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Globalists
and one-world promoters never seem to tire of coming up with ways to
undermine the sovereignty of the United States. The most recent attempt comes
in the form of the misnamed "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of
North America (SPP)." In reality, this new "partnership" will
likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous.
According
to the US government website dedicated to the project, the SPP is neither a
treaty nor a formal agreement. Rather, it is a "dialogue" launched
by the heads of state of Canada, Mexico, and the United States at a summit in
Waco, Texas in March, 2005.
What
is a "dialogue"? We don't know. What we do know, however, is that
Congressional oversight of what might be one of the most significant
developments in recent history is non-existent. Congress has had no role at
all in a "dialogue" that many see as a plan for a North American union.
According
to the SPP website, this "dialogue" will create new supra-national
organizations to "coordinate" border security, health policy,
economic and trade policy, and energy policy between the governments of
Mexico, Canada, and the United States. As such, it is but an extension of
NAFTA- and CAFTA-like agreements that have far less to do with the free
movement of goods and services than they do with government coordination and
management of international trade.
Critics
of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a
move toward more government control over international trade and an eventual
merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these
agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that
the criticisms appear to be justified.
Let's
examine just a couple of the many troubling statements on the SPP's US
government website:
"We
affirm our commitment to strengthen regulatory cooperation...and to have our
central regulatory agencies complete a trilateral regulatory cooperation
framework by 2007"
Though
the US administration insists that the SPP does not undermine US sovereignty,
how else can one take statements like this? How can establishing a
"trilateral regulatory cooperation" not undermine our national
sovereignty?
The
website also states SPP's goal to "[i]mprove the health of our
indigenous people through targeted bilateral and/or trilateral activities,
including in health promotion, health education, disease prevention, and
research." Who can read this and not see massive foreign aid transferred
from the US taxpayer to foreign governments and well-connected private
companies?
Also
alarming are SPP pledges to "work towards the identification and
adoption of best practices relating to the registration of medicinal
products." That sounds like the much-criticized Codex Alimentarius,
which seeks to radically limit Americans' health freedom.
Even
more troubling are reports that under this new "partnership," a
massive highway is being planned to stretch from Canada into Mexico, through
the state of Texas. This is likely to cost the US taxpayer untold billions of
dollars, will require eminent domain takings on an almost unimaginable scale,
and will make the US more vulnerable to those who seek to enter our country
to do us harm.
This
all adds up to not only more and bigger government, but to the establishment
of an unelected mega-government. As the SPP website itself admits, "The
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America represents a broad and
ambitious agenda." I hope my colleagues in Congress and American
citizens will join me in opposing any "broad and ambitious" effort
to undermine the security and sovereignty of the United States.
Ron Paul
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