[Toro]

Or, How Conspiracy Theories Get Started

$1:

When completed, the highway will run from Mexico City to Toronto, slicing through the heartland like a dagger sunk into a heifer at the loins and pulled clean to the throat. It will be four football fields wide, an expansive gully of concrete, noise and exhaust, swelled with cars, trucks, trains and pipelines carrying water, wires and God knows what else. Through towns large and small it will run, plowing under family farms, subdevelopments, acres of wilderness. Equipped with high-tech electronic customs monitors, freight from China, offloaded into nonunionized Mexican ports, will travel north, crossing the border with nary a speed bump, bound for Kansas City, where the cheap goods manufactured in booming Far East factories will embark on the final leg of their journey into the nation's Wal-Marts.

And this NAFTA Superhighway, as it is called, is just the beginning, the first stage of a long, silent coup aimed at supplanting the sovereign United States with a multinational North American Union.

Even as this plot unfolds in slow motion, the mainstream media are silent; politicians are in denial. Yet word is getting out. Like samizdat, info about the highway has circulated in niche media platforms old and new, on right-wing websites like WorldNetDaily, in the pages of low-circulation magazines like the John Birch Society's The New American and increasingly on the letters to the editor page of local newspapers.

"Construction of the NAFTA highway from Laredo, Texas to Canada is now underway," read a letter in the February 13 San Gabriel Valley Tribune. "Spain will own most of the toll roads that connect to the superhighway. Mexico will own and operate the Kansas City Smart Port. And NAFTA tribunal, not the U.S. Supreme Court, will have the final word in trade disputes. Will the last person please take down the flag?" There are many more where that came from. "The superhighway has the potential to cripple the West Coast economy, as well as posing an enormous security breach at our border," read a letter from the January 7 San Francisco Chronicle. "So far, there has been no public participation or debate on this important issue. Public participation and debate must begin now."

In some senses it has. Prompted by angry phone calls and e-mail from their constituents, local legislators are beginning to take action. In February the Montana state legislature voted 95 to 5 for a resolution opposing "the North American Free Trade Agreement Superhighway System" as well as "any effort to implement a trinational political, government entity among the United States, Canada, and Mexico." Similar resolutions have been introduced in eighteen other states as well as the House of Representatives, where H. Con Res. 40 has attracted, as of this writing, twenty-seven co-sponsors. Republican presidential candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire now routinely face hostile questions about the highway at candidate forums. Citing a spokesperson for the Romney campaign, the Concord Monitor reports that "the road comes up at town meetings second only to immigration policy."

Grassroots movement exposes elite conspiracy and forces politicians to respond: It would be a heartening story but for one small detail.

There's no such thing as a proposed NAFTA Superhighway.

Though opposition to the nonexistent highway is the cause célèbre of many a paranoiac, the myth upon which it rests was not fabricated out of whole cloth. Rather, it has been sewn together from scraps of fact.

... continued

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070827/hayes

[sandorski]

I like how they try and make it sound infinitely worse than any other Highway: "It will be four football fields wide, an expansive gully of concrete, noise and exhaust, swelled with cars, trucks, trains and pipelines carrying water, wires and God knows what else."

[BartSimpson]

The difficulty with saying that it doesn't exist is that the first leg of it is already under construction.

http://www.i69info.com/

[bootlegga]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The difficulty with saying that it doesn't exist is that the first leg of it is already under construction.

http://www.i69info.com/

I gues this was Eisenhower's evil plan so long ago, build a series of Interstates to help merge all of North America into one giant state...

$1:

There is no proposed NAFTA Superhighway.... The map is not a plan or blueprint of any kind.... They are EXISTING highways.

[BartSimpson]

bootlegga bootlegga:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The difficulty with saying that it doesn't exist is that the first leg of it is already under construction.

http://www.i69info.com/

I gues this was Eisenhower's evil plan so long ago, build a series of Interstates to help merge all of North America into one giant state...

$1:

There is no proposed NAFTA Superhighway.... The map is not a plan or blueprint of any kind.... They are EXISTING highways.

I69 (neat name, eh?) is a new highway that was not part of the original Interstate Highway Act of 1955.

[bootlegga]

Well, if people driving hadn't increased since 1955, then they woudn't have built more Interstates either. I'm sure this is more to do with easing congestion than any superhighway.

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I69 (neat name, eh?) is a new highway that was not part of the original Interstate Highway Act of 1955.

I remember when vanity plates first came out about 15 years ago, someone in Edmonton had

IB6UB9

[WBenson]

Has everyone heard?! They've already built roads that go from Mexico to Canada without telling anyone. Surely the Illuminati constructed them.

