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Article published Feb 27, 2007
Put HJR7 on the Senate floor

Have you ever heard of Robert A. Pastor? Some call Pastor "the Father of the North American Union." Professor Pastor, a former National Security Council Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, published a telling article in the January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs, a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Pastor's article, "North America's Second Decade," championed the idea of integrating the nations of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a "true partnership" with "common institutions."

As an Internationalist, Robert Pastor evaluated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and claimed that: "NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North America." When did American voters ask for an "economic constitution" for the U.S., Canada and Mexico? Might an economic constitution lead to a future political constitution overriding the present political systems of three nations?

While Professor Pastor doesn't answer that last question, he did lay out his "North American Plans" including his plans for creation of a "North American Parliamentary Group." He also called for creation of a supranational court which he called a "Permanent Court on Trade and Investment."

Such revolutionary institutions would be shared in "common" between the three nations providing the embryo for a new umbrella government over our national and state governments. If created, will a North American Union's governmental institutions ultimately override the institutions established under our Constitution? (www.jbs.org/nau)

June 9, 2005, Robert Pastor presented a 49-page report to the U.S. Congress entitled: Building a North American Community. The report was created through the collaboration of three private, elitist organizations working as a "task force." The groups? The Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.

The CFR-sponsored report calls for free movement of workers between the three nations; establishing "a common security perimeter" surrounding the three nations by 2010; developing a common identification system for the citizens of the three nations; interweaving intelligence institutions between the nations; establishing a trinational competition commission and much more on the road to merger into a North American Community.

Sound familiar? Remember the European Community preceding the European Union? Is the same pattern at work here, a gradual economic unification, leading unsuspecting populations into an international political unification, a superstate, ending national independence?

In March 2005, the three heads of state of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico met in Waco, Texas to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), an expansion of NAFTA, and an expansion of the Partnership for Prosperity (P4P). The three heads of state met again in Cancun, Mexico in the Spring of 2006 to further this SPP "dialogue." Many believe the SPP is a design for integrating the three nations into a North American Union.

On Feb. 6, HJR7, Resolution Urging United States Withdrawal From Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, passed the Utah House of Representatives by a vote of 47 to 24. At this juncture, HJR7 is bottled up in Utah's Senate Rules Committee, chaired by Sen. Bill Hickman of St. George.

What's needed to bring HJR7 to the Utah Senate floor for a vote? A State Senator must present a motion to call HJR7 to the Senate floor so it can be voted on, but time is running out. The legislative session ends Wednesday - that's tomorrow. Phone calls to the Utah Senate in favor of HJR7 might encourage a Senator to step up to bat and motion HJR7 to the floor. HJR7 is only one small step towards preserving national independence and our constitution, but it is a counterrevolutionary beginning.