A Mexican national with a drug resistant form to TB was allowed to enter the country some 76 times using his real name. Apparently the Department of Homeland Security had his real name and an updated birthdate by mid-april.

Worse, all of the agencies that knew about Amado Isidro Armendariz Amaya took six weeks to inform the border inspectors of his identity and finally cancelled his border crossing card in June. They knew about him in APRIL!!

This strain of drug-resistant TB was the same as Andrew Speaker, the dumbass lawyer that was told not to travel due to his illness, but did anyway.

Mr. Isidro Armendariz Amaya was never even placed on the no-fly list! What the hell is our government doing? This is exactly the reason why you cannot rely on the government for anything. The original purpose of our government was not even to do this type of crap. These bureaucracies only drain our tax dollars instead of helping the people. The cost/benefit analysis is more cost with less benefit.

Traveler with TB did not use alias
By Audrey Hudson and Sara A. Carter
October 26, 2007
The Washington Times

Key senators said a Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis did not use a fake name to enter the country 76 times and take numerous flights, as Homeland Security spokesmen had previously stated.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent and chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican and the panel’s ranking member, said that Customs and Border Protection officials had the name and a corrected date of birth by mid-April but that the man continued to cross the border unfettered 21 more times.

“He wasn’t using an alias,” Miss Collins said.

“The first report that we got from the [Homeland Security] department was that that was the reason. That turned out not to be the case,” Miss Collins said.

Mr. Lieberman and Miss Collins questioned Paul Rosenzweig, Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary for policy, about the conflicting excuses and the potential health threat caused by the lapse during a hearing this week.

“We are not satisfied, and we don’t want this to happen again,” said Mr. Lieberman, who along with Miss Collins is drafting a follow-up letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt demanding more answers on how the health-security lapse occurred.

The Washington Times last week reported that Amado Isidro Armendariz Amaya made the border crossings from August 2006 to June 2007. Homeland Security (DHS) officials had said the Mexican businessman was traveling under an alias.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was warned by Mexican health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 16 that the frequent traveler was infected with multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis.

But according to internal DHS e-mails obtained by The Times, Mr. Armendariz did not use a fake name but rather used variations of his own name. For example, he customarily went by his middle name “Isidro,” rather than his formal birth name, “Amado.”

The e-mails show nine variations of his name in a system that is capable of searching two dozen law-enforcement databases.

In this week’s hearing, the Senate committee learned that Customs and Border Protection officials had the name of “Isidro Armendariz Amaya” and the correct birth date in April.

Homeland Security officials, however, took more than six weeks to issue a May 31 alert to warn its own border inspectors, according to Homeland Security sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

MDR tuberculosis is a highly contagious and dangerous illness — the same strain that concerned health officials when Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer, slipped into the U.S. from Europe via a flight to Canada. The story set off alarms that the system had failed to identify the contagious passenger, which led to congressional hearings in June.

The Mexican national’s border crossing card was canceled on June 1. However, Border Patrol officials declined to report the health security breach when it briefed the Senate committee on Mr. Speaker’s case on June 4. The CDC also failed to report the Mexico breach when it briefed the committee on June 6.

The Mexican national was not placed on the no-fly list until the Transportation Security Agency was warned on June 7.

“I’m really concerned about this,” Miss Collins said. “This person was potentially very dangerous from a public health perspective. What if this had been a terrorist?”

Customs officials told lawmakers at this week’s hearing that they were hampered initially by their incomplete information on the traveler — a transposed date of birth and his middle name and his two surnames, maternal and paternal, the common practice among Spanish-speakers.

“The case of the Mexican gentleman with tuberculosis … is an example of that, where we can only work with as much information as we have,” Mr. Rosenzweig said.

“If the information is incomplete or inaccurate, that defeats, to some degree, our ability to conduct watch-list name matching,” Mr. Rosenzweig said.

The response did not satisfy the committee, which has opened an inquiry into the security lapse on the Mexican border.

