Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway (by Kelly Taylor)
by Kelly Taylor
August 7, 2006
The planned NAFTA Super Highway would radically reconfigure not only
the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and
economic landscapes as well. (Click here to tell your representative
and senators to "Stop the NAFTA Super Highway Steppingstone to a North
American Union.")
Kelly Taylor is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the producer
of a politically based TV talk show.
All across America, mammoth construction projects are preparing to
launch. The NAFTA Super Highway is on a fast track and it's headed
your way. If you don't help derail it, you may soon be run over by it
- both figuratively and literally.
The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway
construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of
corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out
for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up
radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these
United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.
In Texas, the NAFTA Super Highway is being sold as the Trans Texas
Corridor. In simplest terms, the TTC is a superhighway system
including tollways for passenger vehicles and trucks; lanes for
commercial and freight trucks; tracks for commuter rail and high-speed
freight rail; depots for all rail lines; pipelines for oil, water, and
natural gas; and electrical towers and cabling for communication and
telephone lines. One of the proposed corridor routes, TTC-35, is
parallel to the present Interstate Highway 35 (I-35), slightly to the
east, running north from Mexico to Canada. Its present scope is 4,000
miles long, 1,200 feet wide, with an estimated cost of $183 billion of
taxpayer funds. It runs through Kansas City.
Integration vs. Independence
How would all of this affect you, your family, and your community? Let
us count the ways. One of the most striking features of the proposed
Super Highway is the plan to do away with our borders, as evidenced by
the joint U.S.-Mexico Customs facility already under construction in
Kansas City, Missouri. A U.S. Customs checkpoint in Kansas City? But
that's a thousand miles inside America's heartland; isn't the purpose
of U.S. Customs to check people and cargo at our borders?
Ah, but the mere asking of that question shows that you're still
operating under the old paradigm that sees the United States as an
independent, sovereign nation. However, that paradigm began to change
following passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
in 1994. NAFTA, which was sold to the American public as a simple
trade agreement, was actually far more than that, setting in motion a
process for the gradual social, economic, and political "integration,"
or merger, of the three NAFTA countries - Canada, the United States,
and Mexico - into a North American Union.
In 2005, this merger process became more explicit and aggressive when
President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's Prime
Minister Martin launched what they call the Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America (SPP). Any serious study of the SPP will
clearly reveal that its ultimate aim is the dissolution of the United
States into a North American Union patterned after the increasingly
dictatorial regional government now running the European Union.
Henceforth, under this plan, the borders between our nations will be
incrementally erased in favor of a joint "perimeter" around all three
countries.
One part of this plan calls for streamlining the flow of traffic from
Mexico, including a massive increase in containers from China and the
Far East offloading at Mexican seaports and then being transported by
truck and rail into the United States via the new NAFTA Super Highway.
These new cargo streams would cross the border in supposedly secure
FAST lanes, checked only electronically until the first Customs stop
in Kansas City!
What about all the repeated promises by the White House and Congress
to make border security America's "top priority"? Moving Customs
inspections hundreds of miles inland obviously contradicts those
promises and incalculably increases the opportunities for smugglers
(of drugs, illegal aliens, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction,
and other contraband) to enter the country. Our borders are already
incredibly porous and undermanned; securing the entire route from the
Mexico-Texas border to Kansas City would require thousands more Border
Patrol and Customs officers. Would these agents be provided? Could
this route be made any more secure than our southern border? Does it
make sense to effectively extend the border via this route when we are
now doing such a poor job securing our existing border?
Under the Radar
Moreover, we can expect that similar inland joint Customs facilities,
like the one in Kansas City, will be included in the other
Mexico-to-Canada superhighway corridors. Of course, these corridors
will not be secured, and the result - as intended - would be the de
facto merger of immigration and Customs enforcement and the
obliteration of the current national borders within the planned North
American Union. That is precisely what one of the main architects of
the SPP plan, Professor Robert Pastor of American University and the
Council on Foreign Relations, has repeatedly advocated in his
writings, speeches, and congressional testimony. (See sidebar on page 14)
How is it possible that something this radical has gone so far
virtually unnoticed when illegal immigration and border security are
among the hottest political topics of the day? The politicians and the
private contractors who have been pushing this merger scheme intended
it that way, knowing full well that adoption and successful
implementation of the plan would depend on keeping it under the public
radar.
