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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Here's B. C. now, bragging in his own words about his achievements as a 
free traitor:

"We don’t need to build walls, we need to build bridges. We don’t need 
protection, we need opportunity. But in a world of stiff competition we 
also need more than free trade. We need fair trade with fair rules.

"That’s why I fought for NAFTA, which effectively opened Mexico’s and 
Canada’s markets to American products, and for GATT, which is helping to 
level the playing field for American companies abroad.

"In all, since 1992 we have negotiated more than 200 trade agreements-21 
with Japan alone."

Source: Between Hope and History, by Bill Clinton, p. 34-35 Jan 1, 1996



Here's what happened in California as a result (from Sierra magazine):

"But through NAFTA, in a solidaristic act of corporate internationalism, 
businesses and investors have granted each other what they couldn’t win 
for themselves in their home countries. Chapter 11 allows companies that 
experience even a partial loss of profits because of regulatory action 
to seek reimbursement from the offending government. Consider the 
complaint brought under Chapter 11 against the state of California by 
Canada’s Methanex Corporation over its gasoline additive, MTBE. Because 
MTBE is a known animal carcinogen, a possible human carcinogen, highly 
soluble in water, and very costly and difficult to clean up, it is seen 
as a major threat to groundwater. In California, more than 10,000 
groundwater sites have already been contaminated by the additive. When 
California sought to ban MTBE, Methanex filed a Chapter 11 complaint. If 
the state wants to outlaw the substance, it may have to pay the company 
nearly a billion dollars."

Read the whole story at:

http://harbingerproject.com/issue34/trade.htm

Bill