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Jerome Corsi and WorldNetDaily are losing no time in skewing the facts and giving their readers the impression that they, and they alone, have uncovered another conspiracy involving the Bush administration and the Mexican Demonstration Project.

In their headline, buried halfway down the page, Corsi proclaims 1st Mexican truck rolls across border under cover of darkness

Ok, fair enough. That is the truth but Corsi tries to insinuate this is some “stealth” or sneaky approach to initiating the program. I would offer it is a way to avoid the protesters ordered to the border by the National office of the Teamsters and also so as not to delay the shuttle trucks during the ceremonial inspection. No conspiracy here. And perhaps the driver, Luis Gonzalez prefers to travel at night as I do.

But here’s where Corsi tries to offer proof that Transportes Olympic was hand selected early on to be the first carrier across the border.

This is WND and Senor Corsi’s claim:

WND research indicates Transportes Olympic, the Mexican trucking firm sending this morning’s tractor trailer north, was actually selected to be the first across the border nearly six months ago, despite the administration’s “last-minute” announcement of the carrier earlier this week – a revelation that has been described as an example of “stealth.”

The designation of Transportes Olympic actually was made at a Feb. 22, 2007, held in Apodaca, a municipality of the city of Monterrey in the Mexican state Nuevo Leon, the headquarters location of Transportes Olympic.

The government ceremony in Mexico went virtually unreported in the U.S. media.

As I recall, the ceremony that Corsi claims “went virtually unreported in the U.S.” was in fact the announcement which begin the propaganda war and was the impetus to initiate the lies, hysteria and campaign of fear that has been waged by the “special self interest groups” and their minions, the radio talk shows who accept these special interest groups as their advertisers. So base on this, we have caught Jerome Corsi once again in a lie or at the least, a gross distortion of the facts.

There Peters officially blessed Transportes Olympic as the first Mexican trucking company that would be allowed to operate freely in the U.S. under NAFTA.

That Transportes Olympic had been selected months earlier was not disclosed last Thursday when John Hill, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, announced Transportes Olympic to the U.S. public.

Again, I don’t see any deep dark conspiracy in this at all. Fernando Paez has been building his company with his eyes on the prize since he began 17 years ago. And realistically, since the announcement included a demonstration inspection that accompanied the announcement, some company was going to have to be selected.

Why not Transportes Olympic? And perhaps in not announcing who the first company would be, John Hill saved Transportes Olympic from the slanderous lies and malicious dissection of a company that from all indications seems to be a safe and successful enterprise.

The article goes on to relay anecdotal evidence of Corsi’s ludicrous assertion of a North American Union which none of us will see in our lifetime or in generations that follow. An economic partnership is not a one continent union nor is a highway that starts at the Mexican border and goes into Canada anything other than what it is. A trans national highway.

Has anyone ever heard of the Pan American Highway? Why not take a moment and read up on it. At 29.800 miles, it is the worlds longest interconnected motorway connecting Fairbanks Alaska with Peru, Chile and other South American countries. So what is the difference in this grandfather of Trans-Continental highways and the designation of Interstate 35 as a NAFTA Superhighway? Not a damned thing! They both serve the same purpose.

Corsi goes on to make these claims which I have no doubt are the truth, although not in the manner that Corsi spins them.

Even after Thursday’s FMSCA announcement that the DOT Mexican truck demonstration project was ready to launch, WND continued to experience difficulties getting any response from the Bush administration.

As recently as last Friday, WND was unable to receive return phone calls from DOT and FMCSA spokesmen.

Is anyone really surprised? Is anyone surprised that Todd Spencer of OOIDA was ignored during the press conference on Thursday night? I imagine after all the whining and spinning of lies and putting their own special spin to the truth and ignoring the obvious, FMCSA is giving them a taste of their own medicine and at the same time showing WND and the rest of the critics increasing irrelevance to the issue.

Not surprisingly, Mexico Trucker has had no problems having questions answered and receiving timely announcements of FMCSA actions.