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The Late Great USA: the Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada THE LATE GREAT USA THE COMING MERGER WITH MEXICO AND CANADA JEROME R. CORSI, Ph.D. WND BOOKS THE LATE GREAT USA A WND Book Published by World Ahead Media Los Angeles, CA Copyright © 2007 by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, scanning, or otherwise, without permis­ sion in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Cover Design by Concord Editorial & Design WND Books are distributed to the trade by: Midpoint Trade Books 27 West 20th Street, Suite 1102 New York, NY 10011 WND Books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases. World Ahead Me­ dia also publishes books in electronic formats. For more information call (310) 961-4170 or visit www.worldahead.com. First Edition ISBN: 9780979045141 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007925850 Printed in the United States of America 10 98765432 1 For the millions who, now for more than two centuries, have given their last true measure of devotion to preserve, protect, and defend a sovereign United States of America. CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS ix FOREWORD xi INTRODUCTION 1 PART I: NAFTA Plus ONE: Forming the North American Union 11 TWO: Meet Robert Pastor 23 THREE: The Amero 41 FOUR: Secret Meetings, Formal Councils 53 PART II: Building the North American Community FIVE: The SPP Shadow Government 75 SIX: The Trans-Texas Corridor 91 SEVEN: Public-Private Partnerships 117 PART III: The Effects of Globalist Policy on America EIGHT: Red China Opens Port in Mexico 133 NINE: The USA in Twilight 151 TEN: Cheap Labor and Cheap Money 169 CONCLUSION 185 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 195 APPENDICES 197 NOTES 209 INDEX 235 ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURES FIGURE 1. Organizational Chart of the SPP 81 FIGURE 2. Artist's Rendering of a Supercorridor 95 FIGURE 3. Trans-Texas Corridor Map 96 FIGURE 4. Drug Cartel Smuggling Routes 97 FIGURE 5. Kansas City Smart Port Map 104 FIGURE 6. NAFTA Superhighway Map 121 TABLES TABLE 1. U.S. Government Federal Budget Deficits 153 FOREWORD HIS BOOK BEGAN when I coauthored Minutemen: The Battle Tto Secure America's Borders. My research revealed the true extent of the illegal immigrant invasion occurring across America's wide-open border with Mex­ ico. I wrote extensively of the criminal gangs and drug cartels exploiting our open borders and examined statistics and quoted experts, arguing that allowing Mexico's impoverished millions to cross our borders illegally creates an economic threat to our lower-skilled workers and places a severe strain on America's middle class. One chapter was devoted to Los Angeles County Deputy David March—killed in cold blood by Armando Arroyo Garcia, an illegal alien with a criminal record who had been de­ ported three times before the shooting. I documented that Hez­ bollah terrorists who entered the United States through Mexico are in federal prison today, prosecuted for sending money back to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. I realized something was terribly wrong when the Bush ad­ ministration took no action against the thousands of illegal immi­ grant protestors and their supporters who marched on May Day 2006 in American streets under the Mexican flag. The only con­ clusion I could reach was that the Bush administration was leav­ ing our border with Mexico and Canada wide open because that was the way the Bush administration wanted the borders. As I worked on Minutemen, I came to suspect that President Bush had made a fundamental policy commitment when he agreed to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North Amer­ ica at a summit meeting with Mexico and Canada on March 23, 2005. More than a declaration of friendship by neighboring coun- FOREWORD tries, the agreements made at the Waco summit were perhaps the reason our borders with Mexico and Canada have remained so porous. The argument made in The Late Great USA is that policy mak­ ers in the three nations and multinational corporations have placed the United States, Mexico, and Canada on a fast track to merge together economically and politically. The goal of this book is to bring the North American integra­ tion argument into the arena of full public discourse, where the evidence can be examined, while the pros and cons are debated. A public debate is the only way to avoid seeing a North Ameri­ can Union created through a stealthy, incremental process in which our public policy makers are intentionally less than candid about their true intentions. I believe that an informed American public will fight to retain American sovereignty, rejecting the globalist determination to merge the United States, Mexico, and Canada on the way to a borderless "free trade" world. Publishing this book will test whether American patriots remain who will resist the movement toward a North American Union. Jerome R. Corsi xii INTRODUCTION N NOVEMBER 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln strode forward Oonto the field of Gettysburg, some four months after the great battle. The short speech he delivered that day is one of the most enduring statements of American freedom ever uttered. In that speech, Lincoln observed that the Civil War was a test of how long a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" could endure. In these few words, Lincoln captured the historic significance of America. The United States was the first nation ever brought forth to preserve the God-given rights endowed to all people. He also recognized the preciousness of any human institution de­ signed to preserve those rights, especially one created "under God" to be a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Before, governments had been created of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite. That day, Lincoln prayed that the United States of America, so created and so dedicated, should "not perish from the earth." Today, we again face the possibility that the United States of America may not long endure. Our national sovereignty is in danger of being compromised in favor of an emerging regional government, designed of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite, who are working to achieve global ambitions in the pursuit of wealth and power for themselves. There are movements afoot in Mexico, Canada, and the United States, similar to those in Europe that led to the formation of the European Union that, if left unchecked, will erode U.S. sovereignty and lead to a North American Union. INTRODUCTION But how exactly did the Europe of World Wars I and II—a Europe that was fiercely nationalistic—become the Europe of to­ day? In order to understand the significance of contemporary de­ velopments in the United States, it is imperative to compare them to those that occurred in Europe over half a century ago. The Formation of the European Union The European Union was formed by people determined to destroy the nation-states that had dominated European politics for centu- jries. Many European intellectuals, especially in Germany, blamed the two world wars on the rise of nationalism. Those planning to undercut national sovereignty in Europe knew they would succeed only if they kept their true intentions concealed. Any direct pro­ posal to eliminate nation-states—most with proud histories ex­ tending across centuries—would have been overwhelmingly rejected by citizens loath to see their national identities absorbed into a "European" consciousness. Despite these odds, the backers of a European Union suc­ ceeded, due in large part to the efforts of Jean Monnet, widely re­ garded as the father of the European Union. Monnet was born on November 9, 1888, to a French cognac merchant. Discharged from the military for health reasons, Monnet spent much of World War I forging an international alliance between the French and British- led effort to defeat Germany. Monnet emerged from this experi­ ence a true globalist who believed that nation-states were ulti­ mately destructive. Monnet believed more European wars were inevitable as long as Europeans saw themselves first as British, French, Italian, or German, and only secondarily as European.1 On August 5, 1943, as a member of the National Liberation Committee of the free French Government in Algiers, Monnet addressed the committee, stating: There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild them­ selves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implica­ tions of prestige politics and economic protection...The countries of Europe are not strong enough to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peo­ ples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation 2 INTRODUCTION or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.2 Monnet was instrumental in forging this federation, and he did so by prioritizing economic unity over political unity. On May 9,1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Shuman, in a speech inspired by Monnet, announced what became known as "The Shuman Declaration," a plan to pool French and German coal and steel production.3 Shuman argued that this solidarity would make war between France and Germany "not merely un­ thinkable, but materially impossible."4 On December 18, 1951, "the Six"—a group of European nations consisting of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands— signed the Treaty of Paris, formally establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).5 Then, on March 25, 1957, the Six signed the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Eco­ nomic Community (EEC), commonly referred to in the United Kingdom as the European Common Market.6 From here, a series of incremental steps can be traced that moved a European common market into a European regional government.
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