Obama calls critics of TPP secrecy 'Conspiracy Theorists'

[Jack Rabbit]

38. I'm a hard sell on conspiracy theories

I don't care if I die the last American to hold that Oswald acted alone. In fifty years, I haven't seen a convincing CT that holds otherwise.

However, when a group of "free traders" gets together to negotiate a trade agreement that includes a provision to arbitrate national and local legislation consisting of a panel of corporate lawyers on leave from their jobs with the authority to fine nations for alleged unrealized profits, then that sounds like a conspiracy to me. Why are the proponents of this deal still guarding the details of the agreement? Why are they still trying to ram it through Congress on fast track? Anything as radical as submitting to a kangaroo court bent on invalidating any regulation to abate environmental pollution had damn better be debated and thoroughly understood before it becomes law and We, The People, have to take matters into our own hands and undermine this piece of corporate shit.

Everything about the TPP negotiations indicates that the negotiators are corporate whores desperate to prevent the public from knowing what it is that they've been up to for fear of popular opposition to corporate hegemony.

I remind all present that President Obama is not on the ballot in November. We must vote not only in the general election but in the Democratic Party's primaries to elect candidates who will reject the TPP.

The same president who lumps critics of this abomination in with conspiracy theorists also assures us that the TPP will create jobs for Americans. On what does he base that assumption? Certainly not on how well NAFTA or any similar free trade agreement worked out. He should be ashamed of himself for stating such nonsense, even if he is the same president who signed the Affordable Care Act into law.