| NAU IS THE TIME FOR EDUCATION In case you've been wondering what the NAU (North American Union) and the TTC-69 (Super highway) debate is all about, Jerome Corsi, a journalist of Swift Boat Veterans and Unfit for Command fame, summarized the entire thesis into a single question/answer on May 19, 2006: "Why doesn’t President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union." For more detail on what is circulating on that side of the debate, here is a link to a WorldNetDaily article from 9/26/06 that also contains links to other articles on the topic. On December 28, 2006, Michael Medved entered the controversy in an uncharacteristically heated way. In spite of the heat, Michael may have done us a favor by being the first well-known name to bring attention to the subject. Here's what he had to say. Corsi's response probably added to Michael's resolve not to let frustration get the better of him in an argument. Corsi takes Medved to task for his use of ad hominem and lectures him on other sub-topics of Debate 101. In support of his own case Corsi includes links to a large number of websites and blogs on the subject. It's a great background piece if you need one. The John Birch Society's Steven Yates takes Medved to task for his heated language while siding with Corsi's thesis, beginning with: "What, precisely, supports Corsi's assertion — shared by the John Birch Society, Phyllis Schafly, Lou Dobbs, and a number of others — that an agenda exists, at the highest levels of power, to integrate the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a super-state, with the Bush Administration being involved in it?" Click here for the text of that article. In further support of his case, Jerome Corsi posted a December 15, 2006 article using the writings of Robert A. Pastor to posit that the NAU... "could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar just as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe." If you've followed these links and at least skimmed the content then you've probably seen the Lightning, heard the Thunder and by now you might be smelling the B**S**. Dr. Robert A. Pastor, vice president of international affairs, professor, and director of the Center for North American Studies, American University was invited to testify before a hearing of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Read for yourself what he had to say here. For further study on the subject, read the Council on Foreign Relations Report. John Hawkins is a blogger who's site Right Wing News is one you should bookmark. He's been following Corsi's work on this subject too. He put together an excellent post here taking Corsi on point-by-point. Regarding Corsi's use of Pastor's work, Hawkins, who has spoken with Pastor, had this to say. Hawkins also challenged Corsi on his home turf, Human Events online with this: "There Isn't Going to Be a North American Union". Finally, he had some very good advice here about conspiracy theories in general. Another blogger, Pat, on B.R.A.I.N.S.T.E.R takes Corsi on in more careful, thorough and credible fashion than did Medved. He also credits Corsi for his outstanding work in exposing John Kerry's Viet Nam war record. However, he is still accused of ad hominem-ism by Mr. Corsi. His post is the first of a promised four-part analysis and it is very well done. Unfortunately he later decided to forego the additional posts, as he explains here. Rush Limbaugh has said, frequently, that "when you argue with an idiot people may have trouble telling the difference". That may be why no one in the administration has bothered to say much, if anything, on this topic. NAFTA, CAFTA, NAU, etc. are about removing unnecessary barriers to the economic performance of the Americas. The barriers were put up by politicans in response to special interests that want to protect their profits in the same way a football team might want to protect its winning streak by putting the field on a hillside with its goal always at the bottom and the opposing team's goal always at the top. The economic arguments against these programs are pretty weak so the subject gets changed instead to a secret agenda to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union. It's a dangerous distraction and one that will eventually work to the detriment of politicians who are being duped by it. The world economic picture is changing more drastically and more rapidly than ever before in human history. Thanks to advances in technology, 1.3 billion people in China and a billion more in India and elsewhere are climbing quickly up out of poverty and ignorance. They are adding to the world's productivity and creating a vast resource of labor and intellectual power. Not even radical Islam will be able to stop or reverse all these changes. In his book The World Is Flat, Tomas L. Friedman does a very effective job describing what is happening worldwide economically. It belongs on your Must Read list. On page 114 he quotes an African proverb, translated to Mandarin and posted in an American owned auto parts factory in China:
The law that works in the jungle is at work in the market place as well. History has shown that countries that try to erase it only impoverish their citizens. The countries with the freest markets are the wealthiest. As an economic union, the NAU will be vital to the continued growth and prosperity of the US in this increasingly competitive environment. Tomorrow's winning countries will be those who change and adapt, not by giving up sovereignty but by freeing their economies and their people to compete is a worldwide marketplace. The folks who "stand astride History shouting 'STOP'" won't be in the winners circle. They never have been. |