[Imc-summaries] We're on 'Fast Track' to Trading Away Democracy

[imc-tech at urbana.indymedia.org]

So-called "free" trade is really a misnomer for the destruction of a long tradition of democracy. Corporations, elevated to the status of personhood by Supreme Court decisions that undermine the rights of real citizens, no longer wish to submit themselves to the democratic processes that mediate our system of government. They would rather enjoy a special, elevated status and use the powers of government to impose their rule on the people, who they view as subservient consumers who should not have the right to limit corporate rule in any way. ML

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