The U.S. Department of Commerce is, for all intents and purposes, rewriting U.S. administrative law with absolutely no Constitutional justification.

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What would you think if you knew that George W. Bush, while speaking from the bully pulpit about the need to build a wall across the Mexican/U.S. border, has been pushing for a commitment to a long-term goal of dramatically diminishing the the current intensity of America’s physical control of cross-border traffic and travel within all of North America?

What would you think if you knew that President Bush was promoting a system that loosens U.S. control over the screening of travelers from foreign countries at their first point of entry into anyplace in all of North America and from that first entry, the elimination of most controls over all of the temporary movement of these travelers within North America?

What do you suppose our Founding Fathers would say about erasing U.S. borders to enrich the richest in the false name of security and erase American democracy?

What do you think about a President who would keep all of this, for the most part, a secret from the American people? (Other than an unadvertised website.)

Given this President’s track record, I imagine you would not be particularly surprised at his reticence, but I’m here to tell you that you need to pay close attention, regardless of the fact that most of the whistleblowers aren’t likely from your favorite political crowd. With our common sovereignty at stake, we need to get active to stop the unconstitutional replacement of American authority for a supranational replacement created by elites. We need to be watchdogs over our own individual rights, freedoms, and our democracy. When a diarist at Daily Kos wrote about this concern yesterday, I was disappointed to see so many respondents blow off his concerns simply because the story was being broken by the conservative online journal World Net Daily, a journal not given much credence (often deservedly so) by those who lean left.

If you think NAFTA has proven itself to be a disaster for human rights, worker’s rights, and the health of democracy in all subscribing nations and has watered down our Constitutional freedoms, then I’m sure you’ll find the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America [SPP] to have the potential to be even more dangerous. You haven’t heard a lot about it because the Bush administration and many of our Congressional leaders who pretend to be tough on immigration would prefer that you did not know. It gets a bit too complicated for them to have to explain with honesty about where SPP is taking the future of the People’s legal rights and protections. It has far too many hypocritical components. Simply admitting that they know about the SPP would cause their appearance of being “strong” on immigration control to become little more than slime, lies, and mush because they’ve chosen to remain mum on the unconstitutional plan.

Does anyone care about our U.S. Constitution anymore?

The very title of the new government venture - - Security and Prosperity Partnership - - is comprised of the usual Bushworld opposite meanings. The program reduces security. The partnership to which it infers prosperous results is for the few - the proud - the corporate elitists. It’s under the radar because it’s principles are sub-human and anti-American at its core.

This is not a Republican issue. This is not a Democratic issue. This is an American issue. A radical President and his administration have developed what should be seen as an alarming habit of tearing the U.S. Constitution to shreds, and this issue should not be seen as one of partisanship. Why aren’t Americans alarmed? Do they lack the education necessary to help them see what is being done or is it the silence of our leaders and the media that have facilitated such a travesty of American justice?

One leader, a Congressman named Virgil Goode Jr. , R-Va, has introduced HCR 487, a resolution designed to express Congressional concern about entering into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada. Even though I’m pulling for progressive Democratic candidate Al Weed , retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier and veteran of the Vietnam War, to take Rep. Goode’s seat in November’s election and although I’m conscientiously miles away from Goode’s position on immigration, I recognize that Rep. Goode is doing what needs to be done on the issue of SPP. Two of his resolution’s co-sponsors are Republicans Ron Paul of Texas and Walter Jones of North Carolina, both well-known for a spirit of bipartisanship on key issues.

There are American vigilantes full of anti-amnesty angst who vow to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico themselves if the Bush Congress won’t provide a legislation to their liking. There are people - generally Democrats - who believe that an immigration reform that includes a reasoned plan for some form of amnesty is humane and just. Those Democrats aren’t talking a lot about this Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America anymore than Republicans are. Why not? As much as you may disagree with the political views of writers like Jerome Corsi and whether or not you agree with me that his hit-job (and hack-job) of a book on John Kerry was absolutely disgraceful, it cannot be denied that a common chord is struck when you understand that the U.S. Department of Commerce is, for all intents and purposes, rewriting U.S. administrative law with absolutely no Constitutional justification. An American conversation on this issue is required here.

Mr. Corsi accurately describes the secret method by which this “partnership” is ignoring and overstepping the provisions of the U.S. Constitution:

..there is no provision in the U.S. Constitution that justifies the executive branch to rewrite U.S. administrative law without formulating a treaty that must be submitted to the Senate for ratification by a two-thirds vote.

As we Americans enter a new era of globalization and trade agreements with foreign nations, we cannot allow ourselves or our leaders to risk the People’s Constitutional rights or to lose our nation’s good standing (what little we still have left) in a rush to give away our security and turn a blind eye to the invaluable value of human rights - especially when the trade off is the excrutiating loss of American jobs with no social safety net (thanks to Norquistian political bathtub-drowners). To add insult to injury, there have been virtually no new significant opportunities for those American workers who’ve lost their gainful employment to outsourcing to be re-educated for gainful employment in new, viable industries. Those new industries simply aren’t there. There has been no forward-thinking while this government has sent the American worker reeling back decades - in some cases, centuries, shrinking the middle class and making a successful elitist farm-industry of growing the ranks of the working poor. There has been no quantifiable or sustainable investment in the workers of the United States for almost six years. There have only been tax cuts for the richest 1% of taxpayers and there’s been no increase in the embarrassing federal minimum wage for a decade.

And now they want to erase our borders so that the gross failures of NAFTA and CAFTA can spread, third-world style, into the United States for the peons (once termed “We The People”) to enjoy. Thanks to SPP, the “NAFTA highway” will now lead straight to your community — and maybe directly to your door.

In the case of U.S. environmental law, the “working groups” are already plotting how the oil industry can get around United States democracy and supercede Native American interests in the name of supranational interest:

Regulatory and permitting issues were cited as a concern on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border, as they impact the overall risk and timing of pipeline investments. In the United States, pipeline companies face an often complicated and “patchwork” collection of local, state, or federal regulations as well as potential obligations to Native American groups… LINK

The partners of the shady SPP have created a new North American Competitiveness Council that will ensure the future of clandestine “working groups” rewriting U.S. administrative laws in their undemocratic quest for a new “regional” government that barely resembles the one in the U.S. Constution. Did you ever believe that your own government, through non-legislative “working groups,” would be secretly creating unconstitutional conditions to make you far less secure?

If we are going to have fair trade agreements and continue on the inevitable path to globalization, we need not lose our American soul and leave behind a trail of tattered human rights in the process.

If you don’t know about SPP and their full-speed-ahead quest for a supranational government, go and read more about it here at www.spp.gov/ - or Google it. Judicial Watch has the FOIA documents. Canadian citizens share our concerns. “Pre-clearance” at airports seems benign, but “trilateral border-crossing ID cards” is a Libertarian’s nightmare. If you want to write a letter to President Bush about your concern, here is a good example.