Posted on 07/05/2006 11:00:40 PM PDT by Trupolitik
I am telling you guys, Dr. Jerome Corsi (co-author of "Unfit for Command" and "Minutemen") is NOT going to let this issue die. We owe it to OURSELVES to start paying attention.
Mexican Trucks with cheap Mexican truck drivers will mean THE END of the American Patriot Trucker as we know it. (incidentally I come from a family of truck drivers so it also personal for me). Our own transport companies will set up mexican companies and run operations out of Mexico in order to "cut costs". Those "cuts" are OUR jobs! Sound familiar???
Please Read this. Please keep this issue on your radar! Retaining our Sovereignty is our most important War.
[quote]Despite claims to the contrary, a planned Midwest "inland port" with a Mexican customs office will not be restricted to railroad traffic, according to internal documents obtained by WorldNetDaily.
As WND has reported, Kansas City SmartPort plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan.
The plan would include the hotly contested allowance of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, WND has reported, but Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council has insisted the port will be restricted to railroad traffic.
Hammes has argued the railroad link is "nothing new, other than the fact that Kansas City Southern acquired the Mexican railroad serving this port and that major work has been done on the port of Lazaro Cardenas so that it has higher capacity and can handle larger containers."
But internal e-mails make it clear that officials, hoping to stay below the radar of public opinion, plan to expand from rail to trucks after the Mexican customs facility is operational.
The Mexican customs facility project was championed by David W. Eaton, president of Monterrey Business Consultants in Monterrey, Mexico, and the former executive director of North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, a non-profit group with the aim of internationalizing U.S. highways to facilitate trade with Mexico and Canada.
In a Jan. 7 e-mail, Eaton writes:
They are still going back and forth on the rail and truck focus. However, according to Manuel [Manuel Ruiz, a Mexican customs official], the first stage will most likely be "rail only" with trucking added later. Kenneth Hoffman of the law firm Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, outside council to KC SmartPort, was copied on Eaton's e-mail.
A few minutes later, Hoffman answered, supporting the phase-in strategy:
"My feeling is that we need to get this done in such a way that [the Mexican customs facility] is successful when it opens. If it starts small that is fine as long as there is productive work that we can point to as evidence that the effort was worthwhile. We can expand to trucks after getting the process up and running.
The e-mails are consistent with a position paper Eaton authored for the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy, entitled "Roads, Trains, and Ports: Integrating North American Transport."
In the paper, Eaton argued railroad transport should be developed as the first mode to bring containers from China through Mexican ports into the U.S., because "one unit train can carry the equivalent of approximately 250 trucks."
Moreover, Eaton had argued that use of Mexican trucks was impaired by the poor condition of Mexico's roadways and the wear and tear on Mexican trucks resulting from overuse. Eaton had concluded "North America would be well served by linking its rail infrastructure and systems," which has been advanced by Kansas City Southern's acquisition of Mexican railroads.
An examination of the internal e-mails from Kansas City SmartPort over the last two years shows the development of the city's international "inland port" concept – including the Mexican customs facility – involved an ambitious multi-year process with the aim of tying into the emerging corridor-oriented NAFTA Super-Highway network.
Development of the KCSmartPort vision included active involvement of the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, a non-profit group "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."
Chris Gutierrez, president of KCSmartPort, frequently copied NASCO President George Blackwood on details of the negotiations with Mexican and U.S. officials regarding the Mexican customs office.
An April 26 e-mail from Gutierrez included Blackwood among the list of recipients. In his message, Gutierrez reported he worked directly with the office of Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and with Mexican government officials to apply political pressure to influence the State Department and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, to move faster in approving the Mexican customs facility application:
CBP told me that the State Department is reviewing the C-175 [form needed to approve Mexican customs facility]. Bond's office has calls into the State Dept; letter to Gil Diaz [Mexican Secretary of Finance] went out last week asking him to encourage CBP and State Dept to move it along. Here is the draft letter to Minister [Luis Ernesto] Derbez [Mexican Foreign Ministry Secretary]. I was still tweaking it but here it is for your review.
In 1998, before becoming NASCO president, Blackwood established the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership while he served as mayor pro tem of Kansas City. The NAITCP has been absorbed into NASCO.
A NAIPC summit meeting in 2004 was attended by Mexican officials, including Secretary of Finance Gil Diaz, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Geronimo Guiterrez, Deputy Counsel of Mexico Noemi Hernandez, Counsel of Mexico in Kansas City Everardo Suarez. Also in attendance was Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Kay Barnes and the president and CEO of Kansas City Southern railroad, Mike Haverty.
Photographed on the first page of the summit executive summary is Robert Pastor, an American University professor who has written "Toward a North American Community," a book promoting the development of a North American unionas a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.
Pastor also was vice chairman of the May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force entitled "Building a North American Community" that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.
