Selling
America to Communist China
By Cliff Kincaid
In remarks on July 20th to a Freedom 21 Conference
in Dallas, Texas, conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly declared that the
Chinese communists intend to exploit development of a North American Union in
order to bring more cheap goods into the U.S. and destroy more American jobs.
The Freedom 21 Conference, organized by Tom
DeWeese of the American Policy Center and Cathie Adams of Eagle Forum of Texas,
was devoted to highlighting the erosion of American sovereignty 
through
an ongoing process that aims to economically and politically integrate the
U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum, highlighted
the role of Democratic Party foreign policy specialist Robert Pastor in the
unfolding plan. Pastor helped lead the campaign to surrender U.S. control
of the Panama Canal through the Panama Canal Treaty, a development that has
taken on added significance in view of the fact that a Chinese firm, Hutchison
Whampoa, now controls not only the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal
but ports and terminals in Mexico. The company has close ties to the Chinese
regime.
Schlafly came close to endorsing Hunter for
president, declaring, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have him in the White House?”
She said he was “right on every issue” and “he’s the only one of all the
candidates who talks about the jobs issue, and I think that is the coming big
issue in the next election.” Her remarks followed Hunter’s speech.
New
Book Highlights Threat
She
strongly recommended Jerome Corsi’s new book, The Late Great USA, which
argues that a North American Union would provide China another “economic
advantage” over the U.S., with ominous national security implications.
Indeed, Corsi comes close to arguing that
China is the ultimate power broker behind the scheme, saying that “In order to
solidify its economic superiority over North America, Red China is working to
restructure the North American transportation infrastructure.”
It also turns out, according to information
presented at the Conference by Oklahoma activist Amanda Teegarden, as well as
Corsi’s book, that a Hutchison Whampoa subsidiary is a major investor in a
firm, Savi Networks, that has developed a radio technology to track and manage
cargo shipments. Hutchison Whampoa owns 49 percent of the firm, with 51 percent
owned by U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin. In 2006, Lockheed Martin was
the top contributor among military contractors to candidates for federal office
and national political parties. Fifty-eight percent of its money went to
Republicans.
Schlafly also attacked so-called “patent
reform,” now moving through Congress, which she said would benefit China by
forcing Americans to put information about their inventions on the Internet
where it could be stolen. And she warned against President Bush’s plan to “to
put all the illegal aliens in Social Security,” a scheme called “totalization,”
which would “break the bank.”
Several speakers at the Freedom 21 Conference
were activists from Texas and Oklahoma opposed to the building of corridors or “NAFTA
highways” through their states to bring goods from Mexico to the U.S. Organizations represented at the Conference
included Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise, Corridor Watch, and
Texans Uniting for Reform & Freedom.
“The purpose is to bring in cheap goods from
China,” Schlafly declared. “The plan is to bring the cheap Chinese goods and
the containers across the Pacific and then dock at the Mexican Pacific port
Lazaro Cardenas and then bring them up on the railroad that’s already in place,
put them in the Mexican trucks and bring them up the NAFTA highway. And they
will never be inspected until they get to Kansas City.”
Schlafly said that we are witnessing the unfolding
of a plan that is based on a series of steps, including passage of “free trade”
agreements, creation of a common market and a monetary and economic union,
the establishment of international trade tribunals to govern trade and other
disputes between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and the use of a single currency
for North America. “Their model is the European Union,” she said.
North
American Institutions
Accuracy
in Media has confirmed this, having reported on a Washington conference on
development of a North American legal system where participants were told
of proposals to create North American 
institutions,
including a “North American Court of Justice” with the power to overrule the
U.S. Supreme Court. Robert Pastor, who claims to be in favor of a North American
“community,” not a union, presided over the conference.
Robert Pastor, who also runs the Center for
North American Studies at American University, helps facilitate model “North
American Parliament” meetings where students play the role of delegates to a
trilateral legislature. One of his students, Marlon Brown, has written about
Pastor’s personal vision and plans for a “North American Parliament.”
The White House, which claims the North
American Union is a myth, has announced that Bush will travel to Montebello,
Quebec, Canada to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada and
President Felipe Calderon of Mexico at the “North American Leaders’ Summit” on
August 20-21. “The leaders will review progress and continued cooperation under
the Security and Prosperity Partnership, as well as discuss hemispheric and
global issues,” the White House says.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)
is seen by critics as a key part of the North American Union (NAU) plan. The
SPP, an executive branch initiative, has never been approved by Congress but
has nevertheless resulted in the creation of dozens of working groups involving
officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico meeting to “harmonize” the laws and
regulations of the three countries. The public interest law firm Judicial Watch
has been forced to go through the Freedom of Information Act to get information
about the activities of these groups.
Opposition
Developing
In the House, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) has
introduced House Concurrent Resolution 40 opposing the NAU. No formal
opposition has yet surfaced in the U.S. Senate.
Conservative Caucus chairman Howard Phillips
has announced that opponents of the NAU will hold a press conference on August
20th in Ottawa, Canada, on the occasion of the upcoming SPP meeting. The press
conference will be held at the Marriott Ottawa from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Schlafly was the first national commentator
to write about the prospect of a North American Union, noting in a July 13,
2005 column that the influential Council on Foreign Relations had just issued a
report urging an “integrated North American Community.”
Schlafly, who almost single-handedly stopped
passage of the so-called Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, urged
participants in the Freedom 21 Conference to vigorously oppose the North
American Union, which she noted has received little media coverage, save for
Lou Dobbs of CNN. She also noted that some members of Congress claim not to
know anything about it or dismiss it as a conspiracy theory.
However, Schlafly said, there are certain
facts that “cannot be disputed,” and that when you “connect the dots,” people
will get the big picture. She said some of the key dates in this process were:
April 2001. President Bush endorses the “Declaration
of Quebec City,” featuring a commitment to “hemispheric integration.”
March, 2005. Bush and the leaders of Canada
and Mexico announce the Security and Prosperity Partnership.
May 2005. The Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR) issues its report endorsing creation by 2010 of a North American economic
and security “community” with a common security “perimeter,” open borders to
facilitate the movement of trade, capital and people, and a North American “tribunal”
to resolve trade disputes.
June 2005. Former Carter Administration
official Robert Pastor presents the plan to a sympathetic session of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, then-headed by Senator Richard Lugar.
March 2006. Bush and the leaders of Mexico
and Canada hold another meeting, calling it the “first anniversary” of the SPP.
May 2006. Bush gives speech calling for “comprehensive
immigration reform.”
In 2007 the Senate immigration bill was
introduced, with a provision calling for the acceleration of the SPP.
Schlafly said the only explanation for the
determination by the White House and congressional liberals to pass immigration
“reform” is that the “powers that be” want the economic integration of North
America. She identified them as belonging to powerful organizations such as the
Council on Foreign Relations, whose membership once included top State
Department official and communist spy Alger Hiss.
Speaking to the assembled activists and concerned
citizens, Schlafly said, “Something terrible is happening to our country and
it’s up to people like you to stop it before it’s too late.”
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM
Report and can be reached at cliff.kincaid@aim.org
