Can the revolution start now? Do you have your pitchforks and torches ready yet?
It shouldn't surprise anybody that TPA passed the Senate and that a barrage of odious trade deals will soon follow suit.
That should be considered a declaration of war on the American people by the US government and the global corporate establishment that it serves. Personally, I have no intention of surrendering peacefully. The question now is not whether we submit to a long, dark night of corporate tyranny, but what do we do to overthrow the oligarchy?
Make no mistake about it. This was the death knell of American democracy, at least as a formal institution. It has been very ill for some time, but today marks the passing of the patient. A study form Princeton University release last year concludes that popular opinion is disregarded in decision making by government leaders and politicians listen to their corporate donors instead. That has been plainly in evidence through this charade of a deliberative body that only putatively represented the people of the nation or any of the states as it approved in the first of what will be a series of legislative acts. The effect of those acts will be, in the name of the people, which these traitors use fraudulently, to abdicate the sovereignty of the nation to a cabal of corporate criminals. There is no longer anything we can do to prevent it.
It is too late now to talk about overturning Citizens United reforming campaign financing. It would even be ineffective to elect Bernie Sanders president. What can the next president, even if it's Bernie Sanders, sworn to uphold the law, do when a private corporation takes the US government to a panel of corporate shysters for costing it "expected profits" and the shysters order the US to compensate the corporation?
Do we have to pay taxes to compensate this corporation? Somewhere along the line in this story, the people ceased to be represented by the government because bought-and-paid-for politicians voted to end democratic sovereignty over the US government. I thought taxation without representation was tyranny. Isn't it still? Apparently not. And who said any private business has a right to realize "expected" profits? Apparently corrupt US trade representatives.
Democracy will not be restored unless we dump these odious trade deals into Boston Harbor. It is our duty as citizens of a democracy to protect that democracy, to restore democracy from corporate tyrants and their political stooges who have murdered it.
Do you have your Native American costumes and war paint ready? Let's go to the harbor.
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Slight over-reaction
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