Thanks largely to the investigative work of Joyce Mucci, who heads the
Kansas City-based Mid-America Immigration Reform Coalition, and
author/economist Jerome Corsi, the NAFTA Super Highway has begun to be
a very hot topic. Using Missouri's Sunshine Law, Mrs. Mucci's group
has pried loose a number of documents that are causing the public and
private champions of the NAFTA Super Highway to squirm and stonewall.
"They were going along great guns with this whole plan, with all of
their high-powered politicians, law firms, PR firms, and corporate
contractors - and virtually no opposition, until now," Mrs. Mucci told
The New American. "We're just volunteers, so we don't have the money
and influence they have, but we are digging out the truth." And she is
hopeful that if enough taxpayers, voters, and property owners learn
about all the horrendous ramifications of the Super Highway plan, they
will shut it down before it can do the damage envisioned.
Super Highway Robbery
Aside from erasing our borders - which is no small matter in and of
itself - the NAFTA Super Highway would profoundly impact Americans in
many other ways. The ones who will be most immediately affected are
those whose homes, farms, ranches, businesses, and communities lay in
the paths of any of the planned routes. Millions of acres are
scheduled to be paved over and that means using eminent domain to
condemn lots of private property for the Super Highway corridors and
rights-of-way.
But every American, ultimately, would be dramatically impacted by this
onrushing scheme. How? First of all, in the pocketbook - with
increased taxes and tolls. With an aggregate price tag of hundreds of
billions of dollars - for projects in the U.S. and Mexico - enormous
increases in federal, state, and local taxes are a certainty. To
assist in financing the mammoth Super Highway, plans call for
converting many current roads, which taxpayers have already paid for,
to tollways for all motor vehicles.
If the NAFTA Super Highway goes through as planned, millions of
Americans can expect to pay with their jobs as well. Just as the NAFTA
trade policies have driven millions of jobs out of the United States,
the NAFTA Super Highway will accelerate the job exodus. Although the
Super Highway corridors are being sold locally as projects to ease
congestion and facilitate U.S. economic competitiveness, their main
purpose, very clearly, is to create an arterial network for speeding
the delivery of manufactured products into the United States through
Canada and Mexico.
Thus, U.S. taxpayers would have to pay for reduced transportation
costs for foreign producers. In addition, the "continental" plan calls
for U.S. taxpayers to pay hundreds of billions of dollars to extend
this "infrastructure development" (highways, railways, bridges, power
plants, telecommunications, seaports) through Mexico and Central America.
How will it do that? Under the Coordinated Border Infrastructure
Program of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act of 2005 - A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (whew!), U.S.
funds apportioned to a border state may be used to construct a highway
project in Canada or Mexico, if that project directly facilitates
cross-border vehicle and cargo movement! Just think - your tax dollars
may now be sent to Canada or Mexico to aid the entry of illegal aliens
into the United States, like it or not.
Additionally, SAFETEA-LU allows U.S. states to use tolling on a pilot
basis to finance Interstate construction and reconstruction, and to
establish tolls for existing Interstate highways to fund the new Super
Highway corridors. Austin, Texas, is already experiencing fierce
struggles over converting its already-paid-for Interstate and state
highways to toll roads, but few Texans understand that this new
tolling is to be the mechanism for funding the leviathan Trans Texas
Corridor. Since Austin has been identified as the pilot city in the
nation for testing the new toll policies, you can assume that what
passes here is coming your way.
This planned wedding of Mexico's cheap labor force with brand new
infrastructure would make Mexico an irresistible magnet for all
manufacturers now remaining in the United States. Even those companies
who wanted to keep their operations here would likely be forced by
cheaper competitors to join the exodus. The United States, until very
recently the manufacturing capital of the world, will continue its
downward spiral into increasingly dangerous dependence on foreign
manufacturers for almost everything, even as burgeoning inflation
makes everything more expensive, devastating much of our middle class.
