The forum was attended by what amounts to Texas Governor Rick Perry's constituency: highway construction companies, related contractors and sub-contractors, civil engineers, attorneys, bankers, international investors, and various state and federal bureaucrats, all seeing dollar signs in their eyes as they came together to discuss strategy and tactics aimed at conning the people of Texas into paying for their own economic and national demise by forcing Texas motorists to pay tolls on new and existing highways. Most attendees were there to promote their various business interests, but many were there to facilitate building the super-corridor system needed to make possible the North American Union — a merger of the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a single economic, political, military, educational, and cultural entity.
Rick Perry's vision for Texas, the Trans Texas Corridor, made it through the State Legislature in 2003. H.B. 3588, the enabling bill for the Trans Texas Corridor and, hence, the largest spending bill in the state's history, became law in large part because Texas' mainstream press, used as a watchdog, was inexplicably asleep.
Alan E. Pisarski, an author and researcher on the subject of commuting in America, spoke at the first general session of the Forum, and his basic message was that the Texas highway system must expand to accommodate our ever-increasing population boom, or congestion is going to choke off our economy. This writer asked him if he had ever studied the impact on our transportation system of uncontrolled illegal immigration into Texas. He replied that it was a major factor, but he could not quantify it. (It is interesting to note that the crowd pushing for open borders, amnesty for illegal aliens, and full labor mobility within the North American Union is the same bunch wailing about the problems caused by burgeoning population growth.)
David Allex, chairman of the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority, commented that the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and the portion of Mexico just south of the border should be thought of as one economic entity. Referring to the Rio Grande River, the international boundary separating the United States from Mexico, Mr. Allex opined that we should "treat it as a street with water in it." So much for his opinion of a secure, distinct border between the United States and Mexico. His comments were typical of forum panelists. Defending our national sovereignty was never mentioned.
That afternoon, a session entitled "Freight — Trucks, Ports, Rail and Air" got underway. Tom Kornegay, executive director of the Port of Houston Authority, revealed the core economic reason why the multi-national corporate interests are so intent on having American commuters pay to build the TTC and NAFTA Superhighway: imports from China, not commuter traffic congestion, is what they are concerned with. (Perhaps that explains why the TTC skirts every city in Texas.) So much freight traffic is coming across the Pacific from China that existing ports in Mexico and the United States cannot handle it without expanding our present ports. Mr. Kornegay stated that his port authority is experiencing double-digit volume increases, and that volume will explode even more when the Chinese finish their expansion of the Panama Canal in 2014. To handle the influx of Chinese imports, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, the Chinese company Hutchison Port Holdings is working with Wal-Mart and the Mexican government to expand the port of Lazaro Cardenas. The enormous Port of Houston handled 1.6 million TEUs of freight containers in 2005. When complete, the Mexican port will be able to handle 2.2 million TEUs (a TEU is a twenty-foot equivalent unit, or the smallest conventional container). Mr. Kornegay was not at all concerned that the new Mexican port would negatively impact business at the Port of Houston, because of the tidal wave of freight looking for a place to land. It is like a Normandy invasion of ships, except that, instead of trying to repel the invasion, the insiders are feverishly preparing more beachheads to welcome the invaders.
Texas Transportation Forum attendees, obsessed with facilitating trade with the slave-labor markets of the Far East either do not know or do not care about what their schemes are doing to American manufacturing jobs and to American national security. Eager to see container ships from Communist China unload their cargos on our shores, they are giddy at the thought of a never-ending stream of slave goods improving their bottom lines. The vast majority of them are blissfully unaware of our increasing trade deficit with and dependence on an ideological enemy that executes political dissidents and harvests their body parts for sale in the underground organ "donor" market. Moral, ethical, and national security considerations have no place in the globalist world of so-called free trade.
The evening of the first full day of the forum brought Texas Governor Rick Perry to the hall to address the forum attendees, who comprised a sampling of his constituency. In his remarks, Perry acknowledged that legislation enacted earlier in the year contained a two-year moratorium blocking construction under any new Construction Development Agreements (CDAs). But he assured listeners that construction of the corridor would continue under existing agreements. He also reaffirmed his support for public-private partnerships of state highways. "Will we press on in our commitment to these public-private partnerships?" he asked. "I certainly believe that we should."
The governor's "commitment" to private enterprise does not include defending the property rights of the landowners in the way of his Trans Texas Corridor. In his zeal to have Texas motorists pay tolls to subsidize Wal-Mart's manufacturing and shipping costs (Wal-Mart imports billions of dollars worth of goods from China each year), Mr. Perry has taken steps to assure that hundreds of thousands of acres of land will be seized from their rightful owners via eminent domain abuse. After he returned from the globalist Bilderberg meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, earlier this year, Mr. Perry vetoed H.B. 2006, a bill that would have stopped Kelo-style property transfers in which private property is taken by the state from some private citizens to be transferred to other private citizens so that they can develop the property and make a profit. In the infamous Kelo vs. City of New London decision in 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court turned on its head the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment, claiming that the Founders actually meant that private land could be seized not only for a public purpose but for a private purpose as well, as long as the state smells the possibility of a kickback in the form of increased taxes from the new owner. In the Kelo decision, the victims were middle-class homeowners whose properties bordered a lake.
