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December 04, 2006

North American Union In the Works

Lou Dobbs on Friday highlighted the movement to create a North American Union. As he described it, "The president is … determined to push his quiet agenda to create a North American union of the United States, Mexico and Canada without the approval of the people or the Congress."

From the show's transcript:

Casey Wian: When Mexican president Vicente Fox leaves office this week and Felipe Calderon takes his place, President Bush will be the last of the so-called three amigos. Bush, Fox, and, of course, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin were the originators of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership, which critics call nothing more than a North American union. It means open borders, commerce of all costs, and, by the way, without the approval of either American voters or the U.S. Congress.

Apparently, the three countries are "working quickly to integrate North America by 2010. Could this be why the entire illegal immigration issue has been allowed to flare up into a national conversation, with no real action being taken? Is it an attempt to force Americans to have a conversation about borders, with the hope of bringing us around to accepting the "necessity" of open borders?

[C]ritics say foreign policy elites are promoting a European-style union, erasing borders between the three countries and eventually moving to a single North American currency called the amaro (ph).

A Commerce Department spokesman, however, denies this -- "There is absolutely no plan for a common currency."

Regardless of what you think of the idea, Dobbs cuts right to the chase:

DOBBS: The fact is -- and everyone watching you and that report tonight -- for any American to think that it is acceptable for the president of the United States and this executive department of his government, his administration, our government, to proceed without the approval of Congress or a dialogue and a debate and a -- and a public voice from the people of this country is absolutely unconscionable.

ROMANS: The defense of those folks who are saying that they're involved with the SPP is that they're not doing anything that would require congressional approval or voter approval. They're just harmonizing the regulations between the three countries.

DOBBS: What they're doing is creating a brave new world, an Orwellian world, in which the will of the people is absolutely irrelevant. And I think we've had a sampling of what's going to happen to people who do that in the future.

I can't imagine this standing. But then again, I couldn't imagine its beginning nor the fact that it's gotten this far.

How would you react to the formation of a North American Union, similar to the European Union, with open borders between Canada, the United States and Mexico, and perhaps even a common currency? Do you agree with Lou Dobbs that the creation of a North American Union means we're headed in an Orwellian direction?

Posted by Becky at December 4, 2006 06:05 AM