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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49699)2/27/2000 4:45:00 PM
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I say again, A government out of control?:
(what ever happened to states rights?)
U.S. Government Tells Massachusetts It Must Trade With Burma

This is the worst. In the 1800s, "free trade" meant freedom to trade. In the 1990s, it meant "special privileged trade deals." Now in the year 2000 "free trade" has come to mean "you are forced to trade even if you don't want to." The below analysis is important. You should have the right not to deal with a dictator, but the Clinton administration is denying that.

In a major boost for the forces of economic globalisation, US President Bill Clinton has decided to back multinational corporations in a key court challenge to a Massachusetts law designed to promote democracy in Burma.

In a brief quietly filed with the Supreme Court, Clinton's Justice Department charged that cities and states which make it more difficult for companies doing business in repressive countries to win procurement contracts "impermissibly intrude into the national government's exclusive authority over foreign affairs."

Joining a coalition of some 600 major multinational corporations, the European Union (EU) and Japan, the administration asked the Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments on the case March 22, to declare the Massachusetts law unconstitutional. A final judgment by the nine-member court is expected in June.

Huge Number of State and Local Laws at Stake

The case has major implications for grassroots human rights and other US activist groups, which over the past 25 years have used state and local "selective-purchasing" laws to influence the behaviour of multi-national corporations (cont)
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