OSU Spokesman e-mailed me a slide from President David Schmidly’s power-point notes predicting major urban sprawling along I-35.
Tiffany Melvin, the executive director of NASCO, said California’s ports are at “135 percent capacity” and a route through Mexico will take only the overflow. “NAFTA’s not set up to compete with California or the California ports,” Melvin said. Los Angeles port leaders are OK with NASCO taking the overflow, she said.
Writer Jerome Corsi for Human Events argues the Bush administration is secretly using NASCO to bypass Texas’ and Teamsters’ unions and create greater national security risks by using the electronic “SENTRI” system to check cargo. Melvin said everything in Corsi’s Human Events article is wrong. G. Gordon Liddy, a nationally syndicated talk radio host, shined light of the article on his program and brought a great deal of negative attention and scrutiny to NASCO. But whether NASCO or NAFTA compete with California ports, why is no one at the highest levels of power making the people of the three North American nations aware of this plan? The mainstream Media’s only outspoken critic of this or similar plans is Lou Dobbs of CNN, who spends much of his program criticizing the Bush administration’s policies regarding illegal immigration.
His question is in line with most other reasonable U.S. citizens: Why is the self-proclaimed founder of the War on Terror spending little time and attention on the porous U.S. border with Mexico?
Some facts beg the question.
1) The U.S. military consolidated Mexico into its military jurisdiction after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by placing the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) under the recently-formed U.S. Northern Command.
2) President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2005, which critics argue pushes the controversial “free trade” policies of exploitation on the Third World governments of Central America.
