Obama calls critics of TPP secrecy 'Conspiracy Theorists'

[JDPriestly]

50. This treaty will join the Constitution as the highest law of the land.

Treaties like this will replace our Constitution and our self-government with international tribunes and agreements drawn up in secrecy. I oppose all such treaties.

Our system of self-government is more important to me than trading with other countries.

The choice is not between world trade or no world trade. The choice under these treaties is between world government or American government. I am for American government in America.

Let's enter into individual trade agreements with individual trading parties. We should not allow international courts to determine how much wheat we can grow and export or whether we have to allow gas fracking on our property.

The idea that we are in a global economy and corporations like that so we had better get used to it does not sit well with me. That choice is unacceptable.

Corporations are not people. They cannot at this time vote. But these trade agreements can void the votes of we people.

I've worked not a lot but a little on legal issues in foreign trade. I have seen how disputes are resolved by the NAFTA court. It's pretty awful. I do not want to subjugate the power of American citizens to decide how they want to use their resources and how much pollution they will tolerate to some small clique of international big-wigs who could care less about America.

Corporations are leading us to fascism. They don't realize it but they are.