Yet again the nation’s interests have been hijacked. Because “they” hate Americans we now have to crusade against the global network of TERROR. 9/11. Al Qaeda.

Ahem. Oh sorry for that, just clearing my conscience - er - throat.

It seems lately that conspiracy theories are flying around like tater tots in a grade school food fight. Maybe now that Americans are starting to realize that terrorists don’t actually pose the U.S. too much of a residual threat, we are all just looking to find something to justify our deep-seated cultural fear. I’ll be discussing a few of these over the next week.

One of my favorite conspiracy theories purports that the international bankers are trying to create a North American Union out of the Canada, Mexico and the U.S. This would abolish the dollar, looney and peso and render our beloved Constitution no more useful than a spork (hey, it looks good on paper). The new currency would be called the “amero.”

The only evidence for this claim is the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America(SPP) that President George W. Bush announced suddenly in 2005 without congressional or public approval. The GOP says the SPP was created for the purpose of greater cooperation and information sharing between the three nations. Doomsayers believe it’s the underpinnings of the upper echelon’s drive to create a unified world government, leaving no plebeian pocket untouched.

But there are two problems with this particular fear:

1) Canada would never give its stable system over to its rambunctious southerly brothers.

2) Actually being surprised that Bush would enact policy without his country’s support is so 2001 . I doubt he ever realized public support was an option.

And finally I point to the Boston Globe’s Drake Bennett, who did some great reporting on the matter.