On Monday, October 5, 2015, U.S. Trade Representative
Michael Froman announced that the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim
nations have finally reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP). "We, the trade ministers of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada,
Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States,
and Vietnam are pleased to announce that we have successfully concluded the
Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiation," said U.S. Trade Representative
Froman at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Ministerial Press Conference, held in
Atlanta, Georgia.
With a consensus now reached among the 12 participatory TPP
nations, a final official text of the TPP is soon expected to be drafted prior
to reaching lawmakers. According to Congressional Quarterly (CQ),
"Officials still have to draft and review what they have agreed in
principle."
Although CQ also states that "Congress is likely to
vote on the agreement in early 2016," Congressional lawmakers could in
fact vote on the agreement as early as this year (2015) pending how quickly the
final TPP text is drafted and subsequently transmitted to Congress. The New
York Times estimates that the "full 30-chapter text will not be available
for perhaps a month."
Congress' narrow passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)
or "fast track" earlier this year, ensures an expedited up-or-down
vote without debate or amendment for the final TPP agreement.
As The New American magazine noted in an online
article, posted on March 31, 2015, about WikiLeaks unauthorized release of key
chapters of the TPP agreement, one of the most obviously objectionable portions
of the TPP texts is the outrageous assertion that the documents remain secret
even after they are finally passed! The New American reported:
Not only are the negotiations being conducted in secrecy,
and not only are the TPP text documents being withheld from the public and the
public's elected representatives, but even more outrageous is the effort by the
TPP negotiators to keep the agreement (or at least certain portions of the
agreement and the negotiating process) secret for four years after it goes into
effect!
Chapter 2 of the TPP text begins the following
classification notice:
Derived from: Classification Guidance dated March 4, 2010
Reason: 1.4(b) Declassify on: Four years from entry into force
of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement enters into
force, four years from the close of the negotiations.
* This document must be protected from unauthorized
disclosure, but may be mailed or transmitted over unclassified e-mail or fax, discussed
over unsecured phone lines, and stored on unclassified computer systems. It
must be stored in a locked or secured building, room, or
container.
Despite Froman's announcement of a final TPP accord reached,
its text is likely to remain classified from the American public for several
years even after they have been passed by Congress. Although the full contents
of what has been agreed to may not become known for several years, we already
do know some of the provisions contained in the insidious anti-sovereignty TPP
agreement thanks to the courageousness of certain statesmen who have read the
agreement.
After visiting the secret reading room where a draft copy of
the TPP is housed, in Congress, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alab.) wrote an open
letter to President Obama, inquiring and warning about how the TPP
"creates a new transnational governance structure known as the
Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission." Of the secretive proposed TPP
Commission, Sen. Sessions further elaborated and likening it the European Union
(EU), "The details of this new governance commission are extremely broad
and have the hallmarks of a nascent European Union, with many
similarities."
The governing executive body of the EU is the European
Commission (EC). And like the TPP, the EU also began as an ostensibly simple
trade agreement known as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1952,
established by the Treaty of Paris the previous year.
Considering the rapid growth and transformation of the ECSC
into the supranational entity that the EU is today, we dare not take Senator
Sessions' concerns lightly. Henceforth, it is imperative that we put a stop to
it by contacting our congressional lawmakers and urge them to oppose final
passage of the TPP.
Please phone your representative (202-225-3121) and senators
(202-224-3121) in opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which
would abrogate U.S. national sovereignty and independence to a supranational
EU-style Trans-Pacific Union.
Click here to send an editable pre-written email to your
representative and senators and urge them to oppose and vote NAY on passage of
the final TPP agreement.
Source:John Birch Society, jbs.org
Comments
Record level bribes were paid to federal legislators just to
pass TPA Fast Track. The Trans Pacific Partnership TPP Trade Agreement is
finished, but we won’t be allowed to read it.
Let your Congressmen and Senators know that this is one mistake you will
use to remove them from office. If they
approve this trade agreement, we will lose our sovereignty to a world court. It’s time to raise hell now.
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