"SuperSlab" paves the way: the NAFTA Super Highway, nicknamed "SuperSlab" by some, is a planned system of roads, rail lines, and more that will speed up the unification of North America.(NAFTA SUPER HIGHWAY)(Free Trade Agreement, 1992, United States-Canada-Mexico)

In 2004, Austin residents heard rumblings of plans for converting local roads, enjoyed by drivers for years as free ones, to toll roads.

Soon we learned that plans for new toll road construction, conversion of existing roads to toll roads, property confiscation for land acquisition, awarding of building contracts to a foreign consortium, shady campaign contributions, and passage of the largest spending bill in Texas history had slipped past Texas voters unnoticed. Local polls later revealed over 90 percent of residents oppose the policy, yet officials proceeded with construction despite overwhelming opposition. An investigation into local toll issues led to the discovery that tolls will be the funding mechanism for the larger Trans Texas Corridor (TTC), a segment of the massive NAFTA Super Highway. The Super Highway is important in developing the North American Union.

Perhaps you've heard of the North American Union (NAU) in recent weeks. The NAU is a proposed merger of Canada, Mexico, and the United States into a European Union-style alliance, and the Super Highway is the super-road connecting the dots, with chilling implications for all freedom-loving Americans.

The architects of the European Union (EU) originally designed a coordinated system of roads and highways, called the Trans European Network (TEN). The system was created under the 1993 Maastricht Treaty to help reinforce economic and social ties. The TEN was perceived as critical to properly linking the regions by a modern and efficient infrastructure. According to the TEN website, "For goods and services to circulate quickly and easily between member states, we must build the missing links and remove the bottlenecks in our transportation infrastructure."

The NAFTA Super Highway is our American version of TEN, if one believes the EU model is being copied. A venture unlike any previous highway construction project, it's comprised of dozens of corridors and coordinated construction projects guaranteed to radically reconfigure the physical landscape of the United States. and our political and economic landscapes as well. Like the TEN; the Super Highway will be a complex system of parallel multimodal transportation lines accommodating passenger and freight lanes; rail lines and depots; gas, oil, and water pipelines; and cabling for electronic information transmission--running north from Mexico to Canada. These corridors are designed for the purpose of speeding goods and people across our dissolving borders into America's heartland.

The effects of the Super Highway will hit close to home as Americans begin to pay with their jobs. In an August 9, 2006 interview with Houston television station KHOU. Texas' Fayette County Judge Ed Janecka expressed concern about the effects of the "SuperSlab" on his own small Texas town, right in the highway's path. Diversion of traffic from existing roads will dry up critical tourist and traveler revenue, just as railroad bypasses shriveled bustling towns years ago.

And just as NAFTA trade policies have driven millions of jobs out of the United States, this Super Highway will accelerate the job exodus. Mexico will become irresistible to remaining U.S. manufacturers as a place to reduce production costs and aid their anemic businesses. Not to mention increased opportunities for traffickers of humans, drugs, terrorists, WMDs, and other contraband. As Mexico's government is notorious for corruption, including kidnapping, torturing, and dismembering innocent victims, stopping the guarding of our border--which would be part of the easing of trade and travel, as happened in the EU--will mean the violence will gush into our country.