Regarding TPP, if it passes: Do We The People have ANY recourse to prevent its implementation?

[Jack Rabbit]

35. I've suggested a mass campaign of civil disobedience

I don;t just mean symbolically sitting in and getting arrested in an attempt over burden the justice system, although that would be part of it, too. I mean a serious attempt to overthrow the oligarchy.

Don't give up on the political process, either. The way I see it, it never does any harm to vote. However, the priority should be to elect candidates sworn to defy the TPP and undermine it. Defund it's enforcement. Laws should be passed at all levels of government that refuse to pay fines imposed the Investor-State Dispute Settlement's kangaroo court of corporate shysters. In addition, boycott any corporation that even thinks out loud about taking a case to ISDS.

Support new international agreements made directly by citizens that declare a nation's natural resources to be the public property of the people of that nation. Sorry, Mr. Nestles, there is a right to public access to water; you do not and cannot own it.

Don't pay fines imposed by ALEC-written legislation for putting solar panels on your house. Don't join the armed services. Sooner or later, the oligarch will demand of their stooges occupying our government will order the troops into a war for oil. We don't need oil or coal and securing it for the benefit or corporate profits isn't worth one drop of blood. We need wind and solar energy.

If that isn't enough, then we can resort to general strikes (which have been against federal law since 1947) and tax strikes. There is no reason we should pay taxes to give tax breaks to corporations that bribe our politicians, support wars that secure oil for the profit of unneeded and unwanted industries that are even now on life-support, get funneled into from our pockets to corporate coffers.

These actions are to be taken against the oligarchs and not politicians. The politicians will not listen to the oligarchs once we have stripped them of what the Supreme Shysters mistakenly call their free speech.

What is the rationale for taking such action? Very simple: democracy is broken and Congress cannot any longer be considered a part of a popular government. Our Congressmen are bribed. There is no distinction between a large campaign contribution and a bribe, contrary to what the Supreme Shysters said in Citizens United. There is no alternative for any candidate for any office but to bargain away his loyalty to corporation and promise to do things their way against the public interest. If there is no government of, by and for the people, then any law passed by bought-and-paid-for corporate stooges is no law at all. No democracy, no law and order.