[Liz]

August 24, 2007
TEXAS governor rapped for paving way for construction of Trans-Texas Corridor
One News Now | Chad Groening
FR Posted 08/25/2007 by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Texas Governor Rick Perry is being called to task by an author and investigative journalist for vetoing bills that would have blocked construction of the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor.

Dr. Jerome Corsi has been one of the leading voices warning the American public about the consequences of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which will be part of a superhighway -- purported to be four football fields wide -- that will allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. and traverse the core of the country all the way to Canada.

The best-selling author asserts that Governor Perry cleared the way for construction to begin in his state when he vetoed several bills passed by the Legislature that would have stalled the project.

"Governor Perry has been 100 percent gung-ho in building this road," says Corsi. "The Legislature voted a two-year moratorium, it voted a redefinition of eminent domain -- [and] Governor Perry vetoed them. [On] at least one of those measures, he waited until the Texas Legislature was out of session so it couldn't even override his veto."

Corsi says it is unfortunate that there has been political pressure to get the project started. "The Federal Highway Administration's lawyer wrote letters threatening the Texas Legislature to cut off federal highway funds if they got in the way of this Trans-Texas Corridor," he says.

Corsi believes the same pressure will be applied on other states, like Oklahoma, to go along with the project. He suggests that would mean a loss of more American jobs and could pose a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

NASCO Map of Corridor

NASCO Members----United States
Texas Dept. of Transportation
Iowa Department of Transportation
State of Oklahoma
Minnesota Dept. of Transportation
Bell County, Texas
Denton County, Texas
Tarrant County, Texas
Webb County, Texas
Jackson County, Missouri
City of Denton, Texas
City of Ft. Worth, Texas
City of Gainesville, Texas
City of Kansas City, Missouri
International Trade Institute of the Americas
Free Trade Alliance San Antonio
Port San Antonio
United States - Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City SmartPort
The Ardmore Development Authority, City of Ardmore, Oklahoma
Belton Economic Development Corporation
The Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
The Allen Group
Hillwood - Alliance Texas
The Ambassador Bridge Detroit/Windsor Crossing
American Airlines
Blackwood, Langworthy & Tyson, Kansas City law firm
Cadre Technologies
Franco Eleuteri & Associates
EWI Risk Services, Inc.
GrowthNet Trading, LLC
International Bank of Commerce
Lockheed Martin
Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores
PROTECT-US, Inc.
Scrub Oak Technologies
Strasburger & Price Law Firm
Trans Am Group
Yellow Roadway Corporation Worldwide

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NASCO: For the Record

The Dallas-based organization, North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO), which receives federal money to promote an agenda of tolled transnational corridors, has raised some eyebrows with their marketing literature touting superhighways, not just in Texas, but across the continent.

NASCO insists that its interests are not directly connected with Gov. Perry's Trans-Texas Corridor, even though the organization changed its name in 2004 from "North America's SuperHighway Coalition" (a name adopted in 1996 at the start of the "internet superhighway" craze) to "North America's SuperCorridor Coalition," a change that coincided with the announcement of the Trans-Texas Corridor. In an extended retort entitled "NASCO Speaks Out," officials of NASCO wrote on their website, "Our name and our initiatives have nothing to do with the proposed new corridor in Texas. It is a coincidence upon which fringe groups have been able to capitalize and confuse people."

NASCO leadership has also been dismayed to see their materials promoting brightly-colored "super-corridors" across North America being used by the "misinformed" to warn people about the proposed plans beyond the Trans-Texas Corridor.

NASCO's leaders write: We … used to have a marketing map on the homepage of our website that had I-35 and our connecting corridors greatly enlarged for viewing purposes and presentations. This was used by conspiracy theorists to show the "blueprint" for the (nonexistent) 'new NAFTA Superhighway.' Some people unfamiliar with our organization were confused and believed these falsehoods. The map was a marketing tool, and has since been updated to show the corridor a bit more drawn to scale (although it is still is not drawn exactly to scale.) The fringe groups continue to use the old, enlarged map to scare people, although we use only the new (scaled down) map.

