NAFTA SUPER HIGHWAY . Good or Bad

[Best Buckeye]

Our Representatives in Washington are planning to build a super highway to facilitate Nafta. What say you ? for or against?
This story from 2006 explains.
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At the time of this writing, there?s a story just below radar that?s poised to explode onto front pages all over America: the NAFTA Superhighway. And it should scare the hell out of everyone.



Jerome Corsi, who earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard, describes the Superhighway in a June 12, 2006 article in Human Events Online, a conservative website. According to Dr. Corsi, the mammoth road system is being quietly pushed by the Bush Administration. The proposed superhighway would be about 400 yards wide and run along U.S. Interstate 35 from the Mexican border at Loredo, Texas to the Canadian border above Duluth, Minnesota.



According to the Ambassador Bridge website, the Superhighway would facilitate commerce between Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was signed by the leaders of those three nations in 1994. Ambassador Bridge, owned by the Detroit Bridge Company on the U.S. side, and the Canadian Transit Company on the Canadian side, is the busiest crossing between the U.S. and Canada, according to the website. The owners of Ambassador Bridge are members of the NAFTA Superhighway Coalition (NASCO).

 

[BUCKYLE]

What's the problem? Just make Mexico and Canada pay for the construction and upkeep, and sit each states Troopers on it and "tax" the hell out of the foriegn traffic.

It seems like just another interstate.

 

[Mike80]

1. Jerome Corsi is a nut.

2. Someone needs to look at a map. The roads already exist. Nothing is going to be "built" as much as "christened" even IF this occurs....

 

[Best Buckeye]

Not this one,
Link;

?????? 2007 ??????​

Statement of Michael Replogle,​

Transportation Director for Environmental Defense
Before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, May 24, 2007​

Excerpt:​

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In 2003, Texas enacted state legislation
(HB 3588) authorizing the Trans-Texas Corridor
(TTC) project, The TTC project is slated to be
the largest public works project in Texas history,
a proposed 1,200-foot wide, 4,000-mile long
network of planned and existing toll roads,
railways and utility corridors, to be developed
over the next 50 years. This network is designed
not to connect any existing cities and towns,
but to run almost entirely through what are now
non-urban Texas counties. To date, two TTC corridors
are advancing through the environmental
review process, the 560-mile TTC-35 running
north-south across central Texas, and TTC-69, a
planned 1600-mile corridor running from Larado
parallel to the Gulf Coast to northeast Texas. (p.8)
Excerpt: Without public notice or input, the Texas
Department of Transportation (TxDOT) signed a
pre-development agreement (or umbrella agreement)
with the Cintra-Zachry consortium in 2005,
authorizing the preparation of a master plan, nonbinding
master financial plan, project management
plan and quality management plan for TTC-
35. Under the Special Experimental Program
(SEP)-14 and the SEP-15 programs (under which
U.S. DOT has asserted authority to waive provisions
of federal transportation law), TxDOT selected
a private partner prior to completing the
NEPA review process and made this selection
earlier in the planning process than is typically
allowed under law. Almost two years after the
signing of the deal, more than 200 pages of the
300-page pre-development agreement remain
secret despite an order for their release by the
Texas Attorney General that was blocked by a lawsuit
filed by the concessionaire. (p.9)​

http://Republicans.transportation.house.gov/Media/File/Testimony/Highways/5-24-07-Replogle.pdf

 

[Best Buckeye]

Link;


Awareness​

By Vicky L. Davis
10 September 2007
The DOD ? Defense Advanced Research
Project Agency (DARPA), Total Information
Awareness (TIA) project came
into public view about a year after 9-11.
The idea was as the title suggests, to have
full situational awareness of the battlefield.
It wasn?t until around 2002 that people began
to realize that the DOD battlefield was
the continental United States including everyone
and everything in it. In concept, ?Total
Information Awareness? is the ultimate
?Big Brother? Surveillance system for a Police
State.
In 2003, the Congress eliminated funding
for the TIA project but that didn?t stop
anything. DARPA?s project just metastasized.
Part of the project moved deeper into
the Intelligence agencies, part of it moved
to the Homescam Security Department
(DHS) under the name of ?Homeland Security
Advanced Research Project Agency
(HSARPA). Part of it was already in the
Transportation Department and was funded
as ?Smart Highways and Vehicles? with related
systems in legislation as early as 1991.
It?s almost amusing to watch Congressional
hearings with the professional Confidence
Men of the IT industry embedded
into our national security agencies discuss
integrating computer systems to fight ?terrorism?
and the poodles in Congress praise
them for their efforts.
What Congress didn?t understand ? and
apparently still doesn?t understand ? is that
?Total Information Awareness? is just a concept
for the aggregation of access information
for networked systems. More simply,
it?s the component systems of TIA that comprise
the Big Brother surveillance systems
and they are still being funded, developed,
implemented and networked.
The IT Confidence Men just aren?t calling
it ?Total Information Awareness?
anymore. Instead, they talk about breaking
down barriers and stovepipes so that information
can be shared.
Sharing and caring . . .makes you feel​

all warm and fuzzy doesn't it?

 

[scooter1369]

Mexico has already sent their tax free, unregistered, labor to this country to work on it. Round them all up and put them to work. And then tell them to walk home on it.

 

[BUCKYLE]

Bad formatting...conspiracy...Taosman?

 

[Taosman]

Part of the problem is the size of the Mexican piggy back tractor trailers. They are longer(and heavier) than anything allowed on normal highways.
(Trying to find a picture of these is difficult). But image something longer than the longest trailer and in two pieces like a normal piggyback.

So you have to ask the question: Who is pushing this?

Why not just improve rail transport? That has got to be cheaper. Every other country uses rail transport in this same manner.

 

[DaytonBuck]

Does the highway support communism ?

 

[Taosman]

Does the highway support communism ?

I don't know. Is Bush a Communist or a Fascist?

 

[scooter1369]

I don't know. Is Bush a Communist or a Fascist?

Just because fascism and communism were idiotic ideas, doesn't mean every idiot in politics believes in those government policies. sheesh

 

[DaytonBuck]

I don't know. Is Bush a Communist or a Fascist?

I'll have to check Nixon's enemy list. It's a great source for figuring out who's red.

 

[Jake]

Just another step toward the American Union, which seems to be supported by both parties. Can't wait to have a wallet full of Ameros.

NAFTA itself enables freer trade, but a "NAFTA Highway" that enables free passage of foreign vehicles - and whoever/whatever is inside them - is a risky proposition. It could be too easily exploited by those with criminal intentions.