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Date: August 3, 2007 9:29:27 AM PDT
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Subject: The Road to Mexamericanada -- Official Denials, Including
from Dick Cheney
Rumors of a Superhighway
By Michael Luo
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/rumors-of-a-super-
highway/
Is there a secret plan being hatched by the federal government to
construct a NAFTA super-highway from Mexico straight through to
Canada, stopping off in Kansas City?
Alongside immigration and Iraq, it is a question that is being
posed with surprising regularity to the leading Republican
presidential candidates by people who fear it is the first step
toward the establishment of a new mega-country that would merge
Mexico and the United States.
A befuddled Rudolph W. Giuliani got the question recently in
Concord, N.H., where he told a woman that he had never heard of the
highway. Mitt Romney got it again last week in Story City, Iowa,
responding he did not know of anyone in the government proposing
such a plan, but if they are, “I’ll stop it.”
But Representative Ron Paul, of Texas, a longshot for the
Republican nomination, has spoken forebodingly of the plan, using
as evidence a big new transportation network being proposed in
Texas that would run from Mexico to Oklahoma.
So, fact or fiction?
Federal officials say the latter. Elements of the concept have
roots in ideas pushed by private and state-level entities promoting
commerce across the continent, they said, adding the notion of a
federal project for a behemoth highway bisecting the heart of the
country and erasing America’s borders is an urban legend that has
spread wildly on the Internet and talk radio. The candidates,
though, still want you to know they are against it.
PREMEDITATED MERGER
Now Cheney chimes in:
Ain't no superhighways
VP the latest to make an official denial -- some call it 'gaming
semantics'
Posted: July 29, 2007
5:00 p.m. Eastern
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56912
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Vice President Cheney
Despite evidence to the contrary, Vice President Dick Cheney says
there is no "secret plan" to create a continent-crossing
superhighway to help facilitate a merger of the United States,
Mexico and Canada.
"The administration is not engaged in a secret plan to create a
'NAFTA super highway,'" asserts Cheney in a recent letter to a
constituent, according to a copy of the message obtained by WND.
The vice president's letter quotes an Aug. 21 statement from the
U.S. Department of Transportation that, "The concept of a super
highway has been around since the early 1990s, usually in the form
of a claim that the U.S. Department of Transportation is going to
designate such a highway."
DOT then refutes the claim, stating, "The Department of
Transportation has never had the statutory authority to designate a
NAFTA super highway and has never sought such authority."
The DOT statement then retracts the absolute nature of that
statement, qualifying that, "The Department of Transportation will
continue to cooperate with the State transportation departments in
the I-35 corridor as they upgrade this vital interstate highway to
meet 21st century needs. However, these efforts are the routine
activities of a Department that cooperates with all the state
transportation departments to improve the Nation's intermodal
transportation network."
The DOT statement cited by the vice president seems to model the
denial recently fashioned by the North America's SuperCorridor
Coalition, Inc., or NASCO, on its website.
There NASCO states, "There are no plans to build a new NAFTA
Superhighway – it exists today as I-35."
The coalition continues to distinguish its support for a North
American "SuperCorridor" from a "NAFTA Superhighway," asserting
that a "SuperCorridor is not 'Super-sized." The website then claims
NASCO uses the term "SuperCorridor" to demonstrate "we are more
than just a highway coalition."
In a July 21, 2006, internal e-mail obtained by WND under a
Missouri Sunshine Law request, Tiffany Melvin, executive director
of NASCO, cautions "NASCO friends and members" that, "We have to
stay away from 'SuperCorridor' because it is a very bad, hot button
right now."
As WND previously reported, Jeffrey Shane, undersecretary of
transportation for policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation
got into a spirited exchange in January with congressmen after he
asserted to a House subcommittee that NAFTA Superhighways were an
"urban legend."
In response to questioning by Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, before the
Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,
Shane asserted he was "not familiar with any plan at all, related
to NAFTA or cross-border traffic."
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., then questioned aloud whether Shane was
just "gaming semantics" when responding to Poe's question.
In June 2006, when first writing about NASCO, WND displayed the
original homepage of NASCO, which used to open with a map
highlighting the I-35 corridor from Mexico to Canada, arguing the
trade group and its members were actively promoting a NAFTA
superhighway.
