The Trans-Texas corridor should be defeated simply because it's a government land grab, using eminent domain to forcibly steal peoples' private property for a toll road who's profits would benefit a foreign company.
...in the name of protecting its sovereignty.
Gasp! Wouldn't want that!
The use of "xenophobes" is really weak too. What's with liberals and labels? Oppose affirmative action? Racist. Gay marriage? Homophobe.
Just because we’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they are NOT out to get us.
Shikha Dalmia ... is a libertarian. She is the author of this article
Thank goodness!!! That is the only thing that has protected us from the Eurotype of bondage. If they can just import some more peons who don't have that pesky independence, they may destroy our paranoia and put the US back under the Royals thumb.
The writers could have come up with reasoned explanation of why Jerome Corsi and company are incorrect on the whole TTC project, NAFTA and the SPP, but instead they took a bunch of cheap shots.
There are reasons why those projects are not what their opponents claim they are, but this article does not even bother to explain what is really going on.
But it’s the LA Times, what do you expect.
(BTW, I’m not talking about the wisdom of the TTC, I don’t have a dog in that fight. But it is not in any great detail any different than any other road in that it will be owned and policed by Texas and is not in any way shape or form a threat to the sovereignty of the State of Texas or the United States.)
I’m all for highways. Just not ones designed to facilitate mexican truckers on our roads.
Relevant:
Hunter Aims to Blow Up a Toll Road Before It’s Turned Into a Superhighway
Author: Kathryn A. Wolfe, CQ Staff
Article Text:
Rep. Duncan Hunter of California , who has spent much of his Republican presidential campaign thus far stumping to security-conscious conservatives, threw his constituency a bone July 24.
As House consideration of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development spending bill (HR 3074) ground to a close around midnight, Hunter added language that would partially block funding for a White House-led group — the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, in which the United States , Mexico and Canada participate.
Sounds like bland stuff, except that some conservatives believe the group is secretly pushing for the construction of a “NAFTA superhighway” from Canada to Mexico , via a private toll road planned across Texas .
“It’s time, before they facilitate this multimodal operation, for the administration to consult Congress,” Hunter said, adding that he is concerned about national security risks.
Some conservatives, such as political activist Phyllis Schlafly, see such a cross-border highway as the first step to establishing a mini-European Union for North America .
The White House-led group could not be reached for comment, but its Web site dismisses as myth the idea that it has plans for a NAFTA superhighway or that it’s working toward an economic merger of the three countries.