Not anyone I’d vote for for Prez – Gov. Rick Perry Does the Texas Two-Step Around NAFTA Super Highway

Trans-Texas Corridor and North American Union

November 6, 2006

By Jerome R. Corsi

Gov. Rick Perry (R.-Tex.), in an interview with HUMAN EVENTS, attempted to defend his plan to build the Trans-Texas Corridor parallel to Interstate 35 (TTC-35) and denied he was attempting to create a “big, tri-lateral connection” between Canadians, the United States and Mexico.

As we have previously noted, Perry is locked in a re-election battle with three challengers who have all opposed TTC-35. Given the plurality nature of the Texas gubernatorial race, even if considerably more that 50% of those voting in the Texas gubernatorial election oppose TTC-35, Perry could win with as little as 35% of the vote and proceed with his super-highway plans.

To better structure the debate, we will abstract five major issues from the political arguments Perry advanced:

1. The projected doubling of population in Texas by 2040 demands the construction of TTC-35.

2. Texas has no other option but to go to foreign investment to obtain the billions needed to build new Texas highways, rail lines, and energy pipeline systems.

3. TTC-35 is not a NAFTA Super Highway

4. Perry is busy securing the Texas border with Mexico

5. TTC-35 is not part of a plan to create a North American Union

“I don’t see some great conspiracy,” Perry told HUMAN EVENTS, explaining instead that TTC-35 was only intended to advance the economic vitality of Texas. Again, we appreciate the governor inserting the dismissive characterization of “conspiracy” to those of us who see a plan developing to evolve NAFTA into a North American Community to be followed by a NAU much as the European Common Market evolved into the European Union and the Euro as a common currency.

We would advise Perry to examine the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America website that is maintained in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Here in a document titled “2005 Report to Leaders” we see described a program in which trusted traders will be issued SENTRI electronic chips to speed border crossings. This program will ultimately allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. from Mexican ports with containers from China and the Far East, with a major entry point certain to be Laredo, Texas, the origin of TTC-35.