Monday, Mar 11, 2013 7:03 AM

U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada?

By SIMON ROMERO

In its latest release of classified US documents, WikiLeaks has unveiled correspondence between government officials from Canada, Mexico, and the United States detailing a 50-year plan to merge the three countries into one nation. In thousands of pages of documents dating from 1996 to the present and never seen before by members of the public or the media, the e-mails, memoranda, meeting agendas, and merger proposals reveal a dramatic response to heightened concerns about the ability of the US to compete in a global economy with such giants as the EU and China. Early correspondence suggests the plan was initially conceived as an academic exercise to explore alternatives to NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) should it fail to achieve the Clinton administrations plans for economic growth. However, documents dated as early as July, 2008 reveal growing concern about the health of the US economy and predictions that the unregulated financial derivatives market (particularly mortgage-backed securities and creditdefault swaps) had the potential to push the country into an economic tailspin. By late 2010, the tenor of the communication between representatives of the three countries had changed from speculative to serious and details of the 50-year plan more concrete. According to Jerome Corsi, a senior official involved in drafting the initial NAFTA proposal, the WikiLeaks documents substantiate his long-held fears that NAFTA was just phase I of a sprawling plan created by multinational companies, the Clinton administration, the Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic-leaning college professors and the governments of Mexico and Canada, among others, who were all working not necessarily together, but in harmony to create a North American Union. According to Corsi, this NAU would be similar to the European Union, breaking down national boundaries, establishing a single North American currency and potentially even leading to a rewriting of the Bill of Rights. Corsi sees alarming similarities between the contents of the WikiLeaks material and the plans that ultimately led to the establishment of the European Union. Corsi explains that the EU was the result of a 50-year stealth plan by the intellectual elites and government officials [who] plan[ned] to create a European Union, to go from originally a trade agreement [and to] incrementally build-up, step-by-step, an argument to get the votes needed to end up with the European Union. They went through a European common market, a European customs union, European community, finally European Union with its own currency, the euro. Im saying the plan here is the same. Multinational corporations and elites pushing to have NAFTA advance into what it is now, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, ultimately a North American community, and if we dont stop it it will end up as a North American Union with its own currency, the amero, the a-m-e-r-o, replacing the dollar and the other currencies in Canada and Mexico, Corsi contends. The AP reports that Mexican president Enrique Pea Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper are en-route to Washington for an emergency meeting with President Obama. While administration officials have refused to comment on the contents of the WikiLeaks documents, the Whitehouse Press Office has announced plans for a presidential address to be delivered tomorrow and insiders close to the story have revealed that the three heads-of-state will deliver a joint statement on the subject of the 50-year merger plan.