He's a menace. A walking pestilence!
Posted on 05/14/2007 9:31:57 AM PDT by CrawDaddyCA
Rudy Giuliani and The NAFTA Superhighway - Brit Hume said on the Fox News Sunday program that it is possible that Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani could overcome his convoluted posturing on abortion and secure the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. But Giuliani has some other major problems. These include foreign clients, one of whom is constructing part of the "NAFTA Superhighway" project that has people in Texas and around the nation up in arms.
Hume, the moderator of Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, will be in a position to ask Giuliani about it. Questions will also be posed by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace and White House correspondent Wendell Goler.
Evidence shows that NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement involving the U.S., Canada and Mexico, is being expanded without congressional approval or oversight as part of a plan to create an economic and political entity known as the North American Union (NAU). Federal documents uncovered by Judicial Watch quote participants in the scheme as saying that an "evolution by stealth" strategy is being used to put the pieces into place. Documents also speak of developing a common security perimeter and a common identification card for citizens of the three countries.
With the exception of Lou Dobbs of CNN, our national media have ignored not only the process that is well underway but the growing outcry over what is happening. Resolutions against the NAU have been introduced in 14 state legislatures?and have passed in two?and thousands of people have turned out in Texas to protest a Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) highway system, which will link the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Critics say the project is being funded by foreign interests, could run roughshod over private property rights, and could facilitate illegal activities, such as the trafficking of people and drugs, from Mexico.
The TTC, which is viewed as being part of the "NAFTA Superhighway," is only part of a much larger process of integrating the three nations. This writer attended and covered a February 16, 2007, conference sponsored by the Center for North American Studies at American University (AU) that was devoted to an emerging "North American Community," which is what conference organizer Robert Pastor, a former Carter Administration official, prefers to call it. Academic literature distributed to conference participants discussed a common legal framework for the U.S., Canada and Mexico and proposals for a North American Court of Justice (with the authority to overrule a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court), a North American Trade Tribunal, and a Charter of Fundamental Human Rights for North America. One of Pastor’s students at AU suggests that he even favors a North American Parliament.
The conference organizers and participants believe NAFTA, which promised economic integration, has to be expanded into the legal, social, political and even cultural areas. Pastor, though a Democrat, succeeded in persuading Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn to introduce a "North American Investment Fund" bill to send more U.S. tax dollars to Mexico. Both political parties are seen favoring the process of bringing the three countries together into an entity like the European Union that now governs Europe and supersedes the sovereignty of member governments.
One obvious problem is corruption in and illegal immigration from Mexico. Public sentiment in the U.S. forced Congress to pass?and President Bush to sign?a law creating a fence on the U.S. southern border. Nevertheless, Bush and the Democrats continue to press for amnesty for illegal aliens and ways to increase the flow of foreign workers into the U.S.
The Giuliani connection to this controversial process is through Bracewell & Giuliani, a law firm he joined as senior partner in 2005. Bracewell has already come in for criticism because it represents Citgo, the oil company controlled by Venezuela’s anti-American and terrorist-supporting ruler Hugo Chavez.
Freelance columnist Dianne M. Grassi broke the story of Giuliani’s law firm acting as the exclusive legal counsel for Cintra, the Spanish firm that has been granted the right to operate a toll road in the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) project. Grassi comments, "Most interesting to the whole story is not only has Mr. Giuliani’s involvement in the NAFTA Superhighway not ever having been publicly addressed, but how a foreign company is awarded the building of a mass highway system, versus maintaining it, for the first time in U.S. history, and negotiated by the law firm of the top Republican candidate running for President of the United States. And truly disturbing is how such will not only have national and homeland security and sovereignty implications but how it is deliberately being kept away from the Halls of Congress."
Grassi’s revelations are easily confirmed by checking the websites of Bracewell and Cintra. Bracewell calls the deal "the first privatization of a Texas toll road."
Terri Hall, founder and director of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF), notes that Giuliani clients with an interest in acquiring Texas roads and infrastructure have also invested in his presidential campaign. She comments, "This could explain why Giuliani has spent so much time fundraising in Texas. The monied proponents of the Trans-Texas Corridor, of which there are many, would like to see this man become President."