“If a terrorist about whom we have an accurate last name and an accurate middle name and an accurate date of birth could cross 21 times, when you know it’s likely where the individual is going to be crossing, that’s a huge concern to me,” Miss Collins said.

Using only three of the four names would create tens of thousands of “false-positive” hits creating a logjam at the border crossings, Mr. Rosenzweig said.

“You know, we’ve had many, many complaints that the lines on the southern border are already too long. As the type of information we get is less and less accurate, and we widen the field to make an examination based upon the name check, we get more and more people who will be overwhelming our secondary inspection capabilities, extending the line beyond belief and inconveniencing lots and lots of people who aren’t matches for any of those,” Mr. Rosenzweig said.

Again, the lawmakers were not satisfied with the response.

“I think the public interest would have been better served if you had stopped everybody with his two last names,” Mr. Lieberman said.

Added Miss Collins: “I have no confidence that these agencies have procedures in place to adequately address the next health threat, particularly one that would put the American public in even more danger.”

One part of good leadership, and a very important one at that, is knowing where your people are at all times. How the hell does this guy not know what his people, the leaders of organizations under his responsibility, are doing from day to day. He means that this incident was a spontaneous one?

There is no question that the leadership of FEMA is inept and completely incompetent. The entire heirarchy should be replaced within FEMA. In fact, let’s get a young Marine corporal in there to woop it on. What?! I’m not bias! lol

Chertoff Rips Phony Press Event

Oct 28 12:38 AM US/Eastern
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) – The homeland security chief on Saturday tore into his own employees for staging a phony news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I’ve seen since I’ve been in government,” Michael Chertoff said.

“I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment,” he added.

Asked specifically if he planned to fire anyone at FEMA, which is part of his department, Chertoff declined to say, citing personnel rules.

“There will be appropriate discipline,” he told reporters at a news conference with New York’s governor where they announced an agreement on a driver’s license plan.

Chertoff said he knew nothing about the matter until after it happened and that he “can’t explain why it happened.”

The White House on Friday scolded FEMA for the faux press conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California.

The agency—much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago—arranged to have FEMA employees play the part of reporters at the event Tuesday and question Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy director.

The questions were soft and gratuitous.

“I’m very happy with FEMA’s response,” Johnson said in reply to one query from an agency employee.

FEMA gave reporters only 15 minutes notice about Tuesday’s news conference. But because of the short notice, the agency made available an 800 number so reporters could call in. Many did, although it was a listen-only arrangement.

Johnson said in a statement Friday that FEMA’s goal was “to get information out as soon as possible and in trying to do so we made an error in judgment.”

“Our intent was to provide useful information and be responsive to the many questions we have received,” he said. “We can and must do better.”

Deborah Johns is the Military Relations Director for Move America Forward. Deborah appeared on the Oct. 27th, 2007 show to speak about the defacing of a Marine recruiting office in Berkeley. Deborah has since been on our Marine Corps Birthday show on Nov. 10th, 2007.

What kind of crap is this that the White House and the State Department cannot answer a simple question?

The stupidity of our elected officials is mind-blowing. They obviously have lost the sense of working for the people. The word ‘transparency’ has been tossed around a lot lately. If there was more ‘transparency’, these dumbass globalists wouldn’t be able to (a) do the shit that they are attempting to get away with (i.e.: giving away our sovereignty) and (b) lie to us to achieve their means of enriching themselves. What happen to the ‘fidelty of our elected’ that was theorized by Thomas Paine. Our elected representatives are so far outside of normal society that they have no concept of what the American People even think or want. They only do what will get them re-elected. This is not how our founding fathers envisioned our government running.

Bush stonewalls on Mexican military aid
White House, State Department refuse to answer WND questions

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Posted: October 25, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The White House and State Department are refusing to answer key questions WND has asked about the $500 million military assistance program proposed for Mexico and $50 million proposed for Central America.

As WND reported Tuesday, President Bush sent to Congress this week an Iraq Supplemental Funding Request that included a proposal for $500 million in military assistance for Mexico and $50 million for Central America to help them fight the international drug war raging across our border with Mexico.

