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Read this article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it will make you wonder about the sanity of those on the right:
We're talking about the secret plan to build a superhighway, a giant 10- to 12-lane production, from the Yucatan to the Yukon, with an immigration and trade center in Missouri. This "SuperCorridor" is to allow the really big part of the plan to take place: the merging of the governments of Canada, the United States and Mexico. Say goodbye to the dollar, and maybe even the English language.The rumor is sweeping the Internet, radio and magazines, spread by bloggers, broadcasters and writers who cite the "proof" in the writings of a respected American University professor, in a task force put together by the ultra-establishment Council on Foreign Relations and in the workings of the U.S. Commerce Department.
Who is pushing such nonsense?
On one recent day alone, Pastor says, he got 100 e-mails on the topic. "They get turned on by (CNN's) Lou Dobbs and (Fox's) Bill O'Reilly, who are fearful that Mexicans and Canadians are about to take over our country," Pastor says, adding that such claims are a product of "the xenophobic or frightened right wing of America that is afraid of immigration and globalization."
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Writing in the current edition of Range magazine, author Tom Findley explains: "Under the plan, more than 500 million people are meant to be literally incorporated into the North American Union as early as 2010. They are expected to share natural resources, military defense and a universal system of education that will alter long-held values, customs and traditions and even change their languages. Law enforcement, health care and cultural activities as well as virtually all trade will be financed with the new currency of the North Americans: the 'Amero.'"The evidence? The article doesn't say.
Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan writes that under the North American plan, "the illegal alien invasion would be solved by eliminating America's borders and legalizing the invasion."
Phyllis Schlafly, president of the conservative Eagle Forum, shares those concerns. "It looks like what (President George W.) Bush and his friends want is economic integration of the three North American countries, which is the only explanation I can see for his failure to close the border and obey the immigration laws," she said.
"We don't want to be integrated with any other country."
Teh stupid it burns....
Comments
This could be the most entertaining thing I have ever read! I'll get a kick out this all day long.
Posted by: Wixom | May 14, 2007 10:34 AM
What's the noise about? The right are always imagining things. Try naming anything they talk about, or admit to, that they haven't imagined. Go ahead, try it. They're so far removed from reality they can't see it from where they are.
Posted by: Gork | May 14, 2007 10:37 AM
A train would be more efficient for high traffic...
Change can be a good thing. Just don't expect it to come from vending machines.
Posted by: Stephen | May 14, 2007 11:01 AM
Of course, they assume an awful lot... as if the Mexicans and Canadians would want us!
I hope my masters, won't get PO'd that I am spilling the beans here, but I heard that there is a conspiracy to kick, AL, AK, GA, MS and TX, OUT of the USA!
Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!
Posted by: J-Dog | May 14, 2007 11:32 AM
Hey! I'm all for annexing Canada and Mexico: Canada will help balance out Teh Stupid from you know where and annexing Mexico, when 40% of them want to move here anyways, just seems like simplifying a silly border-immigration situation. HOWEVER! The likelihood of this happening is nontrivially close to, umm, well, zero.
Posted by: Will Baird | May 14, 2007 11:42 AM
A 10-12 lane highway to the Yukon, major city: Whitehorse (population 24,000)? Why not extend it to Inuvik, it's only another 850 km and there's another 3500 people?
Posted by: Richard Simons | May 24, 2007 11:01 PM