California sacred lands law triggers $50 million NAFTA claim

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 2/22/05 | Don Thompson - AP

[DoughtyOne]

Wasn't NAFTA supposed to harmonize transnational trade?

[NormsRevenge]

lol.. Who signed that pig in a poke anyway?

[WorkingClassFilth]

Yikes! We've got a long way to go to even reclaim the concept of private property rights.

[DoughtyOne]

As I recall, there wassn't one person who read the thing. Bob Dole bragged that he'd never read the thing before he signed it. The total documentation was reportedly over 30,000 pages long. You'd think that would have covered things like mad cow etc. Oh well.

[NormsRevenge]

Coming from Dole and the Senate, not a surprise.

considering hardly any elected officials even bothered to look at the evidence accumulated about Clinton and made available for all to review as part of the Impeachment process.

[ken21]

i'd like to file a lawsuit against the left and their media during the vietnam war.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

It was the lame duck democrat controlled senate and BJ Clinton.

[AnOldCowhand]

Maybe, but I remember Limbaugh going on and on about how great it was going to be too. Come to think of it, the only one who campaigned against it was Perot....that's scary.

[janetgreen]

Come to think of it, the only one who campaigned against it was Perot...

Yep, old Ross Perot is a smart businessman who was looking to the future. The rest were busy pandering.

[Southack]

"California then enacted a law requiring that a metallic pit mine within one mile of an Indian sacred site be restored to its original landscape contour. Two days later, the California State Mining and Geology Board required mining companies to refill new open-pit metal mines and flatten mine waste piles back to nearly the natural landscape. Glamis Gold, a U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian firm, filed for compensation under NAFTA instead of in U.S. courts."

That's beautiful! If you want to smash California's anti-business laws, you incorporate some little shell firm in Canada, and *then* use that shell firm to control your California operation.

Then, any eco-law that gets in your way can lead you straight to a NAFTA pot-o-gold via successful arbitration!

[DoughtyOne]

True...

[itsahoot]

Bob Dole bragged that he'd never read the thing before he signed it.

He said the same thing about the Republican Platform, when some one challenged him on whether he supported some of the conservative planks. Guess he didn't have time to read much, what with all his legislatin. <(•¿•)>

[DoughtyOne]

Perhpas if he'd had that Viagra a few years earlier...

mm n d(o.o)b n mm

[SierraWasp]

Well, thar ya go!!!

[Dog Gone]

I dunno. If I had spent $15 million on my property, only to have the state of California tell me that I can't use it because it's within a mile of "sacred ground", whatever that is, I'd use every tool in the book to get my money back.

[Jimbaugh]

Bankrupt California NOW!!

[AnOldCowhand]

Speaking of Bob Dole; Has anyone heard when he's going to start his campaign for president? I've been waiting.....since '96.

[itsahoot]

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[itsahoot]

I am always glad to see your input on these threads, you have a fine sense of propriety. And your posts are always insightful, often humorous