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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/29187-fast-track-treason-and-the-coming-corporate-coupFast-Track Treason and the Coming Corporate Coup
Thursday, 19 February 2015 00:00
By Rivera Sun, Truthout | Op-Ed
Corporations aren't people - otherwise, we'd be trying them for treason. If it were known that a handful of powerful men and women were meeting in secret to overthrow the authority of the US government and make this nation submissive to external domination, the NSA, CIA, FBI, US president, Congress and the military-industrial complex would declare them "terrorists of the year" and bomb them back into the Stone Age.
But corporations aren't people. They enjoy superhuman status, and are awarded privileges and protections well beyond what ordinary citizens of the United States can expect. (The last time a corporation was shot dead in the streets by a police officer was - well, never.) Corporations are given preferential treatment by judges, laws, politicians, investigators, tax agencies, financial institutions and much of our consumer-capitalist society.
So, when corporations spend years in secret negotiations to set up a trade agreement that gives them the legal power to overrule federal, state and local laws, subjugating not only the United States, but also the rest of the world to their control, our Congress lines up to help them.
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Congress, on the whole, has not seen the secret, thousand-page text of the TPP. Yet, congressional members are curiously willing to eschew their right and responsibility to review this international trade treaty and fast-track the legislation without debate or revision. If they vote to fast-track the TPP, they are silencing the people and handing the nation over on a silver platter to corporate domination.
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Fast-Track Treason and the Coming Corporate Coup (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Feb 2015
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marym625
(17,997 posts)1. K&R!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. I don't think 'treason' is too strong a word.
Thanks unhappycamper.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)3. If TPP goes through
so much for our laws. The corporations will make the laws.