"Building a North American Community" by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Posted on 09/24/2007 7:30:30 AM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
...[The building of the Trans-Texas Corridor] is all too sinister for Jerome Corsi, the Vietnam War veteran who helped lead the Swift Boat charge against John Kerry. Corsi has knitted disparate strands of each of these separate road projects to help convince fellow xenophobes such as Pat Buchanan, Phyllis Schlafly, Lou Dobbs and the John Birch Society that the corridor is the first leg of a secret federal project called the NAFTA Superhighway, a four-football-field wide monstrosity that would run from Mexico's Yucatan to Canada's Yukon...
Yet even Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a libertarian Republican candidate for president, has fallen for the paranoia. You'd think that Paul would be chanting hosannas to anything that facilitates free trade, but he too fears that the "superhighway" is part of a scheme by foreign companies to erode U.S. borders and create a North American Union combining the United States, Mexico and Canada -- complete with a single government and a common currency called the "amero."
Superhighway opponents regard even routine dialogue between the three neighbors as a treasonous assault on U.S. sovereignty. They are apoplectic about the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a forum created in 2005 for bureaucrats to discuss such radical topics as how to snag terrorists before they enter the continent and how to speed up cross-border traffic for just-in-time deliveries...
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Please help them see the errors of their ways by going here and leaving a comment pointing out one or two of the ways they're wrong.
Suffice to say, both extremes are equally nuts.
invoke corsi and the turtle bay blue boys will come to tinkle. always good for a laugh.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, and I am libertarian. This is all much ado about nothing.
Shouldn’t writers for Reason Magazine use rational arguments, rather than ad hominem insults?
As Aristotle might say, “Some people have posited that the trans-Texas highway is a threat to our freedom. Some have argued that it’s merely another superhighway. What are the arguments, for and against? How is this highway like other highways, and how is it different? Ladies and gentlemen, make your cases.”
Aristotle was no fool.
Whose payroll are you on?
My understanding is: Texans aren’t doing the TTC, it is being done to them.
They speak up and it doesn’t matter.
Toll roads for Cintra to make money on US citizens’ backs.
“Never mind that I-69 originated in a 1991 federal transportation law — pre-dating NAFTA — and that the planning for the Trans-Texas Corridor has been fully documented on the Web.”
This is the sort of reasoning we get from ‘Reason’ magazine? Never mind indeed, since NAFTA was originally proposed and drawn up during GHWB’s administration and passed in 1993 under Clinton. I-69 might have pre-dated NAFTA passage, but it sure didn’t pre-date NAFTA drafting and original presentation, and it sure didn’t pre-date NAFTA planning. They sound like concurrent projects to me.
Yes. I had thought of saying a bit more. For instance, who is behind this highway? What is the political background? Who are the players involved?
Those families with farms / ranches along the projected path might take exception to that “nuts” comment.
No one voted for this superhighway.
In Texas, it has done damage to the real estate market along the projected path and will end up being the largest eminent domain land grab in history.
NO put it underground and let the government and state build it.
The truth...it is a network of four hundred yard wide superhighways.
One leg shoots from the Mexican border to Amarillo, the other is the I-35 leg which will run just west of Austin and the third leg is called the I-69, running west of Houston up through Grimes county.
http://www.texastollparty.com/ttp_trans_texas.php
http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/index.htm
These ( 3 ) legs of the TTC will decimate farms and ranches that have been in families for a hundred years.
This is Pres. Bush and Rick Perry’s lil globalist brain child that will ultimately circumvent the American trucking, longshore, port and all other associated industries for cheaper Mexican equivalents.
This is a bad thing for America.
"Building a North American Community" by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Strong rumblings that Texas Governor Rick Perry is somehow tied to Zachary Construction which appears to be a consortium of Texas people who have invested in this. Perry has said that he will not support closing the border between Mexico and Texas.
AMERICAN CARGO CULT ——
All this brainless hyper consumerism will grind to a halt when the USD takes a dive and China and others stop exporting so many trinkets to us. These will be unused highways and unused rail links
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