TTC Halted - NAFTA Super Highway derailed by Citizen Action

A Major Victory for Texas
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2008/tst062308.htm

I am pleased to report that last week we received notice that the Texas Department of Transportation will recommend the I-69 Project be developed using existing highway facilities instead of the proposed massive new Trans Texas Corridor/NAFTA Superhighway. According to the Texas Transportation Commissioner, consideration is no longer being given to new corridors and other proposals for a new highway footprint for this project. A major looming threat to property rights and national sovereignty is removed with this encouraging announcement.

Public outcry was cited as the main reason for this decision. I was very impressed to learn that the TxDOT received nearly 28,000 public comments on this matter, and that some 12,000 Texans attended the 47 public hearings held earlier this year. They could not ignore this tsunami of strong public opinion against the proposed plans. I was especially proud of how informed my constituents became on the subject, and how eloquently and respectfully they spoke and conducted themselves, considering how upsetting the plans were for our communities in Texas.

This is a major victory for the people of Texas , and a reminder of what we can accomplish with civic involvement. The informed and active citizen truly is a force to be reckoned with, as we have seen with the defeat of this proposal. We must keep fighting the good fight, and remain ever diligent against the encroachments of big government. We must do this if we wish to maintain our traditional standard of living in this country. As tempting as it may be to simply live our lives with no regard to government, apathy will inevitably be punished by ever more government intrusion. That is what this fight was all about. We can win if we stick together.

However, now is not the time to rest on our laurels. The bittersweet aspect of this victory is that we had to fight at all. We took time away from family and friends, doing other things, to attend these meetings, inform others, write letters, post signs and submit our complaints, and we should not have had to. Government should let us be, if we are peaceful citizens, harming no one. In a perfect world, government could be trusted to act in the best interests of the people without overwhelming pressure of this kind. This is not a perfect world. Constant pressure is needed to keep government in check, and we succeeded this time. But this will not be the last time citizen efforts and involvement will be required. We still face many unreasonable encroachments of big government today, from confiscatory, economy-strangling taxation to creeping disregard of the right of habeas corpus and other Constitutional rights, to thousands of nuisance bureaucratic regulations interfering with our every day lives. We have drifted far from what the founding fathers envisioned for this nation. Last week was just one victory towards getting back on the right path. We must continue to hold politicians’ feet to the Constitutional fire. If I had to guess, they will probably try to implement the NAFTA Superhighway again sometime in the future.

It is a never-ending battle, but it must be fought, and can be won. I am proud to stand with my constituents in this fight, and in the other fights we have ahead of us.​

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Score one for the people. BRAVOOOOOOOO

 

Conspiracy theory.

 

A 4 lane highway was built in my area a few years back and I had mixed emotions on the subject. The road was needed but it cut farms in half and displaced a few families. The folks were compensated well but were misled on the zoning regulation that would follow the completion of the road. The land owners were promised that they would be allowed to have billboards on their properties after the completions of the highway. Several land owners had secured contracts with advertising companies for the billboards only to have county council implement a “billboard free” zoning regulation. The county council members that implemented that regulation were from different districts and said they were implementing a rule that their district members wanted. I thought the land owners and the voters in the districted effected should have more of input about the regulation than outsiders. The same holds true for the Trans Texas Corridor/NAFTA Superhighway. The road discussions and decision should be left up to the districts effected by the highway not outsiders.

 

What??

Did GTech tell you to type that?

 

No, Alex Jones and his tin foil hat wearing possie told me to do it.

 

I'd just ignore Supper. He obviously didn't read the OP.

The TTC meetings were attended by thousands of people. That's some conspiracy theory when the TTC is public knowledge in Texas.

 

Yes, over course the people that believe conspiracy think it's really happening.

Oh no, The Jews are taking over the world with their "evil" one world government. They do it through magic highways that brainwash people.

 

Yes, the thousands who showed up to the meetings were all mass brainwashed into a conspiracy. The Texas legislation for the TTC was conspiracy. The public financing and contracts awarded were all conspiracy.

You know what the conspiracy really is? It's not the one we can all see, it's the one where people insist that what is going on, is not. A conspiracy of silence. Like the one you are perpetuating in this thread.

Why are you obsessed with Jews? Insecure?

 

Yeah, roads are big Jewish conspiracies.

I'm not obsessed with Jews, but I know you are. I know your type and the NWO and all that crap. It's a big Jewish conspiracy that YOU believe.

 

See, you are obsessed with Jews.

I've got over 8,000 posts on this forum, and I have never blamed "Jews" for anything, nor posted anything about "Jews" which could be construed as hate speech or such.

So you don't know crap about me, or it appears, economics, law, philosophy etc. You don't know my type. Your making personal attacks which are prohibited in this forum.

It's always sad when I win an intellectual debate, and the inevitable comeback is some false claim of anti-semitism. That's race baiting. And it's very typical from people who can't debate on merit, only personal attacks.

 

Oh yeah. Big time.

Of course not. You'd never say that here because you'd be banned pretty fast blaming everything on "the Jews". I'm sure you hang out over at Alex Jones like forums or c0balt.com if that still exists.

 

Lots of people say that here. Lots of people here target Jews with threads and posts. I do not.

It seems every time you get hard challenged intellectually, you run off and make random off-topic attack posts. You did the same thing after the IP thread.

Look, we're mostly grown ups here, trying to have informed, intelligent debate. The theatrics are unnecessary.

 

It's the best way to get 8000+ posts.

I didn't feel it was worth my time to rationalize with someone that thinks stealing is the moral duty of someone if they sell it at a cheaper price. I think you made it abundantly clear what you think of intellectual property by your refusal to hand out your url, so the "market could compete".

I hate when people have hidden agendas and won't just come out and say it. Just tell everyone about the NEW WORLD ORDER and the JEWISH MEDIA and POWERFUL JEWISH OWNED CORPORATIONS that are building a one world government.

 

I already compete. Google, Yahoo et all have all of my URLs. About 500 of them.

And I have a hidden agenda how? I'm a minarchist with anti-state sensibilities, not a racist. You're race baiting to accuse me of such. And again, it seems to be you that is obsessed with Jews.

 

I'm lost again. Can someone explain to me what the Jews have to do with a highway in Texas?

 

Supper is just making personal attacks. It's irrelevant to the discussion, which is why he does it.

 

He's like a GTech/Mia combined clone.

 

This is great news!!! There is hope after all. May the brainwashed lunatics eat their heart out!

 

Just wondering but do you live in Texas?