The Emerging North American Union
(NAU)

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Read my AJC column from last year on the borderless continent here.

—————————— Introduction ——————————
For decades, agreements between the United States, Canada, and Mexico have
been slowly eroding each nation’s governing structure and identity. Bi-national
and tri-national activities, such as those found in free trade agreements, are bringing
in the foundation pieces for regional governance — a North American Union.
Proponents refer to the structure as a North American Community.
Plans that promote regional government development can be found in the Security
and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPPNA or SPP). In Canada, initiatives
have also come under headings like Deep Integration, or the Big Idea. Regardless
of the title, the outcome will be the same: regional priorities taking precedence
over national sovereignty, economy, goals and culture.
The push to create a regional structure — a step toward globalization — is
behind many activities that negatively impact our lives:
– commissions, task forces, and working groups — that bypass elected representatives
and public interests — are “harmonizing” or “integrating” national policies of
countries (similar decision-making is also operating at local and state levels);
– eminent domain (power to seize private property without owner consent) is
increasingly employed to remove barriers to (regional/global) free trade plans
— like private property located on hundreds of thousands of acres of land on
international corridor (NAFTA superhighway) routes that will run through many
states; or private property located in cities/counties selected for international
trade hub/port development (unbeknown to the public-at-large);
– control of essential infrastructure assets is transferring away from citizens as
the assets (roads, water supply, utilities, etc.) are sold or leased to foreign investors
and multinational corporations;
“… Societies do not usually
lose their freedom at a blow.
They give it up bit by bit,
letting themselves be tied down
with an infinity of little knots.
As rules and regulations
increase, their range of actions
is gradually compressed.
Their options slowly lessen.
Without noticing the change,
they become wards of state.
They imagine themselves still
free, but in a thousand and one
ways, their choices are limited
and guided by the authorities.
And always, there are
what seem to be sensible
reasons for letting their
autonomy be peeled away—
“safety,” “health,” “social
justice,” “equal opportunity.”
It is easy to become
accustomed to docility.
That is why eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty.
Not because liberty is easy
to shatter. But because it can
be softened and dismantled
with the acquiescence of the
very men and women from
whom it is being stolen.”
– Jeff Jacoby, columnist,
Boston Globe
The
Emerging
North
American
Union
(NAU)
© 2007 Debra K. Niwa. All rights reserved.
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I am only one,
but I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but I can do something.
And because I cannot
do everything, I will
not refuse to do the
something that I can do.
What I can do,
I should do.
And what I should do,
by the grace of God,
I will do.
— Edward Everett Hale
— “special” local, county, state, and federal regional planning projects (of highly
questionable community benefit) precipitate the need for higher funding (taxes);
– properties located on land designated for regional planning projects (coincidentally)
encounter zoning and rezoning problems that restrict property usage (leading
to devaluation) and/or ultimately force owners to make questionable costly changes;
– lack of border enforcement — in line with regional “common market” goals to
establish free movement of services, people, and information between nations —
allows for the influx of illegal migrants, which in turn contributes to financial
crisis in education, health care, penal, judicial and other sectors;
– military and civilian law enforcement plans involving the U.S., Canada, and
Mexico contain the potential to deploy foreign forces to any of the three nations
(e.g., Mexican military to the U.S. and Canada);
– attempts to mandate involuntary military and civilian labor in and outside the
U.S. (e.g., the “Universal National Service Act of 2006” (HR 4752 introduced
Feb. 14, 2006) which proposes “To provide for the common defense by requiring
all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18
and 42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in
furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.”
If this mandate passes, the taxpayer burden will be staggering);
– ID card standards-setting (for all drivers’ licenses and IDs for official use like
passports) are establishing mandates for data to be collected and for smartcard
technologies (handy for population monitoring in the North American region);
– data collections and expansion of data access and sharing among agencies, states,
and the federal governments is invading our privacy and increasing the potential
for identity theft and fraudulent use of our personal information;
– changes in the purpose and content of education (merging the academic and
vocational, which reduces and narrows the overall knowledge and skills taught)
to support workforce reform for the (low wage) global economy. (Globalization
creats a situation, for example, where U.S. workers will compete with
those in China where “two-thirds of last year’s college graduates are earning
less than $250 a month”1);
– promotion of North American regional government and citizenship in education
(for example, some of Arizona State University’s students are being taught
“that the U.S., Mexico and Canada need to be integrated into a unified superstate,
where U.S. citizens of the future will be known as ‘North Americanists,’
according to the taxpayer-funded ‘Building North America’ program”2);
– and the list goes on and on.
Regionalization has thus far not brought prosperity or security to citizens-at-large.
It is the “system” itself (North American Union/Community governing structure)
and special interest sectors that benefit. We are at a critical juncture. We need to
take a stand NOW to stop regionalization’s destruction of our nation, our rights,
our opportunities, and our freedom.
D. K. Niwa • Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
ENDNOTES:
1 “Jobs scarce for China’s graduates,” Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times. Dec. 28, 2006.
2 “Residents of planned union to be ‘North Americanists’,” Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily.com, Jan. 5. 2007.