Bush Administration Quitely Plans NAFTA Super Highway

Human Events ^ | 6/16/06 | Jerome R. Corsi

[o_zarkman44]

Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway By Jerome R. Corsi Human Events 6-14-6

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.

[Dog Gone]

Wow, a link to a WEBSITE.

[philman_36]

I just can't help but see a super highway subject to be used by hostile forces that leads right to the heart of America.

Perhaps I spent too much time reading books from The Military Book Club in my youth.

[Dog Gone]

I just can't help but see a super highway subject to be used by hostile forces that leads right to the heart of America.

Let me make sure I understand this.

Building another road will greatly increase the chances of attack from eskimos or the mighty army of Honduras.

That's what you're worried about?

[txrangerette]

Ya know, I'd bet that before those hostile forces got very far up or down that Super Highway we would bomb the you know what out of them. Care to join me in the bet? Of course, first, help me figure out how a sizable hostile force could position itself to get started there in the first place?

Could the reference be to terrorists using the super highway, rather than a standing army? If so, what do terrorists need with a super highway? The way they infiltrate and hide and bomb and run away or blow themselves up wouldn't change because of THAT.

Good grief!!!

[Dog Gone]

It's nice to see a voice of reason like yours on a Corsi thread.

That's kinda rare.

After all, THEY ARE PLANNING TO BUILD A ROAD!!!

It's the end of America, sovereignty, and it will lead to ugly people raping our babies.

And that's just the start!

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

And thus begins the official demise of the United States...

[philman_36]

That's what you're worried about?

That you see no potential threat from a superhighway, not just "another road", passing for hundreds of miles through another country to eventually connect to the middle of America is...unusual...IMO. I guess where I see military strategy you see...what exactly? Skepticism? Belief in the good nature of your fellow man? Ignoring the possibility will make it not happen?
Do you remember how effeciently German troops were moved on the Autobahn? Do you remember how fast our troops moved on the Autobahn once we controlled it? WWII mobilized forces were turtles compared to today's mechanized warfare.

Control the highway, just like a river, and you cut America in two. The Mississippi pretty much did that for years. Now a road will.
Sorry, Bro, scoff all you want, I've gotta express it. It looks bad from a defensive aspect.

[Dog Gone]

If the survival of America teeters on a whether we can control one steenkin' road within our own country, then we are complete pussies and should surrender to whomever you think the NWO is right now.

[philman_36]

My, what a rejoinder. I feel dumber already from having read it.

[Tribune7]

LOL. It sounds like the idea is to beat the union-caused bottlenecks at the Left Coast ports.

[dirtboy]

Quite frankly, I feel more of threat from the eminent domain issuess surrounding the highway than I do from the highway itself.

[philman_36]

Quite frankly, I feel more of threat from the eminent domain issuess surrounding the highway than I do from the highway itself.
Because it's the more immediate threat.

[1rudeboy]

Another Corsi thread. This one is more entertaining than the first. A real "twister."

[1rudeboy]

[deport]

Get 'R Done

Hope they build it a little higher than the last one

[Dog Gone]

My, what a rejoinder. I feel dumber already from having read it.

I'll bypass the easy response.

We already have lots of roads that go to our borders and beyond.

Please explain why another one is a grave new threat. I especially want to hear about why armies from Central America will suddenly find it easier to attack us in our heartland.

[philman_36]

Please explain why another one is a grave new threat.
No strategy knowledge, no logistics understanding...did you never serve in the military?
I especially want to hear about why armies from Central America will suddenly find it easier to attack us in our heartland.
Why does it have to be just an army from Central America? Couldn't some other nation's army use it? Neutral countries have been crossed before against their will. Many times, in fact, throughout history.

[deport]

Gosh lots of roads headed north towards the Canadian Border and the fruited plains... Here's three more proposals to go along with the Corsi worry. Wonder which ones will be built, if ever?

Ports-To-Plains

La-Entrada_Al-Pacifico

[philman_36]

La-Entrada_Al-Pacifico
How fitting in light of the conversation...The Pacific Entrance.

[Dog Gone]

Okay, gotcha. No new roads in this country because some foreign army might use them.