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Felix Wilcox

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  • Sovereignty is a monopoly of coercion, not a treaty

    [Read the article: U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada?]
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    What is this, Swiftboating on trade and immigration? – NAFTA uses national governments as the dispute mediators on an ad hoc basis (NAFTA Articles 2204 and 2205), not a separate entity like the EU. Besides, America (like every country before it)has and can ignore treaties. The US ignored NAFTA rulings on softwood lumber trade for years. Any treaty can be changed if the will is there – Casio keeps using Italy as an example, but Italy seriously threatened to veto the EU constitution if its demands were not met. What's the problem?

    And that doesn’t even matter - NAFTA exists to reduce trade barriers – it's silent on culture, because Canadians and Mexicans do not want to be Americans and vice versa. No treaty (or xenophobic fence) will change that. Didn’t we already deal with Samuel Huntington five years ago? And vote on this in ’94?

    Sunday, July 15, 2007 09:36 PM

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