Congressman Ron Paul Stands Up for National Sovereignty
Congressman
Ron Paul Stands Up for National Sovereignty
For Immediate Release
April
21, 2008
New Orleans, LA
–
Congressman Ron Paul
issued a statement which was read at a news conference in
New Orleans
in advance of a Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit meeting
between President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican
President Felipe Calderon. The
Conservative Caucus held the news conference in opposition to the SPP, sharing
the belief with Congressman Paul and many others that the SPP threatens national
sovereignty.
Congressman Paul’s
remarks focused on his continued opposition to the Trans Texas Corridor and the
NAFTA Super Highway
:
“As
we all know, there have been significant moves recently to expand the Security
and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) initiated by President Bush and his Mexican and
Canadian counterparts in 2005. One such plan is to construct a so-called
“NAFTA Superhighway” running from
Mexico
, through
Texas
, and up eventually into
Canada
. I have opposed this project from the beginning, signing on as a co-sponsor of
House Concurrent Resolution 40 expressing Congressional disapproval of the NAFTA
Superhighway and any moves toward a North American Union.
More
recently, I introduced an even stronger piece of legislation, H.R.5191, which
would prohibit the use of federal funds to carry out this highway project. The
federal government has no business being partner to this outrageous plan,
according to which countless landowners would have their private property
confiscated under eminent domain. This prohibition of funds, if passed, would go
a long way toward derailing this ill-conceived project and would send a clear
message that further attempts to undermine
US
sovereignty would not be unchallenged in Congress. It is long past time the
United States House and Senate start taking our Constitutional oversight roles
seriously.”
Used with permission.
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The NAFTA super highway is not just about moving goods into the U.S.–it’s about moving timber and wood products out of North America. The bridge collapse in Minneapolis was probably due to intentional neglect (why else would a bridge that had been inspected, and found to have cracks be loaded up with heavy equipment and trucks, and jack-hammered for “resurfacing” all last summer?), so that it can be rebuilt to withstand the heavy traffic that will be going back and forth with timber products from Canada and Minnesota in the near future?
The Bush Administration seems to think that cutting down all of our trees for wood ethanol and privately owned, federally-funded “biomass” incinerators in this country and around the world is the “answer” to our dependence on oil. While everyone is concerned about what is coming into this country, the Bush administration is probably quietly shipping our resources out of the U.S. They are finding ways to condemn all of our old-growth trees (the pests are coming, the pests are coming–we need to cut down all of our trees so that the pests can’t get them) so that they can all be cut down for “product.”
The period of the Bush Administration could be called “The time of killing trees, birds, and bees.” Another word for NAFTA could be:
North
American
Free
Tree
Agreement
As the trees that are condemned are “given” to the private tree companies that are contracted to remove them. At least that is the way it is Minneapolis.