For the past two days, WND has made repeated calls to the White House and State Department, asking key questions by phone and email.

So far, no responses have been received.

Instead, the White House press office has begun referring all questions about the Mexico military aid package to the State Department.

WND has repeatedly asked if the delivery of these military assistance programs will be accomplished through private contractors, along the model in which companies such as Blackwater have been issued contracts by the Pentagon to provide security services in Iraq.

The question is important since the White House and State Department have insisted no U.S. troops will be placed in Mexico.

The White House has told WND that managing the Mexican military aid package through Congress is the job of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon.

Yet, the State Department says Shannon is unavailable for comment because Congress is only now being briefed, after the military aid program was announced to the public.

In a press briefing Tuesday, Shannon again promised the program would not involve sending U.S. military forces to Mexico, saying, “We are very aware of issues of Mexican sovereignty.”

A joint statement issued Tuesday by the State Department and by Mexico repeated the pledge that we “do not contemplate the deployment of U.S. military personnel in Mexico.”

But a State Department fact sheet indicates a wide range of military equipment is going to be provided to Mexico and the countries of Central America under the plan. The equipment includes ion scanners, canine units for Mexico, boats, helicopters, and surveillance aircraft, as well as a wide range of communications technologies.

Still, the State Department fact sheet neglects to explain how the training to use this equipment will be provided to Mexico and the countries of Central America, especially if the commitment is to avoid placing U.S. military boots on the ground in these Latin American countries.

Nor will the White House or State Department answer WND questions about why the Department of Transportation is continuing to allow Mexican trucks across the border, when the severity of the drug war requires U.S. military aid intervention.

As WND has reported, commercial trucks remain the predominant way drugs are smuggled from Mexico into the United States.

Since introducing the program earlier this week, the State Department has fought to avoid calling this military aid program the “Mexican Plan,” seeking to avoid identification with the “Colombia Plan,” a much criticized earlier anti-drug initiative that also involved a package of U.S. assistance.

Instead, the White House and State Department are fighting to call this the “Merida Initiative,” seeking to identify this plan with the summit President Bush and Felipe Calderon held in the Yucatecan city of Merida in March 2007, where the idea of U.S. military assistance to help Mexico fight the drug war was first proposed.

The Colombia Plan was begun as a Clinton administration plan to reduce cocaine production in Colombia, but it has been criticized in South America as a covert U.S. military program whose real purpose was to fight growing leftist guerrilla insurgency.

Asked this question in the press briefing, Shannon tried to distinguish that while Mexico is faced with fighting three insurgencies, the government of Mexico is fighting organized criminal drug trafficking, not political insurgency.

Shannon did not address the concern that leftists in Mexico might not be impressed with the distinction.

Shannon was also asked how the United States would prevent the military aid being used by rogue criminal elements in the Mexican military to actually assist the drug lords, rather than combat them.

The question focused on another failed 1990s U.S. effort to support paratroopers from an elite Mexican air-mobile military unit (GAFE, according to the Spanish acronym), only to have the units turn and form “Los Zetas,” a paramilitary group now active in Mexico in support of the drug lords.

Shannon answered, “Well, you know, I guess the best way to respond is that human nature being human nature, these things can happen.”

Lt. Michael Murphy is awarded the Medal of Honor for operations in Afghanistan.

Lt. Murphy and his team came under attack from a large contingent of Taliban fighters. Lt. Murphy, the leader of the team, moved into an open position to radio for reenforcements. Even after being struck by a 7.62 round causing Lt. Murphy to drop his radio, he continued to call for backup.

To a great hero, we at Chandler’s Watch radio show, salute you sir. Semper Fi!

Navy SEAL to receive Medal of Honor

Lt. Michael P. Murphy, the first to be awarded the highest military award for combat in Afghanistan, was killed during a 2005 mission.
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 12, 2007

CORONADO — A Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan will be awarded the Medal of Honor, the first such award for troops serving in Afghanistan and the first for a SEAL since the Vietnam War, the White House announced Thursday.

