firemarypeters

Our border is being opened to dangerous trucks from Mexico. I’m mad as hell about it, and I blame one person: Mary Peters.

You probably never heard of her. She seems like a nice enough lady and she rides a Harley. But as U.S. Secretary of Transportation, she broke a whole bunch of laws to prevent our roads from being overrun by 80,000-pound unguided missiles from Mexico.

She’s slippery, she’s a lawbreaker and she should be fired.

If we don’t stop her now, she’ll run for governor of Arizona. Imagine what the border crossings will look like if she wins!

Here’s the deal on Lawless Mary:

Last year, Congress passed a law that said no money – that’s NO money, none, zip, zilch, nyet, nada – can be spent to establish a “pilot project” to give trucks from Mexico total access to our highways. Mary started this little “pilot project” in September, breaking a whole bunch of other laws that I won’t go into now. (Read “Fact or Fiction.”)

Mary and her crew are wiggling around this LAW by pretending not to understand English. The law says funds will not be used to establish a pilot program. “Well,” she says, “We don’t need to establish a pilot program, we already have one. So keep ‘em rolling, boys!!”

How outrageous is that? The people’s representatives – Congress – tell an out-of-control bureaucrat that she can’t spend taxpayer’s money on a “pilot program” to open the border to trucks from Mexico.

The out-of-control bureaucrat flips the bird to Congress and the American people. What she’s really saying is “Talk to the hand, I’m doing what I want.”

Teamsters don’t like it when they get the bird flipped at them. They’re going to court. On Feb. 12, their lawyers will be in the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, telling the judge all about Lawless Mary.

There’s gonna be a big protest rally outside the courtroom, too.

There’s a lot you can do to stop these trucks. One thing you can do is to tell people why they shouldn’t be allowed to use our highways.

You see, the safety standards for Mexican trucks and drivers are not the same as the standards for American trucks and drivers. This is something that Lawless Mary has lied to us about over and over.

She had one of her flying monkeys tell a reporter that trucks from Mexico “are the most vetted, the most scrutinized and the most inspected trucks on American roads today.”

If that’s the case, why must all U.S. trucks have antilock brake systems before they can hit the road, but it’s cool for Mexican trucks not to?

Here in Estados Unidos, Mary, we have to do pre-employment safety training, we have to take a whiz quiz from a certified lab and we have to meet physical standards before we get our CDL (that stands for “Commercial Driver’s License,” Mary). That isn’t what happens south of the border, though.

The feds also know about every traffic ticket we ever got. They can’t even FIND a record of one out of five Mexican driver’s licenses.

And if an American driver gets convicted of a serious traffic offense in his own car, he loses his CDL. Our Mexican brothers and sisters don’t, and I think you know that, Mary!

Speaking of our Mexican brothers and sisters, we get accused of being anti-Mexican. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s a bad idea to let Mexican companies exploit Mexican drivers by making them drive even longer hours in the piece-of-crap trucks they give them to drive.

Everyone knows how long Mexican drivers are forced to sit behind the wheel. Here in US of A, we can only drive for 11 straight hours. Some might say even that is too long, but regardless: if I were a Mexican driver I could drive for 10 hours in Mexico and go another straight 11 here in the U.S. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to drive on I-95 in the middle of a rainy night anywhere near a trailer pushing on Hour 19. I don’t think that other driver wants to be pushing on Hour 19 on a dark rainy interstate, either.

And guess what? Mexican truck drivers don’t like this “pilot project” any more than we do. The Mexican drivers’ federation, CONATRAM, is totally against it. They see how NAFTA wiped out small farms in Mexico by letting U.S. agribusiness undercut Mexican farmers. They figure U.S. companies will wipe out the Mexican trucking industry.

Let me tell you a little story: Around Labor Day, the Teamsters protested the “pilot program” at the Otayy-Mesa border crossing. A half-dozen TV cameras showed up. When those cameras were rolling, Lawless Mary’s inspectors checked every last truck that crossed the border. When those cameras went home, the inspectors disappeared. Nice, huh?

Here’s one thing I love: people accuse the Teamsters of protecting their jobs. Imagine that, someone doesn’t want to lose his job, his house, his retirement, his kids’ educations, his health care, his ability to pay taxes to support cops and schools and roads. What a horrible thing that is, to actually want to keep a good American job at a good American wage! As far as I know, that isn’t a crime. What is a crime is OPENING THE BORDER TO UNSAFE TRUCKS FROM MEXICO!!!!

There’s going to be a lot happening over the next few weeks, so stay tuned to this Web site. We’re gonna get Mary Peters fired!!!