The NAFTA/FTAA process.

The subversive intent behind the NAFTA-FTAA process in the Western Hemisphere, like the Common Market-EU process in Europe, is to gradually build regional government on the road to world government.

The subversive intent behind the NAFTA-FTAA process in the Western Hemisphere, like the Common Market-EU process in Europe, is to gradually build regional government on the road to world government.

"We cannot leap into world government in one quick step.... [T]he precondition for eventual globalization--genuine globalization--is progressive regionalization, because thereby we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."

Zhigniew Brzezinski (CFR), former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, in an address to Mikhail Gorbachev's State of the Worm Forum, October 1995.

"[NAFTA] will represent the most creative step toward a new world order taken by any group of countries since the end of the Cold War, and the first step toward an even larger vision of a free-trade zone for the entire Western Hemisphere.... [NAFTA] is not a conventional trade agreement, but the architecture of a new international system." Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (CFR) in a Los Angeles Times column, July 18, 1993.

"Hemispheric institutions, including ... the NAFTA institutions, can be forged into the vital mechanisms of hemispheric governance. The organizing concept could be a hemispheric 'Community of Democracies' increasingly integrated by economic exchange and shared political values." National Security Adviser Anthony Lake (CFR) in a memo to President Bill Clinton, November 29, 1993.

"NAFTA lays the foundation for a continental common market, as many of its architects privately acknowledge. Part of this foundation, inevitably, is bureaucratic: The agreement creates a variety of continental institutions--ranging from trade dispute panels to labor and environmental commissions--that are, in aggregate, an embryonic NAFTA government." William Orme, Jr., author of Continental Shift: Free Trade and the New North America, in the Washington Post in 1993.

"The ultimate goal of any White House policy ought to be a North American economic and political alliance similar in scope and ambition to the European Union." Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial, September 7, 2001.

"Eventually, our long-range objective [with NAFTA] is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union." Mexican President Vicente Fox in Madrid, May 16, 2002.

"Reformist Mexican President Vicente Fox raises eyebrows with his suggestion that over a decade or two NAFTA should evolve into something like the European Union, with open borders for not only goods and investment but also people. He can rest assured that there is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports his vision. To wit, this newspaper." Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley (CFR) in a July 2, 2001 editorial entitled "Open NAFTA Borders? Why Not?"

"NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North America.... Although NAFTA fueled the train of continental integration, it did not provide conductors to guide it.... The European experience with integration has much to teach North American policymakers." Prof. Robert A. Pastor (CFR) in Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004. Pastor is author of Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New.

"We're working to build a Free Trade Area of the Americas [FTAA].... " President George W. Bush addressing a meeting of the World Affairs Council and Organization of American States, January 16, 2002.

"We want an FTAA [and] we want it as soon as possible. Everything that we do is moving in that direction." U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States John F. Maisto, December 13, 2004.