Ironically, Ryan Sager of the New York Sun reports that Giuliani, before he became a private businessman with global clients, opposed NAFTA
It turns out that Cintra is a financial partner with an Australian company, Macquarie, on a toll-road project in Indiana, and that Macquarie acquired the business and assets of an investment bank known as Giuliani Capital Advisors.
Sunday’s Washington Post notes that Giuliani Capital Advisors "was sold for an undisclosed amount as Giuliani was preparing his run for president."
The Post article also discloses that Giuliani’s secretive lobbying firm, Giuliani Partners, has made more than $100 million over the last five years and that its clients "are required to sign confidentiality agreements, so they do not comment about the work they receive or how much they are paying for it. Though now running for president, Giuliani refuses to identify his clients, disclose his compensation or reveal any details about Giuliani Partners. He also declined to be interviewed about the firm." The paper provided some details, based "on a review of corporate, government and court records, along with scores of interviews with clients and government officials who have interacted with Giuliani Partners."
Many questions remain about Giuliani’s controversial work for foreign interests. But his connection to the Trans-Texas Corridor is already a matter of public record and cries out for scrutiny. Will Fox News personalities ask him about it on Tuesday night?
Cliff Kincaid is Editor of Accuracy in Media
These Nuts Jobs adding to the 9/11 was a inside job Nut Jobs attacking you is a good thing for Rudy.
Is there anything that Rudy will not eventually be linked to?
“Is there anything that Rudy will not eventually be linked to?”
Where was he on November 22nd, 1963?
On the grassy knoll?
Stay tuned....
I am no supporter of Giuliani, by any mean. However, it is laughable how many silly threads get started with tenuous links between the former Mayor and some questionable activity.
I am waiting for the following thread:
"Giuliani linked to baby-eating"
Many lawyers would like the opportunity to ignore their former clients.
Well said.
They don't want the last remaining year round usable seacoast in North America used for major port facilities and all the ship traffic that will entail.
Funny -
Really - the Lindberg baby - damn !!!
Thanks.
There are more than enough reasons not to support Guiliani’s candidacy. Today it seems the ‘anti Rudy’s’ are in rare forum....(chuckle)
His position on gun control should be more than enough.
Come by here too, I just added more info:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833322/posts
Rudy Giuliani Linked to “NAFTA Superhighway”
Giuliani framed his past support for gun rights within his efforts to cut crime in New York City. He described how his immigration policies as mayor were influenced by practical concerns given that he was governing a city with 400,000 illegal immigrants that the INS couldn't deport. He said while he opposes gay marriage or civil union laws that are the equivalent of marriage, he does support domestic partnership rights. And on abortion, he reiterated that he thinks abortion is "morally wrong" but that he ultimately believes people of good conscience can disagree, so a woman should have a right to choose. He did, however, add that he would be open to policies that limit abortion. Many of these statements are familiar to those who have followed the campaign closely, but Giuliani's presentation of them this time was much more direct, forceful, and confident than it has been so far in this campaign.
"I should honestly tell you what I believe," he said. "I should honestly tell you the things that I can evolve on and the things that I can't, and then you should decide."
Giuliani also went out of his way to say that he respected the views of those who disagree with him, and was at peace with the fact that some people's disagreements will be too great for them to consider voting for him.
This probably will hurt Rudy though. Didn’t the Texas legislature just pass legislation to try to block this highway. I would imagine this means that people in the southwest aren’t too happy about this. Especially all of the people who are concerned about illegal immigration. If it could be shown that his firm did some of the lobbying for this new highway that would make him gain the active opposition of all of the people for whom immigration is a big issue.
That’s a good post - funny.
‘Giuliani also went out of his way to say that he respected the views of those who disagree with him, and was at peace with the fact that some people’s disagreements will be too great for them to consider voting for him.’
This displays his biggest political strength, to be sure.
As I’ve said, I wouldn’t mind him in a future GOP administration, I just don’t want him to be President, for much the same reason I oppose McCain. I don’t trust his political judgement.
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