Even now, though, it is hard for me to take seriously what I myself am saying. It is this: That the President of the United States doesn’t think it important to stop illegal immigration because he wants to abolish the United States of America and form a new union with Mexico! (And with Canada in the same union.)
To think such thoughts, much less to believe them, seemed borderline insanity to me a year ago, and so I spiked my own piece. But now I have removed it from the spike, and here it is exactly as I wrote it in July 2005, except for the addition of ”2005” which was needed in one spot to clarify a date.
It will take a little more than the usual concentration to absorb the information I have given here. I especially hope that you will click on the various links and read the documentation underlying the message. Only then can you make a fair evaluation.
I would certainly like to hear from you and learn your reactions. If this is as serious as it appears it should trump everything else we are worried about.]
Explaining George Bush
ByHugh McInnish
The answer may be at hand, and it involves the Analogy of the Milkmaid: A young maiden finishes tugging at the underside appendages of her bovine and her pail is full. She leaves the stall and her milk is draining out through a few holes in her bucket. Anyone watching would wonder why she shows no concern. But then it becomes clear. Instead of worrying with the spilt milk she circles behind the barn and dumps the whole pail on the ground. Now, her action may seem inappropriate, but her disregard for the leaking milk, far from being irrational, is seen to be completely rational once her plan is understood.
George Bush doesn’t milk cows, but he too may have a plan.
In May of this year the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) issued a report called “Building a North American Community.” Its contents are even more ominous than its title. For instance:
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The new “community” that is to be established is to have boundaries that “will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe.” | |
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The CFR recommends that the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico commit themselves to the goal of “dramatically diminishing the need for the current intensity of the governments’ physical control of cross-border traffic, travel, and trade within North America.” (Dramatically diminish the control of our borders? It would take only a small diminution to have no control at all. I leave it to the reader to imagine, since I can't, what it would take to "dramatically" reduce it.) | |
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The plan recommends accepting a "tested once" policy in which a pharmaceutical that has been tested and approved in Mexico would have automatic acceptance here in the United States. | |
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The CFR’s scheme for its new community includes a plan for sending private capital (guess whose) south of the border through a mechanism called the “North American investment fund.” It would encourage private capital flow into the poor regions of Mexico. | |
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Obviously this new community will need its own court system, so the CFR says that we must have “a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution.” |
The authors of the CFR report observe that "At their meeting in Waco, Texas at the end of March 2005, U. S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin committed their governments to a path of cooperation and joint action."
They are, the authors say, building "on the recommendations adopted by the three governments…" at the Texas meeting. They added, "We welcome this important development and offer this report to add urgency and specific recommendations to strengthen their efforts."
Robert A Pastor, Vice President of International Affairs and Professor of International Relations at American University, was a member of the CFR committee, and he was one of those who submitted an "additional view." [See p. 39 of the Report.] He said "I endorse [the report] with enthusiasm…," but still it was not radical enough for his taste.
Pastor did nothing less than call for "U. S. government reorganization." He wrote:
"North American integration has subtly created a domestic agenda that is continental in scope. The U. S. government is not organized to address this agenda imaginatively. Facing difficult trade-offs between private and North American interests, we tend to choose the private, parochial option."
Pastor added that the President should issue a directive "instructing the Cabinet to give preference to North America."
In her July 2005 newsletter and accompanying letter to Eagle friends, a horrified Phyllis Schlafly, President of Eagle Forum, had several well chosen words for this 59-page document. She reports that she spent all of Independence Day working on it, and that her task was "an exercise in patriotism."
Schlafly wrote:
"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U. S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada."The CFR claims that in its work it is furthering the aims of President Bush, and given his close association with the CFR (his father, the first President Bush, was a member) this is plausible.[…]
How could anybody want to integrate the United States with Mexico and Canada? This CFR plan makes you wonder if these people are out of their minds. Our country is so different from every other country in the world—in freedom, and in the prosperity that flows from freedom—that integrating with any other country would destroy everything we know and love.
At this point the Analogy of the Milkmaid rises into view.
The underlying principle of the Analogy is that a decision maker doesn't fret over occurrences that he knows are about to be overtaken and made insignificant by later events.
Evidently we are to be "integrated" with Mexico, and within this new integrated "community" there is to be no distinction between Americans and the 100 million Mexicans who reside below the old border between us and them. With this development in the offing it certainly makes no sense to worry about a mere 10 or 15 million who have already flowed through the holes in the border that still exists today.
We see, then, that George Bush is acting no more irrationally than the milkmaid. You just have to understand his plan.