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Tim Campbell · Guest

(NaturalNews) Texans may well be handing the rest of America a
blueprint for fighting big government. The people of Texas have
finally found a way to halt the progress of the government in
stripping them of their homes, businesses and property to build the
Trans Texas Corridor (TTC), a critical link in the NAFTA Superhighway.
By utilizing a little known state law, Texans are ensuring that their
voices of opposition will finally be heard.

Four rural cities and their school districts have demanded that the
Texas Department of Transportation stop its movement on the
superhighway and coordinate with them in all planning, studies and
management for the TTC, as required by state and federal law. This
first substantial legal attack on the TTC is spearheaded by the
Eastern Central Texas Sub-Regional Planning Commission (ECTSRPC), the
first sub-regional commission formed under the Texas Local Government
Code 391. If the Texas Department of Transportation complies with the
demand, the TTC and therefore the NAFTA Superhighway and North
American Union could be delayed for years.

The Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 391, requires state agencies
"to the greatest extent feasible" coordinate with local commissions to
"ensure effective and orderly implementation of state programs at the
regional level". Coordinated studies would reveal the impact of the
TTC on the people and the environment of Texas, which has so far been
ignored. If the Department of Transportation refuses to comply with
the demand, a federal lawsuit would be filed, also delaying the
project for years.

To the citizens of these four communities, the effort seems to
represent more than just stopping the TTC. It's a real step in
fighting the dictatorial intrusiveness of big government and big
business into the lives of everyday folks. Finding a legal way to
conduct this fight has been empowering to the people whose feelings
against the TTC run deep. One proposed TTC route would parallel State
Highway 95, and would therefore cut the towns of Holland, Bartlett,
Little River-Academy and others in half. It would also pave over much
of the area's good river bottom land and destroy many farms in its
wake.

Last month, the commission went to East Texas to explain its message
and tactics to others who are opposing another federal highway project
that would cover seven states, also under the TTC master plan. The
Texas portion would run approximately 650 miles from Laredo to
Texarkana. Since that meeting, a city in East Texas has passed a
resolution to form a 391 commission similar to the ECTSRPC model.

The NAFTA Superhighway is designed to be a borderless, open
transportations system for goods that is four hundred yards wide.
Plans are in the works that will link another stretch of highway to
form a SuperCorridor that will run north from Panama, facilitating the
joining of CAFTA to the trade block. At the root of all this is the
long-range plan to form a North American Union, learn more at (http://
www.naturalnews.com/022707.html) . This Union remains a covert action
of the Bush administration, the Canadian Government, and the Mexican
government, coordinating with members of the largest and most powerful
multi-national corporations.

Financing for the project comes in part from Cintra, a Spanish company
that will lease and operate it as a toll road. In January of this
year, Texas Congressman Ron Paul filed a bill in the house of
Representatives to prevent the TTC from receiving federal funds.
Millions of acres of land for the completion of this highway will be
taken under the new, convenient, laws of eminent domain.

The Superhighway will facilitate easy entrance and movement as cheap
goods from China and cheap labor from Mexico and Latin America come
flooding into American and on into Canada. The benefits to
multinational corporations, who view borders as barriers to trade and
greater profits, will be boundless. To average Americans, it spells
the end of economic life as we know it.

"By virtue of multinational economic cooperation on a level
unprecedented in all of global history, things that become necessary
to facilitate such cooperation gradually dissolve that which
distinguishes national identities," writes Joshua Herring, Renew
America analyst. He sees that as resulting from the loss of private
economic interests and enterprises, such as the small businesses that
have so characterized the American scene. What is being passed off on
Americans as progress, is really enslavement as the national economy
becomes weakened and dependent on the multinational system.

The multinational system also means a leveling and homogenizing of
laws, culture, role of government, and standard of living for all but
the ruling elite. As the standard of living of the less prosperous
areas of the trade block rise, it seems inevitable that the standard
of living of the more prosperous, particularly Americans, will
decline.

Sources:

(www.renewamerica.us/columns/herring/070901)

(www.countryworldnews.com/news/2008/4-April/)

((www.libertymatters.org/newsservice/news...)

(www.stewards.us/)

Christopher Helms · Guest

On Jul 12, 12:35 am, Tim Campbell <timc...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: