TPP would establish rules allowing a corporation to sue a government for profits or future profits lost due to government regulations. The suit would be presented to a non-governmental arbitration board.
In the USA citizens cannot (generally) sue the government. This link for background. If they did (and in some permissible cases actually do) it would of course be a mater for our judicial system.
"Over 1000 Japanese Citizens Band Together To Sue Their Government Over Participation In TPP"
Fast Track means there is no additions to the proposed treaty. If an addition could be added to the treaty then all nations party to the treaty must allow citizens that form an international corporation based in another country (Cayman Islands) to sue their own government for their financial and non-monetary losses (pain and suffering) caused by TPP.
What does it take to set up an International Corporation? Not much, I think. Ever heard of a Dummy Corporation?
Hey, Mr. International Corporation and Governments, just playing by your rules.
Any settlement of a citizen corporation suit would of course be passed on to the tax payers in general. So was the banking failure. Looks like legal precedent unless anything too big to fail is too big to win a judgment against. Perhaps the Citizen Corporation should sue the specific international corporation jointly and government? Like suing the crook and the horse they rode in on. Government admitting to wrong doing and the international corporation paying the penalty fine.
How many American citizens would participate in a suit against our government under the cover of being a foreign corporation? Clearly a funny thing! In court the US government as plaintiff meaning (on behalf of) the citizens of the USA bring legal action against the accused. In international arbitration the USA is the accused. Something that is not allowed within our system.
International Class Action: Citizens of the USA suing the USA for financial damages in an international arbitration court established under the TPP treaty where there is no appeal of the final decision.
If we could directly sue our own government for wrong doing (favoring the few at the expense of the many) we could all get as rich as the 1%! It would only work if the 1% were required to form their own conglomerate corporation that would be required to pay the fine.
The general rule of "citizen belonging relationship" is that all citizens belong to a national sovereign government nation. No person is without a country. It is an absolute relationship. Perhaps that relationship should be restructured. No person is without a corporation. That relationship leaps the bounds of geographical domains. That, of course, can only happen when corporations become the dominant power structure over nations.
Doesn't TPP do that?
In an intriguing way the change in relationship of a citizen to their nation would reverse the default nature of the democratic vote. It would become what a citizen is voting directly against rather (being ripped off) than who they are voting for that becomes an agent facilitating the rip off by international corporations that have no moral imperative other than profit. If business and profit is all this world is about and it is business vs business then perhaps citizens should form their own corporations rather than nations.
A citizens corporation would (of course) be non profit.
Would that be called a Union?
Workers of the World Unite?
Workers of the World Inc. ?????
TPP puts US citizens in an adversarial relationship to their own government. Perhaps we must remind ourselves to our right to representation by a lawyer in a court of civil or criminal justice against our own government when it abrogates its responsibility to its citizens by actions related to a greater responsibility to international treaties that demand payment from citizens (via our government) that are financially damaging and contrary to our national sovereignty and right to establish our own laws of the land.
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