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Update: A link to videos of the press conference have been added New Orleans, April 24, 2008 -At a news conference in New Orleans, coalition leader Howard Phillips stated "It's long past time for the American media to do its duty and report to the American people those steps being taken by the Bush Administration to incrementally move the United States into a North American Union (NAU), via the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and a NAFTA Superhighway system.  "With no approval by Congress, his Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is working to bureaucratically harmonize the policies of the three North American countries through more than 20 unelected, unaccountable Executive Branch working groups."
Phillips continued, "We are here today to urge the American media and the American people to examine the evidence and to support House Concurrent Resolution 40, introduced by Congressman Virgil Goode (VA) to call a halt to the SPP and the NAU and the proposed NAFTA Superhighways."
Three Congressional leaders delivered remarks via statements.
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) stated "As we all know, there have been significant moves recently to expand the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) initiated by President Bush and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in 2005. One such plan is to construct a so-called 'NAFTA Superhighway'. I have opposed this project from the beginning, signing on as a co-sponsor of House Concurrent Resolution 40 expressing Congressional disapproval of the NAFTA Superhighway and any moves towards a North American Union."
Congressman Virgil Good (R-VA) stated "Today's news conference will allow the news media covering the New Orleans meeting to the three nation's leaders to be able to offer a full report so that Americans will be able to understand the implications that the Security and Prosperity Partnership holds for our country. "The power of the grassroots cannot be underestimated. "United we can assure the sovereignty of the United States of America."
Congressman Tom Tancredo warned that "Nearly two years ago I voiced many of my concerns to Secretary of State Carlos Gutierrez in a letter. "One recommendation on pandemic control suggest that in the event of a public health crisis, '.all borders and major roads remain open.to allow the unimpeded flow of domestic and international commerce.'" The most troubling recommendations, however, were contained in a section entitled 'Improving Cross-Border Mobility (Goods/Services/People.' '.a reasonable grace period should be established at border crossings during which time people without documents are educated about their options and allowed to pass.''' I asked the Commerce Department to suspend U.S. participation in the SPP until the serious questions of sovereignty raised by these recommendations could be addressed."
Richard Norman, President of the Richard Norman Co. stated that "Secrecy is the great friend of tyranny. If President Bush has nothing to hide and has no hidden agenda then let him propose a treaty and let it be debated in the United States Senate and broadcast on CSPAN for the world to see. "While he and everyone in his administration deny the plan for a North American Union and a NAFTA Superhighway, the plans continue under other names. "I call on President Bush today to quit playing footsie under the table with the leaders of Mexico and Canada and to come clean on what his plans are for our nation. In my opinion, the blood of patriots was not spilled on American battlefields so we could give our country and our sovereignty away to a North American Union."
Canadian Action Party Leader, Connie Fogal stated "As the three leaders of Canada, U.S.A. and Mexico meet once again in their annual summit since 2005 (this year in April in New Orleans) to discuss their respective progress on the integration of our three countries into one geographical super structure already being turned over to the rule of and administration by the financial/military/corporate elite of North America, and as they meet to discuss their progress on the dismantling of the constitutional rights and freedoms of the citizens of each country, I am proud to participate with the Coalition to Block the North American Union in the press conference April 21, 2008 in full opposition to this integration."
John McManus, President of the John Birch Society stated, "Mr. Bush, Senor Calderon, and Mr. Harper will claim that their goals include only the promotion of trade and the protection of the three nations from possible terrorism. But former Mexican President Vicente Fox is not alone in making clear the intention to create "connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union." He therefore openly confirmed the existence of a long-range plan to duplicate for the entire Western Hemisphere the sovereignty-compromising effect of the European Union on its 27 member states.
Thomas P. Kilgannon, President of Freedom Alliance stated: "There are those in our nation who strongly advocate a North American Community, and the SPP moves them one step closer to their dream. "Our goal here today is to ensure that the United States remains 'a government of the people, by the people, for the people,' and to see that all aspects of the SPP are open to public scrutiny as well as Congressional oversight and approval."
In addition, a new website was launched, the NAU War Room (www.NAUWarRoom.org) combining facts and action resources to empower citizens to stop the SPP.
Howard Phillips is the Chairman of The Conservative Caucus, a non-partisan, nationwide, grassroots public policy advocacy group which opposes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, and other threats to America's sovereignty.
A life-long political activist, Mr.Phillips headed two federal agencies during the Nixon Administration, spearheaded efforts to support freedom fighters in Central America and Angola, led a campaign to end judicial tyranny, and founded a third political party, the U.S. Taxpayers Party in 1992, which was later renamed The Constitution Party. He ran as a presidential candidate for that party three times. (A complete bio can be found at www.conservativeusa.org/hpbio.htm.)
Coalition members include many prominent U.S. political activists including Phyllis Schlafly, Bay Buchanan, and 90 other state and national leaders concerned about the North American Union, and works directly with over 40 members of Congress in seeking to halt the SPP. Watch videos of the press conference at the following link: Coalition to Block the N.A.U. News Conference in New Orleans, 2008
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