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.

[MineralMan]

"We need WAY less wetting of panties here.
"

Well said!

[philman_36]

The star is Lazaro Cardenas in Baja California.
What are they going to do, drive several hundred miles to get near Texas brefore crossing the border?
So much for "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line".
And, of course, fuel costs will offset any savings so Americans will still see no price reductions.

[mylife]

Thats the san filipe, peuto penasco area

[Dog Gone]

It's embarrassing. I can't recommend FR to friends at the moment. Nutjob threads are far too common.

[MineralMan]

See my #15. I asked you a question about the Constitution.

[o_zarkman44]

This article may be 10 days old but the project plans initially go back several years. I am currently searching another site and hope to provide links. The original site this came from was reference blocked by FR.

[MineralMan]

"but FR has blocked reference to the site for whatever reasons."

You appear to be mistaken. The mods have added the link to the article you posted.

[MizSterious]

Maybe all that tinfoil eventually starts blocking circulation to the brain? ;)

[MineralMan]

"This article may be 10 days old but the project plans initially go back several years. I am currently searching another site and hope to provide links. The original site this came from was reference blocked by FR."

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You must not have looked very hard. I found the Human Events Online link with a single search, using your headline (with the misspelling corrected, of course).

This is, indeed, an old story. There have been postings about this project for a long, long time here on FR. Some folks object to the project. Others think it's OK.

Hundreds upon hundreds of messages regarding this have been posted. Corsi is not the only person to write of this.

[hosepipe]

[ Great, another story based on the wackjob Corsi who is scared of a freaking ROAD. ]

Nah! it couldn't be major globalism from the White RINO House could it?..
The FR Bushbots better be quiet on this one or they might be EXPOSED ALSO..

[SusaninOhio]

I completely agree.

Perhaps this has been 'common' knowledge for a long time, (just not to me?) but why is the dropdown selection on the NASCO website for MEMBERS, password protected? I guess since this asinine plan is being paid for from the planning on up with our tax dollars, we have no business knowing who its MEMBERS are?

What sense does that make?

I especially love the part where this highway has connections to all our inland ports and major cities. If that doesn't make everyone cringe, then I don't think you are paying close enough attention.

Forget about security. This plan blows all of that away. We will still be concerned about little old ladies with metal in their hair (dangerous hairpins, I guess) but lets let everyone who can drive a semi, barrel on into our country from both directions! And in new shiney roads, too - talk about an open invitation.

[Dane]

It's embarrassing. I can't recommend FR to friends at the moment. Nutjob threads are far too common.

Hey here's the nutball tancredo like hero candidate they are now promoting on FR.

As if beating a five-term congressman wasn't hard enough, John Jacob said he has another foe working against him: the devil. "There's another force that wants to keep us from going to Washington, D.C.," Jacob said. "It's the devil is what it is. I don't want you to print that, but it feels like that's what it is." Jacob said Thursday that since he decided to run for Congress against Rep. Chris Cannon, Satan has bollixed his business deals, preventing him from putting as much money into the race as he had hoped. Numerous business deals he had lined up have been delayed, freezing money he was counting on to finance his race. "You know, you plan, you organize, you put your budget together and when you have 10 things fall through, not just one, there's some other, something else that is happening," Jacob said. Asked if he actually believed that "something else" was indeed Satan, Jacob said: "I don't know who else it would be if it wasn't him. Now when that gets out in the paper, I'm going to be one of the screw-loose people."

LINK

[o_zarkman44]

My first attempt at posting this article was blocked by FR so I removed all reference to the link.
I Thank the mods for reviewing the info.

[Dog Gone]

The FR Bushbots better be quiet on this one or they might be EXPOSED ALSO..

Okay, it's come down apparently to a battle between the Bushbots and the nutjobs.

Unfortunately for the nutjobs, things exist called FACTS.

[MineralMan]

"Perhaps this has been 'common' knowledge for a long time, (just not to me?) but why is the dropdown selection on the NASCO website for MEMBERS, "

Which NASCO site? There are dozens of them. Provide a link, and I'll go see what you're talking about.

[mrsmith]

What's wrong with a Neptunian Alien Foods _inc. Terminal Access Super Highway?

We've got to get Soylent Products _TM to the Neptunian factories at a decent price. North Korea is selling it to them at half the price of North American Soylent - of course the high fat content of North American Soylent Products_TM is much favored thoughout the galaxy and gets a premium price but why should we and Neptunian Alien Foods _TM throw that money away with an inefficient delivery systems.

The Bilderbergers estimate the payback on the Neptunian Alien Foods _inc. Terminal Access Super Highway to be less than five years. And when have they ever steered us wrong?

[Dog Gone]

I especially love the part where this highway has connections to all our inland ports and major cities. If that doesn't make everyone cringe, then I don't think you are paying close enough attention.

A road that connects to other roads???

That's horrible new information. I thought it would be a dead end into a corn patch.

[Dog Gone]

groan...

[daybreakcoming]

"bypassing the Longshoreman's Union in the process."

Spose this has anything to do with the sudden uproar? This plan has been in the works for some time - most Texans are aware of it and those who don't like it for one reason or another have been blaming Gov Perry. Now they are blaming President Bush.

When driving alongside the many heavy semi-trucks on interstates within Texas - I try to look at the bright side and believe that our economy is sound to support this much commerce traffic. A Super Highway by any name would be great.

[o_zarkman44]

The question is.....with a free trade zone and transportation hub 10 lane highway from Mexico to Canada, and an established port/customs terminal in Kansas City, are we willing to allow the intrusion into the central USA by a port operations such as Dubai Ports or, some similar operating entity, offloading containers from unsecured trucks entering American Soil?

Not to mention semi-loads of illegals being transported to Kansas City before there is any kind of "border inspection"?
There is no doubt in my mind that this whole "business concept" is a main reason behind the Bush Administration's unwillingness to stop illegal immigration into the USA.
NAFTA supporters are the main proponents of the open border policy. And Bush is one of those proponents by proxy.