2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you support the Free Trade policies that the Corporate Democrats are selling? [View all]hopemountain
(3,919 posts)there are too many of our rights being handed to the corporations - both domestic and internationally:
they will have the right to copyright and patent at their discretion - anyone who sues for their "rights" or even a right protected under local or international law will be sued for damages and loss of revenue.
the tpp and tpip has sections which over rule or outlaw any local or state or government law or statutes designed to stop, prohibit or keep out gmo seeds/plants/trees/fish, mining operations, logging, pipelines of oil or gas or fracking or any corporate venture that is not in the best interests of the local or state community's citizens.
the purpose of those Free Trade policies is immanent domain over any land - public or private, any resource - public or private - everything will belong to them. even books and ebooks such as gutenberg press - that have been in the public domain for years - will now be owned by them - they aim to create and purchase the rights to everything.
this means eventually or land, water, air, food, etc - will belong to them and we will have to pay for them at prices they set.
greed, plain and simple.