Mexico To Get "Sovereign Territory" In Kansas City

Mexico To Get "Sovereign Territory" In Kansas City; America's
Heartland
Added: Apr 8th, 2007 1:55 PM

by Phyllis Schlafly,

Grassroots Americans of all parties and economic classes rose up out
of their political apathy a few months ago and forced President Bush
to reverse his administration' s decision to allow a Middle East
government to own America's major ports. But the push for foreign
ownership continues: the next port scheduled to be taken over is
Kansas City, Missouri.

Even though public schools stopped teaching geography a couple of
decades ago, most Americans (especially residents of the Show Me
state) are surprised to learn that Kansas City (where the only waves
are "amber waves of grain") is a port. We are also surprised, and
shocked, to discover that Mexico will be running its own inspection
facility.

The plan, shrouded in secrecy, has been in the works for at least
three years, but it is now coming to light because of the diligent
use of Missouri's Sunshine law by concerned citizens. Joyce Mucci and
Francis Semler forced the release of the emails from Kansas City to
Mexico, including one admitting that "The space [in Kansas City]
would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory."

SmartPort spokesmen are now running away from this written admission,
blaming "the problems and pressure the media attention has created."
However, the stubborn sovereignty issue won't go away; the plan does
involve setting up Mexican customs officials in downtown Kansas City.

The mechanism for this deal is a "nonprofit" business economic
development corporation called Kansas City SmartPort Inc., whose
president is Chris J.F. Gutierrez. The deal calls for Kansas City to
lease the valuable property at 1447 Liberty Street.

As laid out on SmartPort's website, the plan is to enable cheap-labor
products made in Communist China to travel in sealed "containers
nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico," through "a ships-to-rail
terminal at the port of Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico," then up "the
evolving trade corridor" to Kansas City, Missouri, where they would
have their first inspection.

A Kansas City SmartPort brochure explains further: "Kansas City
offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to
Mexican port cities with virtually no border delays."

A key purpose of the project is to take jobs away from U.S.
longshoremen in Los Angeles and Long Beach who earn $140,000 a year
and replace them with Mexican laborers at $10,000 a year. U.S. truck
drivers and railroad workers will likewise be replaced by Mexicans.

The port of Lazaro Cardenas on the west coast of southern Mexico is
controlled by Hutchison Whampoa, the same giant Hong Kong shipping
firm that owns the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal. The
Chinese-made goods will be carried by Kansas City Southern Railway de
Mexico directly to Kansas City, where freight will be distributed
east and west and on to Canada.

Kansas City Southern was originally just a belt rail around Kansas
City but, after buying various Mexican rail companies and tracks, KCS
now controls a 2,600-mile artery from Lazaro Cardenas to Kansas City.
KCS's president, Michael Haverty, was one of only five U.S.
businessmen who met with Presidents Bush and Vicente Fox, along with
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, at their Cancun Summit in
March.

Mexico was at first expected to pay for the big, expensive machines
to conduct high-tech gamma-ray screening for drive-through
inspections of containers, but Mexico declined the honor. SmartPort
has applied for a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Economic
Development Administration (i.e., to get the U.S. taxpayers to pay
for the machines).

The Kansas City city council has already earmarked $2.5 million in
loans and $600,000 in direct aid (of taxpayers' money) to SmartPort,
which would build and own the facility and then sublet it to the
Mexican government. The cost could go as high as $6 million because
Kansas City has an existing lease that runs through 2045 on the same
property with the 107-year-old American Royal, which uses that land
for its annual livestock/rodeo/ barbecue event.

The last piece in finalizing this project is getting the U.S. State
Department to approve the Mexican operation on U.S. soil by signing
off on what is called the C-175 document. It has already been
approved by U.S. Customs.

Meanwhile, NASCO (North America's SuperCorridor Coalition), another
non-profit business organization, has taken on the mission of
building an "international, integrated and secure, multi-modal
transportation system" from Lazaro Cardenas through Kansas City and
up to Winnipeg, Canada. This will allow Mexican trucks to haul goods
along a 12-lane superhighway through the heartland of the United
States.

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Skip Wigmore
Light of Life Ministries
Smithfield, NC
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