Collected and Edited by Co-Founders of STOPSPP

On March 23, 2005, President Bush met at his ranch in Crawford, Texas with Vicente Fox and Paul Martin (then PM of Canada) in what they called a Summit. The three heads of state drove to Baylor University in Waco, where they issued a press release announcing their signing of an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).

On March 31, 2006, Bush. Fox and new Canadian PM, Stephen Harper met in Cancun, Mexico. This time their press release celebrated what they called the first anniversary of the SPP.

The SPP is working out of the NAFTA office of the Department of Commerce. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was the precursor to the Security and Prosperity Partnership. A key part of the SPP plan is to expand the NAFTA tribunals into a North American Union court system. Under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA Agreement, a tribunal conducts a behind closed-doors “trial” to decide the cases dealing with how state and federal laws may damage NAFTA business.

Recently, congressional reaction has come from Senator John Cornyn (R-TX). He had introduced a bill, “The North American Investment Act” (S.3622) which requests financing for the NAU. Incredibly the bill contains near exact language from the book by Robert Pastor entitled “Toward a North American Community.”

However, on April 6, 2006, the SPP announced the formation of the Financial Services Working Group. According to its own news release, the Financial Group will focus on “enhancing processes for addressing banking, securities, and insurance issues.” It goes on to say, “U.S. financial regulatory agencies will play a critical role in the SPP.”

The NAFTA super highway - construction is planned to begin in 2007. It would bisect Texas from its border with Mexico to Oklahoma. It will travel on to Kansas City where an “inland port” is now in the final planning stages.

The Kansas City Smart Port will be literally the first checkpoint on a highway that will run all the way from Columbia through the Heartland of the United States. Mexico will have a facility on the KC Smart Port site that it now insists will be Mexican sovereign land.

Supposedly, SPP’s purpose is to guarantee security and prosperity for the three nations. The NAFTA model has already proven there will be no prosperity. The NAFTA super highway is proof there can be no security as we pave the way for more illegals to flood the nation, as truckloads of illegal drugs fly up the highway and terrorists just hitch a ride.

A federal agency known as CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) is supposed to be guarding our national interests when foreigners seek to buy U.S. properties. CFIUS operates in secret, so the public is in the dark about its procedures.

Under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA Agreement, a tribunal conducts a behind closed-doors “trial” to decide the cases dealing with how state and federal laws may damage NAFTA business. If NAFTA investors believe state or federal laws damage their NAFTA businesses, under the tribunal the investor may sue the government and taxpayers will foot the bill. The NAFTA tribunal decision trumps the U.S. courts, all the way to the Supreme Court. Yet, the Bush Administration insists the SPP will have no effect on our court system.

The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has issued a letter that requires the industry to change the business descriptions associated with tax accounts. Why? Because the Standard Industry Classification Codes have been replaced by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Now get this, the NAICS was developed jointly by the U.S.A, Canada and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics.

Currently, the administration is against securing the borders for the same reason that they are in full progress to implement the NAU. There are not to be any borders between USA and Mexico or Canada.

Importing cheap labor is the main goal of the NAU plan. No borders means free travel between USA and Mexico. Therefore, there will be no need to deal with immigration procedures. This way, the USA will become a “free for all.”

Members of Congress are beginning to become aware of the SPP activities at the Commerce Department. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) is demanding the Bush Administration fully disclose the activities of the SPP, which he says, has no authorization from Congress.

Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va., has introduced a resolution H. Con. Res. 487 designed to express "the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union (NAU) with Mexico and Canada."

Suddenly the news hit the fan about the proposed sale of 22 East and Gulf Coast port operations to Dubai Ports World, a maritime company controlled by a Middle East government.

The Texas Department of Transportation signed a contract in April 2005 with the Cintra-Zachry consortium for planning on the project, the most ambitious highway construction effort since the Eisenhower administration launched the effort to build an interstate highway system. The $184 billion plan ultimately calls for a 4,000-mile network of transportation corridors that would crisscross the state with separate highway lanes for passenger vehicles and trucks, passenger rail, freight rain, commuter rail and dedicated utility zones.

In June ‘06, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road for 75 years.

Last year (2005), Chicago sold a 99-year lease on the eight-mile Chicago Skyway to an Australian-Spanish partnership buyer for $1.8 billion, and the tolls are expected to double.

The tolls from the U.S. side of the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, belong to an Australian company.

In June ‘06, a Spanish firm paid $1.3 billion for a 50-year lease to operate a 10-lane toll road through the heart of Texas.

Also, June ‘06, an Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway.

Homeland Security admits that 80 percent of our 3,200 terminals nationwide are operated by foreign companies and countries.