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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 10:33:16 EST

AUDREY'S MISSILES
A newsletter dedicated to the peaceful 
reform of the United States government.
THE BATTLE IN SEATTLE

    Not noticed by most Americans a small group of determined citizens 
marched with the tens of thousands who succeeded in delaying the opening of  
the World Trade Organization meeting this week in Seattle.  The group carried 
FREE BURMA signs.  Why should Americans care about this issue?  After all, 
Burma is a small country way over there across the vast Pacific Ocean on 
another continent.  What does it matter what happens in Burma?

    It matters a great deal.  Burma has a narco-government.   In plain 
English, it is composed of criminals who cooperate with the drug lords who 
are exporting the lion's share of world's heroin.   The military control the 
country.  They burn, ravage, torture and murder at will.  The legitimate 
commodities that are made and exported are produced with forced labor and 
child labor.  Setting aside humanitarian considerations, what country in the 
world would want to sell produce in competition with this kind of a system?  
Yet Burma does  export manufactured goods to the United States.  Incredibly, 
Myanmar (Burma) is listed as one of the 134 members of the World Trade 
Organization (WTO)!  The FREE BURMA signs carried by the little group of 
protestors made  common cause with America's workers and both groups know 
that some WORLD ORGANIZATIONS ARE DOING BUSINESS WITH CRIMINALS.  The Clinton 
Administration, while imposing a few sanctions on Burma which are not 
effective, works to keep the rogue narco-countries in the WTO!  Massachusetts 
has passed a law boycotting Burma, and a number of other states state and 
municipalities are considering the same thing.  It is indeed a very sad day 
and a very ominous sign for the future of this country when Americans must 
circumvent acts of federal government which are blatantly criminal in nature.

    The Mayor of Seattle estimated the crowd of protestors at 34 or 35 
thousand.  Given the fact that a fifty block area (approx.) was eventually 
sealed off there may have been more.  There were many groups represented, all 
concerned about places overseas where children, prisoners, and others are 
either forced to work or are put to work at very low wages.  Clinton has 
opened the doors to the American market regardless of the barriers in the 
countries sending goods here.  How long will we have our nine trillion dollar 
market if people lose good paying jobs and are either unemployed or are 
employed at very low wages?  Where is all the profit going?  One Canadian 
said, "WTO rules are nothing less than an international bill of rights for 
international corporations."  Their proceedings are kept secret, and the 
proponents of this brand of free trade (Clinton and his trade negotiator) now 
give only lip service to those who protest.  Where will it lead us?  They are 
setting the stage for the inclusion of China, and if the pattern is followed 
then, as the Colombian cartels gain territory, are they  next?   American 
farmers are going bankrupt, our factories have all gone overseas, and many 
more are jobless than reports indicate.  (Check the reports of the numbers of 
homeless people.)  If the lop- sided trade policies cannot be stopped 
American working people will be dragged down to the level of third world 
workers which will help no nation.  The money and power it brings will 
strengthen the narco-countries and the big business ventures who are allied 
with them.  World leaders know what Clinton is.  They were invited, but not a 
single one came.  All the protestors know what is happening.  As they were 
clapped in the detention facilities they sang GOD BLESS AMERICA. 

    


 http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/decdo/wto.htm
Mayor of Seattle interviewed on the News Hour, 12/1/99
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/articles/article203.ht ml 
 .http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol2/v2n43bur.html
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