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The Trans Texas Corridor: Destroying Private Property Rights and
Our National Sovereignty

It was back in August when our Republican Governor, Rick Perry,
blasted the idea of building a fence on the United States/Mexico
border as "idiocy".

He made these comments while ensconced in the safety of Mexico
City, where he was on a mission to help strengthen the economic
ties that bind Texas and Mexico.

It was while on this good-will, economic mission to Mexico that the
status of a nefarious idea began to leak out, one that goes hand in
hand with the North American Union that was the subject of a
previous report.

A report on the website, WorldNetDaily.com (WND.com), revealed
that, "The official website of the Mexican northeastern state of
Nuevo Le?n contain multiple reports that Jos? Natividad Gonz?les
Par?s, governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo Le?n, has actively
discussed with numerous U.S. government officials, including Texas
Gov. Rick Perry, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the extension of the
Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico to create what's called a "Trans
North America Corridor."

The report continued, where Par?s announced, "We have had
interaction with the governor of Texas... We have had a very
productive relationship with Rick Perry, who is also interested in
what we can do to continue that which is known as the Trans-Texas
Corridor, that in reality is the corridor of North America, the
Trans North America Corridor, that includes railroads, bridges,
passenger automobile highways, and truck highway lanes."

You might be asking yourself, what exactly is this Trans-Texas
Corridor (TTC), and how does it matter to me?

The Texas Corridor that Perry was discussing with Mexican officials
is a vast transportation network that is currently in the planning
and pre-construction phase in Texas.

As currently planned, this massive project would be composed of a
4,000 mile network of supercorridors that would be close to 1,200
feet wide to allow for a carrying capacity of parallel links to
include tollways, rails and utility lines.

Plans for the Texas Corridor call for two separate elements that
comprise the tollway portion: one for 18-wheelers and the other for
lanes for passenger vehicles.

Planned to be completed over the next 50 years, this multi-use
system will include new and will work on improving existing
highways. Initially, two TTC corridors are under intense
consideration and include one that would parallel Interstate 35
(1-35), from Gainesville to Laredo and passing the Dallas-Fort
Worth Metroplex, Austin and San Antonio.

The other corridor that is being considered is an extension of
Interstate 69, that would go from Texarkana past Houston, to either
Laredo or potentially the Rio Grande Valley.

Additionally, potential high priority corridors would parallel both
Interstate 45 and Interstate 10.

The funding for this network would come from private investors and
would be built and enlarged as demand increases. However, the
Corridor would cost roughly $145.2 billion to $183.5 billion to
complete and, more importantly, the 4,000 mile system would require
roughly 584,000 acres of land to be purchased by investors or
acquired through means of the various states asserting the right of
eminent domain, i.e., denying property rights and taking the land.

Gonz?les Par?s explained, in an article published at WND.com, the
Trans-Texas Corridor was more accurately known in Mexico as the
"Logistical Trans-Corridor of North America."

"I want to let you know how much we in this border state of Nuevo
Le?n have been working with our neighbor state of Texas," Par?s
said, "making agreements which permit us to enrich what in Texas is
called the 'Trans-Texas Corridor,' but what we in Mexico know as
the 'Logistical Corridor of North America."

Although Gov. Perry supports this plan, both the 2006 platforms of
the Texas Republicans and Democrats are against the Texas Corridor,
and you should be too. Much like the idea of a North American
Union, the TTC would be just another nail, among the many that are
currently being made, ready to drive into a coffin that awaits the
carcass of United States sovereignty.

I-35 already runs through the heartland of America and connects
both Canada and Mexico. Now, imagine that road turned into a true
monstrosity, or as has been written about the plan, a four-football
field long road right through the American heartland!

Randy Brogdon, a Republican state senator who has championed the
fight to keep the Trans-Texas Corridor out of Oklahoma, said, "We
don't need a new superhighway four-football-fields-wide coming
through the heart of our state just so Mexican trucks can carry
Chinese containers from Mexican ports to Kansas City," he said.

He went on to add, "The Bush administration is pushing the
Trans-Texas Corridor under the cause of better roads and economic
development," Brogdon stressed. "I'm sure we all want good roads
and bridges, but not at the expense of our nation's sovereignty."

And that is the real point of contention with this idea of the
Texas Corridor, the continued erosion of national sovereignty and
the idea that politicians and government employees in Washington
D.C and in Austin can decide what is best for the United States and
Texas citizens, without their input.

Much like immigration into this country, United States citizens
have virtually no input into what is going on and transpiring in
this country in terms of foreign and domestic policy.

This is one reason Congressman Ron Paul's candidacy for the
Republican nomination for President is attracting such a grassroots
movement: the idea that "we the people" still have an active,
rather than marginal voice in the dialogue that steers our nation
is an important albeit dangerous idea.

It's a dangerous idea to the individuals who have sold out our
country, our national sovereignty and the middle-class in exchange
for profits, largesse and fame.

"We the people" do still have a voice, and it will only be heard
when enough individuals decide to become a cohesive unit and
challenge those who have long run rough shed over our rights,
freedoms and more importantly, our children's future.

The idea of the Texas Corridor being built in the heart of the
United States would be a telling sign about the status of freedom
in this nation. Imagine, 584,000 acres of land around the planned
Corridors turned into pavement, and a chunk of that land being
ripped out of private hands by eminent domain. All in the next 50
years, so that cheap goods manufactured in Third World countries
can avoid American dock workers by going through Mexico, and then
flow into the United States virtually unimpeded, along the
Trans-Texas Corridor.

"May you live in interesting times," an old proverb reads. 21st
Century citizens of the United States certainly do. Our country
faces illegal immigration, a plummeting dollar, the North American
Union and a massive, 4,000 mile highway built right through the
nation's heartland. National sovereignty is, in the eyes of Rick
Perry, President Bush and the other so-called leaders of the
Republican and Democratic parties, an anachronism.

It's time for you to remind them that "We the people" still have a
voice. Pass along this article to your e-mail lists, friends,
relatives, editors of newspapers or anyone else you might know
needs to be educated about this insidious plan.

Continue to call your congressman and state senators and let them
know they must oppose this plan or they will lose your vote.
Patriots can begin to take back this country. But it will start at
the local level. Get to work.

Sources:

http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=6994712

http://www.nl.gob.mx/?Article=52941&ArtOrder=ReadArt&P=leerarticulo&Page=1

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57548

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57175

http://ttc.keeptexasmoving.com/projects/ttc35/

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