United States of America is being abolished. Piecemeal. Before our very eyes.
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Abolishing the USA
by William F. Jasper
October 3, 2005 Issue
'Abolishing the USA' Reprint
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!)
For decades, federal officials have ignored the pleas of American citizens to
secure our borders against an immense, ongoing migration invasion that includes
not only millions of common variety illegal aliens, but also drug
traffickers, terrorists, and other violent criminals. Now, under the pretense
of providing security, the Bush administration is adopting an outrageous policy
that, in effect, does away with our borders with Mexico and Canada altogether.
Regular readers of THE NEW AMERICAN know that this magazine has been warning
that this direct assault on our nationhood was coming, that it is part and
parcel of the NAFTA-CAFTA-FTAA process.
However, almost a million Americans received their first notice of this
fast-looming threat from a startling special report on CNN. On June 9, CNN
anchorman Lou Dobbs began his evening broadcast with this provocative
announcement: Good evening, everybody. Tonight, an astonishing proposal to
expand our borders to incorporate Mexico and Canada and simultaneously further
diminish U.S. sovereignty. Have our political elites gone mad?
Mr. Dobbs, who has been virtually the lone voice in the Establishment media
cartel opposing the bipartisan immigration and trade policies that are
destroying our borders and national sovereignty, then noted:
Border security is arguably the critical issue in this countrys fight against
radical Islamist terrorism. But our borders remain porous. So porous that three
million illegal aliens entered this country last year, nearly all of them from
Mexico. Now, incredibly, a panel sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations
wants the United States to focus not on the defense of our own borders, but
rather create what effectively would be a common border that includes Mexico
and Canada.
Dobbs then switched to CNN correspondent Christine Romans in Washington, D.C.,
who reported: On Capitol Hill, testimony calling for Americans to start
thinking like citizens of North America and treat the U.S., Mexico and Canada
like one big country. Romans then showed brief excerpts of congressional
testimony by Professor Robert Pastor, one of the six co-chairmen of the Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR) Task Force on North America. The best way to secure
the United States today is not at our two borders with Mexico and Canada but at
the borders of North America as a whole, Pastor told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. What we hope to accomplish by 2010, Pastor continued,
is a common external tariff which will mean that goods can move easily across
the border. We want a common security perimeter around all of North America, so
as to ease the travel of people within North America.
Pastors testimony encapsulated the proposals put forward in the CFR Task
Force report, entitled Building a North American Community. As CNNs Christine
Romans noted, the CFR program envisions a common border around the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada in just five years, a border pass for residents of the three
countries, and a freer flow of goods and people. Romans went on to report:
Buried in 49 pages of recommendations from the task force, the brief mention,
We must maintain respect for each others sovereignty. But security experts
say folding Mexico and Canada into the U.S. is a grave breach of that
sovereignty.
The CNN program further noted that the CFR Task Force also called for:
military and law enforcement cooperation between all three countries;
an exchange of personnel that bring Canadians and Mexicans into the
Department of Homeland Security; and
temporary migrant worker programs expanded with full mobility of labor
between the three countries in the next five years.
That portion of the CNN broadcast concluded with the following exchange between
Christine Romans and Lou Dobbs.
Romans: The idea here is to make North America more like the European
Union....
Dobbs: Americans must think that our political and academic elites have gone
utterly mad at a time when three-and-a-half years, approaching four years after
September 11, we still dont have border security. And this group of elites is
talking about not defending our borders, finally, but rather creating new ones.
Its astonishing.
Romans: The theory here is that we are stronger together, three countries in
one, rather than alone.
Dobbs: Well, its a its a mind-boggling concept....
Not Just a Concept
Mind-boggling, yes. Unfortunately, this utterly mad proposal is not merely a
concept in the woolly minds of political and academic elites; it has already
become official U.S. policy!
On March 23, 2005, President Bush convened a special summit in Waco, Texas,
with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. The
three amigos met at Baylor University to call for a Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America before retiring to the presidents ranch in
Crawford. The trio of leaders instructed their respective cabinet officials to
form a dozen working groups and to report back within 90 days with concrete
proposals to implement the new partnership.
On June 27, cabinet ministers of the three countries issued their joint
report, entitled Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Signing
the report for the United States were Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and Secretary of Commerce
Carlos Gutierrez. They and their counterparts from Mexico and Canada state in
their introduction to the report:
We recognize that this Partnership is designed to be a dynamic, permanent
process and that the attached work plans are but a first step. We know that
after today, the real work begins. We will now need to transform the ideas into
reality and the initiatives into prosperity and security.
