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| Idaho votes resolution that US should withdraw from North American Union (SPP) |
| 2007-03-25 |
| Lawmakers in Idaho have approved a "joint memorial" that urges the U.S. Congress to use "all efforts, energies and diligence" to get the United States out of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a multinational plan that opponents believe is being used to blend the U.S., Mexico and Canada. As WND has reported previously, many other state legislatures have resolutions pending that condemn the idea of a "North American Union," but Idaho's is the first to pass such a measure. The "memorial," which is similar to a resolution, was written and adopted "to send the message to the Congress of the United States Â… that the First Regular Session of the Fifty-ninth Idaho Legislature Â… that the Congress of the United States, and particularly the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho, are hereby urged and petitioned to use all of their efforts to withdraw the United States from any further participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and any other bilateral or multilateral activity which seeks to advance, authorize, fund or in any way promote the creation of any structure to accomplish any form of North American Union." The SPP, according to its own description, "was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing..." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 Good for them. Let's see some more states back it and then let's elect a President who will kill the SPP. Screw Mexico and the Mexicans; they've never been an ally and never will be. I sure as hell wish the Rio Grande was 500 miles wide. |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-03-25 17:45 |
| #1 Woop, woop, woop. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-25 11:14 |