SOURCE Thom White is editor of CITIZINE, Austin, Texas. Contact Thom @ CITIZINE@CITIZINEmag.com

[RC one]

Nothing like handing your enemy high speed attack routes all over your country. This is some GDBS.

[Dallas59]

How many “trucks” will we find abandoned and the drivers missing?

[Doogle]

....the US will insist that all Mexican trucks must meet US ENVIRONMENTAL REGS....when fines are imposed and ignored the US TAX PAYERS will upgrade the Mexican trucking industries to meet standards....
..feel better?

[Roccus]

Mexican trucks to be rolling across U.S. in 6 months

.....and in seven months, all stops and inspections of Mexican trucks by State Police will be halted due to cries of "RACIAL PROFILING!"

[Diogenesis]

There is no doubt that Obama and the docile Congress
work for the 57 States and ALL of America's enemies.

[upchuck]

Driveby poster.

[Will88]

Whenever this issue resurfaces I always wonder about something: do US firms and independent truckers have any desire to operate in Mexico? That never seems to be mentioned, but my guess is many US truckers want no part of Mexico due to the lawlessness that’s getting worse instead of better.

This is probably just one more, one-way deal where US jobs will be lost and none gained to offset the losses.

[Roccus]

PING!!

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I guess all the Free Trader Globalists will be happy now....the rest of us better get crash helmets and roll bars.

Obama the Free Trader strikes again. And, more proof Free Trade is Liberalism

[maine yankee]

To be fumed over later

[LibLieSlayer]

I have self moderated the post that I was going to make. Just use your own imagination.

LLS

[kenmcg]

Time for the teamsters to strike!!!!

[Venturer]

Good old Obama.

Creating more jobs.

For Mexican truck drivers.

[Chode]

and America takes another one in the........

[no-to-illegals]

First, the NWO came for the Manufacturing jobs.
Second, the NWO came for the Construction jobs.
Now the NWO comes (third) for the Trucking jobs.
The NWO people have the plan well underway?
If one still has a job, will the NWO come for you next?

This NWO reminds me of another time and place.

[MinuteGal]

Did you hear Bill O'Wrongly and Geraldo Rivera arguing last night over illegal immigrants and the millions of jobs they're taking from American citizens?

They screamed, shouted, overtalked each other for 10 minutes. If anyone soberly analyzed what they said it boiled down to this.....

Geraldo was playing the race card derived from his own Hispanic ethnicity , using emotional arguments to press for legal employment of illegals, amnesty and no repatriation.

O'Weasely pulled his usual yelling so no one could catch the fact that he was arguing BOTH sides of the issue as he went along, which he does on a lot of issues, especially when he's protecting, defending and excusing Obama while gently criticizing him at the same time.

He capped it off with the old canard that Americans don't want to do most of the jobs the Mexicans do. Really, O'Reilly?

Bill doesn't understand that when folks don't have a job and they're hungry or have a family to feed, they'll WORK at just about anything.

Bill craftily wants just about everything Geraldo wants (amnesty, for instance), only with tighter border patrol....with barbed wire on top of the fences the illegals easily scale every day.

That's correct by the way....I heard and saw him say it while he was commenting on a clip showing two women having no trouble climbing the high border fence constructed at the cost of millions of dollars.

BOR is mucho loco.....never seeing the broader picture and long range consequences, only "barbed wire". He's NOT on the "side of the folks" all the time as he's fond of bragging about every night.

Are the truckers union leaders so enamored of Obama that they'll accept less work for American drivers in favor of foreign drivers getting the work on that highway?

Sounds like the highway to hell to me.

Leni

[ridesthemiles]

Watch your vehicle insurance premiums very closely in the next year.

Your UNINSURED motorist portion will skyrocket.

[Oatka]

When the “benefits”NAFTA was first reported, people from Arizona were telling of Mexican trucks along I-10 driving, not passing in the high-speed lanes.

I can remember in the CB-craze days, I used to hear truckers talk of poor Ole Bill going into “Mexican Overdrive” on some mountain road. Years later I learned that MO meant “No Brakes”.

As others have pointed out, those Mexican drivers may know the international signs, but how about “One Lane Ahead” or what flares on the road mean. Then there’s driving in rainy/snowy weather. Insurance companies and mortuaries are gonna be busy.