An army of lawyers on the State of Texas payroll will now argue that it is legal for the state to take farm and ranch land and turn it over to a private company from Spain for 50 years so that they can build a toll road. Moreover, the bill Perry vetoed would have defined "market value" in an eminent domain taking as what market value actually is, based on a mutual agreement between the buyer and seller. Thanks to Mr. Perry, those forced takings will be much easier on the state than otherwise would have been the case, and, of course, much harder on the private citizens who do not have the wherewithal to fight about the price. A case in point is the Harrell Ranch taking, where the state paid Mr. Harrell only about one-third of what his ranch was worth based on free-market sales in the same area of the state. The matter is still in court, but the land was taken long ago, and the Harrell Ranch is out of business. (For more information about the Harrell case, see "Paving Over Our Borders" by Kelly Taylor in the April 16, 2007 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN.) So Rick Perry's vision for Texas, a Trans Texas Corridor built via the rape of an essential pillar of American freedom, the sanctity of private property, is still alive and kicking.
On Friday morning, a session was held concerning the availability of federal funds to assist in the construction of Texas highways. Presenters presented a bleak picture of the availability of federal dollars, asserted that our national transportation system was in crisis, and pushed the idea that the feds should get out of the way so as to enable the state DOTs to provide the solution to the "crisis." The solution proposed, of course, was public-private partnerships to build and control highways and for tolling of new and old highways to pay for it all. A publication, "Forward Momentum, A Report to the 110th Congress, 1st Session," was distributed to forum attendees. It contained TxDOT's wish list. The wish list includes exempting private investors in toll-road schemes from federal income taxation, taking "pilot program" status off a 2005 law allowing the states to toll existing infrastructure, and allowing "states to buy back or reimburse the federal government for its share of federal investment in interstate segments" so that states can slap tolls on roads originally built with a prohibition against tolling them. You read that correctly.
Friday afternoon's session on the Trans Texas Corridor drew a very large crowd. One presenter displayed a chart listing risks associated with investing in TTC-35, but the rising tide of political opposition to the entire concept of the corridor did not make the list of risks. Another panelist promoting the TTC-69 Corridor displayed the logo of the Alliance for I-69 Texas. That group's logo consists of a state highway symbol with a ribbon running through the numbers. The ribbon was a Mexican flag sewn to an American flag sewn to a Canadian flag, indicating where all this road construction is supposed to be taking us.
The promoters of the plan to use tolls to force Americans to pay for the NAFTA superhighway system are acting as if all is well, but they are clearly worried — as the strategy they outlined to keep highway building moving forward showed.
The speakers acknowledged that trying to keep the TTC/tolling /privatization scheme from public view backfired. They admitted that when the people of Texas found out about their plans (in large measure because of the efforts of the John Birch Society), they got mad. So the pro-corridor people are lining up a massive propaganda campaign aimed at conning Texans into believing that, as Texas Transportation Commission chairman Ric Williamson once said, "We will have toll roads, slow roads, or no roads." They will try to convince us that the old ways of building highways do not work anymore, that the federal money pot is empty, that turning our roads over to a company from Spain for 50 years so they can send their tax-free profits out of the country is a good thing, that a limited-access super-corridor system that skirts all of the congested urban areas of the state will alleviate rush-hour traffic, and that trampling the property rights of hundreds of farmers and ranchers is downright wonderful. Two examples of this propaganda were in evidence at the forum. Highway promoters parked a Toyota hybrid vehicle in front of the main hall, claiming that its fuel efficiency is causing gasoline tax collections to plummet. Hence, why they say Texas roads need tolls. They also presented a poster of Transportation Commissioner Fred Underwood in a farmer outfit, meant to assure ranchers and farmers that he was going to take care to see that rural interests were taken into account as the state steals farm and ranch land and turns small communities into ghost towns. Good ol' Fred. As part of their propaganda assault, they will also try to convince Texans that time is running out: hundreds of billions of foreign-investor dollars are chomping at the bit to “help” us solve our (actually, Wal-Mart's) congestion problems, but if we drag our feet, all that money will go elsewhere, and the investor's will build someone else's infrastructure. We can't have that, now can we?
This is not just Texans' battle. Departments of Transportation from all of the other states are fixated on what happens in Texas. The globalists will probe for weakness and take what they can get. They are throwing a pile of stuff on the wall to see what will stick. They will replicate what sticks in other states. But so will we. The main battleground is still in Texas. We must counter the coming wave of propaganda with the truth; we must redouble our efforts to wake up more Texans; we must keep those that are already awake from going back to sleep; and we must put unrelenting pressure on our elected officials, letting them know that facilitating the NAFTA superslab will be the end of their political careers. We must show the other states how to fight.
