Thread: They NY Times, The NAU, And The Burden Of Empire

The New York Times, The NAU, And The Burden Of EmpireBy Steve Sailer

Published on the Fourth of July, a New York Times op-ed entitled "The Center Shouldn't Hold" by British author Andro Linklater largely slipped through under the radar. Apparently, the NYT felt that his prediction of a North American superstate would warm the patriotic hearts of Americans on Independence Day!

Linklater forecast that the geographic boundaries of the United States would expand to include, effectively, Canada and Mexico because of the future evolution of

"the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, which was created in 2005 by President Bush and counterparts in Mexico and Canada."

Linklater said:

"Anti-immigration drum-beaters like CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Representative Virgil Goode, a Virginia Republican, routinely portray the partnership as a threat to United States sovereignty."

Well, is there an official plan to cede sovereignty to a North American version of the European Union?

I don't know. If there were, I certainly wouldn't be invited to any planning sessions!

The Mexican government has long publicly called for a North American Union, or, at least, for the cash handouts that Spain and other lower-income countries got when joining the EU.

Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castaneda told the L.A. Times in 2001:

"That's what [President Vicente] Fox essentially wants, the type of resource transfers that occurred in Spain and, before Spain, in Ireland, and, after Spain, in Portugal and Greece. The Germans were willing to build highways in Spain. Somebody else has to build our highways. We don't have the money." ["Jorge Castaneda: Mexico's Man Abroad," LA Times, August 12, 2001, By Sergio Munoz]

Conversely, the ramshackle Mexican economy, with its surprisingly profitable government-protected private monopolies (such as the one that has made telecom mogul Carlos Slim the new world's richest man), tantalizes certain American business interests. The most lusted-after Mexican property remains the most important monopoly that has yet to be privatized: Pemex, the dilapidated government oil company. Texas oil man Robert Mosbacher, who was the elder President Bush's Treasury Secretary, reportedly said that he wanted to be the first CEO of a private Pemex.

Mosbacher is now Chairman Emeritus of the U.S. Council of the Mexico-U.S. Business Committee. In 2005, his organization issued a report entitled "A Strategy for Building Competitiveness Within North America." Its Executive Summary says that it's time to move beyond NAFTA:

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"At the heart of the Compact lies a grand bargain: the United States and Canada will work closely with Mexico to mobilize additional public and private sector resources to advance Mexico’s development. In exchange, Mexico will commit to a robust program of second-generation reforms in regulatory harmonization, the rule of law, and infrastructure improvements …"

Wow! Another “Grand Bargainâ€

I read this earlier and was going to post it, but got caught up in the rally in Waukegan.

It was a very good article.

Thanks for posting it.

How can we fix Mexico when all of them are already here anyhow trying to build Mexico out of the USA .
They have to back on their territory first . ALL of them .
And then we can send some humanitarian help !! But Mexico will nopt be the first on my list . There are many other countries which need our help prior to Mexico