Will SPP End Dissent As We Know It?

From August 20-21, the presidents and top government officials of the US, Canada, and Mexico, along with military and police leadership and major corporations, will hold an SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec. A 25 kilometer “security cordon” will be enforced around the summit. No protests will be allowed. Cars with more than five people in them will be turned back. The Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest citizen advocacy organization, headed by Maude Barlow, has been informed by Canadian officials that it is not be allowed to rent the community center in a town six kilometers from Montebello in order to hold a public forum on the SPP. In other words, free speech, freedom of assembly, and the freedom to seek redress of grievances will be denied to the people of North America during the two-day summit which will be making decisions that affect all of our lives. Only corporate leadership will have any input into the deliberations, and indeed, knowledge of what those deliberations are! Central America is not part of the SPP. But, as we saw that the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was an outgrowth of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), I fully expect that the day is not far off when the SPP will be extended to Central America, and from there into South America. Under the guise of “security” and the so-called wars on terrorism and drugs, as well as the unnamed war on immigrants, our freedoms will be further prescribed and those of corporations and the military-industrial complex will be further expanded. That is, if we let it happen... Full article: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=102&ItemID=13525

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