-- the Champlain-Hudson Trade Corridor and Gateway Coalition representing trade from Quebec City and Montreal to New York; and
-- the I-95 Corridor Coalition alliance of transportation agencies, toll authorities, and related organizations (including law enforcement) from Canada to Florida in support of transportation managements and operational common interest issues favoring business.
Nothing so far is finalized, but SuperCorrider momentum remains viable. It's slowed in Texas, but very much alive and viable.
In contrast, opposition groups are numerous, vocal, but yet to achieve enough critical mass to matter. They include groups like the "People's Summit" that protested in New Orleans last April against the recent three-presidential secret summit to plot strategy. Also, the conservative Coalition to Block the North American Union condemns a "stealth plan" to erase national borders, merge three nations into one, end the sovereignty of each, build a SuperCorridor, put Washington and the military in charge, allow unlimited immigration, and replace the dollar with the "amero."
Still another is a group of citizen-activist Oklahomans and the organization they formed: Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise. Like similar Texas and other state groups, it's against the SuperCorridor and its proposed I-35 route through their state. It's a conservative group believing that "a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market...with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation." It opposes government using the law to facilitate a "corporate takeover" of society and fund it with public tax dollars. On board as well is an Oklahoma state senator who says "the NAFTA Superhighway stops here."
He'll need other lawmakers with him and on April 29 failed. Despite vocal opposition, the Oklahoma state legislature authorized the creation of "Smart (inland) Ports" and SuperCorridor system despite earlier having passed a resolution urging Congress "to withdraw from the (SPP - North American Union)" and all activities related to it. Besides Oklahoma, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) lists 21 other states that have passed public-private partnership enabling legislation considered essential for private investment to go forward.
At the federal level, there's also congressional opposition (but not enough to matter) in spite of Rep. Virgil Goode and six co-sponsors introducing House Concurrent Resolution 40 in January 2007. It expressed "the sense of (some but not enough in) Congress that the United States should not engage in (building a NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada."
State legislatures as well are against it (in contrast to others in support) - thus far a dozen or more passing resolutions in 2008 and another 20 in 2007. Well and good but remember Adlai Stevenson's response to an enthusiastic supporter during his first presidential campaign. He thanked the woman and replied: "That's not enough madam. I need a majority."
It's no different for the SuperCorridor and North American Union. They're progressing secretly in spite of activist opposition and a largely unaware public. A recent poll sheds light. It was conducted by the American Policy Center that calls itself "a privately funded, nonprofit, 501 c (4), tax-exempt grassroots action and education foundation dedicated to the promotion of free enterprise and limited government...."
It revealed no widespread public SPP opposition because most people (58% living along the proposed Texas to Minnesota route) don't know about it or enough to matter. However, 95% of respondents with awareness opposed it but unfortunately in answer to biased questions. Their wording apparently conveyed the idea of "private corporations (having) power to enforce trade policy that may adversely affect our national sovereignty and independence."
Market researchers know that questions must be neutral and unbiased to produce reliable results. For example, respondents should have been asked: From what you know about SPP, do you favor or oppose it? A follow-up should then ask "why" to get unguided replies. Other biased questions were also asked and elicited strong opposition to an "amero," NAFTA courts superseding state and federal ones, the Bush administration being allowed to proceed without congressional approval, the US being "harmonized" or merged with Mexico and Canada, and more.
Most important is that public knowledge is sparse. What is known is incomplete, at times inaccurate, and either way plans (so far) are proceeding with or without congressional or public approval.
It means a corporate coup d'etat is advancing, aided and abetted by three governments. They plan to unite and become one, militarize the continent for enforcement, lay ribbons of concrete and rail lines across it, and hand it over to business for profit. That's where things now stand. Imagine where they'll end if a way isn't found to stop them.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to the Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM - 1PM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests. All programs are archived for easy listening.
I am a 72 year old, retired, progressive small businessman concerned about all the major national and world issues, committed to speak out and write about them.
The things being done to totally end the United States as we have known it are well under way and yet nothing is being said about it to truly inform the American people. Greed and deception have become the ruling force rather than the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The super highways are the formation of the North American transportation control grid which will end U.S. sovereignty forever. What we see, or should see, is the progress of the coming collapse of the United States with the formation of the North American Union. Are we hearing about it from any venue that reaches the ears of the vast majority of the American people? Obviously not. We also hear absolutely nothing about what the ultimate goals really are.
We hear smatterings about the trashing of the Constitution, and loss of freedoms and the loss of U.S. manufacturing along with jobs with the outsourcings from free trade and the harm & death from pharmas drugs, the poisoning of the people from foods and the brain destroying chemicals even on our childrens toys, our healthcare record the worse in the world (those comes under the heading of genocide ) the oil shortage (deceptively manufactured lie) the whining from the oil corporations that they need to drill off shore everywhere..(which is B.S. since they have 10,000 drilling permits that haven't been drilled and 13 billion barrels of oil under capped wells in Alaska), gas prices off the charts driven there by speculators for obscene profits, Monetary manipulation in so many forms and manner that would take pages to list..which began when a crooked senator brought the Federal Reserve Act in to being disguised as a monetary reform act duping Congress. Our infastructure crumbling, foreclosures off the charts, dissent a crime, no privacy, an illegal war based on lies killing generations, denying our military proper healthcare and benefits, and trying to have these occupations disguised as a "War on Terror"...(just how does one fight a "war" on an emotion?) There ARE terrorists alright.. the corportions, the entire administration, their puppets and toadys within the House & Senate, within the Pentagon, the CIA (their hit squad), "Homeland" security & Chertoff, Blackwater...the mercenery army being used against us and retraining our police to become thugs, our schools being totally dumbed down teaching tests rather than science, advanced math, civics & etc., Billions being spent on WMDs while untold numbers of our people are homeless and/or starving..and these are just some of what we hear little of.
There is a DVD, an Alex Jones film called "Endgame" that should be on everyones must see list. It clearly lays out what we are not hearing, particulary in the last half of the DVD. Things are even worse than what one might imagine. This isn't a movie...it's documented fact in the elites own words.
If anyone thinks the obscenely wealthy or the bought and paid for give a rats patoot about the people in any way what so ever you are laboring under a delusion. Watch that DVD and then connect the dots to even just the last 7 1/2 years...
Nothing that is being done is in any way meant to benefit, help or protect the people of the U.S. And it is deliberate.
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