Posted on 09/26/2006 4:20:33 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Perhaps the most important story of the 21th century is happening away from the public eye. The first-step plan implementation is the Trans-Texas Corridor(TTC), a super highway slated to begin construction in 2007. On September 30, in a kickoff protest across 70-77 counties, many Texans will step into the sunlight, make their way to their county seats and lay a "cupful of soil" from their land on the courthouse steps. "Hands Across the Corridor" is their cry. (indytexans.org)
Also, Waller County citizens will caravan to the home of the cannon symbol in Gonzales, TX, long known as the "Lexington" of the war for Texas independence. (www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/GG/hcg7.html). Speakers include Carole Keeton Strayhorn, current Comptroller of Texas, who is an Independent candidate for Governor. She is considered the champion of the anti-corridor movement.
This isn't just about the TTC, but also about other planned toll road projects which will affect many more Texans and their livelihoods. It appears that Gov. Rick Perry has fallen for the future vision of a three-nation union with no borders, no security, and the pluralism-multiculturalism which threatens all of us.
From my previous articles on this subject, some have put me in the nutty-as-a-fruitcake conspiracy category. Some have disparaged me for saying the USofA will lose its' sovereignty. Canadians wrote to say they have had a difficult time finding out anything about this subject union in their own country, but found plenty on American-Mexican sites.
Some have cruelly attacked me for ignoring the plight of "truckers" who suffer in fuel costs and slowdowns in traffic jams through and around large, crowded cities. They believe this super highway will benefit all truckers and ease traffic flow around those cities. Maybe, but what are we giving up in the process?
With few exceptions, CNN Lou Dobbs, Jerome Corsi, Human Events and World Net Daily, are the only public media who have attempted to cover the proposed North American Union in any depth. Mr. Corsi has exposed and pointed to the evidence for all to see. Also Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo has been one of the few to speak out.
Robert Pastor, Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University, has written extensively on and pushed for his vision of a North American Union based on the European Union model. He also served as a co-chair of the 2005 Council of Foreign Relations task force promoting "Building a North American Community." (www.cfr.org/publication/8102/).
The three-nation union concept has been tied up in a nicely wrapped economic package and sold to the progressive elitists. Remember that to these planners and shakers of our world, we are first "the consumers" and second "the masses." I predict we will be the "poor masses" of the North American Union in 30 years.
Though Lou Dobbs was hesitant about whether Americans had the guts to stand up against illegal aliens, he said he "hoped" for such a reaction. The same could be said for the strategic plan to transform three nations into one.
We probably won't react unless we are directly impacted like the Texas landowners due to lose their family lands to the TTC and other planned toll roads. Maybe the elitists are right to call us consumers. As long as we are content with our over-mortgaged homes, credit cards and debt, spending what we don't have on the vast variety of products and food; and enough adult and children's toys and entertainment available to keep us dumb and happy — then freedoms and liberties lost will be ignored.
Are we too soft and complacent? Do we really understand what we will lose?
The Texans may be the first to face this gigantic, strategic plan to destroy our sovereignty. They will know, firsthand, the loss of their property rights and be left with the knowledge that their state and federal governments no longer secure citizens in their property. But they won't be the last.
I have seen the future of my America and I do not like it. We, as Americans, are losing our nation right beneath our noses. Not the President, nor the Congress, nor the Supremes will turn the tide against the path the elitists have strategically mapped. Only you and me. Saturday, the Texans will protest this faceless monster which threatens our sovereignty and our national identity.
Whether 10 or 10,000 Texans show up with their cups of dirt, they are the first of the last Americans. By the way, this crosses all political party lines — we are Americans first!
Watch Texas! May they persevere!
They're kind of like a demented Energizer Bunny...wrapped in aluminum foil and going in circles.
Shoot dog,
Just find some "Indian Artifacts" and that will halt all construction for miles of the find.
They don't like digging on indian burial grounds.
Actually, this is a past vision, which is nearly seventy-five years.
The illegals aren't illegal, ladies and gentlemen; they've been citizens all their lives, for the most part.
"The illegals aren't illegal, ladies and gentlemen; they've been citizens all their lives."
Uh, no comprendo?
ping
Illegal aliens aren't illegal.
Rain isn't wet.
Pit bulls aren't dangerous.
fun with categorical statements.........
Where in the world did they come up with that date? BS to rile up the bubbas.
As I understand it, the start data of TTC-35 is going to be more like 2009 or 2010.
Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one
(John Lennon - Imagine)
You really need to ping me, as I will be the Emperor of the NAU when it's formed.
Sorry about that. I will ping the foreman in this reply, however.
No problem. You will have a high position in the new order.
Brother, can you spare an Amero?
September 26, 2006
JO ELLIS
Press Columnist
Last week I wrote about a proposed 1,600-mile transnational highway that would span the North American continent from Mexico to Canada, a portion of which is well into the planning process - a 650-mile long road through Texas and Oklahoma. The Trans-Texas Corridor website shows an artist's rendition of a 1,200 foot wide super corridor that would encompass separate lanes for passenger vehicles (three in each direction) and trucks (two in each direction), six rail lines (separate lines in each direction for high-speed rail, commuter rail and freight rail), and a 200-foot wide utility corridor.