Scores of Corridors
An additional Super Highway route known as the Interstate 69 corridor
(TTC-69) would enter Texas from Mexico as three spur lines at Laredo,
McAllen, and Brownsville, which then will join together to head north
through Houston, to Memphis, Tennessee, to Port Huron, Michigan, to
Toronto, Canada.
Wait, there's more. To the west of the proposed TTC lies the proposed
route of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor, running north from Laredo
through West Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle, to Denver and ultimately
Canada. What? Another one? Yes, and plans are very advanced. Its
website identifies this corridor as a NAFTA corridor alternative to
TTC-35, the one paralleling I-35.
What does the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) have to say
about this? Once again, stonewalling rules. In telephone interviews
with congenial TxDOT employees, the expected mantra repeated to this
writer is how necessary the corridor is to accommodate projected
population and trade growth, and how beneficial it would be to the
economies of Texas, the U.S., and Mexico. TxDOT's Public Information
officer denied that the TTC was part of any bigger scheme of
nationwide corridor building, and claimed that notion was simply
misinformation. Yet in a June 30, 2001 article in the Austin American
Statesman, the same spokesperson claimed the aforementioned
Ports-to-Plains Corridor would be linked to existing Interstate
highways in Denver as part of a NAFTA super corridor.
And that's not all. There's also CANAMEX, another super corridor like
the TTC, which spans the West from Mexico to Canada going through
Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana. And we learn from the
CANAMEX Corridor Coalition website that the number of congressionally
designated high priority corridors in the United States has been
expanded from 43 to 80! Yes, 80 corridor routes have been designated
across the United States in an effort to speed the construction of
infrastructure necessary for what the SPP calls "the streamlined
movement of legitimate travelers and cargo across our shared borders."
Research on any High Priority Corridor will lead the reader into a
hairball of studies, alliances, pricing programs, transportation acts,
administration agencies, reports, committees, partnerships, and on and
on, all designed, we believe, to obscure the real agenda. The idea for
these 80 super corridors was not conceived to promote trade and better
the economic development of all participating communities. When viewed
in the aggregate, they can only be seen as a means to so thoroughly
restructure and integrate the three countries so as to permanently
blur the distinctions, and to make their merger into a regional
government seamless and even appealing.
The NAFTA Super Highway is such an integral part of the continental
merger plan that the entire scheme could be at least temporarily
road-blocked if it does not proceed. If it does proceed, American
government will no longer provide its time-tested protections against
tyranny and socialism, as huge chunks of American law will be rendered
void, and replaced by an incomprehensible mess of "trade" law. All
rowers are needed at the oars, and immediately. If you've asked
yourself why you did not know about a project of this magnitude, or
where Congress got the authority to designate High Priority Corridors
in the first place, your first job is to contact your representative
and howl. Wake the town and tell the people, or the town will be paved
over.
Tell your representative and senators to "Stop the NAFTA Super Highway
Steppingstone to a North American Union" by phone, fax, or e-mail. Go
to http://capwiz.com/jbs/home/ for contact information and a sample
letter.
On the Road to EU-style Governance
by William F. Jasper
Perhaps you're shaking your head in disbelief, wondering how anything
as massive and costly as the NAFTA Super Highway could have progressed
so far without your notice? Well, it may be that you don't belong to
the right clubs - such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and
the Trilateral Commission (TC).
As reported in previous articles in these pages, one of the principal
authors of the Security and Prosperity Partnership merger is Dr.
Robert Pastor, a vice-chairman of the CFR's Task Force on the Future
of North America and author of Toward a North American Community.
Pastor's writings and speeches provided the blueprint for the
Bush-Fox-Martin SPP merger plan.
In November 2002, Professor Pastor addressed a meeting of David
Rockefeller's super-elite Trilateral Commission in Toronto, Canada. He
opened his speech, entitled "A North American Community," with the
following sentence: "The entry into force of the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 represented a breath-taking
continental opportunity."