On the national level, we must be vigilant, and we must alert Americans to the inevitable wave of enabling legislation the globalists will try to sneak through Congress. We know what TxDOT is after, so we know what to watch for. We must stop any new attempt to force American taxpayers to fund the Mexican portion of the superslab. The massive expansion of the Mexican port at Lazaro Cardenas requires a massive expansion of the highway and rail system in Mexico. While they tell us the federal coffers are drying up, they will nonetheless pull out all the stops to have U.S. citizens pay for roads in a foreign country. Also, we must support legislation to repeal the NAFTA treaty, as it is the trunk of the concrete hydra.
While we are fighting in the trenches, as we fight to stop the NAFTA superhighway, as we fight against the creation of a North American Union, we must never forget what we are fighting for: the continuation of the United States of America as a sovereign republic. We are fighting to preserve the very existence of our country. We are once again fighting to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. That has a nice ring to it. As we say in Texas, "Let's get her done."
]]>Critical to the execution of this high crime is the careful application of propaganda. To that end, the academic community within the United States is being enlisted to sell the idea that destroying America is a good idea. On page 29 of "Building a North American Community" is a recommendation to "Develop a network of centers for North American studies. We recommend that the three governments open a competition and provide grants to universities in each of the three countries to promote courses, education, and research on North America."
Arizona State University is one of the first academic Judas to volunteer to sell out American sovereignty. Traitors at ASU have put up a website, intended to be an instructional tool to assist and encourage professors to teach the concept of "North America" to their unwitting student body. The site, appropriately titled "Building North America", was created in cooperation with the North American Center for Transborder Studies at ASU, which must, therefore, be the actual nest of the traitors residing at ASU.
The "About Us-who we are" page of the website lists The Americas Society-Council of the Americas as a partner, so ASU makes no attempt to hide the fact that David Rockefeller and his co-conspirators at the CFR are behind all of this. Mr. Rockefeller, in his 2002 book "Memoirs" on page 405 openly and boastfully admits that he is a traitor. "Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world , if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and am proud of it".
The "About us-Goals of This Site" page confesses the crime ASU intends to pull off, which is to "advance teaching and research on North American integration." To that end, the website spawns five sections, to Wit:
Organizations and University based Centers: This page reveals the scope of the crime. American University, Texas A&M University, University of California at San Diego, and the University of Texas are involved. One of the many organizations listed is North America's Super Corridor Coalition (NASCO), the very group that is promoting the construction of the NAFTA Superhighway system, of which the Trans Texas Corridor is the first link - already under construction. That spider web of high priority corridors is intended to be the infrastructure which is a equirement for the union of the USA with Canada and Mexico. The North American development Bank also makes the list. That bank is slated to be the funding mechanism to allow American taxpayers to fund the building of the Mexican portion of the Trans Texas Corridor. Legislation has already been introduced in the United States Congress to authorize the treason.
Government Agencies: Lest one think the scope of this treason is only academic and economic, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, www.spp.gov, and the US Department of Homeland Security all are on the extensive list of official, taxpayer funded agencies participating in the selling out of America.
Archive: This section provides university professors (traitors to be) with a cornucopia of academic works to use as building blocks to form the course properly entitled TREASON 101. Included in this vast list of reading material is, of course, "Building a North American Community", the CFR blueprint for the entire caper.
Teaching Modules: This is the section where the arch-criminals spoon feed the professors (dupes) into dumping self destructive propaganda on their eager students. The modules are divided into sub-groups by topic; monetary policy, governance and regulatory issues, and the border and transborder activities. Appropriately, the "Guide to Generating North American -Based Units for Your Syllabus" is named "The Matrix".
Syllabi: This section of the website, still under construction, is apparently designed for lazy professors who desire to be bottle fed this poison. All they will have to do is download a syllabus, and away they go to class, ready to teach the wonders of an elitist controlled North American Union.
One has to wonder if the professors that the globalists are conning into spreading the glory of driving a knife into the back of America have any concept of what they are doing. This author is of the opinion that most college professors live in an academic bubble insulating them from the real world consequences of their actions and of the implementation of their pie-in-the-sky socio-economic theories and beliefs. Most of them, trapped by their own inflated opinion of their intellect, sadly, do not have a clue. Perhaps these people at Arizona State University would not be duped into teaching TREASON 101 if they had a clue, if they were given a copy of The United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Perhaps these professors need to be taught a lesson in the rights and responsibilities of being an American.
]]>"The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.
"In Texas, the NAFTA Super Highway is being sold as the Trans Texas Corridor. In simplest terms, the TTC is a superhighway system including tollways for passenger vehicles and trucks; lanes for commercial and freight trucks; tracks for commuter rail and high-speed freight rail; depots for all rail lines; pipelines for oil, water, and natural gas; and electrical towers and cabling for communication and telephone lines. One of the proposed corridor routes, TTC-35, is parallel to the present Interstate Highway 35 (I-35), slightly to the east, running north from Mexico to Canada. Its present scope is 4,000 miles long, 1,200 feet wide, with an estimated cost of $183 billion of taxpayer funds. It runs through Kansas City." - Kelly Taylor
Kelly Taylor is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the producer of a politically based TV talk show.
]]>SAFETEA-LU makes possible a variety of programs, all aimed at forcing Americans to pay to travel. To wit:
* “Interstate System Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Pilot Program” allows the tolling of existing interstate highways, bridges, and tunnels to fund repair of existing highways.
* “Interstate System Construction Toll Pilot Program” authorizes tolling existing facilities on the interstate system to fund new interstate highways.
* “Value Pricing Pilot (VPP) Program” allows new tolls on existing toll free facilities such as high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, tolls on new lanes added to existing highways, and electronically collected variable tolls on existing and new toll facilities.
* “Express Lanes Demonstration Program” allows tolling to finance new lanes. Automatic toll collection is REQUIRED and revenue collected may be used to provide a reasonable rate of return on PRIVATE financing, operation, and maintenance costs.
* “High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Facilities, SAFETEA-LU Section 1121 (23 USC 166)” authorizes states to build high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes on interstate and non-interstate facilities.
Although most of these programs are experimental, the mindset they demonstrate and the precedents they intend to set will have devastating consequences on all Americans. The mindset is that Americans are lab rats in a maze, who must be tagged and tracked everywhere they go. Cockroaches control the maze. The consequences to the heretofore taken for granted freedom to travel and to individual pocketbooks are ominous.
Imagine for a moment what must have been going through the minds of the six-legged elites when they thought up this diabolical scheme. The question is “How do you destroy the national sovereignty of the United States, merge it with the rest of the western hemisphere, build the infrastructure system needed to link up the entire landmass, confiscate private property on a wholesale level, spy on everyone’s comings and goings, and trick American suckers into paying for their own demise all in one fell swoop ? The answer: TOLL EVERYTHING!
As with any diabolical plot, many problems and obstacles had to be removed in order to insure success. As the Wicked Witch of the West once said, “The question is `how to do it`. These things must be done delicately, or you’ll hurt the spell”.
The first obstacle is that it is generally illegal to toll federally funded roads. No problem…just sneak section 1604 into a telephone book sized highway bill and no one will notice. Everyone knows Congressmen and Senators do not actually read the bills they vote on.
How do you get the super rich elites to go along with the plan? Simple…give them a piece of the action. Construction contracts will go to selected insiders and toll facilities will be given to private investors. We will call it “public-private partnership”.
But wait! State by state, the local politicians must be persuaded to pass legislation to further the scheme. How to do it? Tell the contractors to write the necessary legislation, line the campaign coffers of key legislators, convince the Governor of each state that it was his idea via more campaign contributions, and sneak the bills through the state legislatures when nobody is looking. After all, state representatives do not read the bills they vote on either.
Yet another requirement in order to pull this off is to keep the unwashed masses in the dark It would not do to have the sheep to find out they are about to be shorn. So how do you keep the press quiet? No problem…we control the press! The watchdog will remain asleep, and no one will find out until it is a done deal. Besides, when the cretins begin to realize what is going on, they will complain to their local transportation officials and wonder why no one is listening. Just don’t let the slaves know that the “massa” barking the orders resides in New York City at the headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
But the Constitution stands in the way of the plot. What to do about the pesky supreme law of the land which prohibits the taking of private land and handing it over to other private entities? How fortunate that the globalist infested Supreme Court, in June of 2005, legislated from the bench by re-writing the takings clause of the 5th Amendment in Kelo vs. City of New London. Now the Supremes say it is okay to force people to sell their land to private developers who promise a kickback to the government, we are free to proceed with the tolling of America.
Still one more problem must be overcome. We must propagandize transportation officials into believing this is a great idea so they can sell it to private investors and politicos nationwide. ADVERTISING is the key. We will get the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to put up a website called www.innovativefinance.org. It will be a veritable “how to” encyclopedia of fascism, but we will call it “public-private partnership” because “fascism” does not roll so well off of the tongue. Multi-millionaire highway contractors and local politicians will be able to swill at the federal trough to their hearts content. It will be a win-win setup for everyone except regular Americans, who are just being set up.
This malicious plan is being implemented all across America. Such plots survive and thrive only in the dark. It is time to turn on the lights and watch the cockroaches run. In Texas, pro-toll politicians have been replaced with anti-toll newcomers. This trend must continue, and spread like a wildfire of truth throughout the country. The alarm clock is ringing. Wake up. Get up. Open your eyes. Get out the roach spray. Fumigate your house. Go wake up your neighbors.
