Just how bad the TPP is - guaranteed profits on EXPECTATIONS of profits

[JDPriestly]

52. Many of those countries adopted or inherited a system of civil law. They don't know

the difference.

Our legal system is derived from and similar to the British Common Law.

We have juries of our peers. Civil law systems do not place the emphasis on a jury that we do.

We have precedents and a Supreme Court.

Civil law systems may have something that sounds similar and is a bit similar but that is different enough that our system is not compatible with the civil law system.

The job of a jury in our system is to determine the facts. Then, in most cases in which there is a jury trial, the judge tells the jury how to apply law to the facts or applies the law to the facts himself or herself.

The right to a jury trial in cases involving over a certain amount of money is part of our fundamental rights. It is written into our Bill of Rights in our Constitution.

These agreements, all of them, overturn our basic tradition of a jury trial in cases in which a large verdict can be rendered.

Sooner or later, we will have a verdict brought against us, a sizable one that conflicts with a decision rendered in one of our courts. It's just a matter of time. We shall see what happens then.

And talk about environmental issues. I suspect that the entire point in this TPP is to permit large corporations to wield their massive treasuries to bully mere countries to set aside laws that protect the environment.

We already see that with the World Trade Court's decision that we cannot label meat according to country of origin if we want to trade under the applicable trade agreement.

That is an attack on environmentally sound, healthy meat production, meat production that meets FDA standards which are not necessarily met in many countries, especially underdeveloped countries. That is a particularly dangerous decision when it comes to pork. I want to know how farmers feed the hogs that become the pork I eat.