The key phrase here, dynamic, permanent process, should set off alarm
bells. Like NAFTA and CAFTA, to which it is intimately tied, this new
partnership is intended to be an ongoing, constantly evolving process to
bring about the economic, political, and social integration and convergence
of the three nation states into a supranational regional system of governance
that will then be merged into a larger regional system for the entire
hemisphere which includes the proposed FTAA (Free Trade Area of the
Americas). It is this dangerous, subversive process that should command every
Americans immediate serious attention.
On July 27, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Roger F. Noriega told a House Subcommittee concerning the new partnership:
Thus far, we have identified over 300 initiatives spread over twenty
trilateral [meaning U.S., Canada, and Mexico] working groups on which the three
countries will collaborate. What is being concocted in the hundreds of
initiatives underway by these working groups? We dont know, and thats a
major part of the problem. They have only revealed a very small part of their
program thus far. The new partnership comes replete with pledges of
transparency. Thats supposed to mean that all dealings will be above board
and open and visible to the public. We hear a lot about transparency at the
United Nations, the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, and other international
forums. But theres an old saying that applies here: The more he talked of
honor, the faster we counted our spoons. So it is with the international
elites who
craft the global and regional agreements: the more they talk of transparency,
the more you know they are covering up.
The so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)* was launched by the
newly elected Presidents George Bush and Vicente Fox in 2001 as the
Partnership for Prosperity. (Theres no mention of Security in the original
project.) President Fox was pushing for more U.S. financial aid, amnesty, and
legalization for Mexicans already in the U.S. illegally, and easier access for
more Mexican guest workers into the United States. Fox said he wanted as
many rights as possible, for as many Mexican immigrants as possible, as soon as
possible. In a June 21, 2001 interview, he declared, Those Mexicans that are
working in the United States should be considered legally working in the United
States. Mexicos foreign minister, Jorge Castañeda, echoing Foxs demands for
legalization and more guest workers, told reporters, Its the whole enchilada
or nothing.
President Bush caused a significant national uproar (even a revolt among many
of the GOP Bush faithful) by his willingness to buy almost the whole
enchilada. In comments at a White House lawn press conference on September 6,
2001, marking the end of President Foxs visit to the U.S., President Bush
announced his commitment to a more expansive immigration policy that would
match a willing [U.S.] employer with a willing [Mexican] employee. Which, of
course, is a prescription for virtually unlimited migration of Mexican workers
into the U.S. That was just five days before the 9/11 terror attacks.
The Gulliver Strategy
For several months prior to the September 2001 Fox-Bush meeting, Secretary of
State Colin Powell and Foreign Minister Castañeda had been co-chairing a
binational Migration Working Group aimed at changing U.S. border policies. At a
November 22, 2002 press conference in Mexico City, Secretary Powell praised
Castañeda and declared: In Mexico, the Bush administration sees much more than
a neighbor. We see a partner.... Our partnership rests on common values, on
trust, on honesty.
However, at the very same time that Secretary Powell was extolling the
wonders of our new partnership, Senor Castañeda was presenting a vivid
contrasting image. I like very much the metaphor of Gulliver, of ensnarling
the giant, Castañeda told Mexican journalists in a November 2002 interview.
Tying it up, with nails, with thread, with 20,000 nets that bog it down: these
nets being norms, principles, resolutions, agreements, and bilateral, regional
and international covenants.
That sounds like a rather adversarial partnership, not one based on common
values, on trust, on honesty. Was Team Bush/Powell unaware of this
less-than-neighborly attitude on the part of Team Fox/Castañeda? Were they
out-foxed by Fox/Castañeda? Not at all; they were participating in a giant
charade with Fox/Castañeda to out-fox the American people. It was a charade
completely scripted by the brain trust at Pratt House, the New York
headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations. Secretary Powell is a
longtime Insider at the CFR, as are many other members of the Bush
administration (including Powells successor, Condoleezza Rice). Señor
Castañeda, while not a CFR member, has been nevertheless a favorite guest at
Pratt House for more than two decades. He has been the featured speaker at CFR
programs, has written articles for the CFRs journal Foreign Affairs, and has
received adulatory reviews for his books by CFR reviewers. And this, despite
the fact that Castañeda, a longtime
radical intellectual leader in Mexicos Communist Party, has participated in
the annual terrorist convention known as the Sao Paulo Forum, and continues to
admire Communist revolutionary Che Guevarra!
