PART ONE OF THREE

On March 21, 2002, President Bush entered into an agreement with Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, that would blur the national lines between the United States and Mexico. This agreement is known as the U.S.-Mexico Border Partnership Agreement. In May, 2005, the Council on Foreign Relations released a report outlining a plan to merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico supposedly in an effort to provide security and prosperity to North Americans. This report is entitled, "Building a North American Community." Although just published, one needs only to Google the phrase to see that it has been in the works for years and President Bush seems to be in lockstep with its agenda.

The plan to build a North American community includes a border perimeter set around the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. It provides for the free flowing of people from country to country; allows for common police and military training; would recognize college degrees from any of the three countries; encourages massive student exchange programs; recommends that everyone learn English, Spanish, and French; allows for the free hiring of workers from any country; and, most disturbingly, recommends a North American Inter-Parliamentary Group. One cannot help but to ask the obvious question that the CFR's paper has all but stopped short of addressing: What will happen to the sovereignty of the American people and the United States if this plan were put into action?

The CFR report attempts to justify itself by claiming that a common border perimeter is necessary to secure the continent against terrorism while simultaneously ignoring the fact that Islamic terrorists have been known to enter the United States via Canada and Mexico due to both nations' failure to control terrorists from entering their own countries. To be fair, the United States is also guilty of not securing its borders. There is no telling how many terrorists are already operating and planning from within the perimeter of these three nations.

Another popular argument is that a North American unification will strengthen our ability to compete against China and other nations. This is misleading since much of China and India's income is generated by American companies that have moved and continue to move their businesses overseas. The United States is not, in fact, competing against China. Rather American jobs are being outsourced by American companies in exchange for slave wages. In doing so, we are further jeopardizing the ability of American citizens to hold on to their civil liberties as the elite become wealthier and more powerful.

Both Canada and Mexico have heavy socialist leanings. Both countries employ draconian gun laws and both countries are participating in the United Nations' plan to track, license, and eventually ban private firearm ownership. At what point will our utopian North American "community" determine that the Bill of Rights is no longer applicable in Wonderland? Will Canadian and Mexican police be employed to ensure submission of the American people?

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Jennifer Freeman is Executive Director and co-founder of Liberty Belles, a grass-roots organization dedicated to restoring and preserving the Second Amendment.
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