]]>David Rockefeller is a snake in the grass. He and his co-conspirators at the Council on Foreign Relations have long desired to create a "Free Trade Area of the Americas" or FTAA, in order to swallow up the United States by merging it with the mostly despotic regimes of the western hemisphere. As with any conspiracy, his scheme will not survive the light of day, and that light is beginning to shine.
In the fall of 2005, this writer was already fully aware that the hidden purpose of the Trans Texas Corridor was to be an essential link in a massive infrastructure project designed to unite the entire western hemisphere into a "free" trade zone, facilitating the eventual merger of the entire region into an American version of the European Union. As host of The Simple Truth, an Austin based political TV talk show, I had already made that claim earlier in 2005.
In October of 2005, The New American magazine sent me to Waco to cover the "Free Trade in the Americas" conference at Baylor University. What I personally witnessed there confirmed what I already knew, that the globalists plan to turn the entire western hemisphere into an "American Union". Such a scheme would, by definition, destroy the national sovereignty of the United States of America.
At the Baylor conference, keynote speaker Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, former head of the World Trade Organization, current head of the United Nations Council on Trade and Development, and a devoted communist, stated that infrastructure projects were essential in order to physically link up all the regions of a "free trade" area. The other featured globalist at the conference, Richard Fisher, the chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, insisted that the FTAA, or Free Trade Area of the Americas, must be achieved.
My report was published in the November 14th issue of The New American magazine, and I was a guest on The Alex Jones Show shortly thereafter. Word of the hidden agenda behind the Trans Texas Corridor was beginning to spread.
Now, in an encouraging development, the mainstream media is starting to cover the story. Gerome Corsi, a writer for Human Events and for WorldNetDaily, is exposing more details of the Rockefeller/CFR/Bush plan to merge the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a new country called "North America". Due to stiff opposition to the proposed FTAA, the new world order crowd of control freak totalitarians signed the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" agreement between the three countries and is moving foreward with their semi-secret infrastructure project, the NASCO Corridor, to link up the entire region. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, correctly noting that Article 1, section 8, clause 3 of the United States Constitution grants to the Congress the power to regulate foreign trade, is demanding to know why an international highway/railway project is being built without Congressional approval. (Mr. Tancredo is also fully aware that the reason President Bush is doing nothing about the massive illegal immigration problem is that the President plans to dissolve the border.)
President Bush, a puppet of the globalists, by trying to do an end run around the Constitution, is once again trashing his oath to protect and defend it. Last fall at a press conference at Baylor University, I asked Dr. Supachai if the United States Constitution stood in the way of his FTAA. He told me "no". Now I know what he meant. He believes that his elitist allies can destroy the United States by simply ignoring our Constitution. Sadly, if the American people and the United States Congress allow the SPP, the North American Union, and the NASCO infrastructure project to proceed, Dr. Supachai will have been right.
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This entire CFR endorsed, unconstitutional, sovereignty destroying, private property confiscating, new world order promoting plan has relied on deception. Local activist groups opposed to turning already constructed free roads into toll roads complained that local toll official were ignoring the overwhelming will of the people. They are now finding out, despite a silent complicit mainstream press refusing to cover the issue, that the tolling of free highways was meant to trick the people of Texas into paying for their own destruction by paying for the Trans Texas Corridor, so the bought and paid for local politicos were ignoring their constituents.
Last year, the San Antonio branch of TexasTollParty.com posted my New American article, entitled "Texas: Keystone State of the FTAA". This anti-toll activist group stated that my contention that the true purpose of the toll roads was a scheme to merge North and South America "sounds too nutty to be true..." Well...welcome to the nut house. Thanks to "nuts" like The New American, Alex Jones, and the latest addition to the "nut bin", mainstream journalist Gerome Corsi, the people of the United States are starting to see the urgency and gravity of the situation, and now have the opportunity to counterattack this NAFTA/FTAA superhighway snake of a scheme that is attempting to swallow up the USA. Finally armed with the truth, patriotic Americans in every state, at every level _ city, county, state, and federal, must now attack and destroy each section of this snake and chop it up into pieces befor it devours us all.
]]>The question and answer session after the speech was anything but spontaneous. The students had been pre-selected and were prepped in a conference room before the presentation. I saw them coming out of the room, and asked one of them if they were going to be the students asking the questions. She said "yes". The Q & A was a fake.
The press conference before the speech was turned out to be a great opportunity, because literally half of the questions were hostile, and I was able to ask Mr. Kean a question about why the 9/11 Commission, on page 172 of their report, stated that the question of who bankrolled the September 11th attacks was "of little practical significance." He replied that the job cost so little money and that it was too hard to trace. So I got from Mr. Kean an admission that following the money trail in a crime that took the lives of 3000 people was "of little practical significance" because it only cost about $166 per murder and was too much of a bother to pursue. This was an astonishing red flag screaming "cover-up".
