{"id":499,"date":"2007-01-21T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T00:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2007-01-21T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T00:07:14","slug":"the-emerging-north-american-uniona-borderless-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/the-emerging-north-american-uniona-borderless-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emerging North American Union…a borderless continent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Emerging North American Union<\/strong>
\n(NAU)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The below is posted here with prmission. Please read the entire document by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read my AJC column from last year on the borderless continent here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Introduction \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014
\nFor decades, agreements between the United States, Canada, and Mexico have
\nbeen slowly eroding each nation\u2019s governing structure and identity. Bi-national
\nand tri-national activities, such as those found in free trade agreements, are bringing
\nin the foundation pieces for regional governance \u2014 a North American Union.
\nProponents refer to the structure as a North American Community.
\nPlans that promote regional government development can be found in the Security
\nand Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPPNA or SPP). In Canada, initiatives
\nhave also come under headings like Deep Integration, or the Big Idea. Regardless
\nof the title, the outcome will be the same: regional priorities taking precedence
\nover national sovereignty, economy, goals and culture.
\nThe push to create a regional structure \u2014 a step toward globalization \u2014 is
\nbehind many activities that negatively impact our lives:
\n\u2013 commissions, task forces, and working groups \u2014 that bypass elected representatives
\nand public interests \u2014 are \u201charmonizing\u201d or \u201cintegrating\u201d national policies of
\ncountries (similar decision-making is also operating at local and state levels);
\n\u2013 eminent domain (power to seize private property without owner consent) is
\nincreasingly employed to remove barriers to (regional\/global) free trade plans
\n\u2014 like private property located on hundreds of thousands of acres of land on
\ninternational corridor (NAFTA superhighway) routes that will run through many
\nstates; or private property located in cities\/counties selected for international
\ntrade hub\/port development (unbeknown to the public-at-large);
\n\u2013 control of essential infrastructure assets is transferring away from citizens as
\nthe assets (roads, water supply, utilities, etc.) are sold or leased to foreign investors
\nand multinational corporations;
\n\u201c… Societies do not usually
\nlose their freedom at a blow.
\nThey give it up bit by bit,
\nletting themselves be tied down
\nwith an infinity of little knots.
\nAs rules and regulations
\nincrease, their range of actions
\nis gradually compressed.
\nTheir options slowly lessen.
\nWithout noticing the change,
\nthey become wards of state.
\nThey imagine themselves still
\nfree, but in a thousand and one
\nways, their choices are limited
\nand guided by the authorities.
\nAnd always, there are
\nwhat seem to be sensible
\nreasons for letting their
\nautonomy be peeled away\u2014
\n“safety,” “health,” “social
\njustice,” “equal opportunity.”
\nIt is easy to become
\naccustomed to docility.
\nThat is why eternal vigilance
\nis the price of liberty.
\nNot because liberty is easy
\nto shatter. But because it can
\nbe softened and dismantled
\nwith the acquiescence of the
\nvery men and women from
\nwhom it is being stolen.\u201d
\n\u2013 Jeff Jacoby, columnist,
\nBoston Globe
\nThe
\nEmerging
\nNorth
\nAmerican
\nUnion
\n(NAU)
\n\u00a9 2007 Debra K. Niwa. All rights reserved.
\nPermission granted to photocopy, as well as post to websites, if used without charge.
\n2
\nI am only one,
\nbut I am one.
\nI cannot do everything,
\nbut I can do something.
\nAnd because I cannot
\ndo everything, I will
\nnot refuse to do the
\nsomething that I can do.
\nWhat I can do,
\nI should do.
\nAnd what I should do,
\nby the grace of God,
\nI will do.
\n\u2014 Edward Everett Hale
\n— \u201cspecial\u201d local, county, state, and federal regional planning projects (of highly
\nquestionable community benefit) precipitate the need for higher funding (taxes);
\n\u2013 properties located on land designated for regional planning projects (coincidentally)
\nencounter zoning and rezoning problems that restrict property usage (leading
\nto devaluation) and\/or ultimately force owners to make questionable costly changes;
\n\u2013 lack of border enforcement \u2014 in line with regional \u201ccommon market\u201d goals to
\nestablish free movement of services, people, and information between nations \u2014
\nallows for the influx of illegal migrants, which in turn contributes to financial
\ncrisis in education, health care, penal, judicial and other sectors;
\n\u2013 military and civilian law enforcement plans involving the U.S., Canada, and
\nMexico contain the potential to deploy foreign forces to any of the three nations
\n(e.g., Mexican military to the U.S. and Canada);
\n\u2013 attempts to mandate involuntary military and civilian labor in and outside the
\nU.S. (e.g., the \u201cUniversal National Service Act of 2006\u201d (HR 4752 introduced
\nFeb. 14, 2006) which proposes \u201cTo provide for the common defense by requiring
\nall persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18
\nand 42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in
\nfurtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.\u201d
\nIf this mandate passes, the taxpayer burden will be staggering);
\n\u2013 ID card standards-setting (for all drivers\u2019 licenses and IDs for official use like
\npassports) are establishing mandates for data to be collected and for smartcard
\ntechnologies (handy for population monitoring in the North American region);
\n\u2013 data collections and expansion of data access and sharing among agencies, states,
\nand the federal governments is invading our privacy and increasing the potential
\nfor identity theft and fraudulent use of our personal information;
\n\u2013 changes in the purpose and content of education (merging the academic and
\nvocational, which reduces and narrows the overall knowledge and skills taught)
\nto support workforce reform for the (low wage) global economy. (Globalization
\ncreats a situation, for example, where U.S. workers will compete with
\nthose in China where \u201ctwo-thirds of last year’s college graduates are earning
\nless than $250 a month\u201d1);
\n\u2013 promotion of North American regional government and citizenship in education
\n(for example, some of Arizona State University\u2019s students are being taught
\n\u201cthat the U.S., Mexico and Canada need to be integrated into a unified superstate,
\nwhere U.S. citizens of the future will be known as \u2018North Americanists,\u2019
\naccording to the taxpayer-funded \u2018Building North America\u2019 program\u201d2);
\n\u2013 and the list goes on and on.
\nRegionalization has thus far not brought prosperity or security to citizens-at-large.
\nIt is the \u201csystem\u201d itself (North American Union\/Community governing structure)
\nand special interest sectors that benefit. We are at a critical juncture. We need to
\ntake a stand NOW to stop regionalization\u2019s destruction of our nation, our rights,
\nour opportunities, and our freedom.
\nD. K. Niwa \u2022 Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
\nENDNOTES:
\n1 \u201cJobs scarce for China’s graduates,\u201d Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times. Dec. 28, 2006.
\n2 \u201cResidents of planned union to be ‘North Americanists\u2019,\u201d Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily.com, Jan. 5. 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Emerging North American Union (NAU) The below is posted here with prmission. Please read the entire document by clicking here. Read my AJC column from last year on the borderless continent here. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Introduction \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 For decades, agreements between the United States, Canada, and Mexico have been slowly eroding each nation\u2019s governing structure and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}