Justin Case: The Sunday 'Report;' 03/06/2011

What The National Pamphleteers Don't Report:
'barackingham Palace' Announces 2011 Egg Roll
"Clown Prince" and worst lady obama announced this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll will be held on Monday, April 25, 2011 with the theme of “Get Up and Go!(Read: "Off yer dead ass 'n' on yer dyin' feet!)" All activities will encourage children to allow federal government control of yet another facet of their lives. Tickets are distributed through an online lottery system and will open for entries on March 10th at 12:01am and close on March 13th at 11:59pm. Full ticketing details: www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll.

Mexico Trucking Dispute Agreement Reached

"Clown Prince" obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have reached an agreement to resolve the dispute over cross-border trucking. The dispute erupted in March 2009 when Mexico placed higher tariffs on an estimated $2.4 billion of U.S. goods after the U.S. Congress cut off funding to renew a pilot program that let a limited number of Mexican trucking companies to haul freight beyond a 25-mile U.S. commercial zone. Mexico had instituted tariffs in retaliation for the United States not complying with the trucking provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The provision was supposed to become effective in December 1995. Half of the $2.4 billion in Mexican retaliatory tariffs are [....]
http://farmfutures.com/blogs.aspx/mexico/trucking/dispute/agreement/reached/2110

[The 'fascist' response:]

ATA Pleased with Announcement of New U.S.-Mexico Trucking Agreement

    The American Trucking Associations said it supports the announcement of an agreement in principle between the governments of the United States and Mexico to implement the long-delayed cross-border trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement.   "ATA is pleased that obama and Calderon and their administrations have worked through their differences and have put our two countries on the path to resolving this issue after nearly 16 years," ATA President and CEO Bill P. Graves said following today's announcement. "We hope this agreement will be a first step to increasing trade between our two countries, more than 70 percent of which crosses the border by truck." The agreement upholds previous [....]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20110303/pl_usnw/DC58997_1

[The "Rubber-Side-Down" Response:]
Local truckers react to proposed U.S.-Mexico rules

    Thoughts are mixed at the local level about the effect of Thursday’s (Mar. 3) announcement that the U.S. and Mexico would implement long-delayed cross-border trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement. According to a statement from the American Trucking Associations, the agreement upholds previous requirements for Mexican trucks operating on U.S. highways. The most talked about provision of the agreement requires that Mexican-based trucking companies receive authority to operate in the U.S. from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. To receive the FMCSA approval, Mexican trucks must “meet the same safety standards as U.S. fleets and that those trucks are prohibited from hauling freight between destinations within the United States, noted the ATA statement.
Clif Beckham, president and CEO of Van Buren-based USA Truck, isn’t sure the deal will soon deliver positive results. “I'm not convinced this is going to have any near-term impact. This political football has been punted, passed and kicked around since NAFTA was enacted. There will likely be a string of legal and political maneuvers following this announcement that will once again drag it out,” Beckham said. Beckham also believes the agreement, if and when it does become standard practice, will only be used in border areas. “Plus, my experience has been that very few Mexico based carriers want their trucks running too far into the US, and vice versa,” he said.
    Like USA Truck, ABF Freight System — the largest subsidiary of Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best Corp. and the nation’s second largest less-than-truckload carrior — also has operates in the U.S. and Mexico. David Humphrey, vice president of investor relations and corporate communication for Arkansas Best Corp., says more uniform rules should help the company. “As a result of this agreement many of the Mexican tariffs that were previously imposed on U.S. goods are expected to be lifted. ABF does business with Mexican companies shipping into the U.S. as well as with U.S. shippers sending goods into Mexico. As a result of this new agreement, the resumption of a more normal exchange of goods between our two countries should help increase ABF’s cross border Mexican business,” Humphrey explained. Mexico imposed tariffs on U.S. goods shipped [....]
http://www.thecitywire.com/?q=print/14828

[Full Disclosure: Blogger is a life-member of OOIDA]
OOIDA outraged with cross-border trucking plan

    Despite repeated acknowledgement of the violence and drug trafficking plaguing Mexico, President obama and Mexico President Felipe Calderón announced that a cross-border trucking program is imminent. The obama and Calderón jointly announced a tentative agreement to resume cross-border trucking during Calderón’s state visit to the United States on March 3.
    The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association learned shortly before the announcement that there is not 100 percent agreement on the program, but the Department of Transportation still expects to publish the proposal in the Federal Register in late March or early April. The plan to press forward with opening the border does not sit well at all with OOIDA. “Simply unbelievable,” said Todd Spencer, executive vice president of OOIDA. “For all the president’s talk of helping small businesses survive, his administration is sure doing their best to destroy small trucking companies and the drivers they employ.” Spencer pointed to the numerous proposed regulations the Department of Transportation continues to use to target U.S. truckers.
    “Small-business truckers are in the midst of dealing with an avalanche of regulatory rulemakings from the administration. They are also struggling to survive in a very difficult economy. This announcement is tantamount to rubbing salt in wounds already inflicted,” Spencer said. “Mexico-domiciled trucking companies and drivers simply do not contend with a similar regulatory regime in their home country nor must they contend with the corresponding regulatory compliance costs that encumber their U.S. counterparts.” OOIDA leadership has also learned that [....]
http://www.landlinemag.com/Special_Reports/2011/Mar/030311_CrossBorderTrucking.shtml

BILL ON TEXAS SECESSION PRESENTED TO TEXAS LEGISLATURE

AUSTIN -- The Texas Nationalist Movement will host a rally at the state capitol Saturday urging lawmakers to put the matter of Texas independence before the state's voters in a non-binding plebiscite.
    The resolution, drawn up as a concurrent resolution of the Legislature, spells out actions by the federal government which have intruded on the sovereignty of the State of Texas and calls for the plebiscite to be included on the ballot of the next scheduled election for state constitutional amendments. That date is Nov. 8 of this year. The rally is scheduled from 1-4 p.m. Saturday on the south steps of the State Capitol in Austin. The legislative sponsor of the rally is State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler). "The elected representatives of the people of Texas need to know what the voters think," TNM president Daniel Miller said. "That is the purpose of this resolution, simply to give our legislators a sense of what the people of Texas think about the actions they are taking in defense of state sovereignty." Miller said that state officials and lawmakers have done well in [....]
http://www.mikechurch.com/Today-s-Lead-Story/bill-on-texas-secession-presented-to-tx-legislature.html

Line-In-The-Sand Rally!

March 5, 2011 @ 1PM; South Steps of the Texas Capitol on Austin
    March 5, 2011 is the 175th anniversary of William Barret Travis drawing the line in the sand at the Alamo. On this day, Texans will draw another line in the sand for the Texas Legislature.
    Article 1 Section 1 of the Texas Constitution reads:
   {**} Article 1 Section 2 of the Texas Constitution reads:

"Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the pres...ervation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States."

{**} {*}The Texas Legislature has allowed other [....]

"All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient."

{*}http://www.texasnationalist.com/index.php/news/featured/1240-line-in-the-sand-rally

Texas Declares Independence!

The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in General Convention at the town of Washington on the 2nd day of March 1836.

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.
Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth.
The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.
In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the [....]