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- Dec 26, 2010
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You're right.TPP: An attack on the US Constitution.
"And the thing about that, one of the things about this that makes it so dangerous is that not only do you have to harmonize your laws, but then going forward if a city passes a law, or state or federal passes a law in the public interest to protect their people or the planet or their resources, and it undermines the profits of a corporation, they can sue the government for their expected profits.
"The profits they expected to make. And that means that they go not to a regular court.
"They go to a trade tribunal.
"And the judges on this trade tribunal are three judges who are corporate lawyers, on leave from their corporate job, being lawyers, making decisions, and going back to their corporate job.
"So it's a rigged trade tribunal, and our courts or Vietnam's courts or Peru's courts, any country's courts, cannot review that decision. The U.S. Supreme Court cannot overturn a decision of the trade tribunal. It becomes the more powerful decision."
Obama to Get Fast Track for Trade Pacts
without free trade we'd have to make everything ourselves. Can you imagine that?
It's a shame that there's no trade happening between countries at the moment.