I also asked him why there is not even one word about the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center building 7 in the 9/11 Commission Report. I basically read him the riot act on building 7...no plane it it, perfectly symmetrical collapse, the FEMA report not matching Larry Silverstein's "admission" that he and the New York Fire Department control demolished it on the spur of the moment and forgot to tell anyone about it, the video evidence of explosive charges going off, the molten metal found in the basement...and Mr. Kean blew off the question! He claimed he saw no evidence of what I was saying, and said it was not part of his report. I thought to myself, "for a guy supposed to be in charge of the whole inquiry, he sure seems blissfully ignorant of the facts". A vision of the "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil" monkeys popped into my head.
In his speech to the throngs of students, Mr. Kean kept stressing his biggest fear...that the terrorists would smuggle a nuke into this country and set it off. He recommended biometric ID cards for everyone! I thought about the Bush Administration pushing to let the Communist Chinese screen cargo coming through Panama ports, to make sure no nukes get in. The hypocrisy was almost unbearable. It is the same tired old mantra..."give up your freedom or the boogey man will get you". Mr. Kean's admissions that he is not interested in following the money trail, and that the controlled demolition of building 7 is unimportant are ample proof that 9/11 was an inside job, Kean was hired to pull the wool over the eyes of the sheep, and if we give up our liberty to these people, we will never get it back.
]]>A little more than two years ago, political allies of Texas Governor Rick Perry quietly passed legislation creating the "Trans-Texas Corridor" (TTC). With the connivance of a largely silent press, the most expensive project in the state's history became law with scant public notice.
It's bad enough that the TTC will cost at least $185 billion, much of it derived from new toll taxes imposed on existing free roads. It's even worse that the project -- 4,000 miles of roads, rail lines, and other infrastructure crisscrossing the state, bypassing all of the cities -- will be built by a Spanish contractor rather than a firm based in the United States. But worst of all is the role to be played by this hugely expensive boondoggle in linking the transportation system of the United States with that of Mexico, thereby creating the infrastructure that will facilitate the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Because of simple geography, the road to the FTAA must go through Texas. For a short time, the Texas Department of Transportation website illustrated the true purpose of the corridor via a map showing how the project would connect with the Mexican highway and railway system, and a sketch of North America showing the strategic placement of Texas, with giant arrows pointing from Texas north to Canada and south to Mexico.
The strategic significance of Texas in the scheme to amalgamate the Americas was underscored by the trinational summit held last March at Waco's Baylor University. During that event, President Bush, along with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, approved a pact to create a "Security and Prosperity Partnership" that would deepen the economic and security integration of the three countries. Last month, Baylor's Hankamer School of Business hosted an important follow-up meeting intended to shore up flagging support for the FTAA in the United States.
Appropriately, Waco sits astride Interstate Highway 35, a route parallel to the envisioned TTC -- the first of what would be several FTAA corridors gradually binding North America and the entire Western Hemisphere into a single economic and (eventually) political region.
FTAA on the Ropes?
This writer attended the recent Waco "Free Trade in the Americas Conference," held on the Baylor University Campus on October 6-7. In his speech at the conference's opening banquet, Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, former director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and current secretary-general of the United Nations Council for Trade and Development, specifically mentioned connecting economic regions through international infrastructure projects. Referring to projects of this sort being undertaken in Southeast Asia, Dr. Panitchpakdi said that, "if you can link them all up, it would make a trade area that would be wide enough for everyone to participate."
It's vital to understand that Dr. Panitchpakdi is not seeking to expand participation in authentic free trade, in which private interests engage in mutually beneficial commerce without government intrusion. Rather, his vision calls for each national government to regulate trade and economic policy according to mandates handed down from the WTO and administered through regional trade blocs, such as NAFTA, CAFTA, and the proposed FTAA.
In his native Thailand, Dr. Panitchpakdi led the campaign for that government's ratification of the WTO agreement. His bio proudly states that he also worked to ensure "his government's full and faithful implementation of its obligations" under the WTO.
That perspective dominated the October FTAA conference, which also devoted a lot of time to bemoaning opposition to the proposed hemispheric merger. The assembled bankers, trade representatives, globalization experts, and professors all presented a unified picture of an FTAA on the ropes.
Felipe Frydman of the Central Bank of Argentina complained that the United States Congress was an impediment to trade negotiations. Many participants echoed the lament that the Brazilian government of Marxist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva -- which favors a more overtly socialist hemispheric arrangement -- was not cooperating. Robert Devlin of the Inter-American Development Bank went so far as to lament that all momentum for the FTAA was lost.
These frustrations were coupled with apparent indifference on the part of some invitees. A few of the scheduled speakers were absent; the dinner, breakfast, and luncheon hosted by Baylor were not overflowing with hungry attendees; and the mainstream press was largely missing. A case in point is the press conference held in the media room at the Business College at Baylor. Only two reporters -- one from the Houston Chronicle and one from THE NEW AMERICAN -- showed up for the event, which was simulcast live on the Internet.
