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Aug 29, 2006 by Patrick J. Buchanan - This is a "mind-boggling
concept," exploded Lou Dobbs.
It must cause Americans to think our political and academic elites
have "gone
utterly mad." What had detonated the mild-mannered CNN anchor?
Dr. Robert Pastor, vice chair of the Council on Foreign Relations
Task Force on
North America, had just appeared before a panel of the Senate
Committee on Foreign
Relations -- to call for erasing all U.S. borders and a merger
of the United States,
Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe
Bay to Guatemala.
Under the Pastor-CFR plan, the illegal alien invasion would
be solved by eliminating
America's borders and legalizing the invasion. We would no longer
defend the
Rio Grande.
"What we need to do," Pastor instructed, "is
forge a new North American
Community. ... Instead of stopping North Americans on the borders,
we ought to provide
them with a secure, biometric Border Pass that would ease transit
across the border
like an E-Z pass permits our cars to speed through tolls."
The Pastor-CFR project, for "economic integration"
of Mexamerica, is on
the drawing board. North-south highways and railways would be
built to weld us together
as the American Union was welded together by the Northern Pacific,
Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific, and Ike's Interstate Highway System.
Speaking in Madrid in 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox
declared: "Our long-range
objective is to establish with the United States ... an ensemble
of connections
and institutions similar to those created by the European Union,
with the goal of
attending to future themes as important as ... the freedom of
movement of capital,
goods, services and persons. The new framework we wish to construct
is inspired
in the example of the European Union."
Critical element of the Fox post-NAFTA agenda: absolute freedom
of movement for
persons between Mexico and the United States -- a merger of the
nations. Foreign
Secretary Luis Ernesto Debrez put it succinctly in April 2005.
What Mexico is about
is "complete integration" of the two nations.
To appreciate what Fox, Debrez, Pastor and the CFR wish America
to merge with, consider
a few excerpts from the State Department information sheet on
Mexico.
- While hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens marched beneath
Mexican flags in U.S.
cities on May Day to demand amnesty, Mexico's constitution "prohibits
political
activities by foreigners, and such actions may result in detentions
and deportations."
"Crime in Mexico continues at high levels, and it is often
violent, especially in Mexico
- City, Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo (and) Acapulco,"
State warns U.S. travelers. "Low apprehension rates and
conviction rates of
criminals contribute to the high crime rate." "Women
traveling alone are especially vulnerable
Victims ... have been raped, robbed
of personal property or abducted and then held while their credit
cards are used
at various businesses and automatic teller machines. ... Kidnapping,
including the
kidnapping of non-Mexicans, continues at alarming rates."
When Fox proposed his merger of America and Mexico in a North
American Union, Robert
Bartley, for 30 years editorial page editor of The Wall Street
Journal, declared
him a "visionary" and pledged solidarity: "He
(Fox) can rest assured
that there is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports
his vision ... this
newspaper."
The American people never supported NAFTA, and they are angry
over Bush's failure
to secure the border -- but a shotgun marriage between our two
nations appears prearranged.
Central feature: a ten-lane, 400-yard-wide NAFTA Super Highway
from the Mexican
port of Lazaro Cardenas, up to and across the U.S. border, all
the way to Canada.
Within the median strip dividing the north and south car and
truck lanes would be
rail lines for both passengers and freight traffic, and oil and
gas pipelines.
As author Jerome Corsi describes this Fox-Bush autobahn, container
ships from China
would unload at Lazaro Cardenas, a port named for the Mexican
president who nationalized
all U.S. oil companies in 1938. From there, trucks with Mexican
drivers would run
fast lines into the United States, hauling their cargo to a U.S.
customs inspection
terminal -- in Kansas City, Mo. From there, the trucks would
fan out across America
or roll on into Canada. Similar super-highways from Mexico through
the United States
into Canada are planned.
According to Corsi, construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor,
the first leg of the
NAFTA Super Highway, is to begin next year.
The beneficiaries of this NAFTA Super Highway project would
be the contractors who
build it and the importers and outlet stores for the Chinese-manufactured
goods
that would come flooding in. The losers would be U.S. longshoremen,
truckers, manufacturers
and taxpayers.
The latter would pay the cost of building the highway in Mexico
and the United States,
both in dollars and in the lost sovereignty of our once-independent
American republic.
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