Collins Report

By Suzanne Eovaldi

The only byproduct of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) initiative is the U.S.’s role in providing security for the 4,000 miles of a reported planned toll road network of superhighway corridors creating a trans- continental land bridge to bring China, Mexico and Canada prosperity at our expense.

Citizen outrage in Texas appears to have prompted TxDOT to issue its recent “No Build Alternative” to federal authorities. But Researcher Stephen Lendman who wrote a very definitive canon describing these proposed NAFTA river of trade routes through the heart of the U.S. remains skeptical. “It’s only temporary,” he said in a recent email.

Poignant testimony from average Texas landowners on the former Lou Dobbs Show depicts the heartbreak of farmers threatened with loss of farms in their families for four generations. One man calls the SPP initiative “a terrible attack on property rights” by the use of new eminent domain laws. Another man says this North American Union superhighway grid is merely “a plan to ship cheap goods made by foreign labor via U.S. roadways,” and he fears a flood of illegal labor would rob U.S. citizens of their jobs. A Marine vows “to fight you at every meeting” because”I’m a U.S. Marine fighting for my home.”

Pin pointing how SPP came to be is difficult. North American Union, NAFTA, war on terror, Homeland Security and North American Competitiveness Council all are mentioned. Nevertheless, according to a Project Censored analysis, SPP was launched at a March 31, 2005 meeting of Presidents George W. Bush and Vicente Fox and PM Paul Martin in Waco, Texas.

Regardless of its genesis, the massive scheme of international trade imports into America would create at least two inland “Smart Ports” in Kansas and Canada. Using RDIF chip tracking devices via intermodal technology, fees would be collected by various corporations.

Lendman points out that China would ship its mammoth containers through Mexico’s ports of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzillo Colima. He said, “They’ll monitor and militarize it through a network of high tech sensors and trackers to secure the continent for profit at the expense of the greater public good.” He warns the march toward one world governance is not going away.

The watchdog group, the Global Exchange, says since NAFTA was implemented, the U.S. has lost over one million manufacturing jobs.

What did you do to be worthy of your American freedoms yesterday? What will you do today and what do you plan to do tomorrow?

SOURCES: http://www.corridorwatch.org http://www.dot.state.Tx.us/business/professionalservices.htm http://corridorwatch.org//ttc _2007.CWV0802200.htm http://www.globalexchange.org/spp.html http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/2-security-and-prosperity-partnership-military http://www.spp.gov/pd/key_accomplishments_since-august2007:pdf. http://www.sjlendman.blogspot.com on left side scroll down to June 2008 ( scroll down to Friday, June 20, 2008 “Super Corridor Defeat? Don’t Bet on It”)

http://www.freethend88.org

Suzanne Eovaldi is a retired reporter and Journalism School Professor from the Chicago area now living in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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This day in history February 21
1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the Communist Manifesto leading to the misery and death of millions of people even to this day.

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