[BartSimpson]

WBenson WBenson:

Has everyone heard?! They've already built roads that go from Mexico to Canada without telling anyone. Surely the Illuminati constructed them.

The difference is that this road will allow Mexican and Canadian vehicles to traverse the USA without going through US Customs. It is an internationalising of the USA.

[WBenson]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The difference is that this road will allow Mexican and Canadian vehicles to traverse the USA without going through US Customs. It is an internationalising of the USA.

Is there a source for that?

[BartSimpson]

WBenson WBenson:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The difference is that this road will allow Mexican and Canadian vehicles to traverse the USA without going through US Customs. It is an internationalising of the USA.

Is there a source for that?

Actually, yes, it was a story in TIME magazine in just the past few months - the story was critical of the Bush Administration for going forward with the project that is causing environmental mayhem in Texas while also utterly defeating the point of border security. It was accompanied with pictures of bulldozers and earthmovers tearing up land in Texas.

I agreed with TIME for a change. It's utter nonsense to build the border fence when illegals will have their very own freeway built for them. Seriously, if you want to get terrorists and bombs into the USA this'll be the way for you to do it.

The underlying argument for it is to allow direct and unfettered trade between Canada and Mexico - which is just fine. But why do Americans have to pay for this and shouldn't Canada-Mexico trade be none of the USA's business? NAFTA doesn't give us a voice in Canada-Mexico trade and I'm wondering, too, if perhaps this is someone's clever idea to control Canada-Mexico trade.

[Clogeroo]

$1:

I agreed with TIME for a change. It's utter nonsense to build the border fence when illegals will have their very own freeway built for them.

Well just don't build any off ramps in the states and have it just go to Canada. Problem solved all your illegals go up north.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The difficulty with saying that it doesn't exist is that the first leg of it is already under construction.

http://www.i69info.com/

So is the Northwest leg: http://www.nwcorridor.com/Capabilities%20Report.php

And the North East Leg: http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/releases/ ... 41e.htm#bg

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The difficulty with saying that it doesn't exist is that the first leg of it is already under construction.

http://www.i69info.com/

So is the Northwest leg: http://www.nwcorridor.com/Capabilities%20Report.php

And the North East Leg: http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/releases/ ... 41e.htm#bg

Thanks for the additional info - much appreciated!

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The difficulty with saying that it doesn't exist is that the first leg of it is already under construction.

http://www.i69info.com/

So is the Northwest leg: http://www.nwcorridor.com/Capabilities%20Report.php

And the North East Leg: http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/releases/ ... 41e.htm#bg

Thanks for the additional info - much appreciated!

You are quite welcome. Just a note - pay special attention to the email addresses under 'The Board' on the NWCorridor link.

Just for those who don't think Government and big business aren't in a strategic partnership here.

Direct link the the evidence:

http://www.nwcorridor.com/Board%20Members.php

On the other link to Transport Canada (remember ^^ above!?!) ask yourselves what possible reason there is to upgrade US border crossings, airports and shipping ports, if the intention is to improve Ontairo/Quebec trade?

Transport Canada Transport Canada:

"We are investing in the development of this Gateway and trade corridor in response to the protocol of cooperation signed by the Ontario and Quebec governments last year," stated Minister Boulet. "I am convinced that this initiative will improve the efficiency of the transport systems of both Ontario and Quebec, and that the partnership of our three governments will maintain and enhance the economic contribution this trade corridor has made throughout Canada's history. This unique planning approach, in partnership with the private sector, is a model of collaboration that will allow us to ensure its success."

<snip>

Future federal gateway and corridor strategies will be guided by this framework, focused on transportation systems of road, rail, marine and air infrastructure of national significance to international commerce.

On June 2, 2006, the Governments of Ontario and Quebec signed a Cooperation Protocol with an agreement on the transportation sector. Among other objectives, this protocol seeks to promote the development of the Ontario-Quebec trade corridor and to collaborate on improving the efficiency of all transportation modes in the corridor that move goods and people.

In addition, Canada's New Government recently launched the "Building Canada" infrastructure plan. With a budget of $33 billion between 2007 and 2014, "Building Canada" provides more funding for provincial, territorial and municipal infrastructure, and for a longer period of time than any federal government since the Second World War. It includes $2.1 billion through the new Gateways and Border Crossings Fund to improve the flow of goods between Canada and the rest of the world <b>by enhancing infrastructure at key locations, such as major border crossings between Canada and the United States.</b>

But then again, I could just be a foiler.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

But then again, I could just be a foiler.

I don't doubt that some will want to say that to help themselves avoid facing the truth.