The
Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'
May 22, 2006
by Jerome R.
Corsi
The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting
together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political
and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting
held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox
and Prime Minister Martin.
A joint statement published by the three
presidents following their Baylor University summit announced the formation of
an initial entity called, “The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North
America” (SPP). The joint statement termed the SPP a “trilateral partnership”
that was aimed at producing a North American security plan as well as providing
with supreme authority to establish free market movement of people, capital, and trade across
the borders between the three NAFTA partners
We will establish a common
approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and
respond to threats within North
America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of
legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders.
A working agenda was
established:
We will establish working parties
led by our ministers and secretaries that will consult with stakeholders in our
respective countries. These working parties will respond to the priorities of
our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable
goals.
The U.S. Department of Commerce
has produced a SPP website, which documents how the U.S. has
implemented the SPP directive into an extensive working agenda.
Following
the March 2005 meeting in Waco, Tex.,
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published in May 2005 a task force report
titled “Building a North American Community.” We have already documented that
this CFR task force report calls for a plan to create by 2010 a redefinition of
boundaries such that the primary immigration control will be around the three
countries of the North American Union, not between the three countries. We have
argued that a likely reason President Bush has not secured our border with
Mexico is that the administration is
pushing for the establishment of the North American Union.
The North
American Union is envisioned to create a super-regional political authority that
could override the sovereignty of the United States on immigration policy
and trade issues. In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, Robert Pastor, the Director of the Center for North
American Studies at American
University, stated clearly the view
that the North American Union would need a super-regional governance board to
make sure the United
States does not dominate the proposed North
American Union once it is formed:
NAFTA has failed to create a
partnership because North American governments have not changed the way they
deal with one another. Dual bilateralism, driven by U.S. power,
continue to govern and irritate. Adding a third party to bilateral disputes
vastly increases the chance that rules, not power, will resolve
problems.
This trilateral approach should be institutionalized in a new
North American Advisory Council. Unlike the sprawling and intrusive European
Commission, the Commission or Council should be lean, independent, and advisory,
composed of 15 distinguished individuals, 5 from each nation. Its principal
purpose should be to prepare a North American agenda for leaders to consider at
biannual summits and to monitor the implementation of the resulting
agreements.
Pastor was a vice chairman of the
CFR task force that produced the report “Building a North American
Union.”
Pastor also proposed the creation of a Permanent Tribunal on
Trade and Investment with the view that “a permanent court would permit the
accumulation of precedent and lay the groundwork for North American business
law.” The intent is for this North American Union Tribunal would have supremacy
over the U.S. Supreme Court on issues affecting the North American Union, to
prevent U.S. power from “irritating” and retarding the progress of uniting
Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into a new 21st
century super-regional governing body.
Robert Pastor
also advises the creation of a North American Parliamentary Group to make sure
the U.S. Congress does not impede progress in the envisioned North American
Union. He has also called for the creation of a North American Customs and
Immigration Service which would have authority over U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.
Pastor’s
2001 book “Toward a North American Community” called for the creation of a North
American Union that would perfect the defects Pastor believes limit the progress
of the European Union. Much of Pastor’s thinking appears aimed at limiting the
power and sovereignty of the United States as we enter this new
super-regional entity. Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency
which he has coined the “Amero,” a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S.
dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso.
If President Bush had
run openly in 2004 on the proposition that a prime objective of his second term
was to form the North American Union and to supplant the dollar with the
“Amero,” we doubt very much that President Bush would have carried Ohio, let alone half of the Red State majority he needed to win
re-election. Pursuing any plan that would legalize the conservatively estimated
12 million illegal aliens now in the United States could well spell
election disaster for the Republican Party in 2006, especially for the House of
Representative where every seat is up for grabs.
Mr. Corsi is the author
of several books, including "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out
Against John Kerry" (along with John O'Neill), "Black Gold Stranglehold: The
Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" (along with Craig R. Smith), and
"Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American
Politicians." He is a frequent guest on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. He will
soon co-author a new book with Jim Gilchrist on the Minuteman Project.
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