Robert Pastor, an author of "Building a North American
Community," argues he never proposed a North American Union,
merely a community — ok, let's look-up the definition of
community.
Follow this link to the original source: "CNN's
Malveaux said "conspiracy theorists" talk about North
American Union -- what about Dobbs?"
Robert Pastor, American University professor and Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) member, is commonly referred to as "the
father of the North American Union" and as "an ardent
supporter of this." Pastor continuously replies that he
never proposed a North American Union, merely a community. He
claims that a union is "completely impractical and impossible."
Well, forgive me for sounding elementary, but isn't this
just a play on words? A quick visit to "Webster's II
New College Dictionary" published by Houghton Mifflin,
defines a community as: "A group of people residing
in the same locality and under the same government."
(emphasis added)
Mr. Pastor, do you really expect us to believe you're not
promoting a fully integrated North American Union? You say
you want the three nations to have common economic, trade, labor
and security agreements, as well as a common security perimeter
(open interior borders) to help facilitate trade. Yet you say
the three countries can retain their own sovereignty. Exactly
how will that work? By reading through your CFR publication
"Building
a North American Community" and by looking at the Security
and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America goals,
there doesn't appear to be a way to accomplish this without
each country surrendering its sovereignty and the personal freedoms
of its citizens.
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I'm curious if the European Union's citizens were told
the same line. After all they were told that at the very least
they could vote on a new constitution. Oh wait, the EU abandoned
that ploy after the EU Constitution was rejected by France and
the Netherlands. It's now called the EU Treaty and only
the governments need to ratify it, ignoring the will of the
people.
Of course the European Union used to be called the European
Community. Does anyone see a pattern here? Incidentally, The
New American magazine foretold
the EU back in 1989 and also discussed
it back in 2002.
Come on Mr. Pastor, stop the tap dancing and be honest with
your fellow Americans. Fourth graders can look up words in the
dictionary, but leave it to an academic heavyweight and political
figurehead to play with semantics.
