[John Valentine]

Where on earth did you get the weird idea that the WTO, GATT and so on is "Free Trade".

I know that the term is loosly tossed around, but trade under these agreements is completely managed. You don't need multi-thousand page treaties to establish "Free Trade".

Welcome to the new world of alice-in-wonderland.

[hedgetrimmer]

but trade under these agreements is completely managed.

EVERY "free trade" agreement is brokered through the WTO because our Congress has abdicated our authority to do so then the signed the GAT. So "free traders" are cohorts in the establishment of a centrally controlled global trading system. In other words they are enabling a communist/soclists global system.