TTIP, a very insightful political poem by Scott F.

                                                                   

                                                      TTIP by SCOTT F.
                                                   (on Scott's blog, The Beauty in Many Places)

TTIP

Maybe you've heard about the current situation

or maybe you don't know

about the Free Trade bill in discussion

called the Transatlantic trade investment and partnership

the public only have a clue because of an information slip,

this bill giving corporations the right to sue

if they don't like what governments do

like restrictions on pollution

or limits on rising Co2.

if laws states pass harm the progress of profit

they'll be legally enabled to push governments

, to ask for compensation

and to make them stop it.

Among the things set to go

will be Labour rights food labels and control of GMO.

Under this bill people, animals and environment would suffer

and fracking would have free reign

sociopath corporations do these things in the name of “Return”

concerned only for financial gain.

TTIP makes it easier to privatize the NHS
opens the door to US companies

and patients bare the brunt of the cost

with expensive cancer drugs

and a bureaucratic mess.

We had NAFTA and the FTAA

and they were the tyrannies

of their day.

NAFTA led to the uprising of January 1994

when people said “Ya Basta”,

we will take no more

and in the revolt of the indigneous

of Chiapas, Mexico

what the Zapatistas proved

was that resistance to these bills

can only come from below.

TTIP's purpose is to de-regulate and to privatize

socialize the pain and show ethics a quick demise.

In shadowy deals and darkened rooms

Plans are being made to grease the wheels

of global capitalism once more

it should come as no surprise,

we've all heard about Lobbying and the Revolving Door...

multi-nationals are the only real parties

it's their influence that writes the laws

this bill puts that in clear sight
this problem is inherent to this system

and not just one of it's incidental flaws...

politicians are legalizing massive theft

we have to fight back

take to the streets

or else ,

THERE'S NOTHING LEFT !!

Written 9/2/16