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> http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497
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> Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
>
> Human Events
>
> June 12, 2006
>
> Jerome Corsi
>
> 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.
>
> --
> "Historians will one day marvel that, as their Southwest was slipping
> away from the United States - demographically, linguistically and
> culturally - Americans were fighting to keep Iraq together.
> Remarkable. Foreigners are invading and occupying Arizona, while
> Americans are fighting for Anbar province" - Pat Buchanan, April 2006

Yet this butt-sniffing President won't consider putting a wall or fence on
our Mexican border to protect American citizens. The little ******* should
be on trail for his life. Treason.

Hank