TPP branded as trade agreement, but what's really at stake. From Public Citizen.

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45. This is how it would work. Those Corps could sue the US, that would be the people of course,

for having laws that prevent them from making as much profit as they could here in the US by polluting etc.

But it gets worse, these suits would not in regular courts of law. They would be in special Corporate Tribunals where the Prosecutors would be also be Corporate.

I can't determine if they would also be 'secret' or not yet. We just don't know.

And if/when they win those suits, WE THE PEOPLE would have to pay these Corporations, 6,000 would be eligible to do this, out of our tax dollars simply BECAUSE of Laws put in place by our Government to protect OUR interests.

It is INSANE. It is like handing over your country to an enemy without even having the chance to fight them on a battle field.

It is 'economic terrorism'. As one person wrote about these Global Tactics in Europe, 'it is like an invading army marched through countries and took over without the expense of a military battle'.

It's just sickening and to think there is ANYONE on this forum trying to defend it.

The same people opposed it when Bush tried it in 2007.