Today's column from Jon Carrol, columnist for the SF Chronicle (crappy paper but only costs 2 bits and I can finish it by the time I get to work on the bus)
posted on February 21, 2002 10:27:49 AM new
Reminds me: I was watching a program about NAFTA on PBS a few weeks ago. It proved that in that agreement, Americans have been stripped of their constitutional rights and the majority of U.S. Citizens are still unaware about this back-door deal with Satan. And also, they showed just how bazaar some of the parts of NAFTA really are. For instance, there is a very popular clause that states that if a corporation wants to purchase the local resources of your area and the area refuses for any reason whatsoever, then that area's local government must pay that corporation the amount of profit that it should have made from the deal. Case in point: in Oregon, a Mexican corporation came up here to Oregon and bid on cutting down and hauling off our Old Growth Forest. The deal fell through because of environmental activism, so the state of Oregon was required under NAFTA to actually pay that Mexican corporation hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation!
I am for some aspects of a world government: one official language, one Law, one economic system and one political system that best suit the needs of citizens everywhere. I am not for a one-world government controlled by corporations whose motive is pure, unadulterated greed; nor do I agree with a one-world religion; preferring freedom of choice to prevail.
Borillar
"Friends don't let friends vote republican"