Asked by THE NEW AMERICAN if the U.S. Congress would be able to veto decisions made involving trade disputes settled by his envisioned FTAA, Dr. Panitchpakdi responded with a rambling non-answer. A few minutes later, after reminding the former head of the WTO that Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate foreign trade, we asked if the U.S. Constitution stands in the way of the FTAA. After another discursive non-response, Dr. Panitchpakdi opined that the Constitution does not stand in the way. At that point, the eminent former head of the WTO and his entourage very quickly left the room as someone announced the press conference was over.
Don't Celebrate Yet
Encouraging as it is to see the proponents of the Free Trade Area of the Americas in such apparent disarray, celebration is premature. The credentials, statements, and governmental philosophies of the heavy hitters at the conference should cause alarm bells to sound in the ears of all freedom-loving Americans.
Dr. Panitchpakdi, the main attraction at the Baylor conference, inadvertently flashed his totalitarian underbelly when he mentioned in passing a meeting he had last July with Bo Xilai, the Trade Minister of Communist China, whom he described as "the present Trade Minister of China, whose father used to be one of the six heroes of the Chinese Revolution, one of the close colleagues to Mao Tse-Tung." (Bo Yibo, the father of Bo Xilai, is actually known as one of the "Eight Immortals" of Communist China.) Realizing that Dr. Panitchpakdi, a powerful proponent of the FTAA, referred to one of Chairman Mao's cohorts as a "hero" should suffice as a "red" flag signaling the true intentions of this FTAA cheerleader.
Another credentialed globalist at the conference was Richard Fisher, chief operating officer of the U.S. government for NAFTA, former vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, former vice chairman of Kissinger McLarty Associates, current president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Trilateral Commission (these last two organizations promote global governance).
Contrary to the pessimistic assessment offered by Robert Devlin of the Inter-American Development Bank, Fisher stated we must have the political will to achieve the FTAA, insisting that enacting the pact is a moral imperative. If we do not help the poor countries of Latin America, Fisher declared, "it becomes for us a security issue. There's your moral imperative." This is a rehash of the argument used by the Bush administration to win approval of CAFTA, namely that we owe it to the "fragile democracies" of the region to enact a trade agreement that amounts to a massive wealth transfer from the U.S. to Central America.
In response to a question concerning the huge trade deficits the United States is running, Fisher claimed that if we did not run these deficits, we would hurt other countries because we are the "consumer of last resort" to the world. "We play a role by running these deficits ? we are performing a service." Which is to say that Americans have a global obligation to impoverish themselves through debt-driven consumption in order to build economies in the "developing world."
Mr. Fisher's resume shows that he knows how to play ball, and that he's clearly not playing for the home team. He has spent a good deal of his life encouraging industrial production and jobs to leave our shores, shoveling taxpayer-funded welfare to corrupt foreign governments, debasing our currency, peddling influence, doing an end run around the Constitution, and damaging our national sovereignty by encouraging trade with an aggressive Communist Chinese government whose business interests are controlled by its military machine. He is not about to stop now, and he and his CFR teammates are adept at manufacturing the political will to turn the Western Hemisphere into a totalitarian American Union.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the great State of Texas, the fight over the Trans-Texas Corridor continues, with little awareness of the elaborate design for hemispheric convergence of which that scheme is a part. Dr. Panitchpakdi pointed out that a unified trade region requires infrastructure, and it is therefore up to patriotic Texans to see that the corridor never gets built. It is up to the American electorate to put pressure on the Congress to ensure that the FTAA never comes to fruition. Robert Fisher knows that the political road to a successful FTAA goes straight through the U.S. Congress. So do we. It is up to us to build a roadblock.
Based in Austin, Texas, Robert L. Dacy is a political researcher and host of The Simple Truth, a TV talk show.
]]>The election judge in charge did an admirable job of coping with the Hart Intercivic E-Slate disaster that befell his precinct. He contacted the poor lady who had tried to be the first voter of the day. She was a teacher at a local elementary school who had left the polling place presumably because she could not make sense of the fake ballot she encountered. She returned to the polls and cast her ballot.
Many voters said they could not return to vote later, so the election judge improvised paper ballots by converting some oversized sample paper ballots into real paper ballots. He assured me he would turn them in at the end of the day.
The inexcusable difficulties I and other precinct 228 voters had this morning while attempting to cast our ballots were not caused at the precinct level. Indeed, the election judge did his best to make sure everyone got to vote. However, he could not be sure that everyone who was thwarted in the morning was able to come back and try again later, and WE THE ELECTORATE cannot be sure that the votes we finally cast will be counted as we cast them. The blame falls on the Travis County Clerk’s office. They should never have abandoned the old fashioned paper ballot.
]]>I was the third voter in line, but, since one of the three machines at precinct 228 was not operational, I waited in line behind the first voter. She “voted” and left the booth. I entered the booth and put in my code number.
