Trade proposals aren’t really about trade
Trade proposals aren’t really about trade
People persist on comparing the Trans-Pacific Partnership/Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (a mega consortium of corporations, the two should not be separated) to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Think of NAFTA as having one hand amputated. The TPP/TTIP would be like having both arms amputated at the shoulder and both legs amputated at the hips.
While there is a small, albeit almost insignificant chapter regarding trade, the main thrust of the TPP/TTIP is global domination of world markets to assure their guaranteed profits. One feature that should scare you is the corporate tribunals that would be set up to sue anybody, from individuals to entire nations who have impeded their guaranteed profits, which override national sovereignty. If there were transparency, we would have rejected this deal out of hand, but to prevent that, it has been in the deepest of secrecy and legislators who do not support it are being denied access to what is happening and must find out the same way we do, via WikiLeaks.
This is warfare against the global citizenry and the corporate consortium is using our governments against us as their bludgeon. While you may not think of this as warfare and certainly the consortium doesn’t want us to think of it as warfare and indeed not to think of their so-called trade deal at all, it is a war of enormous profits over humanity.
Under Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the behavior of those American legislators should be considered treasonous, of which the American public should be made aware and those legislators should be put to task over this.
Dave Kisor
Pahoa