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Group expresses concerns over Trans Texas Corridor Bob Campbell Concerns about the possible negative effects of the proposed Trans Texas Corridor and a continental network of "super highways" supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement will be reviewed in a John Birch Society-sponsored luncheon today at the Petroleum Club. Speaker Kelly Taylor, a native Midlander and Austin television talk show producer, said at a Wednesday morning news conference at the Plaza Inn Hotel she does not believe assurances by the Independent Task Force on North America that a political union among Mexico, Canada and the United States would not be involved. Although foreign relations officials of the three nations projected only an economic alliance in a 2004-05 report, the conservative Birch Society believes the North American Union envisioned in the report would bring a loss of traditional American freedoms, Taylor said. Luncheon reservations may be made by calling Ann Hedstrom at 686-0022. Tickets are $20. Accompanied by society officials Bill Cherry and Mitchell Shaw of Dallas, Taylor said she has thoroughly investigated the Trans Texas Corridor plans made by Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Department of Transportation.
"I interviewed ranchers who have already had their land taken by the state for the corridor and I will give a power point presentation on the latest developments," she said. "Gov. Perry has threatened to veto a moratorium bill to stop it, so these last few weeks of the state legislative session will be critical." Cherry said the Birch Society also is concerned that the People's Republic of China, which owns billions of dollars in U.S. government bonds, is trying to buy "a big box retailer" in America to increase its trade policy influence here. Taylor said the entire route of the toll road Trans Texas Corridor has not been revealed, but it would generally run east of Interstate 35. She said that "super highway" is one of a number that would connect the U.S., Canada and Mexico from Mexico City and Guadalajara to Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal and Quebec, Canada, through the western, central and eastern U.S. "The bigger issue is that the highways will be used to integrate us into the North American Union," Taylor said. "The freedoms Americans know under the Constitution would not have primacy. They would be subsumed under a group of states like the European Union." She said the Birch Society stringently opposes the exclusive $1.3 billion contract the state has signed with Cintra, an international toll roads operator based in Madrid, Spain, to operate the Trans Texas Corridor in partnership with Zachry Construction Co. of San Antonio. |
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