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The FTAA protests in miami are a good example of why ALL Americans (North, Central, & South) should recognize what they are up against - An autocratically imposed mechanism (to accelerate transfer of wealth from many to a few) that has been designed by a few unresponsive, unelected people; a mechanism that will be enforced and protected with violent force by existing quasi-legitamite government entities, while those same government entities will lie about the mechanism as freely as they lie to silence opposition.

FTAA is autocratic because no american government will actually allow the people or their freely elected representatives to vote on it.

Example:

The Bush (& Clinton) administrations have demanded 'fast track' authority to unilaterally (autocratically) impose multinational trade agreements upon US peoples without a vote by the US legislature (actually unconstitutional), and have demanded they be given this authority before the trade deals have even been formed, making for the amazing reality where the peoples quasi democratic representatives have given up their constitutional charge over a matter they literally know nothing about. There is no broad support for FTAA.

FTAA is autocratic because it is designed be a cabal of rich individuals who are completely unresponsive to the peoples they will affect.


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