Among the many things Pastor proposed was "establishing a single
'North American Customs and Immigration Service,'" to be composed of
"officials from the three governments, trained together." He also
called on the NAFTA governments (Mexico, Canada, and the United
States) to create a North American Commission of "distinguished
individuals" (like himself) whose "task would be to help the leaders
think continentally." One of the new commission's duties would be to
"develop an integrated continental plan for transportation and
infrastructure." This should include, he said, "new highway corridors
on the Pacific Coast and into Mexico," as well as "a plan that would
permit mergers of the railroads and development of high-speed rail
corridors."
Pastor cited a World Bank study that had concluded that "Mexico needs
$20 billion a year for ten years, just for infrastructure." That's
$200 billion, for starters. Where will such sizable sums come from?
Pastor proposed the creation of a "North American Development Fund,
whose priority would be to connect the U.S.-Mexico border region to
central and southern Mexico." This new multi-billion dollar fund,
Pastor suggested, could be administered by the World Bank and the
Inter-American Development Bank. That would be very convenient, since
both of these institutions are run by Pastor's fellow CFR members.
In 2004, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a leading proponent of open
borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, introduced S. 2941, the North
American Investment Fund Act. The legislation's official title says it
is "a bill to authorize the President to negotiate the creation of a
North American Investment Fund to promote economic and infrastructure
integration among Canada, Mexico, and the United States." Section four
says: "The Fund shall make grants for projects … to construct roads in
Mexico to facilitate trade between Mexico and Canada, and Mexico and
the United States." Cornyn's bill was introduced on June 29 of this
year as S. 2622.
Pastor and other NAFTA/SPP architects have repeatedly cited the
European Union (EU) as the model for us to follow. The EU countries
have given up control over their borders for a common perimeter; we
are expected to follow suit. "Are North Americans prepared to give up
their sovereignty?" Pastor asked rhetorically, in his Trilateral
speech. "The term 'sovereignty' is one of the most widely used,
abused, and least understood in the diplomatic lexicon....
Sovereignty, in brief, is not the issue." Leaders must throw off
"aging conceptions of sovereignty," he avers, in favor of continental
"integration" and "convergence."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4114.shtml
by Kelly Taylor
August 7, 2006
The planned NAFTA Super Highway would radically reconfigure not only
the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and
economic landscapes as well. (Click here to tell your representative
and senators to "Stop the NAFTA Super Highway Steppingstone to a North
American Union.")
Kelly Taylor is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the producer
of a politically based TV talk show.
All across America, mammoth construction projects are preparing to
launch. The NAFTA Super Highway is on a fast track and it's headed
your way. If you don't help derail it, you may soon be run over by it
- both figuratively and literally.
The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway
construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of
corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out
for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up
radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these
United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.
In Texas, the NAFTA Super Highway is being sold as the Trans Texas
Corridor. In simplest terms, the TTC is a superhighway system
including tollways for passenger vehicles and trucks; lanes for
commercial and freight trucks; tracks for commuter rail and high-speed
freight rail; depots for all rail lines; pipelines for oil, water, and
natural gas; and electrical towers and cabling for communication and
telephone lines. One of the proposed corridor routes, TTC-35, is
parallel to the present Interstate Highway 35 (I-35), slightly to the
east, running north from Mexico to Canada. Its present scope is 4,000
miles long, 1,200 feet wide, with an estimated cost of $183 billion of
taxpayer funds. It runs through Kansas City.
Integration vs. Independence
How would all of this affect you, your family, and your community? Let
us count the ways. One of the most striking features of the proposed
Super Highway is the plan to do away with our borders, as evidenced by
the joint U.S.-Mexico Customs facility already under construction in
Kansas City, Missouri. A U.S. Customs checkpoint in Kansas City? But
that's a thousand miles inside America's heartland; isn't the purpose
of U.S. Customs to check people and cargo at our borders?
Ah, but the mere asking of that question shows that you're still
operating under the old paradigm that sees the United States as an
independent, sovereign nation. However, that paradigm began to change
following passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
in 1994. NAFTA, which was sold to the American public as a simple
trade agreement, was actually far more than that, setting in motion a
process for the gradual social, economic, and political "integration,"
or merger, of the three NAFTA countries - Canada, the United States,
and Mexico - into a North American Union.