We should ask ourselves two questions:
1. Is this good for American Citizens, American Workers?
2. Why are they keeping their goals a secret? Why did they lie about their goal of integrating mexican trucking?
Like I said or implied, they may not open the sealed containers and search them (unless a seal is broken) but that doesn't mean that these shipments will be exempt from the normal dogs and/or sensor (radiation) routine. RFID is about paperwork issues.
Let me be clear. I'm not happy about substandard Mexican trucks being on US highways, that was one of Bush's mistakes. I'm not thrilled with current border and port inspection proceedures, more can and should be done. But this inland port issue isn't the creation of a giant security hole that Corsi and Joe Farah so desparately want to believe. We've had inland ports for years, Virginia's in Front Royal is a good example.
Back in the Clinton years I was a big fan of Farah and World Nut Daily. In 2004 I took Corsi at his word. As time passed and I've been able to read their work on subjects that I am actually somewhat or very familiar with, I've come to despise them as shoddy, alarmist, frequently wrong, and the type who can backfire and harm conservatism. All too often they jump to the wrong conclusions and make it clear that they have no idea what they are talking about. So perhaps my rudeness was too much, from patience worn thin, but I can't stand dishonest demagogues, no matter what side of politics they are on.
Anyway, have a good evening.
Yes, Lou Dobbs is a moron and so are his drooling, sycophants.
I accept your apologies as well, and hope you have a good evening (morning as well).
Also, regardless of your feelings on WND, I hope you research this issue. Also, ask yourself why county after county in Texas is voting down this project. Here is a pretty good site to get you started, of course dont take their word for it, verify iit for yourself. http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/index.htm
These guys are wearing me out.
*lol* This is hilarious: "Internal documents obtained bt World Net Daily".
Riiiiight.
Did you know the John Birch Society had the original in-depth report on this ~scary~ road? Yep, back in Oct. '05.
I wonder if Corsi will give them any credit.
Are you a Bircher?
You need rest.
"I am sure the usual RINOs will be along to call this a conspiracy theory.
They seem to follow the same playbook of "liberals":
Deny, Deceive, Disrupt, Distract, Destroy..."
Its not your imagination. They DO follow the same playbook of the liberals and I believe, if backed into a corner, they would admit that they support this NAU/SSP plan and ANYTHING else Bush has decided to do since deciding to join the liberals. Their 'protesting too much' toward us is just a give away that they resent and feel threatened by any criticism of the Presidents agenda. And just like with illegal immigration, they're uncomfortable with being in the minority on this issue.
"I wonder how long the Admins here will continue to put these articles in "conspiracy" section, even when Lou Dobbs acknowledges the truth. When the data is from the government's webstites. When the plans are published! When internal emails confirm the "theory".
The Admin should be ashamed."
I've already asked them why they take the time to move every one of these threads to 'chat', yet ignore the fact that those of us who wish to discuss this issue in a civil manner are subjected to the constant harassment and namecalling of those who don't. I have yet to receive a reply. I have concluded, based on the increase in attacks, not just here, but the sudden trashing of wellknown outsiders, previously respected, that the Admin of this site is not just ignoring the problem posters, they are encouraging them. As they, like the harassers who 'protest too much', are, in fact, in complete agreement with Bush's NAU/SSP agenda and wish to discredit ANY disagreement of ANYTHING Bush does. That is why I have not received a reply.
I have heard of them, but I have never really researched them.
The problem i that good conservatives have been defending President Bush on good issues from wacko liberals for so long that many seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to ANY criticism of President Bush.
That is NOT healthy for them or for our Republic. Everyone knows that NO politician is perfect and EVERYONE knows that power corrupts. Our founding fathers sure as heck did.
It will take time. I just hope our conservative brothers realize that Patriotism is more important than partisanship.
You seem to be taking this personally. Is there a particular reason?
Are you saying his Swift Boat work was dishonest?
I must say that I've noticed you quite a bit lately and you have their game down pat. I've enjoyed your postings.
Thank you, but its only because I've become such a target. I have been a member of this forum for only a few years, but, have looked up to and respected the opinions of the same long-term members with whom I now find myself in disagreement with over certain issues. While I would welcome discussion/debate, I have been very disappointed to find that the only discussion/debate they are choosing to engage in is fear-based personal attacks against anyone, and I do mean anyone, who disagrees with Bush on anything, including the issue of illegal immigration, North American Union, securing the border, etc., and in my case, supporting of Tom Tancredo.
I stay and continue to be harassed, called names, and tattled on because I know that 'this too shall pass', as it did when I supported Bush through the Dubai deal. If I'm not banned for disagreeing, when all is said and done, if it ever is, I'll have to reassess what FR becomes and decide then whether or not I wish to continue to participate. In the meantime, I am also learning alot from the American for Legal Immigration website, www.alipac.us.
They are not hiding the fact that this involves trucks and I see no evidence that they ever did hide an intention to use trucks.
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