This isn't about free trade, though. It's about raising trade barriers together to protect incumbent industries at the cost of consumers and competition. They

This isn't about free trade, though. It's about raising trade barriers together to protect incumbent industries at the cost of consumers and competition. They want to lengthen copyright, invade privacy, regulate internet services while empowering gatekeepers, strengthen licensing and reporting and taxation demands on small business, expand and unify patent regimes, and the like. Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, and Japan are already reciprocal Most Favored Nation trading partners. We're not going to be getting any more access to their markets. They're not going to be selling us anything new, either. The contents of the deal are still an official secret, but we've had leaks. It looks like the worst kind of big cartel, Disney, telecom monopoly, NSA, surveillance state, patent troll plan to terrorize consumers and innovating businesses. In fact, it's probably exactly what you might expect powerful insiders to negotiate in secret at the expense of the public. Free trade is something different.