From the editor.

Everyone has heard about the European Union, the collection of countries in Europe that joined in economic union, but fewer know that this "economic union" has evolved over time into a full-fledged European government. As the common citizens of Europe sit aghast, their elected representatives acquiesce to the unelected elites at the EU overturning their countries' laws, against the people's wishes. Furthermore, relatively few people know either that our elected officials in Washington are setting into place the mechanisms to enroll the United States in a similar union, commonly referred to as the North American Union, and that if we allow them to fully implement their plans, we will find ourselves sitting aghast as our country's own laws are overridden.

If our officials are successful, the American flag would still exist, but it would no longer fly over a land in control of its own destiny or even possessing its own national identity. A place called "the United States" and its boundaries would still exist on a map, but our laws would be "harmonized" with the other members of the new regional government and the borders would be opened.

Of course, the architects and promoters of this scheme do not openly call for abolishing the United States. They recognize that doing so would ignite a firestorm of opposition from everyday Americans who would demand an end to this madness.

So instead of trying to convince the American people that we should tear up our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and erase our national boundaries, these elitists instead advocate gradually entangling arrangements with other governments that would eventually submerge the United States in a regional government controlled by unelected bureaucrats of the elites' choosing.

This premeditated merger of the United States with her neighbors to the north and south is becoming increasingly obvious.

One area where it is particularly evident is our federal government's supposed inability to secure our borders, despite the terrorist threat. "The Bush administration's open-borders policy and its decision to ignore the enforcement of this country's immigration laws is part of a broader agenda," writer Dennis Behreandt quotes CNN commentator Lou Dobbs as saying in the "Overview" article beginning on page 8. "President Bush signed a formal agreement that will end the United States as we know it," Dobbs added, "and he took the step without approval from either the U.S. Congress or the people of the United States."

That agreement, Behreandt explains, is called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). The establishment of the SPP was jointly announced in March 2005 by President Bush and his counterparts from Mexico and Canada at a summit of the North American leaders in Waco, Texas. Full implementation of the SPP would create the North American Union.

The developing political and economic integration of North America did not begin with the SPP of course. A major preliminary step occurred more than a decade earlier with the adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has significantly damaged our economy. A fully implemented SPP would be NAFTA on steroids. And there are other arrangements too, including the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which would create a supernational government of the Americas--including every country in North and South America except Cuba. Though supported by the Bush administration, the FTAA has fortunately been temporarily put on a back burner.

This power grab can be stopped through exposure and organized action. We encourage all readers to carefully consider the evidence assembled herein and to become actively engaged in the fight to preserve our national independence.