posted on July 13, 2007 12:48:33 AM new
From waaaay back in May, 2007.....waaaay back...
Trans Texas Corridor, Security and Prosperity Partnership
Progress in the fight to stop the NAU and NAFTA Highway
By Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center
Saturday, May 5, 2007
A tiny but determined band of organizations and individuals are standing up to Goliath and are beginning to see his knees wobble.
Goliath is the globalist-inspired Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) - better known as the North American Union (NAU) and the Trans Texas Corridor (TCC) - also know as the NAFTA Highway.
To date a dozen states have introduced resolutions to oppose the SPP and the NAU. Some states have also included language to oppose creation of a new currency called the Amero. Also opposed in most of the resolutions is the super highway (TCC) to run from Laredo, Texas all the way to Kansas City and more. Specifically, all of the resolutions are reacting to a wide range of concepts and structures dealing with the integration of North America into one "harmonized" union.
The states where resolutions have been introduced include Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
The TCC itself has come under specific attack. First, in April, 2007 a group of trucking and environmental organizations, led by the Teamsters Union, filed a law suit against an announced Bush Administration pilot project that would authorize up to 100 Mexican-based trucking companies to travel beyond U.S. Border States. The suit demands that the American public be given an opportunity to comment on the policy before it is implemented. It is widely understood that the pilot program is a necessary first step in the creation of the NAFTA Highway, which will allow traffic across the border to move with out stopping for inspection.
In filing the suit, Teamster president Jim Hoffa said the Bush Administration "is ignoring the American people in its zeal to open our borders to unsafe Mexican trucks."
Meanwhile, in Texas, at the center of the storm, the state legislature passed legislation to impose a 2-year moratorium for the highway. This will slow down the process and give the opposition a chance to organize and stop the highway completely.
The state has already signed a 50 year lease with a private Spanish company named Cintra. That lease not only allows the company to make huge profits from the tolls to be collected, but also includes a no-complete clause that prevents the state from building new government roads or improving existing highways that travel in the same direction as the TCC. This fact prompted one Texas official to call the rush to impose public/private partnerships a "rush to sell the crown jewels of Texas."
The Texas House passed the moratorium legislation on April 11 by a vote of 137 - 2. Now the Senate has passed it with one 4 votes in opposition. This is an incredible result considering that just months before most Texas legislators claimed the Corridor was just a highway improvement bill. It is even more impressive when considering that he Texas Governor tried to team up with the Federal Department of Transportation to threaten the Texas legislators that federal highway funds would be "in jeopardy" if the moratorium passed. The action simply served to anger legislators who then voted for the moratorium with a vengeance.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership is a threat to our national sovereignty and independence. The United States, with its Constitution which protects individual liberty from government, is the most unique on earth and cannot be "harmonized" with nations which do not share our values.
These victories against the effort to create a North American Union are exciting and important. However, the fight is far from over. The forces driving the SPP and the TCC are rich, powerful and determined. Opponents must continue to pour on the attack and we must score again and again to have any hope in stopping the SPP.
Two actions are necessary to stop the SPP threat. The first is to stop the Trans Texas Corridor. The second is to impose strong immigration policy that stops the flood of illegals across our border. Texas has taken steps to provide the first. Now every American must flood Congress with calls and letters to demand the second. Meanwhile, we must also encourage every state legislature to pass resolutions against the whole concept of a North American Union.
But it's not a bad bit of work for a tiny band of dedicated activists which have no national media voice, no massive funding and little support among political leaders. All we have is some truth and a lot of heart. It works
Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report and president of the American Policy Center, a grassroots, activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia. Its Internet site is www.americanpolicy.org.
Tom can be reached at: [email protected]
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posted on July 13, 2007 08:47:22 AM new
Still beating this dead horse, I see.
what is your point?? Do you not realize that Mexican trucks are already using the free interstate system that runs from the Texas border to Canada. I see them every day. Hey, your president Clinton is the one who backed the free trade agreement that has Mexican trucks running near my house daily.
"A failure by Congress to ratify the trade accord would be "catastrophic" for U.S. foreign policy, Vice President Al Gore said in a broadcast interview."
If "Mexican trucks" and illegal aliens are your fear in this, you are way too late.
posted on July 13, 2007 08:57:13 AM new
I am laughing my --- off. Not at the piece, but at the waste of time it took to write it. Oh well, that's all he has to do apparently. Sad.
posted on July 13, 2007 09:00:41 AM new
You do have difficulty in understanding don't you mingo? Can you understand? It's too late, your president's NAFTA already has Mexican (and Canadian) traffic going both ways free.
posted on July 13, 2007 09:12:32 AM new
"That lease not only allows the company to make huge profits from the tolls to be collected, but also includes a no-complete clause that prevents the state from building new government roads or improving existing highways that travel in the same direction as the TCC."
Hilarious, try checking out Interstate 35 (both E and W) that already runs from near Canada to Mexico. The stipulation is a moot point.
Interstate 35 (abbreviated I-35) is a north–south interstate highway in the central United States. It stretches from Laredo, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border to Duluth, Minnesota, at Minnesota Highway 61 (London Road) and 26th Avenue East. Many interstates used to have splits or spurs indicated with suffixed letters (N/S/E/W), but I-35 is the only one that still has such divisions. In two stretches, both through twin cities, the highway splits into Interstate 35E (Dallas and St. Paul) and Interstate 35W (Fort Worth and Minneapolis).
