Avedon Carol: Highway to hell

Human Events is a source I usually avoid, and Jerome Corsi is not someone I would trust to tell me how John Kerry performed on a swift boat - or anything else - but the fact that Thom Hartmann was citing his article "Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway" piqued my interest, and the fact that this is not an article that looks to have been paid for by BushCo. makes it especially interesting. The content makes it scary as hell:

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman's Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation's most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new "SENTRI" system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.