Lt. Michael P. Murphy, 29, who had SEAL training here and was assigned to a SEAL team in Hawaii, was killed in June 2005 during a mission in the Hindu Kush mountains to find a key Taliban leader.

FOR THE RECORD:
Medal of Honor: An article in Friday’s Section A about the posthumous awarding of the Medal of Honor to a Navy SEAL who served in Afghanistan said Lt. Michael P. Murphy was commissioned a Navy ensign in 1999. That commission to the Officer Candidate School came in 2000. —

Ambushed by insurgents, Murphy’s four-man SEAL team engaged in a fierce firefight and was in danger of being overrun.

Although he was wounded, Murphy risked his life to save fellow SEALs and then maneuvered into an open position to send out an emergency call and to continue firing at the enemy. While making the call, he was hit again.

Only one of the SEALs on the team survived. Eight other SEALs and eight soldiers aboard a MH-47 Chinook helicopter sent to rescue Murphy’s team also were killed when the craft was brought down by a rocket-propelled grenade.

The incident was the worst single-day loss of life for Navy Special Warfare personnel since World War II.

“Mike Murphy was a true warrior, a true leader. No one cared more about his men than he did,” said a SEAL officer who asked to be identified only as Sean. Because their missions are secret, SEALs prefer to remain anonymous.

President Bush will present the Medal of Honor to Murphy’s parents on Oct. 22 at the White House.

Only two other military personnel — Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham and Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith — have been awarded the nation’s highest honor for bravery for actions undertaken since Bush sent troops into Afghanistan in 2001. Both of those awards were for bravery in Iraq and were posthumous.

The three other members of Murphy’s team — Matthew Axelson, 25, and Danny Dietz, 31, who were both killed, and Marcus Luttrell, 32 — have each been awarded the Navy Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor.

Luttrell is the author of “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.”

Murphy grew up on Long Island and graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1998 with degrees in political science and psychology. He was commissioned a Navy ensign in 1999 and graduated from SEAL training in Coronado in 2001.

His father, Daniel, an attorney and a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, said the assignment to Afghanistan was particularly important to his son. Murphy had friends in the New York police and fire departments and wore an NYFD patch on his uniform.

“He told me, ‘We’re going where the people who planned, plotted and recruited for 9/11 are,’ ” Daniel Murphy said.

Murphy’s mother, Maureen, said the Medal of Honor meant that “now the world will know what his family has always known: how special he was.”

At the SEAL base in Coronado, Murphy and his teammates were the subject of numerous conversations as word of the White House announcement circulated.

Though SEALs’ grief lingers, they preferred to praise Murphy’s steely determination and leadership.

“I’ll remember him and those other guys every day of my life,” said Cory, a SEAL petty officer first class.

I want you to make a special note of where this article specifies how each truck will be able to re-enter the country. A decal?! Are you frickin’ kidding me? By a show of hands, how many of you believe that the Mexican drug cartels will be able to buy a decal on the black market? (My hand is up.)
It is exactly as Sam Antonio of The John Birch Society described it. This pilot truck program and the NAFTA superhighway system will only increase the amount of drug and human smuggling. If the Mexican drug cartels will cut people’s heads off and make ‘mules’ swallow condoms of drugs, you can bet that they will pay anything to make their lives easier by getting a decal.
It blows my mind how ignorant our president is. This so saddens me too because I voted for the man. But, by his actions, he has turned his back on his oath and our sovereignty. Now, every time Bush talks about the security of our country, I can do nothing but shake my head in disgust and turn the channel.
I try to explain to people that the NAU (North American Union) is coming. People find it hard to believe that a conspiracy of such proportions could even exist. To all those that doubt, read up on the Thugge in India. Try googling “cosa nostra”. These were the same types of multi-national, multi-generational, conspiracies that remained secret for years and years. Do any of you actually taking the time to read this even know how the E.U. came into being? With an economic integration of the steel industry across Europe in the 50’s. Within fifty years, the elites had gained control and the masses merely work to put into it now. They are similar to the slaves of a hundred years ago in this country.
If you lose your patriotism, your spark of ‘jealousy’ as our founding fathers put it, you will lose the only Republic in history. The only country founded on the principles of Liberty for all, Freedom for all, and Happiness for all. Every other form of government in human history has not strived for these ends. They have only promoted despotism and human suffering. If our country is lost, we will become slaves once more, like our ancestors, and the greatest force for good in this world, will have been defeated forever.