In 2005, this merger process became more explicit and aggressive when
President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's Prime
Minister Martin launched what they call the Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America (SPP). Any serious study of the SPP will
clearly reveal that its ultimate aim is the dissolution of the United
States into a North American Union patterned after the increasingly
dictatorial regional government now running the European Union.
Henceforth, under this plan, the borders between our nations will be
incrementally erased in favor of a joint "perimeter" around all three
countries.
One part of this plan calls for streamlining the flow of traffic from
Mexico, including a massive increase in containers from China and the
Far East offloading at Mexican seaports and then being transported by
truck and rail into the United States via the new NAFTA Super Highway.
These new cargo streams would cross the border in supposedly secure
FAST lanes, checked only electronically until the first Customs stop
in Kansas City!
What about all the repeated promises by the White House and Congress
to make border security America's "top priority"? Moving Customs
inspections hundreds of miles inland obviously contradicts those
promises and incalculably increases the opportunities for smugglers
(of drugs, illegal aliens, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction,
and other contraband) to enter the country. Our borders are already
incredibly porous and undermanned; securing the entire route from the
Mexico-Texas border to Kansas City would require thousands more Border
Patrol and Customs officers. Would these agents be provided? Could
this route be made any more secure than our southern border? Does it
make sense to effectively extend the border via this route when we are
now doing such a poor job securing our existing border?
Under the Radar
Moreover, we can expect that similar inland joint Customs facilities,
like the one in Kansas City, will be included in the other
Mexico-to-Canada superhighway corridors. Of course, these corridors
will not be secured, and the result - as intended - would be the de
facto merger of immigration and Customs enforcement and the
obliteration of the current national borders within the planned North
American Union. That is precisely what one of the main architects of
the SPP plan, Professor Robert Pastor of American University and the
Council on Foreign Relations, has repeatedly advocated in his
writings, speeches, and congressional testimony. (See sidebar on page 14)
How is it possible that something this radical has gone so far
virtually unnoticed when illegal immigration and border security are
among the hottest political topics of the day? The politicians and the
private contractors who have been pushing this merger scheme intended
it that way, knowing full well that adoption and successful
implementation of the plan would depend on keeping it under the public
radar.
Thanks largely to the investigative work of Joyce Mucci, who heads the
Kansas City-based Mid-America Immigration Reform Coalition, and
author/economist Jerome Corsi, the NAFTA Super Highway has begun to be
a very hot topic. Using Missouri's Sunshine Law, Mrs. Mucci's group
has pried loose a number of documents that are causing the public and
private champions of the NAFTA Super Highway to squirm and stonewall.
"They were going along great guns with this whole plan, with all of
their high-powered politicians, law firms, PR firms, and corporate
contractors - and virtually no opposition, until now," Mrs. Mucci told
The New American. "We're just volunteers, so we don't have the money
and influence they have, but we are digging out the truth." And she is
hopeful that if enough taxpayers, voters, and property owners learn
about all the horrendous ramifications of the Super Highway plan, they
will shut it down before it can do the damage envisioned.
Super Highway Robbery
Aside from erasing our borders - which is no small matter in and of
itself - the NAFTA Super Highway would profoundly impact Americans in
many other ways. The ones who will be most immediately affected are
those whose homes, farms, ranches, businesses, and communities lay in
the paths of any of the planned routes. Millions of acres are
scheduled to be paved over and that means using eminent domain to
condemn lots of private property for the Super Highway corridors and
rights-of-way.
But every American, ultimately, would be dramatically impacted by this
onrushing scheme. How? First of all, in the pocketbook - with
increased taxes and tolls. With an aggregate price tag of hundreds of
billions of dollars - for projects in the U.S. and Mexico - enormous
increases in federal, state, and local taxes are a certainty. To
assist in financing the mammoth Super Highway, plans call for
converting many current roads, which taxpayers have already paid for,
to tollways for all motor vehicles.
