In Letters to Obama, 151 House Democrats, Bloc of GOP Announce Opposition to ‘Fast Track’ Trade Auth

[Jack Rabbit]

34. To the Powers the Be . . .

The American people, indeed all the people of the world, are not party to this agreement. It was negotiated in secret and an attempt will be made rush it through the ratification process with little debate.

The fact that there was so much secrecy in the negotiating the agreement is reason enough to oppose it. Usually, data is classified to keep enemies from knowing military secrets. However, this is a trade deal, not the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. I do not understand what there is about a trade deal that needed to be kept secret.

However, we suspected all along that the Trans-Pacific Partnership was an agreement among a motley collection of corporate fascists to undermine democracy. The enemies who had to be kept in the dark about what these polluters, crooked bankers, arms merchants, Frankenfood manufacturers and bought politicians had agreed were none other than the people of world themselves. This agreement benefits no one but the greedy and self-important.

To paraphrase President Eisenhower speaking of the Geneva Accords that brought about an end to the French Indochina War, since we are not a party to this agreement, we are not bound by it. And indeed, like the US government in the years following the Geneva Accords, we will do everything we can to subvert the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

We will not be told the we have no right to expect that our elected representatives in our parliaments and legislatures will act to abate pollution, provide for public health, regulate markets and assure workers of fair wages and safe working conditions while there and that they will like comfortably and independently after each one of them retires.

The natural resources of the earth belong to us, living people made of flesh and blood. Corporations have no rights other than those we deem fit to give them. Please tell some arrogant corporate executives that we have a right to enjoy access to water and anyu other resource necessary to sustain life; Nestle's Corporation does not. Nestle's Corporation has nothing more than the right to stay in business so long as they pull an honest profit, and we are the ones who decide what is honest.

One that last thought. I would like to tell you corporations to get fucked, but it wouldn't do any good. It might if you were real people, but as artificial persons getting fucked won't make you happy or put you in a better disposition. Perhaps that why it flatters you to be thought rapacious. Now, artificial persons, bow to your flesh and blood masters.

Peace, justice and human brotherhood.