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Preserving America's freedom: grass-roots activists score a major victory in the effort to forestall a North American Union with the passage in Idaho of a resolution opposing further continental integration.

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The architects of the fledgling effort to create a North American Union (NAU)--the joining of the United States, Mexico, and Canada into a union like the European Union--didn't count on JoAn Wood. A legislator serving in the Idaho House of Representatives, Wood chairs the Transportation and Defense Committee where her diligence in stopping mischievous legislation has earned her the nickname "JoAn Wood(n't)" from the Idaho Statesman.

Wood was one of several legislators contacted by grass-roots activists concerned about the federal effort at the executive-branch level to further integrate the United States with Canada and Mexico in an embryonic union through the Security and Prosperity Partnership that was created by President Bush and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in 2005. Once Wood was apprised of the threat posed by the SPP, she wouldn't allow her state to sit idly by while the federal executive branch continued its policy of selling out America's independence. Instead, she introduced legislation in the Idaho House of Representatives opposing the SPP and calling on the federal Congress to do the same.

Wood's actions in Idaho were the first successful and visible manifestations of a groundswell of opposition to the NAU that has materialized in recent months. Led by members of the John Birch Society (of which this magazine is an affiliate), concerned grass-roots activists have succeeded in raising awareness at the local and state level of the dangers presented by the SPP and the move toward further North American integration. As a result of these efforts, resolutions opposing a North American Union have been introduced in 18 states as we go to press. So far, resolutions opposing the SPP and NAU efforts of the...