Streets were closed and the New Orleans Police Department and other officials prepared to have huge presence downtown to protect President Bush, President Calderon, and Prime Minster Baker from protestors in the city.  But so far, protests have been tame and poorly attended.

Jim Stachowiak, a host from Freedom Fighter Radio, and his supporters gathered in front of Jackson Square.  Stachowiak had expected few hundred supporters to show; instead only a few showed up, decrying issues such as domestic wiretaps and a lack of security along the U.S.-Mexico border.  The group is calling for Congress to impeach President Bush.

“George Bush is on record for being the worst, most unpopular president in the history of the United States,” Stachowiak said. “He lied to us about the Iraq War. He lied to us about 9/11.”

“Death to the U.N.,” Stachowiak yelled, as he tore up the U.N. flag in front of a few onlookers.

Stachowiak’s group met up with other protestors along Poydras Street, across from the Federal Courthouse.

“Harper, Calderon, George Bush, you're new world order will fail,” said Edward Dickey, another protestor of the summit, adding free trade is hurting the U.S. economy.

“They're going to offload Communist Chinese slave-labor goods in Mexico, load them on Mexican trucks and ship them all the way up to Canada,” Dickey said.

The protestors fear that the talks between the leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico could lead to the creation of a continental government, similar to the European Union. 

Before the summit, the Coalition to Block the North American Union held a news conference to the challenge the summit. 

“This is an effort to make us citizens,” Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus said, “not of a United States, but of a new entity called North America.”  Phillips believes the new world order would make it easier for terrorists to enter the U.S.

“People in Mexico and Canada would be able to travel without restriction into our country just as in Europe,” Phillips said, “people of the 27 members of the EU are able to travel without restriction throughout all of those countries.”

Police are still expecting local protestors who are against the razing of public housing in New Orleans.