Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

Human Events ^ | June 12, 2006 | Jerome Corsi

[conservativecorner]

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.

NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a “non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.” Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.

Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an “investor based organization supported by the public and private sector” to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: “For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality.”

The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an “SPP office” that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that “(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented.” The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road. The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.

[hedgetrimmer]

Its the "free traders" who are hysterically funny as they try to defend their corrupt anti-sovereign ideology.

[CWOJackson]

So what are you going to do when the highway is completed and the President signs an executive order creating the North American Union?

[Dog Gone]

Glad we amuse you. Now give me the link where this customs office becomes sovereign Mexican territory.

[hedgetrimmer]

So what are you going to do when the highway is completed and the President signs an executive order creating the North American Union?

Is that how he is going to do it?

[MikefromOhio]

Is that how he is going to do it?

You're the one with the crazy ass theories, you tell US....yes I have my popcorn at the ready.....

[hedgetrimmer]

From the horses mouth, Kansas City Smartport:

One stumbling block, however, is that by Mexican law brokers must be part of the operations. Most Mexican broker facilities are on the U.S. (Laredo, Texas) side of the border. They are legal entities on the Mexican side, but are performing most of their work on the U.S. side. There is still a need for drayage, since many U.S. carriers don't use their trucks into Mexico, just trailers. The Mexican brokers must take possession of the freight in order to have it move. Smart-Port is very aware of the need and has been proactive in meeting with the Nuevo Laredo Customs Brokers Association, among others.

"When we met with them, we explained we didn't want them to duplicate all of their activities in Laredo in Kansas City and have two cost centers," says Gutierrez. "We asked them: How can we partner with 3PLs here to help you manage the process? How can we assist you to make it economically feasible for you, knowing that the Mexican government is committed to doing this?"

Part of the discussion with Mexican brokers concerns the expense of technology.

"We have U.S. Federal government funds," notes Gutierrez, "to conduct tests in terms of tracking freight when it leaves Kansas City going to Laredo to make sure nothing has happened to it along the way, using all available technology, such as electronic seals and transponders."

The question is if it will be carriers, brokers, shippers or importers who will ultimately pay for the new technology needed to make the project a reality. One holdup now is that the U.S. Department of State wants to know the exact location of the building which will house the Mexican Customs Project, which SmartPort will ultimately provide. State is involved because the facility will be sovereign Mexican territory.

http://www.kcsmartport.com/sec_news/media/articles/customs_logtoday_102304.htm

[BnBlFlag]

And I foolishly thought Perry was trying to improve ITRAstate transportation with the Trans-Texas Corrider. We really need to work the Texas Legislature on this but I'm afraid they're already bought and paid for. God help us all.

[hedgetrimmer]

the President signs an executive order creating the North American Union.

182 posted on 06/12/2006 4:47:23 PM PDT by CWOJackson (Go Mike Go!)

Why don't you ask the person who wrote this?

[MikefromOhio]

Because I know HE was joking.

You, on the other hand, seem to be seeing helicopters..... Helicopters EVERYWHERE!!!!!


BTW you can include CWO in on this considering it was HIS comment.

[hedgetrimmer]

Because I know HE was joking.

Really?

[deport]

Guess they haven't been up on the Ports-to-Plains route.....

Ports-to-Plains

and don't for get the La-Entrada-al-Pacifico route.

La Entrada Al Pacifico

Sounds like the concrete business would be a good one to get into if the Freemasons don't have it all under contract as you stated above....

[Sweetjustusnow]

"I've been studying this whole thing for a very long time. No one would believe me when I told them what was coming, and I got tired of being accused of being a tin foiler, so I quit telling them. Now, it's so obvious, they can't hide it and people are FINALLY catching on, but it's too late to do anything about it."

Yup. Been there done that. People won't understand the loss of their liberty until it is way too late. Our Forefathers new that liberty rested in the people ONLY. Government was by it's very nature the thing that the people were to work diligently to keep in check.

This has all been a long time in coming. As a matter of fact, It was H.W. Bush who said, "if the American people knew what we had done they would hang us".

It's too bad that with all the links to the facts, people seem to not care to read them. Once you do, you understand completely that America has been taken over and there isn't a damn thing that Joe Shmoe is going to do about it.

A New World Order has been issued forth by the elite globalists who have been consistently ushering it in.

So good bye my beloved country. Good bye.

We are all now at the mercy of those who have ushered in this fate. I hope you all sleep well knowing that.

[MikefromOhio]

yes....its VERY obvious that the joke is on you. Corsi is playing you for a fool to HIS advantage and he's apparently doing a GREAT job of it.

only tinfoil hat wearing, black helicopter shooting, end of the world is now nutjobs think that an entity as clearly ineffcient as ours could even HOPE to pull something like this off.

Yet the same people, like yourself, bemoan at how incompetent our government is.

Which is it? Are they incompetent boobs or are they plotting to end the United STates? You can't have both, this isn't pro-fake-wrestling.

[hedgetrimmer]

You, on the other hand, seem to be seeing helicopters..... Helicopters EVERYWHERE!!!!!

You must be talking about "open skies" not the trans-texas corridor.

Aviation safety could be jeopardized as foreign-controlled management need meet only minimum FAA standards, far short of the present programs and practices U.S. airlines presently accord.

Surprisingly, the Department of Defense as well as the State Department have agreed with the DOT on this issue. But for several Congressmen, it does not pass muster and especially as concerns the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) which is used to transport U.S. troops including in times of war. The Open Skies Agreement would have to be redrafted to accommodate such. According to Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), “During the Gulf War a European Union member didn’t supply us with a type of carrier we needed when we ran out because they didn’t support the war.”

http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_12821.shtml

Ain't "free trade" grand! ( You know I'm joking)

[MikefromOhio]

LOL!!!!!


You're a riot!!!

[MikefromOhio]

[texastoo]

This site lists meetings this summer. Maybe there is a meeting close to you.

http://www.keeptexasmoving.com/projects/ttc35/meetings.aspx#north

[hedgetrimmer]

Corsi is playing you for a fool

Now how would he do that?

[MikefromOhio]

Now how would he do that?

I'll leave that for YOU to figure out. But I'll give you a hint: think Pat Buchanan.

[hedgetrimmer]

What is that?