Han: Surely you know a spoof when you see one. It's satire.
The spelling of "BusinessWeak" should have tipped you off. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Han Maenen >Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 23:58 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:24781] Crazy rule in NAFTA treaty > > >Seemingly off topic, but it could impact on metric use in the Americas. >Big Tobacco is suing all non-smokers in the Americas for non-smoking. They >will also demand compensation from all states, counties, cities etc. that >have smoking bans. >A crazy rule in the NAFTA treaty, Chapter 11, bans any action that prevents >a company from making profits. People who do not smoke, say lawyers of Big >Tobacco and NAFTA, are responsible for trillions off losses for >the industry >and it simply harms doing business". >Metalclad, a trash disposal company, last year successfully sued Mexico >because that country was not being polluted enough. >Or this gem of lunacy: After agreeing to arbitrate the tobacco case, the >NAFTA judiciary tribunal agreed to hear a North Dakota bank robber suing >BancCanadienne for "hindering international commerce" by pressing the alarm >button. >This madness means that using the metric system in the Americas >could easily >become a target for such suings. Big US companies could sue metric American >countries for using the metric system, which is bad for their production >process, makes people shun their products and is harmful to business in >general as they probably see it. >Be on your guard, metric countries in the Americas, for this NAFTA clause >and try to have it removed, and not just for metric's sake! Get rid of it! > >http://www.thespeciousreport.com/2003_smokers.html > > >Han >Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
