UNITED NATIONS – One of the emails in the recent WikiLeaks document dump caught Hillary Clinton telling a group of foreign bankers she dreams of “open borders and open trade” throughout our hemisphere.
Another has one of her advisers saying that, despite what she says now, Hillary will support the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the end.
Indeed, Hillary should support the Trans-Pacific Partnership – it will fulfill her dream of dissolving our national borders.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a global regulatory pact the Obama administration negotiated in secret with input from and the support of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It currently involves 12 countries on four continents. Other countries are allowed to join in the future; Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China are among the countries that have already expressed interest.
The TPP is disguised as a simple trade agreement, but it commits the American people to governance by an international commission with the power to act around Congress.
In so many ways, TPP meets what Donald Trump describes as “a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.”
Chapter 27 of the TPP agreement establishes a Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, made up of officials appointed by each member country. Each country would have one vote. The TPP Commission is similar to the European Commission, which was established under the agreement that created the European Union.
It would oversee the “implementation or operation” of the TPP, “resolve differences or disputes that may arise regarding the interpretation or application of this Agreement,” and “amend or modify” the pact.
In this capacity, this international governing body would be responsible for regulations affecting our immigration laws as well as food, energy, medicine, Internet, intellectual property and businesses within our country.
If that’s not bad enough, the commission’s decision-making process cuts Congress, the Constitution and the American people out of the picture.
The TPP commission can act entirely in secret. Under Article 24.4.4, the commission has the power to “establish rules of procedures for the conduct of its work.” It is not required to notify the public when it meets, what it is deliberating, or how it reaches its decisions.
Article 27.3 says if a party “does not object in writing” to a decision made by the commission “within five days,” the decision will be considered final.
This “five day rule” effectively precludes Congress from having any role in creating or approving any of the commission’s decisions.
Not only is the U.S. Congress cut out from decision making – the U.S. itself could find itself out-voted in the international rule-making bodies created by the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission can appoint a subcommittee that does not include the United States. This subcommittee could reach a final decision affecting the U.S. – without the U.S. being present at the meeting where the decision was made.
Chapter 9 Section B and Chapter 28 of the TPP grant thousands of foreign corporations and governments who claim their rights under the TPP have been violated the right to sue the U.S. government. These lawsuits would be decided outside the U.S. court system by international panels consisting of three corporate lawyers.
These lawyers can award the corporations unlimited sums to be paid by America’s taxpayers, including for the loss of future profits foreign corporations expected to earn. Foreign corporations need only convince the lawyers that a U.S. law, state law or regulation violates their TPP rights. The decisions of these foreign tribunals cannot be appealed and the amounts they could award have no limit.
Foreign tribunals like these, created under previous trade agreements, including NAFTA, have ordered governments to pay foreign investors nearly $3 billion.
The elitists at the helm of our government, our media and global finance believe sovereign nations are anachronisms that belong in the dustbin of history. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the broom they will use to accomplish that.
They must be stopped.
The stakes could not be higher in this election.
As Donald Trump said:
“This is a struggle for the survival of our nation. This election will determine whether we are a free nation, or whether we have only the illusion of democracy but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system.”
The choice is clear: Sovereignty or surrender.
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