A Flip-Flop too far — Rusty Revolution skills let Clinton get away with TPP?

A Flip-Flop too far — Rusty Revolution skills let Clinton get away with TPP?

General George Washington did not make that mistake when unannounced during the night of Dec. 25-26, 1776 he crossed the Delaware and attacked foreign mercenaries of the colonizer. 

Following the analogy, under Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions, ISDS, of so called free trade deals, despotic secret offshore tribunals extort moneys from governments to punish the will of the people and override their laws. 

Practically Obama's and Clinton’s TPP agenda removes law making powers from Congress and other countries’ parliaments and transfers legislative authority to extra-legal or illegal litigators of multi-nationals.

Philadelphia 2016, a deja vu of Chicago 1968? Raw pressure from millions of Americans could bear down on the Democratic Party convention and its super delegates to come to their senses and nominate Bernie Sanders to run for President.

There is nothing to be gained by clinging to more of temporary lip service against the TPP by Hillary Clinton, until, during or following the conclusion of platform committee meetings on July 8/9 2016. 

Many excellent writers and activists have delivered compelling but perhaps ill focussed or somewhat premature testimony that has tipped off the Clinton campaign which now understands that people mean to fight.

As much as still possible the heavy hitting needs to converge on the goal of Sanders for President during the two weeks between wrapped up party platform committee and convention.

So that the phoney and rigged committee process becomes ammunition not for Clinton and Wall Street, but in favour of the people and of Sanders’ nomination. 

Not fighting this one out to the wire, not collecting knowledge from loss or win of learning strength in battle completion and up close, also means to put the first coffin nail of weakness into the next campaign to follow the path of Sanders, FDR and Henry Wallace.

Unfortunately some of those who write, talk and hopefully think are too timid to face reality from a grassroots vantage point. That doesn’t give them a right for massaging the wider public to swallow Clinton betrayals even before she might be nominated.

The Progies (neoliberal phonies who dress up as progressives) problem is for real but it should not be expanded artificially. True activists inspire and do not become tail-lights and sell-outs for a movement. 

Senior Clinton campaigner Senator Warren, who owns a so far untainted integrity, just delivered exactly a THIRD Flip-Flop, this time against TPP, which no doubt will be made official by Clinton shortly, only as long as it serves her of course.

Bernie Sanders has kept a cool head and wisely focusses on the convention and run up where betrayals during the platform talks, after much campaign fraud against the majority in the party, are to be judged by the membership citizenry inside and outside of the hall.

FIRST Flip-Flop away from supporting TPP (and Fourth Flip-Flop to come) — On Jan. 28, 2016 the Huffington Post’s Robert Naiman referred to commonly held knowledge:

“In an interview from Davos with Bloomberg TV on January 20, Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, a top lobbyist for the pro-corporate-power Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] agreement, assured viewers that if Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential election Clinton will support the TPP, even though she opposes it now.”

SECOND Flip-Flop — On June 24, 2016 the Clinton team votes unanimously for the TPP in the Democratic Party platform committee. 

THIRD Flip-Flop — Senior Clinton campaigner Elizabeth Warren’s Senate speech against TPP on Tue. July 5, 2016.

FOURTH Flip-Flop — With TPP architect/facilitator Hillary Clinton, who already had pushed for undemocratic fast tracking of the TPP (against the Senate vote of Sanders) as President there would be a bipartisan ratification of the TPP.

Peter Becker is a Whitehorse energy consultant.