After 237 years we're becoming a colony again.

[HomerRamone]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/richard-eskow/49913/corporations-are-colonizing-us-with-trade-deals-and-wall-street-wants-in

Public Citizen, which has been doing excellent work on this issue, reports on three U.S. laws which were nullified by the World Trade Organization (WTO): country-of-origin labels on meat, dolphin-safe labels on tuna, and the ban on sweet-flavored cigarettes designed to get kids addicted to the tobacco companies' carcinogenic products. (What's next: Cherry-flavored crack?)

The WTO and the WTO "Appellate Body" -- two bodies most Americans don't even know exist -- overruled these laws in a preemptory manner that would have outraged the Continental Congress.

We didn't elect them. We can't communicate with them. But they've issued three decrees which we must obey:

1) We are not to know where the meat we're eating comes from.

2) We must accept the fact that we may unknowingly wind up eating the flesh of dolphins, arguably the most intelligent nonhuman species on the planet. And,

3) We must continue to allow the distribution of products designed to addict our children to a deadly and habit-forming substance.

How's that for "controlling our own destiny"?