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North American Union "Paranoid
Fantasies"
Christopher S. Bentley
JBS
Friday, April 11, 2008
“It's time to call BS on the idea of a mythical North American
Union,” stated the progressives at Alternet.
Follow this link to the original source: "Busting Paranoid
Right-Wing Fantasies of Dissolving Mexico-U.S.-Canada Borders"
Authors Rocha and Anderson, from the Institute for Policy Studies
(IPS), must have worn their thesaurus out in writing this latest
hit piece.
Not only do they call “BS” “the idea of a mythical
North American,” but they also employ such terms as “ranting
and raving,” “xenophobes,” “paranoid fantasies,”
“screeds,” “xenophobes” (that’s
their fave), “anti-SPP xenophobes” (ooh, there it
is again), “hysteria,” and “racist movement,”
resorting to ridicule and name-calling, rather than a reasoned
discussion based on principles.
(Article continues below)
We do agree with the authors that some (if not much) of what
circulates on the Internet regarding the subject dabbles too much
in speculation and hyperbole, while other information is outright
inaccurate.
But other than decrying private corporations partnering with
government for their own interests — which, by the way,
is technically called fascism — the rest of their editorial
is an anemic attempt to explain away the NAU as a myth, with absolutely
no examination of the evidence, or any factual refutation of it.
Rather than engage in name-calling, why not have a rational dialogue
on the subject?
The John Birch Society is opposed to NAFTA because a similar
process was started 50 years ago in Europe and has turned into
now what is the European Union.
That process is called “regional integration.” It’s
a basic concept taught in undergraduate courses in international
business these days.
Regional integration exists on five levels:
1) free trade agreement
2) customs union
3) common market
4) economic union
5) political union
A free trade agreement, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s
website Export.gov, is to
help level the international playing field and encourage foreign
governments to adopt open and transparent rulemaking procedures,
as well as non-discriminatory laws and regulations… [and
to] strengthen business climates by eliminating or reducing
tariff rates, [etc., etc., ].
After Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law in 1993, the U.S. formally
entered into level one. That’s what Americans who favored
it thought they were getting with NAFTA.
Many Americans thought it sounded good, but few were told about
the rest.
Full
article here.
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