TPP negotiators to announce deal 'in principle'

[JDPriestly]

25. The establishment of an international arbitration court in which a corporation can bring a claim

against a country, pick one of three judges and enforce a judgment against a defendant nation means that court can overrule and render null and void an Act of Congress, of your state legislature or on ordinance passed by your city council.

We have been ordered to prohibit identifying the country of origin of meat sold in our country already.

The TPP is a way to establish an authoritarian government by arbitration court that will be able to overrule many of our local laws, laws we want but that corporations object to.

That is just one aspect of the TPP that I am pretty sure will be in it. (That kind of court was established by NAFTA.) We now also have to allow Mexican trucks and drivers on our roads at least in California whether our state wants to allow them or not. Nothing against Mexicans but why should we be required to allow their trucks to drive loads on our roads when Americans could be doing that work. I do not know whether the Mexican-owned trucks have to meet our standards in terms of emissions and safety.

We are slowly being deprived of a lot of the right to self-government that we originally fought for. We need to stop these trade agreements now. We can still trade.

The agreements protect the interests of corporations, not the interests of ordinary people.