Feds outsource Mexican truck safety
Trilateral trade association becomes chief inspector

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Posted: October 22, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has delegated key inspection requirements for Mexican trucks to a non-governmental trilateral trade association, whose goal is to impose North American standards on all commercial motor vehicles operating in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

Since the early 1980s, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, or CVSA, operating as a non-governmental organization, has quietly knit together the motor-vehicle agencies in the three countries, building a common regulatory continental structure below the radar of public opinion, available now to function as the backbone of the FMCSA effort to allow approved Mexican trucking companies to run their long-haul rigs throughout the United States.

According to a Colorado law enforcement document obtained by WND, the FMCSA has made arrangements for the CVSA to provide inspection decals to all Mexican trucks who pass inspection in the Department of Transportation’s Mexican truck NAFTA demonstration project.

The CVSA is a non-profit association composed of “state, provincial, and federal officials responsible for the administration and enforcement of motor carrier safety laws in the United States, Canada and Mexico.”

CVSA membership includes all 50 states, the District of Columbia, all 13 Canadian provinces, Mexico, and various U.S. territories, including Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

According to the group’s website, the CVSA has evolved from an informal gathering of western states motor-vehicle agencies in the 1980s, to a trilateral group setting uniform commercial vehicle safety requirements in all of North America.
The Colorado law enforcement bulletin specifies that Mexican carriers who are part of the “Cross Border Demonstration Project” must display a valid CVSA inspection decal.

The law enforcement notice further specifies, “In general, vehicles with valid CVSA decal(s) are not subject to re-inspection until the decal is expired. If obvious violations are noticed, the vehicle may be re-inspected.”

The key position of the CVSA in the FMCSA’s Mexican truck demonstration project is affirmed by a cross-border operating requirements handbook published on the FMCSA website.

The group’s website identifies CVSA as “a public/private partnership,” with open invitation to individuals and trucking companies to join as members, along with law enforcement organizations.

A section of the group’s website describing CVSA inspections notes, “Inspections must be performed by and CVSA decals affixed by North American Standard Level I and/or Level V certified inspectors. The term ‘certified’ as defined in this section means the government employee performing inspections and/or affixing CVSA decals must have first successfully completed a training program approved by the Alliance.”

The website further specifies, “CVSA decals, when affixed, shall remain valid for a period not to exceed three consecutive months. Vehicles displaying a valid CVSA decal generally will not be subject to re-inspection.”

The language consistently reflects standards for North America, consistent with the group’s goal to standardize continental driver and vehicle safety requirements on a continental basis.

A Level I “North American Standard Inspection” is specified on the CVSA website to include examination of driver’s license and other driver’s records including alcohol and drug testing, as well as a vehicle inspection for multiple physical safety requirements.

A Level V inspection is a vehicle-only examination under the Level I North American Standard Inspection requirements, without a driver present.

The FMCSA website currently identifies five Mexican trucking companies and three U.S. trucking companies qualified to participate in the demonstration project.

As WND has reported, both the House and the Senate have overwhelmingly voted to remove the funding from the Department of Transportation’s FY 2008 appropriations bill.

DOT, however, has decided continue allowing approved Mexican trucking companies to run their long-haul rigs throughout the United States, arguing that the vote of Congress is not binding until President Bush signs the bill.

WND reported Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., the sponsor of the House amendment to block DOT funding, has charged the Bush administration with being “hell-bent” in opening our borders to Mexican trucks, while defying the will of the American public and failing to convince Congress that Mexican drivers and trucks will meet the same safety standards as U.S. drivers and trucks.