If the NAFTA Super Highway goes through as planned, millions of
Americans can expect to pay with their jobs as well. Just as the NAFTA
trade policies have driven millions of jobs out of the United States,
the NAFTA Super Highway will accelerate the job exodus. Although the
Super Highway corridors are being sold locally as projects to ease
congestion and facilitate U.S. economic competitiveness, their main
purpose, very clearly, is to create an arterial network for speeding
the delivery of manufactured products into the United States through
Canada and Mexico.
Thus, U.S. taxpayers would have to pay for reduced transportation
costs for foreign producers. In addition, the "continental" plan calls
for U.S. taxpayers to pay hundreds of billions of dollars to extend
this "infrastructure development" (highways, railways, bridges, power
plants, telecommunications, seaports) through Mexico and Central America.
How will it do that? Under the Coordinated Border Infrastructure
Program of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act of 2005 - A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (whew!), U.S.
funds apportioned to a border state may be used to construct a highway
project in Canada or Mexico, if that project directly facilitates
cross-border vehicle and cargo movement! Just think - your tax dollars
may now be sent to Canada or Mexico to aid the entry of illegal aliens
into the United States, like it or not.
Additionally, SAFETEA-LU allows U.S. states to use tolling on a pilot
basis to finance Interstate construction and reconstruction, and to
establish tolls for existing Interstate highways to fund the new Super
Highway corridors. Austin, Texas, is already experiencing fierce
struggles over converting its already-paid-for Interstate and state
highways to toll roads, but few Texans understand that this new
tolling is to be the mechanism for funding the leviathan Trans Texas
Corridor. Since Austin has been identified as the pilot city in the
nation for testing the new toll policies, you can assume that what
passes here is coming your way.
This planned wedding of Mexico's cheap labor force with brand new
infrastructure would make Mexico an irresistible magnet for all
manufacturers now remaining in the United States. Even those companies
who wanted to keep their operations here would likely be forced by
cheaper competitors to join the exodus. The United States, until very
recently the manufacturing capital of the world, will continue its
downward spiral into increasingly dangerous dependence on foreign
manufacturers for almost everything, even as burgeoning inflation
makes everything more expensive, devastating much of our middle class.
Scores of Corridors
An additional Super Highway route known as the Interstate 69 corridor
(TTC-69) would enter Texas from Mexico as three spur lines at Laredo,
McAllen, and Brownsville, which then will join together to head north
through Houston, to Memphis, Tennessee, to Port Huron, Michigan, to
Toronto, Canada.
Wait, there's more. To the west of the proposed TTC lies the proposed
route of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor, running north from Laredo
through West Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle, to Denver and ultimately
Canada. What? Another one? Yes, and plans are very advanced. Its
website identifies this corridor as a NAFTA corridor alternative to
TTC-35, the one paralleling I-35.
What does the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) have to say
about this? Once again, stonewalling rules. In telephone interviews
with congenial TxDOT employees, the expected mantra repeated to this
writer is how necessary the corridor is to accommodate projected
population and trade growth, and how beneficial it would be to the
economies of Texas, the U.S., and Mexico. TxDOT's Public Information
officer denied that the TTC was part of any bigger scheme of
nationwide corridor building, and claimed that notion was simply
misinformation. Yet in a June 30, 2001 article in the Austin American
Statesman, the same spokesperson claimed the aforementioned
Ports-to-Plains Corridor would be linked to existing Interstate
highways in Denver as part of a NAFTA super corridor.
And that's not all. There's also CANAMEX, another super corridor like
the TTC, which spans the West from Mexico to Canada going through
Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana. And we learn from the
CANAMEX Corridor Coalition website that the number of congressionally
designated high priority corridors in the United States has been
expanded from 43 to 80! Yes, 80 corridor routes have been designated
across the United States in an effort to speed the construction of
infrastructure necessary for what the SPP calls "the streamlined
movement of legitimate travelers and cargo across our shared borders."
Research on any High Priority Corridor will lead the reader into a
hairball of studies, alliances, pricing programs, transportation acts,
administration agencies, reports, committees, partnerships, and on and
on, all designed, we believe, to obscure the real agenda. The idea for
these 80 super corridors was not conceived to promote trade and better
the economic development of all participating communities. When viewed
in the aggregate, they can only be seen as a means to so thoroughly
restructure and integrate the three countries so as to permanently
blur the distinctions, and to make their merger into a regional
government seamless and even appealing.
