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Obviously you are bent on implementing sustainable development throughout the CAFTA countries and its subsequent destruction of private property rights, through the CAFTA.

Nope. You're the only bent one. You are Bill Clinton. LOL!

You have been asked about the sustainable development clause in the CAFTA before. How can you support an international agreement that implements sustainable development? You pretend to be conservative, but you favor a Leninist global trading system that imposes restrictions on human freedom that were the brainchild of the global socialist Gro Harlem Bruntlandt. You're a fake.

Farmers defending themselves from your highly regarded sustainable development policies of the WTO and your friends the Chinese communists.

Party bows to people power as villagers resist state land-grab

THE Chinese Government has abandoned plans to take over farms to build a power station after lengthy public resistance and a protest in which six people were killed.

Officials of Baoding city in Hebei province near Beijing had violated regulations covering compensation for land requisition from the villagers of Shengyou, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.

Six farmers from Shengyou were killed and 48 wounded on June 11 after hired thugs wielding pipes and shovels charged the men and their families as they squatted in makeshift shelters to guard their land. The farmers defended themselves with clods of earth. They stood little chance when shots rang out.

Aware that land rights are an emotive issue for more than 700 million farmers across the country, China’s leaders were swift to order that those responsible be brought to justice. So far 31 people have been formally arrested and another 131 placed in criminal detention.