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Rick Perry tied to Agenda 21, globalist policies
Posted on 16 August 2011
By Terri Hall
Rick Perry may be good at invoking states rights and prop erty rights, while dis avowing ‘for eign cred itors,’ but his actions as Texas’ longest serving gov ernor tell a dif ferent story. Public pri vate part nerships (or P3s) are part and parcel of the United Nations’ Agenda 21. Two of the pur poses of Agenda 21 are to abolish pri vate prop erty and restrict mobility and P3s act as the vehicle to do it. Perry made P3s a cen ter piece of his trans porta tion policy since he stepped in as governor.
It started with the Trans Texas Cor ridor, known at the fed eral level as high pri ority cor ri dors, cor ri dors of the future, or the NAFTA super high ways. Just in Texas, it was to be a 4,000 mile multi-modal net work of toll roads, rail lines, power trans mis sion lines, pipelines, telecom mu ni ca tions lines and more. It was going to be financed, oper ated, and con trolled by a for eign com pany granted mas sive swaths of land 1,200 feet (4 foot ball fields) wide taken forcibly through emi nent domain.
Called the biggest land grab in Texas his tory, it was going to gobble up 580,000 acres of pri vate Texas land (the first cor ridor alone was to dis place 1 mil lion Texans) and hand it over to well-connected global players using P3s, who would gain exclu sive rights to deter mine the route and what hotels, restau rants, and gas sta tions were along the cor ridor in a government-sanctioned monopoly for a half cen tury. It was the worst case of emi nent domain for pri vate gain ever conceived.
Prop erty rights shredded
The Trans Texas Cor ridor, and P3s in gen eral, rep re sent an immi nent threat to pri vate prop erty rights. While lawmakers repealed the Trans Texas Cor ridor from state statute only months ago due to the public back lash, the re-named cor ridor (‘Inno v a tive Con nec tivity Plan’) and its threat to prop erty rights lives on through P3s. Two such projects underway by a Spanish devel oper, Cintra, will charge Texans 75 cents per mile in tolls (nearly $13 a day while Perry claims he hasn’t raised taxes or indebted Texans to for eign cred i tors) to access lanes on two public inter states — I-635 and I-820. A third project being devel oped by the same com pany for two seg ments on SH 130 is, per haps, the only leg of the Trans Texas Cor ridor TTC-35 project that will ever be built.
While Perry dis tracted Texans and tea partiers with ‘emer gency’ res o lu tions on state sov er eignty during the 82nd leg is la ture, P3s spread from trans porta tion projects to vir tu ally every other type of public infra struc ture in a bill, SB 1048, passed by the Texas leg is la ture which he signed into law June 17. Now all public infra struc ture, including public build ings, schools, nursing homes, ports, mass transit, etc. can be auctioned-off to pri vate inter ests in long-term sweet heart deals with tax payer sub si dies and profit guar an tees using P3s.
P3s give a pri vate cor po ra tion the power to tax the public, whether through charging tolls or other so-called ‘user fees,’ to access their own public infra struc ture, and, per haps more insid ious, allowing well-connected pri vate entities to profit from con ces sions on land taken through emi nent domain.
Why shouldn’t the orig inal landowner be able to profit from devel oping his/her land instead of having the gov ernment take it in the name of a “public use” and give it to another devel oper, one with gov ern ment con nec tions? Perry’s admin is tra tion of P3s is like his admin is tra tion of his Emerging Tech nology Fund that’s been highly crit icized for steering tax payer money to Perry’s cam paign donors — a case in point, Dan Shelley.
Shelley worked for Cintra, who had its sites set on devel oping the Trans Texas Cor ridor. Shelley lands a job as Perry’s aide, steers the $7 bil lion cor ridor P3 to his former employer Cintra, then goes back to work for Cintra. That’s how Perry does busi ness — pay to play.
Texas “Open for Business”
While Perry is staking his cam paign on Texas being the top net jobs cre ator, Perry’s ver sion of Texas being “Open for Busi ness” isn’t about low taxes and less reg u la tion as much as it is about doing busi ness with for eign com panies, including selling off Texas’ sov er eign land and public assets to for eign cred i tors, an issue which Perry’s first tele vi sion ad uses to take aim at Pres i dent Obama.
Aside from the P3s, Texas has 20 active deals going with the Chi nese and has 32 for eign trade zones (FTZs), a vehicle to ease the flow of for eign goods into the United States that are chalk full of tax breaks for importers. Perry’s office pro moted these FTZs in a doc u ment enti tled For eign Trade Zones: Texas Wide Open for Busi ness and even ded i cates a web site for Texas FTZs, www.TexasWideOpenForBusiness.com.
A recent Wash ington Post article doc u ments Perry’s work to get Chi nese government-owned telecom mu ni ca tions com pany Huawei, to base its U.S. oper a tions in Texas, a com pany that the U.S. gov ern ment has deemed a threat to national secu rity noting that “three times since 2008, a U.S. gov ern ment secu rity panel has blocked Huawei from acquiring or part nering with U.S. com pa nies because of con cerns that secrets could be leaked to China’s gov ernment or military.”
Perry’s cozi ness with the Chi nese and for eign investors exposes a huge weak ness in his right flank — illegal immigra tion and open bor ders. The Trans Texas Cor ridor has been linked to the global plan to eco nom i cally inte grate North America, with the even tual goal of a common secu rity perimeter mod eled after the Euro pean Union. Perry ush ered in in-state tuition for ille gals and has long been an obstacle to immi gra tion reform or any Arizona-style immi gra tion law.
Perry’s record paints a much dif ferent pic ture than what can di date Perry would have us believe — that he’s a states rights, Con sti tu tion ally lim ited gov ern ment con ser v a tive that’s respon sible for the “Texas mir acle.” In reality, he’s more like an Agenda 21 glob alist willing to sell America to the highest bidder.
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Terri Hall is a home school mother of eight chil dren and the Founder of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom or TURF. TURF is a non-partisan, grass roots, all-volunteer group defending cit i zens’ con cerns with Agenda 21, toll road policy, public pri vate part ner ships, and emi nent domain abuses. TURF pro motes non-toll trans porta tion solutions.
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