Posted on 06/12/2006 6:23:16 AM PDT by 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.
But...you-keep-missing-the-point. Southern Poverty Law center. Good nite!
You're not credible. Your opinions don't count. Find someone who is credible to link to so that I may read it with the mindset of disbelieving what I first posted to you. And, no, I won't regurgitate for you like you're a little bird and spoon feed you what you, as an adult, posting on an adult forum, should be able to do: READ all the documents I posted links to (no, not just the "little clips"...those were posted so you'd GO read the full articles). Then, after you've read them all, THINK for yourself what they mean, how they relate to each, using your "cricital thinking skills" that you claim to have. Then, when we're on the same page, reading-wise, you will be in a position to actually make some kind of intelligent discussion/debate on the ramifications/consequences of all the actions taken by government (U.S., federal and local, and Mexico and Canada) and privately owned companies, something thus far lacking in your posts.
There's no need to insult hedgetrimmer. Yes, the United States of America probably won't lose sovereignty, at least as much as hedgetrimmer and some of the others here propose, but you could be polite in your disagreement with hedgetrimmer. hedgetrimmer the same goes for you in some of your posts. Rhetorically, can't there be polite disagreement?
That's the MOST tinfoil, in one reply, I've seen in a long time!
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight......LOL
Oh crap I missed this thread earlier and did not get to panic.
If I panic a whole bunch now do you think I can "catch up" and get down to some serious conspiracy stuff?
Like I hear this super NAFTA highway will have Black helicopter landing pads every 100 miles and UN check points every 50 miles! What shall we do? What shall we do?
So you can't formulate an argument of your own, you just copy and paste what others tell you to think. No problem.
You are the hypocrite. Here you are having stupid comments unrelated to the thread. That is your routine when you have nothing of substance to state, and have no facts to back up any of you up. You bring only your opinions, which mean absolutely nothing.
As to your other opinion that I'm the one who's a hypocrite, name any threads I have been on that I've hijacked. Name even just one.
Oh yes, bring up Jim. Bring up Jim every time you don't like what someone tells you about your own rude obnoxious behavior.
Were you the schoolyard bully, too?
I think there are still some Y2k beans left. I will check my bunker to make sure.
I had plenty to say in my post where I also posted links.
But you don't like reading, so, I guess you didn't read my opinions OR the articles I linked.
Yeah, you're reading ability is so underwhelming.
LOL. No you didn't.
Thanks, janet. Indeed we have. I do hope that there are still those in the House willing to fight this, as there are some good Senators who seem to be willing to fight some wrong things going on, namely Senator Sessions.
In your own words, identify the threat to our sovereignty from the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America".
But I did; you just don't like to read things if it's more than a few sentences in length.
I'm calling it a nite, Nic. The word has been given and the pack has shown up to destroy this thread. I'll see you tomorrow.
Up the proletariat man the barricades! Shall we all sing the Internationale?
Trade with neighboring countries is common. Practically all countries with land neighbors have roads connecting them to such neighbors to trade with them.
Yeah, I noticed the herd is here with that mission. See you tomorrow, as well.
Unlike your crowd, I did NOT hijack this thread; I am just replying to posts made to me.
And it is not only childish, but pathetic, on your part, to type the same thing, word for word, to me and others. Did you, perchance, imagine that I wouldn't notice? LOL
Let's get this straight....supposedly MY opinion and others, don't mean anything, if YOU don't agree with with them; however, YOUR opinion "means" something? ROTFLOL
This article is garbage; not to mention tinfoil!
Nah I got a feeling a few verses of "Look for the Union label" would be appropriate, for the folks pushing this tripe.
This whole story has a definite "Union Propaganda/Dogma" smell to it.
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