So -- you've heard of the Euro -- how about the Amero?

By Aussiegirl

OK, folks -- we've had a nice holiday from history these past few days on Ultima Thule. I, like you probably, have been so disheartened and disgusted with the goings on in Washington lately that it was hard to even bring myself to write anything political. But like all holidays, this one has to end, and there's no time like the present. We are standing on the brink of a new and unpredictable age, when old orders are passing, and new ones are beginning to emerge. But little by little the outlines of the future are emerging from the haze of daily headlines and we may be able to discern some trends. I've almost been paralyzed and unable to write for days now because the subject is so huge that I hardly know where to begin.

Let's start with the problem and puzzle of immigration. I think my position on immigration is clear. I'm for it. But it has to be controlled and legal. I'm an immigrant myself. It took our family seven years to obtain the visa that would bring us eventually to the United States from Australia. We had to have a sponsor. We never expected nor received and welfare. We learned to speak English (well, we already had, living in Australia). And then there's the curious case of why George Bush and such a large portion of the senate are so in favor of this disastrous bill to allow a tidal wave of immigration into our country that will swamp our social services, our economy and our culture.

But let's take one thing at a time. There's so much to consider.

First let's consider the disturbing information that is coming out about a coming North American Union, modeled on the dreaded EU. A union that will erase the borders between Mexico, Canada and the United States in order to form a uniform space where people, goods and services can be exchanged and move without encountering any internal borders. Sound like the end of the United States as we know it? Read on. Jerome Corsi has all the news and links you need. And you can decide if this is paranoid conspiracy mongering, or the camel's nose under the tent of erasing our borders and eroding our national culture and sovereignty.

My own thoughts are -- how is this to be accomplished if we are not to violate our own Constitution? How would we cede our sovereignty without so much as a shot being fired? And then I thought about it some more. Originally, let's not forget, our federal government was constituted to be a weak confederation of disparate and independent states with limited powers. So how did it come about that now the Federal government is involved in everything from collecting income tax to doling out Viagra to seniors to setting standards to education, and the myriads of other ways our government intrudes on our daily lives? Slowly, by acretion and by usurpation of small amounts of power.

The same will hold here. First you will have to have the obligatory regulatory bodies that oversee trade and travel and commerce. They will of necessity have to have powers. Then there will be legal disputes. They obviously can't be handled in our courts, or Mexico's or Canada's -- ergo -- we will have to have a North American Supreme Court to settle these disputes. And of course, you can't have real economic cooperation without a common currency -- wo how does the Amero sound to you? Remember that the EU was first passed off as merely a blending and loosening of trade restrictions and monetary problems to facilitate greater economic cooperation. Remember the "Common Market"? And what has it morphed into now? The monstrous unelected bureaucracy in Brussels that tells French cheese makers how to make cheese and British sausage makers what they can and can't put into their sausages. It all sounded so benign at first. Doesn't it always? Isn't it always "for the children" -- "for free trade" -- "for greater economic cooperation" -- for "greater mutual security", etc. etc.?

You can see how without firing a shot, or without even having to hold a referendum, the people of the United States will lose their sovereignty to a supranational union created by bureacrats and run by unelected regulators who will answer to -- who exactly?


The monster immigration bill is the first step. If you water down American culture and dilute it with enough Mexican immigration perhaps the next stage will not seem so bizarre and outrageous.

In the next post we will deal with the notion that we may be dealing with a future in which we will see the death of the nation state. And this is just one more nail in its coffin.

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero' by Jerome R. Corsi

The North American Union is envisioned to create a super-regional political authority that could override the sovereignty of the United States on immigration policy and trade issues. In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Pastor, the Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University, stated clearly the view that the North American Union would need a super-regional governance board to make sure the United States does not dominate the proposed North American Union once it is formed:

NAFTA has failed to create a partnership because North American governments have not changed the way they deal with one another. Dual bilateralism, driven by U.S. power, continue to govern and irritate. Adding a third party to bilateral disputes vastly increases the chance that rules, not power, will resolve problems.

This trilateral approach should be institutionalized in a new North American Advisory Council. Unlike the sprawling and intrusive European Commission, the Commission or Council should be lean, independent, and advisory, composed of 15 distinguished individuals, 5 from each nation. Its principal purpose should be to prepare a North American agenda for leaders to consider at biannual summits and to monitor the implementation of the resulting agreements.

Pastor was a vice chairman of the CFR task force that produced the report “Building a North American Union.”

Pastor also proposed the creation of a Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment with the view that “a permanent court would permit the accumulation of precedent and lay the groundwork for North American business law.” The intent is for this North American Union Tribunal would have supremacy over the U.S. Supreme Court on issues affecting the North American Union, to prevent U.S. power from “irritating” and retarding the progress of uniting Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into a new 21st century super-regional governing body.

Robert Pastor also advises the creation of a North American Parliamentary Group to make sure the U.S. Congress does not impede progress in the envisioned North American Union. He has also called for the creation of a North American Customs and Immigration Service which would have authority over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.

Pastor’s 2001 book “Toward a North American Community” called for the creation of a North American Union that would perfect the defects Pastor believes limit the progress of the European Union. Much of Pastor’s thinking appears aimed at limiting the power and sovereignty of the United States as we enter this new super-regional entity. Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency which he has coined the “Amero,” a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso.

If President Bush had run openly in 2004 on the proposition that a prime objective of his second term was to form the North American Union and to supplant the dollar with the “Amero,” we doubt very much that President Bush would have carried Ohio, let alone half of the Red State majority he needed to win re-election. Pursuing any plan that would legalize the conservatively estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the United States could well spell election disaster for the Republican Party in 2006, especially for the House of Representative where every seat is up for grabs.