NASCO's original map highlighted the I-35 corridor from Mexico to
Canada
In what appears to be the third major revamping of the NASCO
website since WND first began writing articles about NASCO, the
Dallas-based trade group carefully removes identifying NASCO with
the words behind the acronym, "North America's SuperCorridor
Coalition, Inc.," which the original NASCO website once proudly
proclaimed.
The current NASCO homepage displays a photo montage of intermodal
highway scenes, presumably taken along I-35, but without any map
displaying a continental I-35 super corridor linking Mexico and
Canada.
NASCO currently relegates the continental I-35 map to an internal
webpage that describes the North American Inland Ports Network as a
"working group" within NASCO that supports inland member cities who
have designated themselves as "inland ports," seeking to warehouse
container traffic originating in Mexican ports on the Pacific such
as Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas.
The beige and blue continental I-35 map now positioned on an
internal page of the NASCO website was originally used as the
second NASCO website, in make-over of the original NASCO blue and
yellow continental I-35 map that made the continental nature of the
I-35 appear graphically more pronounced.
WND has also previously reported that in a speech to NASCO on April
30, 2004, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta referred to
Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94 – the core highways supported by
NASCO as a prime "North American Super Corridor" – Mineta commented
to NASCO that the trade group "recognized that the success of the
NAFTA relationship depends on mobility – on the movement of people,
of products, and of capital across borders."
WND has also reported Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a GOP
presidential candidate, introduced an amendment to H.R. 3074, the
Transportation Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2008, prohibiting
the use of federal funds for participating in working groups under
the Security and Prosperity Partnership, including the creation of
NAFTA Superhighways.
On July 24, Hunter's amendment passed 362 to 63, with strong
bipartisan support. Later, the House of Representatives passed H.R.
3074 by a margin of 268-153. The bill has been sent to the Senate
with Hunter's amendment included.
According to Freedom of Information Request documents obtained by
WND, Jeffrey Shane has been appointed by the Bush administration to
be the U.S. lead bureaucrat on the North American Transportation
Working Group under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of
North America.
On July 23, 1997, the NAFTA Superhighway Coalition was formed to
promote continental highway development in association with the
Ambassador Bridge.
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read "PREMEDITATED MERGER," a special edition of WND's acclaimed
monthly Whistleblower magazine.
Previous stories:
Traffic ticket data shipped to Mexico
Government policy set by businesses?
Secret memo: One-world agenda dominates SPP summit
10,000 protesters expected at North America summit
Bill paves way for Canada's 'disappearance'
Protesters to converge on North America summit
U.S. taxpayers to pay for Mexican repairs
Commerce chief pushes for 'North American integration'
Idaho lawmakers want out of SPP
House resolution opposes North American Union
Residents of planned union to be 'North Americanists'
Congressman battles North Americanization
North American Union leader says merger just crisis away
'Bush doesn't think America should be an actual place'
Mexico ambassador: We need N. American Union in 8 years
Congressman: Superhighway about North American Union
'North American Union' major '08 issue?
Resolution seeks to head off union with Mexico, Canada
Documents reveal 'shadow government'
Tancredo: Halt 'Security and Prosperity Partnership'
North American Union threat gets attention of congressmen
Top U.S. official chaired N. American confab panel
N. American students trained for 'merger'
North American confab 'undermines' democracy
Attendance list North American forum
North American Forum agenda
North American merger topic of secret confab
Feds finally release info on 'superstate'
Senator ditches bill tied to 'superstate'
Congressman presses on 'superstate' plan
Feds stonewalling on 'superstate' plan?
Cornyn wants U.S. taxpayers to fund Mexican development
No EU in U.S.
U.S.-Mexico merger opposition intensifies
Tancredo confronts 'superstate' effort
Bush sneaking North American superstate without oversight?
Jerome R. Corsi is a staff reporter for WND. He received a Ph.D.
from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has
written many books and articles, including his latest best-seller,
"The Late Great USA." Corsi co-authored with John O'Neill the No. 1
New York Times best-seller, "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans
Speak Out Against John Kerry." Other books include "Showdown with
Nuclear Iran," "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and
the Politics of Oil," which he co-authored with WND columnist
Craig. R. Smith, and "Atomic Iran."
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