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"The Security and Prosperity Partnership is setting the stage for uniting the three nations of North America into a North American Union that will parallel for the West what the EU has done to Europe." John Birch Society president John F. McManus, a founding member of the Coalition to Block the North American Union, issued this warning at the coalition's August 20, 2007 news conference in Ottawa, Canada, not far from where President Bush and his counterparts from Mexico and Canada were meeting.

"The NAC [a new 'North American Commission'] should develop an integrated continental plan for transportation and infrastructure that includes new North American highways and high-speed rail corridors."

American University Professor Robert Pastor, a key architect of what critics have dubbed the "North American Union," included this recommendation in his January/February 2004 Foreign Affairs article entitled, "North America's Second Decade," a reference to the second decade after NAFTA.

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"The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union.... It sounds like a recipe for transnational socialism and the further destruction of the U.S. economy. Terrorists surely dream of a borderless North America, where they can move freely from country to country unmolested.... We must demand that American sovereignty be protected."

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) offered this assessment of the planned NAFTA trade corridors via video to the Coalition to Block the North American Union's August 20, 2007 news conference in Ottawa, Canada.

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