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Free from tyranny HA! Here's a few more names you might want to consider:
1." Ignorance is strength"
2." War is peace"
3. " Slavery is freedom."
If tyranny has any meaning at all it is the use of force to arbitrarily make somebody's whim happen at the expense of another. That is what a tariff is by its very nature and this article shows quite clearly how some people have been tyrannized. Free trade not only works better , it is the most moral way for people to act.

"You show me complete free trade between any two countries and I'll show you a Wahabi wearing a yumuelke(sp)."
Free trade only works when ALL countries open up their markets....thats why we're getting murdered here in the US of A. We're about the only fools insisting on it. So we now have massive underemployment, unemployment and near poverty conditions for half of America.

Pardon me you ignorant and misguided self proclaimed progressive. But the tyranny here is Big Business shifting production knowledge and capacity to low wage and human rights backward countries. We both know that we are not comparing apples to apples when talk about trade between an "emerging economy" and the USA.

Open trade is something that should be encouraged and pursued without any encumbrances. But one sided "free trade" that results in severe economic calamity to individuals and communities is counter productive and could only come from the minds of three types of people.

1). Global megalomanic greed monger corporate chieftain or wannabes(i.e. those ass-kissing corporate ladder climbers )

2). Globe trotting financiers whose specialties include but aren't limited to: a). ruining local customs and communities b). fostering dependance on Gov't and NGOs c). planting the seeds of discontent

3). Pointed headed and cloistered( i.e. tenured ) acedemics whose jobs aren't threatened yet!

Consider this! The " free trade " of today is like reverse discrimination. It dosen't matter what laws we break or ignore as long as the outcome is achieved. Are those environments in foreign nations not as valuable as ours? Are those children different from our own? Is injustice not injustice as long as we have cheap steel?