WND has also reported that Melissa DeLaney, spokeswoman for the FMCSA, indicated further defiance to Congress and the will of the American people by suggesting that the FMCSA might sidestep the amendments designed to cut off funding for approved Mexican trucks to continue to operate within the United States.

“We are committed to incremental steps in demonstrating the safety of the cross-border program,” DeLaney told WND, “but there is no requirement to have a demonstration project.”

FMCSA close working relationship with CVSA is demonstrated by “Operation Safe Driver,” a trucking industry program the two are launching together today in Orlando, Fla.

The program, subtitled “Cutting it Close Can Cut Your Life Short,” is aimed at addressing the 12 percent of fatal crashes in the U.S. involving trucks and buses.

The effort is aimed at “launching a new campaign concentrating on the unsafe driving practices of commercial and non-commercial drivers.”

The Colorado law enforcement document was provided to WND by the Peter Boyles radio show in Denver.

A copy of the document is available for viewing on the program’s website.

Good job Americans! This is the kind of story that warms my heart. Now those 8th century dumbasses will not be able to blow up as many American service members.

Smoke if you got ‘em.

19 tons of explosives found in Iraq
Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:55am EDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. forces in Iraq discovered nearly 19 tons of explosives in a weapons cache north of Baghdad this week, one of the biggest finds of its kind, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

The cache was discovered west of Tarmiya, some 30 km (19 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad, in Salahuddin province where Sunni Arab militants have a strong presence.

The find was made up of 41,000 lbs of ammonium nitrate and 35 mortar bombs. U.S. forces destroyed the cache.

“It’s a crippling blow against the enemy, it’s really huge,” said Peggy Kageleiry, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces in northern Iraq.

Car and truck bombs are used on almost a daily basis by militants in Iraqis targeting U.S. and Iraqi security forces and civilians.

In the deadliest attack this year, 520 people were killed in August when two suicide bombers drove two garbage trucks packed with explosives into two villages in northwestern Iraq.

Patrick Russ is the Toys for Tots coordinator for all of San Diego county.  Patrick was on the Oct. 20th, 2007 show to speak about the upcoming events for Toys for Tots.

The Eagle Young Marines is a drug reduction program that mentors to high risk children.  MGySgt. Siegmann and Ms. Estep were in the studio to tell us about the program and their upcoming trip to D.C..  The Eagle Young Marines appeared on the Oct. 20th, 2007 show.

This is unprecedented! It is this Marine’s opinion that, of course Mexico wants to be economically tied to the U.S.! This means that the elites in Mexico will gain in money and power. Do you honestly believe that the poor people of Mexico will see the benefits of this coming “integration”? I would speculate, no.
And another thing, I would not surprise me at all if Vicente Fox gets bumped off. This guy is traipsing around the country, bragging about the “plan” that he and President Bush hatched to economically and politically tie our two countries together. Either he will be bumped off or he will be allowed to live because the people behind the scenes don’t care anymore because it could be too late to stop the integration.
Vicente Fox’s book “Revolution of Hope” explains how Mr. Fox dreams of a North American Union like that of the European Union to allow the Americas to compete with the EU economically. Never mind the fact that the U.S.’s economic statistics are greater than those of the EU. Never mind the fact that some of the EU’s members are pissed off at the cost versus benefit ratio. England is being ass raped at the moment.
Mr. Fox has even talked about the “Amero”, the new monetary standard for the North American Union, on Larry King Live. In fact, the Council on Foreign Relations has said that they would like to see the Amero currency begin being implemented in 2010. That is less than three years from now. Isn’t it a little curious that Canada’s dollar has just become equal to the value of the U.S. dollar? If you were smart, you should put money into currency trading because the Peso is about to blow up. When all three currencies are worth the same, dip-shits like the CFR will argue that the time is right.
What is your country worth to you? What is the value of Liberty? To me, it is worth my life. If everyone else felt this way, this country wouldn’t be worrying about this crap.

