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Continental Union Conspiracy Theories Just Won’t Go Away
 Dave Russell - Citizen-Times
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Back in June 2007, Jerome Corsi published the book, “The Late Great U.S.A.,” and came up with another one of those conspiracy theories that just won’t die. We get letters about it regularly.
Corsi outlined a plan for a new continental government combining the U.S., Canada and Mexico. New rules and bureaucracies to implement them will follow and override current national legislatures, as will a court that has powers over our own Supreme Court. U.S. passports will become North American passports, and the three militaries will combine.
Corsi and a host of one-world-government conspiracy theorists connected some unrelated current-event dots to make the North American Union appear on its way in and U.S. sovereignty on its way out.
For starters, there is the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America. Meeting in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005, President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican President Vicente Fox did sign an agreement to share information, protect the environment, monitor food and agricultural goods and keep an eye on disease.
Then there was the pipeline of this new megastate supposedly being built: The NAFTA Superhighway, which Corsi contends will be “four-football-fields wide” to bring Chinese goods to Mexico’s Pacific ports and into the U.S. and Canada.
Then there was the North America’s SuperCorridor Project, or NASCO. Founded in 1996, NASCO is a non-profit that advocates for “improvements, maintenance & integrated technologies; improve safety and security, integrated to develop an efficient, safe, secure transportation system out of existing infrastructure.”
According to believers, the dollar will give way to a tri-national currency known as the “Amero.” Canadian economist Herbert G. Grubel, upon seeing the euro become common currency, published “The Case for the Amero” in 1999, but there has been little support for such a move.
The Council on Foreign Relations released a report entitled, “Building a North American Community, in May 2005, and it “... proposes a more ambitious vision of a new community by 2010 and specific recommendations on how to achieve it.” It’s a proposal from a group with no power, just ideas.
Add it all up, throw in a few more unrelated tidbits such as a Bush administration proposal to allow Mexican trucks to drive further into U.S. territory, and you have a conspiracy theory good for more than 52 million Google hits. But I’ll bet 50 Ameros it never comes to pass.
Readers can write to Russell at drussell(at)citizen-times.com. |
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