Now that Alex
Jones, Jerome Corsi, and others have exposed the plot to establish a
“North American community,” that is to say eradicate the national
sovereignty of the United States, Canada, and Mexico in favor of a
“United Nations of America” based on the European Union, the
corporate media and globalist apologists have kicked into over-drive
with a propaganda effort to deny reality.
“Nobody is proposing a North American Union,” declared Robert
Pastor, correctly identified as the father of the NAU and author of
“Towards a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for
the New,” a book published by the Council on Foreign Relations Press
in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the
Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales. Pastor may insist the
elite of the three countries, at the behest of transnational
corporations, are not interested in a merged superstate, but his
argument betrays the fact the former national security advisor
dreams of an American version of the European Union.
Pastor is an advocate of NAFTA on steroids, or “NAFTA Plus.”
According to Miguel Pickard, in “the early 1990s, when NAFTA
negotiators were still wrangling over arcane language, Pastor was
proposing ways to ‘improve’ the treaty. According to Pastor, NAFTA
was off to a bad start, since negotiators were mostly seeking to
dismantle trade tariffs. For Pastor it was crucial to find ways of
integrating the three countries, similarly (but with important
differences) to what the Europeans had done since the 50s. Years
later, Pastor would bemoan that NAFTA’s promise had gone
unfulfilled, since it lacked a ‘grand vision’ for the three
countries, i.e., a much richer perspective than the emphasis put on
trade.” In other words, NAFTA was simply a trade treaty minus the
“grand vision” of global integration.
But there is a
problem with Pastor’s “grand vision,” namely the people of the
United States, Canada, and Mexico are reluctant to give up their
national sovereignty.
Pastor, in a conversation with Jerome R. Corsi, “was careful to
distinguish that his proposals were designed to create a North
American Community and that he never has proposed to create a North
American Union as an EU-style regional government,” thus Pastor’s
insistence “nobody is “proposing a North American Union.”
But this is, to say the least, deceptive. “The idea seems to be to
put new structures in place that change the look of the landscape,”
writes Corsi. “[WorldNetDaily] pointed out to Pastor that this
step-by-step approach is the same approach taken to create the
European Union. The memoirs of Jean Monnet, regarded as the
architect of European unity, finally disclosed he had used a
strategy of deceit, knowing his plan to form a European Union would
never succeed if it were openly disclosed.”
“Pastor in an article entitled ‘NAFTA is Not Enough,’ argued for an
incremental process that could head toward the creation of the NAU,
all the while providing cover for participating politicians and
governments to deny that creating the NAU was their goal,” Corsi
argues in a News with Views editorial. In the article, Pastor
provides key details on how this stealth process works:
While the three governments of North America are unlikely to step
into the debate on long-term goals at the current time,
nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, and universities
should fill the void with new ideas and old-fashioned cross-border
dialogue.
Short of this sort of shadowy incrementalism, the NAU project may be
dropped on the fast track by other means, according to Corsi. “Dr.
Pastor seems to prescribe that a fear formula is all that is needed
for the American people need to begin begging SPP to produce the NAU
right now. Pastor openly writes as if the next 9/11 terrorist attack
or a future outbreak of some health epidemic such as the avian flu
could be just what the NAU doctor ordered as the prescription for
the American people to abandon sovereignty in favor of
super-regional government control, all in the interest of ’security’
leading to ‘prosperity.’ Or, is it ‘prosperity’ which necessitates
more ’security’ via surrender to Big Brother government?”
In predictable fashion, the corporate media is tasked with
characterizing those who document the emerging NAU as tinfoil
hatters, nut cases, mental patients, conspiracy theorists, etc.
For instance,
neocon Charles Krauthammer told Fox News: “I love this stuff because
if you ever doubt your own sanity, all you have to do is read this
stuff and realize that you’re okay” (see video), while
“conservative”
Michael Medved lamented what he calls the “paranoid
and groundless frenzy… fomented and promoted by a shameless
collection of lunatics and losers; crooks, cranks, demagogues and
opportunists, who claim the existence of a top secret master plan to
join the U.S., Canada and Mexico in one big super-state,” never mind
the above, well-documented. “I’m sorry to sound cynical and
intolerant about this stupidity, but I’m furious, actually – ashamed
to be part of a proud medium (conservative talk radio) that
increasingly encourages this paralyzing, puerile paranoia,”
apparently a reference to Alex Jones and others who continue to
flesh out the “incremental” conspiracy Medved refuses to
acknowledge.
Government officials say a continental union is out of the question,
and economists and political analysts overwhelmingly agree that
there will not be a North American Union in our lifetimes. But
belief in the NAU — that the plans are very real, and that the
nation is poised to lose its independence — has been spreading
from its origins in the conservative fringe, coloring political
press conferences and candidate question-and-answer sessions,
and reaching a kind of critical mass on the campaign trail.
Republican presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul
has made the North American Union one of his central issues.
Government officials of the sort, no doubt, that told us Saddam
Hussein was about use weapons of mass destruction against the United
States or that the air at Ground Zero in New York was safe to
breathe.
Finally, it is no mistake the Boston Globe has rolled Ron Paul into
its diatribe of transparent denial, as Paul must be roundly
discredited and characterized as a kook, primarily because a Paul
presidency would most certainly put an end to Robert Pastor’s dream
of an American version of the European Union once and for all.