Mexico’s Fox openly calls for North American Union
Merger with Canada, U.S. is part of his dream to compete with Europe, Far East

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Posted: October 12, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – Mexico’s former President Vicente Fox is making no secret of his desire to promote a “North American Union” to compete economically with Europe and the Far East.

In a promotional tour for his new book, “Revolution of Hope,” Fox told NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” audience: “That’s part of my Americas dream, that we can build our future together. We are partners with United States and Canada through NAFTA. There are other blocs in Latin America, but at the very end a continental trade agreement and union on the long term would be a way to develop ourselves and to be able to have the standards and level of living that we all need.”

Fox shocked many in the U.S. earlier in the week when he told CNN’s Larry King that he and President Bush had agreed to work toward a common currency not only for North America but for Latin America as well.

It was possibly the first time a top official of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration.

According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener.
“Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency?”

Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.

“Long term, very long term,” he said. “What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it’s ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas.”

ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of the FTAA in Spanish.

King, evidently startled by Fox’s revelation of the currency, asked pointedly, “It’s going to be like the euro dollar (sic), you mean?”
“Well, that would be long, long term,” Fox repeated.

Fox noted the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela.

“Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came,” Fox commented. “He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.”
Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency later – a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself.

“I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement,” Fox said. “And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.”

When asked by WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving about plans for the new currency, sometimes referred to as the amero, White House press secretary Dana Perino said she was not aware of any such efforts.

On the NPR program, host Neal Conan asked Fox: “You have called for much freer movement of labor. In fact, you’ve argued for a North American Union down the road. But a North American Union that would unite Canada, Mexico and the United States as an economic unit to compete with the European Union and with the tigers of the Far East.”

Fox answered affirmatively and added: “And I also speak about the immigration policies here in the United States and the need to pace the issue, the need to debate the issue, and the need to fulfill those empty spaces that are being filled by the xenophobic, by those who are guided by fear, and that’s what I notice in this nation. And its stand and we sit down and we look at the future with this vision. I don’t think building walls is the answer to the problem. I love this land. I love America. I love the United States.”

The issue of a unified currency is one discussed in “The Late Great USA,” and recently, WND reported BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients the amero may be the currency of North America within 10 years.

Coin designer Daniel Carr has issued for sale a series of private-issue fantasy pattern amero coins that have drawn attention on the Internet.

WND also reported the African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with the African Central Bank planning to create the “Gold Mandela” as a single African continental currency by 2010.

The Council on Foreign Relations has supported regional and global currencies designed to replace nationally issued currencies.
WND also has reported a continued slide in the value of the dollar on world currency markets could set up conditions in which the adoption of the amero as a North American currency gains momentum.

Presidential candidate and Chicago businessman John Cox appeared on the Oct. 13th, 2007 show.  We talked about his run for the presidency and his platform.

You may not agree with what I am about to say, but here it goes. If, in this country, we do not have people screaming “For the cause of Jesus!”, we will lose our country and our lives. Do you understand? Can you possibly wrap your brain around that one? Think of it. The best way to defeat an enemy is on their terms. To beat them at their own game so they never think of coming after us again. Let me give you an example from history…Japan. We hit them so hard that it altered their entire history from then on. Just look at them now. The Muslims understand nothing but strength and brutality. So then that is what we must be. It is time to rain hell on them the likes of which they have never seen before! Damn the innocents! Do you think that they care about our innocents?! Have you already forgotten about the AMERICANS that jumped to their deaths from the World Trade Center towers to keep from being burned alive?! Have you forgotten already, MY FRIENDS, that have died to defeat this enemy?! In their honor, I say we slaughter them all! In this country and overseas! Yeah, maybe you’re right. That would be overreacting. We could just export the homosexuals over to them; they would freak out on that. Or we could just do nothing while they taunt us to our face how they are going to kill us all. Tuck our tails between our legs like England as they slowly immigrate and create hate speech laws so that we can’t say or do anything… until you wake up one morning, and a knife is at your throat! You should have thought about it, huh?