As full members, the foreign representatives have full rights of voting and discussion on ALEC’s proposed legislative bills and resolutions.
ALEC CROW – 21st Century Disenfranchisement (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)
From PolicyMic – The Voters Legislative Transparency Project, Inc. announced this week they had uncovered documents demonstrating that 17 representatives of seven foreign nations have been secretly involved in creating legislative bills and policies meant to become laws of policy in the U.S.
This includes the writing of proposed “model bills,” resolutions sent to Congress and the President in support of key policies they wish the U.S. to adopt. All of this is allegedly being done outside the protocols and provision of the U.S. State Department – and possibly without that Department’s knowledge or approval.
Sixteen of these officials are Members of the European Parliament or foreign governments including: the United Kingdom, Poland, Australia, Belgium, Brussels, Punjab, and the Czech Republic. The 17th is the former U.K. Minister of Defense, Liam Fox, who resigned earlier this year following a scandal involving the Atlantic Bridge Charity and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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- Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. to leave ALEC (nj.com)
- This government doesn’t want to clean up lobbying | Jon Trickett (guardian.co.uk)
- GOP’s corporate front group (salon.com)
- ALEC-Inspired Bills Could Bar Defective Drug Lawsuits (blogs.lawyers.com)
- Five more corporations abandon the ‘bill mill’ ALEC (rawstory.com)
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Well, at least we can rest easy knowing the the Right and Left both got us covered with corporate sponsors, eh?
Yes.Its all a rigged game in which dollars count not votes.
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DemocracyNow! has done great shows on ALEC.. a scary but somehow predictable outcome of government/corporate corruption.. I wish I could think of a way to ban corporations outright.. the experiment has failed.. its time to flush them.. but how??
In theory I love the idea of a free market…ya know, people can be free to make/create awesome things and then voluntarily interact with others to trade those *things* for other *things* of equal value…I mean, what’s not to love, right? Everyone is freely creating and trading and acting responsibly and all is well in UtopiaLand. But this…this monstrosity of a corpo-legislative-market that we currently have is the stuff nightmares are born of, isn’t it?! I wish I had an answer as to how to flush them but the size and influence of corporations seem to make it all but impossible to do. Boycotts are great…but uh…how does one apply an effective boycott against a corporation like Monsanto who uses political influence to strangle the global market? Or better yet – we the consumers should just boycott Haliburton if we want to end wars, right? Dunno about you but I can’t bear to give up my weekly trip to the Hali-headquarters for…er…my weapons, ships and aircraft… :-/
Maybe we just need to flush the entire mass of Politricians who assist the evil right along with corporations that carry it out, eh? We need smaller (dare I say, tribal?) governments that are truly accountable to the people and to flush the bloated body of corrupt government right down the toilet with corporations.