Perhaps most important, as it pertains to this joint charade, is the fact
that Castañeda has been a very close partner with Robert Pastor, the main
author of the CFRs blueprint for a North American Community. Pastor, a
longtime Marxist associated with the radical Institute for Policy Studies
(virtually a front for the Soviet KGB), even coauthored a book on U.S.-Mexico
relations with Castañeda.
Castañeda, who stepped down as Foxs foreign minister and took a
professorship at New York University, is now running for president in Mexicos
2006 elections. This past July 12, Castañeda appeared as an expert witness at a
Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on border security. No border
security is possible without Mexican cooperation, declared Castañeda. There
can be no future cooperation beyond what already exists without some form of
immigration package. He warned that border security is very, very sensitive
to Mexicans. Any cooperation, he said, would have to be purchased with more
U.S. liberalization of our immigration policies. To some, that sounds more like
extortion than cooperation, but to the Bush administration and the bipartisan
break-down-the-borders lobby in Congress, it passes for harmonious partnering.
The senators at the hearing did not challenge Castañeda or take him to task
for his belligerent stance on this important security issue. Indeed, they seem
to be primarily concerned with pushing through as much of the Fox/Castañeda
program as their constituents will tolerate. They are considering two major
competing bills now, S. 1033 by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward Kennedy
(D-Mass.), and S. 1438 by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).
Both bills pretend to provide meaningful reform to enhance border security,
but both of them are designed to propel North American integration forward by
making our borders easier to cross, legalizing millions of illegal aliens
already here, and opening the door for millions more guest workers. At the
same time, both bills would dramatically increase federal surveillance and
intrusion into the lives of American citizens.
Much of this appears to be already underway without congressional approval,
under the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP joint statement
mentioned previously, for instance, states: We will test technology and make
recommendations, over the next 12 months, to enhance the use of biometrics in
screening travelers
with a view to developing compatible biometric border and
immigration systems. The statements section on Safer, Faster and More
Efficient Border Crossings, like so much of the administrations immigration
program, is clearly more focused on faster border crossings, not stronger
border security.
Premeditated Merger
The administration has not come right out and endorsed the merger of U.S. and
Mexican immigration, military, and law enforcement personnel, as recommended by
the CFRs Task Force report, but it is headed in that direction, noting that
increased economic integration and security cooperation will further a unique
and strong North American relationship. In fact, it is becoming more and more
apparent that the administrations Security and Prosperity Partnership is
actually an official adaptation of the CFRs Building a North American
Community.
The Task Force blueprint was the culmination of several years of specific
efforts to launch a concrete program aimed at the physical merger of the U.S.
with other nations in the hemisphere. As weve noted, one of the principal
authors of that CFR proposal is Dr. Robert Pastor. More than a year before the
Waco summit, the CFR publicly floated the idea with an important article by
Pastor entitled, North Americas Second Decade, in the January/February 2004
issue of its flagship journal, Foreign Affairs.
NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North
America, Pastor explained to the elite in-the-know readership of the journal.
The CFR spinmeisters repeatedly insisted for over a decade that NAFTA was
merely a trade agreement. Now they are being a bit more candid: NAFTA was
merely the first draft of an ongoing dynamic, permanent process. The border
demolition is part of the next draft, which is intended to deal with political
and security issues.
Overcoming the tension between security and trade, said Pastor, requires a
bolder approach to continental integration. So he boldly proposed, among other
things, a North American customs union with a common external tariff (CET),
which would significantly reduce border inspections. (Emphasis added.) In
addition, he says, the Department of Homeland Security should expand its
mission to cover the entire continent by incorporating Mexican and Canadian
perspectives and personnel into its design and operation.
Pastor opines that, properly managed, the post-9/11 security fears would
serve as a catalyst for deeper integration. That would require new
structures, he says, to assure mutual security. It would also require, he
notes, a redefinition of security that puts the United States, Mexico, and
Canada inside a continental perimeter.
He means a very radical redefinition of security, to say the least. The claim
by Pastor and the CFR claque that stretching our already dangerously porous
borders to include two additional huge countries both of which are already
fraught with their own serious security problems is so far beyond ludicrous
that it can only be explained as openly fraudulent. That the so-called wise
men of the CFR could actually believe their own propaganda in this case is
preposterous.
After all, as CNNs Lou Dobbs reported on the same June 9 broadcast, Mexico
is descending ever more rapidly into a maelstrom of chaos, corruption, and open
warfare, as rival drug cartels, police, the military, and government officials
(many of whom are in the pockets of the narco-terrorists) battle it out.
