ERASING AMERICA!

By
Steven Yates

November 23, 2005

NewsWithViews.com - The
United States of America, once—long ago—a Constitutional republic,
is being erased. The erasure of America isn’t reported on the 6 o’clock
news, of course. It isn’t much noticed, because it is happening too
slowly

The
United States of America, once—long ago—a Constitutional republic,
is being erased. The erasure of America isn’t reported on the 6 o’clock
news, of course. It isn’t much noticed, because it is happening too
slowly—although the pace has increased over the past couple of decades.
Be this as it may, there is no need to speak of “conspiracy theories.”
For one thing, it isn’t a theory. It is as much a fact as gravity.
It is being carried out in plain sight, not behind closed doors in
smoke filled rooms. Anyone with Web access can follow the process.
Those in the business of erasing America know, however, that they
are operating in a culture whose educational system has been strip-mined,
so to speak. America’s masses by and large don’t know what a Constitutional
republic is, and use the Web the same way they use television—for
entertainment. But all you need to know is there, and you don’t have
to stick with NewsWithViews.com
or Steven Yates’s blog.

Go,
for example, to the website of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
There you will find a document entitled Building
a North American Community. It first appeared on the site
this past spring. Checking in at 47 pages excluding acknowledgements
and other front matter, Building a North American Community
provides a blueprint for the integration of the United States, Mexico
and Canada under a single supranational authority. This plan would,
for all practical purposes, dissolve the borders between each nation
and end the lip-service that must still be paid to the Constitution
within our own. It would bring NAFTA to fruition, building more of
the “architecture of a new international system” about which Dr. Henry
Kissinger spoke candidly back in 1993 when NAFTA was being accorded
bipartisan support as a “free
trade” agreement.

Regional
unification would solve the illegal immigration problem by fiat, of
course, by promoting the free movement of peoples across the former
borders, an idea Mexican president Vicente Fox has promoted openly
on numerous occasions. We will doubtless still speak of a United States,
a Mexico, and a Canada. But their status would be very much like the
status of formerly independent nations of the European Union, which
is becoming a unified political entity whose citizens move as freely
across borders as we do from state to state. The Europeans are just
a few years ahead of us on the curve. The CFR report, which went online
late last spring, has the endorsement of the Bush Administration.
On March 23 of this past year, President Bush, Mexican President Vicente
Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin joined in committing
their governments to this “regional integration.”

For
the details here, go to the website of the Security
and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). President Bush
has spoken of the common commitment of the three eventually-to-be-dissolved
North American nations “to markets and democracy, freedom and trade,
and mutual prosperity and security.” Notice that he speaks of markets,
not free markets. Note that he speaks of democracy, when what
our Founding Fathers created was (in Ben Franklin’s immortal words)
“a republic, if you can keep it.” Again, because of the strip-mining
of our educational system mentioned above, he can get away with this.
The average School-To-Work
high school graduate has no idea that America was founded as a republic
and not a democracy, by men severely critical of democracy. As for
prosperity, it seems clear that since NAFTA we have grown not more
but less prosperous as our national economy has literally bled manufacturing
jobs and replaced them with low-paying “service sector” jobs. By 2003,
almost ten years after NAFTA went into effect, America’s middle class
was massively in debt, the
average debt by those owning one credit card being $9,250, up
over $6,000 from 1990.

By
September of this year, our savings rates had actually gone
negative. Unemployment is much larger than the government’s official
statistics reveal, because those statistics do not count people who
have ceased seeking work as unemployed. Moreover, no one keeps statistics
on underemployment, the employment of men and women at jobs well beneath
their educational level or mental capacity. Examples of the latter:
the science graduate who stocks shelves at the local Wal-Mart, the
former high-tech employee compelled
to take a job sorting mail. There is simply no evidence that eroding
our national borders will reverse this slow destruction of the American
middle class, and every reason to think the process will be accelerated
as more jobs depart overseas for cheaper labor.

The
contention that a unification of North America will increase the security
of the three eventually-to-be-dissolved nations is even stranger.
Our government will not protect its own borders despite worries of
our being at risk of another terrorist attack because doing so would
conflict with the regional integration desired by the super elite.
For many of us this points directly at the deceptive nature of the
“war on terror”: if the feds were really interested in protecting
the American public, the Bush Administration would have long pulled
America out of all this misguided globalism, forgotten about that
boondoggle in Iraq, recalled our troops from the hundred or so nations
where they are stationed overseas, and used them to close our porous
borders.

But
never mind all that. The SPP will create a far larger perimeter to
defend! Mexico has a southern border as porous as our own, if not
more so. Small wonder that Lou Dobbs, one of the few voices in the
mainstream media drawing attention to the problems with recent pseudo-free
trade accords and immigration policies, can ask, Have
our political elites gone mad?

The
plan is to have the super-elites’ North American Community in place
by the year 2010. Here is what they want:

• Military and law enforcement cooperation between all three eventually-to-be-dissolved
  nations;
  

• Canadians and Mexicans brought into the American Department of
  Homeland Security;
  

• “[T]emporary migrant worker programs expanded with full mobility
  of labor between the three countries in the next five years.

Not
even the mainstream media is ignoring this. The above-mentioned Dobbs
posed his question on CNN. As I said at the outset, the super-elite
is not really hiding anymore! Consider the following exchange that
took place on the air between CNN’s Christine Romans and Dobbs:

Romans:
“The idea here is to make North America more like the European Union…”

Dobbs:
“Americans must think that our political and academic elites have
gone utterly mad at a time when three-and-a-half years, approaching
four years after September 11, we still don’t have border security.
And this group of elites is talking about not defending our borders,
finally, but rather creating new ones. It’s astonishing.”.........Read More