[Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 15 11:24:07 PST 2000


Charles Brown wrote:


>In general, if you don't think there is anybody you would trust
>making decisions on legal definitions, what are you demonstrating
>for in Seattle and elsewhere ? Who will decide the statutes,
>definitions and cases that arise out of the progressive laws you are
>trying to win ?

Policy should be decided democratically. The Seattle demos were an attempt to wrest trade and other economic policies from the hands of the ruling class. I wouldn't want to arrest Jagdish Bhagwati for going on about the beauties of free trade, though.

Doug



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