> It's a ?!@#!$ trade treaty, for god's sake. its ramifications would have affected billions of people just as if it were a new civil and criminal law, that's

> It's a ?!@#!$ trade treaty, for god's sake. its ramifications would have affected billions of people just as if it were a new civil and criminal law, that's what was so scary about it. Citizens aren't bound to obey international treaties. That's why we have governments.