The NAFTA Super Highway is such an integral part of the continental
merger plan that the entire scheme could be at least temporarily
road-blocked if it does not proceed. If it does proceed, American
government will no longer provide its time-tested protections against
tyranny and socialism, as huge chunks of American law will be rendered
void, and replaced by an incomprehensible mess of "trade" law. All
rowers are needed at the oars, and immediately. If you've asked
yourself why you did not know about a project of this magnitude, or
where Congress got the authority to designate High Priority Corridors
in the first place, your first job is to contact your representative
and howl. Wake the town and tell the people, or the town will be paved
over.
Tell your representative and senators to "Stop the NAFTA Super Highway
Steppingstone to a North American Union" by phone, fax, or e-mail. Go
to http://capwiz.com/jbs/home/ for contact information and a sample
letter.
On the Road to EU-style Governance
by William F. Jasper
Perhaps you're shaking your head in disbelief, wondering how anything
as massive and costly as the NAFTA Super Highway could have progressed
so far without your notice? Well, it may be that you don't belong to
the right clubs - such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and
the Trilateral Commission (TC).
As reported in previous articles in these pages, one of the principal
authors of the Security and Prosperity Partnership merger is Dr.
Robert Pastor, a vice-chairman of the CFR's Task Force on the Future
of North America and author of Toward a North American Community.
Pastor's writings and speeches provided the blueprint for the
Bush-Fox-Martin SPP merger plan.
In November 2002, Professor Pastor addressed a meeting of David
Rockefeller's super-elite Trilateral Commission in Toronto, Canada. He
opened his speech, entitled "A North American Community," with the
following sentence: "The entry into force of the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 represented a breath-taking
continental opportunity."
Among the many things Pastor proposed was "establishing a single
'North American Customs and Immigration Service,'" to be composed of
"officials from the three governments, trained together." He also
called on the NAFTA governments (Mexico, Canada, and the United
States) to create a North American Commission of "distinguished
individuals" (like himself) whose "task would be to help the leaders
think continentally." One of the new commission's duties would be to
"develop an integrated continental plan for transportation and
infrastructure." This should include, he said, "new highway corridors
on the Pacific Coast and into Mexico," as well as "a plan that would
permit mergers of the railroads and development of high-speed rail
corridors."
Pastor cited a World Bank study that had concluded that "Mexico needs
$20 billion a year for ten years, just for infrastructure." That's
$200 billion, for starters. Where will such sizable sums come from?
Pastor proposed the creation of a "North American Development Fund,
whose priority would be to connect the U.S.-Mexico border region to
central and southern Mexico." This new multi-billion dollar fund,
Pastor suggested, could be administered by the World Bank and the
Inter-American Development Bank. That would be very convenient, since
both of these institutions are run by Pastor's fellow CFR members.
In 2004, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a leading proponent of open
borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, introduced S. 2941, the North
American Investment Fund Act. The legislation's official title says it
is "a bill to authorize the President to negotiate the creation of a
North American Investment Fund to promote economic and infrastructure
integration among Canada, Mexico, and the United States." Section four
says: "The Fund shall make grants for projects … to construct roads in
Mexico to facilitate trade between Mexico and Canada, and Mexico and
the United States." Cornyn's bill was introduced on June 29 of this
year as S. 2622.
Pastor and other NAFTA/SPP architects have repeatedly cited the
European Union (EU) as the model for us to follow. The EU countries
have given up control over their borders for a common perimeter; we
are expected to follow suit. "Are North Americans prepared to give up
their sovereignty?" Pastor asked rhetorically, in his Trilateral
speech. "The term 'sovereignty' is one of the most widely used,
abused, and least understood in the diplomatic lexicon....
Sovereignty, in brief, is not the issue." Leaders must throw off
"aging conceptions of sovereignty," he avers, in favor of continental
"integration" and "convergence."
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