An Oklahoman for America: Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon responds to questions about the NAFTA Superhighway, illegal immigration, and more.(INTERVIEW)(North American Free Trade Agreement)(Interview)

Senator Randy Brogdon serves Oklahoma's 34th district covering Owasso, Collinsville, and Catoosa in northeastern Oklahoma. He lives in Owasso. After 30 years in the heating/ air conditioning business, and two years in the Oklahoma State Senate, he sold his business. In 2005, he was the first senator in 20 years to receive a 100 percent on the Conservative Vote Index by the Oklahoma Constitution newspaper, which has rated state legislators for 25 years. Senator Brogdon coauthored Oklahoma's recent immigration legislation and opposed the legislation enabling Oklahoma's participation in the NAFTA Superhighway. He's planning to introduce legislation in the next session opposing NAFTA, and to eliminate Oklahoma's membership in North America's SuperCorridor Coalition.

THE NEW AMERICAN: What is the NAFTA Superhighway, and how did you learn about it?

State Senator Randy Brogdon: This is a system of high-speed rail, freight, transmission lines, utility lines, and passenger lanes proposed to be 1,200 feet wide, confiscating over a million acres of private property, the largest eminent-domain abuse we've ever seen. I learned about this proposal to build an international superhighway from reading about what was happening in Texas [where the Trans Texas Corridor, a part of the NAFTA Superhighway, is already under construction]. It won't be an Oklahoma or Texas highway, but an international one regulated by an international organization, whatever that might be.

I thought it was just another Texas transportation problem until it was brought to the forefront for me by an organization named OKSAFE, Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise. Several friends who are Birchers started the organization to help protect freedom and sovereignty, to be alert for legislation that would come through the Oklahoma legislature. Then I read pretty good articles about the highway in THE NEW AMERICAN and learned more from OKSAFE. It really opened my eyes with facts and figures. It showed that if you listen closely enough, people will tell you what they're going to do. "The North American Union" issue of TNA takes you back to Henry Kissinger in 1993 and people in high government places, organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations, and men like Robert Pastor, who put together a task force to determine what kind of integration would be best for North America when it came to integrating the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This report stated its goal was to create a true North American Union [though it used the term "Community" rather than "Union"], and the superhighway is one of the puzzle pieces. I'm not willing to trade or sell my liberty and our sovereignty for a highway, or economic development.

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And the fact that a North American Union is burgeoning is fairly evident. Bush entered into the Security and Prosperity Partnership in March 2005 with President Vicente Fox of Mexico and Prime Minister Martin of Canada. The three said they "wanted to eliminate trade and security borders of North America." When you eliminate security and trade borders via the NAFTA Superhighway, that's getting rid of the U.S. borders and as we say in Oklahoma, "I'm agin it." That can't be a good thing.

At first I thought, "What? They're not going do that. Why would the president do that? Why would Congress not oversee that?" But then you realize that multinational corporations are behind the moves, and it makes sense. Multinational corporations are in it for one reason--profit.