[JBirch] Buchanan on The NAFTA Super Highway

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Subject: [JBirch] Buchanan on The NAFTA Super Highway

The NAFTA Super Highway


  Patrick J. Buchanan
  Aug. 29, 2006

  This is a "mind-boggling concept," exploded Lou Dobbs. It must cause 
Americans to think our political and academic elites have "gone utterly mad." 
What had detonated the mild-mannered CNN anchor?
  Dr. Robert Pastor, vice chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force 
on North America, had just appeared before a panel of the Senate Committee on 
Foreign Relations -- to call for erasing all U.S. borders and a merger of the 
United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from 
Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala.
  We would be solved by eliminating America's borders and legalizing the 
invasion. We would no longer defend the Rio Grande.
  "What we need to do," Pastor instructed, "is forge a new North American 
Community. ... Instead of stopping North Americans on the borders, we ought to 
provide them with a secure, biometric Border Pass that would ease transit 
across the border like an E-Z pass permits our cars to speed through tolls."
  The Pastor-CFR project, for "economic integration" of Mexamerica, is on the 
drawing board. North-south highways and railways would be built to weld us 
together as the American Union was welded together by the Northern Pacific, 
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, and Ike's Interstate Highway System.
  Speaking in Madrid in 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox declared: "Our 
long-range objective is to establish with the United States ... an ensemble of 
connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, 
with the goal of attending to future themes as important as ... the freedom of 
movement of capital, goods, services and persons. The new framework we wish to 
construct is inspired in the example of the European Union."
  Critical element of the Fox post-NAFTA agenda: absolute freedom of movement 
for persons between Mexico and the United States -- a merger of the nations. 
Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Debrez put it succinctly in April 2005. What 
Mexico is about is "complete integration" of the two nations.
  To appreciate what Fox, Debrez, Pastor and the CFR wish America to merge 
with, consider a few excerpts from the State Department information sheet on 
Mexico.
  While hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens marched beneath Mexican flags 
in U.S. cities on May Day to demand amnesty, Mexico's constitution "prohibits 
political activities by foreigners, and such actions may result in detentions 
and deportations."
  "Crime in Mexico continues at high levels, and it is often violent, 
especially in Mexico City, Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo (and) 
Acapulco," State warns U.S. travelers. "Low apprehension rates and conviction 
rates of criminals contribute to the high crime rate."
  "Women traveling alone are especially vulnerable. ... Victims ... have been 
raped, robbed of personal property or abducted and then held while their credit 
cards are used at various businesses and automatic teller machines. ... 
Kidnapping, including the kidnapping of non-Mexicans, continues at alarming 
rates."
  When Fox proposed his merger of America and Mexico in a North American Union, 
Robert Bartley, for 30 years editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, 
declared him a "visionary" and pledged solidarity: "He (Fox) can rest assured 
that there is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports his vision ... 
this newspaper."
  The American people never supported NAFTA, and they are angry over Bush's 
failure to secure the border -- but a shotgun marriage between our two nations 
appears prearranged. Central feature: a ten-lane, 400-yard-wide NAFTA Super 
Highway from the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, up to and across the U.S. 
border, all the way to Canada. Within the median strip dividing the north and 
south car and truck lanes would be rail lines for both passengers and freight 
traffic, and oil and gas pipelines.
  As author Jerome Corsi describes this Fox-Bush autobahn, container ships from 
China would unload at Lazaro Cardenas, a port named for the Mexican president 
who nationalized all U.S. oil companies in 1938. From there, trucks with 
Mexican drivers would run fast lines into the United States, hauling their 
cargo to a U.S. customs inspection terminal -- in Kansas City, Mo. From there, 
the trucks would fan out across America or roll on into Canada. Similar 
super-highways from Mexico through the United States into Canada are planned.
  According to Corsi, construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the first leg 
of the NAFTA Super Highway, is to begin next year.
  The beneficiaries of this NAFTA Super Highway project would be the 
contractors who build it and the importers and outlet stores for the 
Chinese-manufactured goods that would come flooding in. The losers would be 
U.S. longshoremen, truckers, manufacturers and taxpayers.
  The latter would pay the cost of building the highway in Mexico and the 
United States, both in dollars and in the lost sovereignty of our 
once-independent American republic.

  
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