The corridor, roughly paralleling I-35, would bring cheap goods from Asian and Mexican manufacturers into America's heartland all the way into Canada, bypassing U.S. workers at seaports in California along with many railroad workers and truck drivers who would be replaced by less costly Mexican labor. The North American Super Corridor Coalition (NASCO), a trade and lobbying organization, supports development of these north-south connectors (and major east-west connectors to those highways) in all three countries.
NASCO's website says it is “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 . . . From the largest border-crossing in North America (The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Mi. and Windsor, Canada), to the second largest border crossing of Laredo, Texas and Neuvo Laredo, Mexico, extending to the deep water Ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico and to Manitoba, Canada, the impressive, tri-national NASCO membership truly reflects the international scope of the Corridor and the regions it impacts.”
NASCO is not alone in hoping to capitalize on these transnational highways that would facilitate trade with Mexico and Canada. CANAMEX has identified a western route and the North American Forum on Integration has an eye on internationalizing existing north-south highways along four (Pacific, West, East and Atlantic) bands.
Two recent events have stimulated the plans of these trade organizations. On March 23, 2005, President Bush, Mexico's Vicente Fox and Canada's Paul Martin announced an agreement in Waco, Texas, to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Its goal, they said, is to protect North America from external and internal threats, to streamline legitimate cross-border trade and travel and to implement common border-security strategies. How? By pursuing regulatory cooperation through ministerial-level working groups on the premise that the three countries are “mutually dependent and complementary.” Trilateral in concept, the partnership allows any two countries to adopt an agreed-upon action while creating “a path for the third to join later.” More than 20 “ministerial level” groups are at work in the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the U.S. Department of Commerce under Secretary Carlos Guiterrez. Names of the group members have not been revealed because, according to a U.S. official, the Bush administration does not want them “distracted by calls from the public.”
Perhaps even more foreboding is a task force report from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) that was presented to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 9, 2005. Now the Council on Foreign Relations is not affiliated with the U.S. Government or any other government. It was formed in 1921 by a group of businessmen, bankers, scholars and lawyers so that “individual and corporate members,” as well as everyone else in the country, “can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments.” The report, a 59-page document, outlines a plan for the “establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community” with a “common outer-security perimeter” to achieve “the freer flow of people within North America.”
Further details of the plan for a continental perimeter revealed at that time included “an integrated continental plan for transportation and infrastructure that includes new North American highways and high-speed rail corridors.” The plan calls for open borders within which trade, capital and people flow freely into a “seamless North American market.” The plan also calls for unlimited access for Mexican trucks, and demands that we implement “the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the U.S. and Mexico,” create a fund to educate 60,000 Mexican students in U.S. colleges, offer massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries, and set up “a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution.” The call for “totalization,” (code language for encompassing illegal immigrants into the Social Security system which is bound to bankrupt the system), is very disturbing.
Essentially what they are describing here is akin to the European Union. They even suggest a common monetary unit - the Amero instead of the Euro. Do we want a tri-national government similar to the European Union, or do we want to maintain our traditional boundaries?
Unfortunately the vision of creating a Mexican middle class through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) never materialized. How many companies have moved operations from Mexico to China where Chinese slave labor offers even better competitive odds? Indeed, China bodes to become the winner in this whole fiasco. Besides the companies and real estate it already owns here, it appears they are poised to inundate middle-class America with hordes of container imports of under-market goods. Industry experts expect cargo traffic to double by 2020. Hutchinson Ports, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China's giant Hutchinson Whampoa Limited is investing millions to expand deep-water ports at Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo. More millions are being pledged to dredge and convert Punta Colonet, a desolate Mexican bay in Baja, Ca., to a deep-water port capable of processing millions of containers.
In closing, I want to quote from Jerome Corsi's Aug. 9 article posted on humanevents.com website. “The argument is that in opening the U.S. to cheap Chinese goods, we are leading a world-wide ‘race to the bottom,' in which ‘the only priority is cost effective production, at the expense of workers, resources and sustainability.' The result is that the international capitalist owning companies such as Wal-Mart earn additional billions, while U.S. manufacturing continues to out-source an increasing number of jobs, and poor countries such as Mexico are only pulled deeper into poverty.”
Corsi continues: “At the same time, the squeeze on middle class employment opportunities will intensify as NAFTA super-highways and U.S. “inland port” cities replete with Mexican custom facilities encourage yet more outsourcing to China . . . Are cheap sneakers at Wal-Mart really worth the damage being done to the most successful middle class ever built in world history?” he asks. I believe that is a question worth pondering.
Wonder what's going on with all those donations for the fence?
Thanks for the ping.
Glad to see that our stealth job announcements are being made public :)
He's speculating in foil futures.
ROFLMAO!
I'm sure that EVentually we'll hear from the cagey characters involved.
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