The ballot that appeared before me was complete nonsense. It was asking for my vote on such propositions as whether wheels should be mandated on office chairs, whether poll workers should be exempt from having to pay taxes, whether we should mandate 4 week vacations instead of 2 week vacations, and whether we should have a 3 day workweek. I looked at the poll worker nearby, a neighbor of mine, and asked him if this was a joke.
He looked at my “ballot”, opined that the machine must be in “training mode”, and then everyone involved tried to figure out what went wrong. They stopped processing voters. I asked how long it would take to fix the problem, and they said they had no idea.
I could not wait around because I have a job I must get to, so I left. So much for the convenience and simplicity of electronic voting. I was disenfranchised today, at least temporarily, and the lady in front of me who thought she voted…well I guess she will look in the paper tomorrow to see if her office chair will get wheels mandated by the State of Texas. Her vote on the real issues will not be counted.
]]>Chinagate was all about agents of the communist Chinese government and rocket industry funneling cash into President Clinton's re-election campaign in exchange for technology transfers that gave them the ability to launch and target intercontinental ballistic missles against the United States. One of the conduits for that cash was Johnny Chung. DOJ attorney Michael McCaul did indeed "prosecute" Chung, but McCaul agreed to a sentence of probation and community service.The truth: McCaul , while working for Janet Reno, let this smaller fish go and failed to go after the bigger fish. http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/ stories/1998/12/14/chung.sentence/. Also see http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=13999. Chung "rolled over" to avoid prison, and McCaul sat on what Chung disclosed. Bottom line: McCaul's experience in protecting our national security is a dismal failure. Janet Reno's Department of "Justice" was only interested in protecting President Clinton. The Traitor-in-Chief got away with treason, the Chinese now have the military technology to nuke the United States, and Michael McCaul was a participant in the cover up. After Chung's trial was over, McCaul befriended the traitor Chung by inviting him over to dinner! http://www.cubanet.org/ CNews/y00/may00/12e21.htm So why is a former employee of Janet Reno who lets crooks go and refuses to pursue other crooks and even has dinner with them running for Congress as a “conservative” Republican?
Speaking of Janet Reno, McCaul's relationship with the butcher of Waco does not end with helping her keep President Clinton out of jail. According to Texas Lawyer magazine, the trigger-happy Attorney General chose McCaul to be her counsel when she appeared before a congressional committee investigating the massacre of the Branch Davidians . One wonders if McCaul came up with Reno's explanation of the tanks as being like good rent-a-cars. http://www5.law.com/tx/sub/news/archive/ 080999/080999f.htm
It gets worse. It turns out that Michael McCaul is married to the media...quite literally. His father-in-law, Lowry Mays, is Chairman of the radio and television media giant Clear Channel Communications, and other Mays relatives hold key positions within the company. A quick look at the website of the Federal Election Commission reveals that Clear Channel and other media fatcats are financing McCaul's campaign. What's wrong with this picture? The founding fathers revered the press because of their critical role of being the watchdog of the government. Freedom of the press is enshrined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution to protect that essential safeguard. How far have we fallen when Clear Channel, in control of news and editorial content of 1,225 radio stations and 39 television stations, can now attempt to buy their own congressman? http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/ cancomsrs/?_06+H4TX10093
One other set of facts is worth mentioning. Electronic voting machines are susceptible to external manipulation and have no paper trail to validate votes and prevent fraud. http://www.blackboxvoting.org The Secretary of State of Ohio has confirmed this problem via an independent technical security assessment report written by Compuware Corporation. http://www.votersunite.org/ article.asp?id=923. One such machine is manufactured by Hart Intercivic . These machines are used in only four counties in Texas...four out of two hundred and fifty four. The 10th Congressional District stretches from Travis County to Harris County. Would you believe that Hart Intercivic machines are used in Travis and Harris counties? That's right, 80% of the voters in the district Michael McCaul is running in will be voting on Hart Intercivic machines. So what is wrong with that? Perhaps nothing. However, it should be noted that Tom Hicks, vise-chairman of Clear Channel Communications, is a major investor in Hart Intercivic by way of Hicks, Muse, Tate, and Furst , an investment company that controls Stratford Capital Partners. Hart Intercivic lists Stratford Capital Partners as a major investor. Call me old-fashioned, but it seems to me that people involved in financing political candidates should not also make the voting machines used to chose their candidate. The potential exists for a conflict of interest due to the temptations of motive and opportunity.
So Michael McCaul , the former Janet Reno employee who wimped out on Chinagate , befriends traitors, is married to big media, and whose financiers have links to a suspect voting machine is running for Congress. Heaven help us.
This article was submitted in the interest of informing the electorate by Bob Dacy , host of "The Simple Truth" political talk show, on Cable Television channel 16 Mondays at 8:00 PM in Austin, TX .
Bob Dacy is a frequent contributor to The Alex Jones radio show on UN and Second Amendment issues.
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