Mexico is notorious for official corruption police, military, and elected
and appointed officials from top to bottom. In 1997, it may be recalled,
Mexicos top official in its War on Drugs, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, was
arrested for working with one of the top drug cartels! However, evidence that
came out during the course of his trial pointed to many other top military,
police, and federal officials as accomplices as well.
More than 2,000 Mexican police officers are under investigation for
drug-related corruption, and more than 700 officers have been charged with
serious offenses ranging from kidnapping and murder to taking bribes from the
drug cartels. Mexico, with its close diplomatic ties to Cuba, Venezuela, and
Nicaragua, has also long been a friendly hangout for many revolutionary
terrorist organizations.
One neednt be a Latin American expert (like Dr. Pastor) to realize the
absurdity of trying to make America more secure by entrusting our homeland
security in part to Mexican law enforcement, and by incorporating all of
Mexicos horrendous problems inside an unconstitutional and amorphous common
perimeter.
Canada also presents us with serious security considerations. Canadian
Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) director Ward Elcock has testified to
Parliament that more than 50 terrorist organizations representing Middle
East, Tamil, Sikh, Latin American, and Irish terrorists are active in Canada.
CSIS spokesman Dan Lambert has stated that with the exception of the United
States, there are more terrorist groups active in Canada than perhaps any other
country in the world.
All considered, the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership threatens
our very survival as a free nation. Congress must reject it totally. But that
will only happen if Congress hears an undeniable roar of outrage from us, the
American people.
* Details about the Security and Prosperity Partnership can be found at
www.spp.gov.
NORTH AMERICA SIDEBAR
Council for Revolution
by William F. Jasper
The program now being implemented by the Bush administration under the false
label of Security and Prosperity Partnership is but the most recent and
transparent demonstration of the subversion of our constitutional protections
by powerful elites internationalists, globalists, one-worlders who have,
over the past few decades, taken control of both the Republican and Democratic
Parties, and have become the real power controlling our federal government.
Like dozens of other policies, programs, treaties, and legislation that have
been so detrimental to U.S. interests, this new border demolition project was
conceived, hatched and nurtured by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a
private think tank, and then passed on to the Bush administration for
official implementation. The CFR has been described by constitutional scholar
and former top FBI official Dan Smoot as the most important public front of the
invisible government that runs America. Liberal commentator Richard Rovere
described it as a sort of Presidium for that part of the Establishment that
guides our destiny as a nation. According to former CFR member Admiral Chester
Ward, the top leadership of the CFR constitute a subversive cabal seeking the
submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful
one-world government.
Explaining the tremendous influence of the CFR, Admiral Ward noted: Once the
ruling members of the CFR have decided that the U.S. government should adopt a
particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of CFR are put to
work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new
policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any
opposition.
That CFR operational scheme outlined by Ward is plainly visible in the case
of the groups Security and Prosperity Program. It is no mere coincidence that
the CFRs plan mentioned in the CNN piece has come out simultaneously with the
official Bush plan, or that the two plans are nearly identical.
The radical background of the CFR reports primary author, Robert Pastor, is
noteworthy:
As a Latin American expert on Jimmy Carters National Security Council,
Pastor was a prime instrument in toppling American ally President Anastasio
Somoza and bringing the Communist Sandinistas to power in Nicaragua. President
Daniel Oduber of Costa Rica recounted that Pastor had asked him, while making
an official state tour with First Lady Rosalyn Carter: When are we going to
get that son of a b**** [Somoza] up to the north out of the presidency?
At the time he was picked by Carter, Pastor was finishing up his stint as
director of the Rockefeller and Ford foundation-financed CFR task force known
as the Linowitz Commission, which supported revolutionary changes in Latin
America, including abandonment of our strategic canal in Panama.
At the same time, Pastor also was a member of the Working Group on Latin
America of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the notorious Marxist center
that has been one of the most important operational arms of the Soviet KGB and
Cuban DGI in this country. He helped author The Southern Connection, a
notorious IPS report calling on the United States to abandon its anti-Communist
allies and to support ideological pluralism, as represented by the Communist
Sandinistas and other revolutionary terrorist groups.
The entire careers of Dr. Pastor and his CFR comrades indicate that they are
consciously working (like Pastors friend and coauthor, Jorge Castañeda) to
bind and enslave the United States like a helpless Gulliver.
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