Moronic convergence

I doubt Pat Boone was part of the angry mob that descended upon Mentebello yesterday, but he and other extreme right-wingers have teamed up with the Naomi Klein crowd to oppose the mythical "North American Union":

The adage about strange political bedfellows rises to a new level of strangeness when the John Birch Society and Pat Boone make common cause with anarchists and Maude Barlow.

The North American Security and Prosperity Partnership, a project of Canada, the United States and Mexico, has united a disparate opposition of left and right. They may have little in common otherwise, but this issue trumps other differences.

The partnership is seen as an effort to bring in a kind of super-NAFTA that will steal jobs, erode freedoms and change Canadian (or American) life forever.

A Monday news conference of the Coalition to Block the North American Union - which included an inspirational message from crooner Pat Boone - brought together a number of right-wing American groups including the John Birch Society [they're still around? - DP], the Conservative Caucus, Veterans for Secure Borders and the American Policy Center, along with the fledgling Canadian Action Party.

The event was timed to coincide with the start of a two-day meeting of the three North American leaders at Montebello, Que.

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[Canadian fringe politician and 9/11 denier Connie Fogal] and her colleagues railed against what they say is a long-lived conspiracy by "the faceless minions of the new world order" to subvert the United States (and Canada and Mexico) and create a Western Hemisphere version of the European Union, complete with a new currency - the Amero - and a superhighway stretching from Mexico City to Whitehorse, Yukon, and Fairbanks, Alaska.

Are "the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force," as theorized by Tim Blair? I'd bet my last Amero on it.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at August 21, 2007 11:02 AM