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It's too bad that we don't have a venue to debate this issue directly with the FOF people who write this stuff, as although they might keep tabs on this forum, they aren't likely to be getting an account and posting. Because as I said in the earlier FOF thread, these are the kinds of arguments we can easily rebut.

If we did have the author of that press release by FOF here, we could point out:

1) the language is misleading as it assumes/concludes that the primary issue is one of foreign concerns seeking access to the US market, *and* at the same time when a majority of americans oppose same.

2) the real issues are:

a) the right of americans to spend their money as they wish

b) the fact that the US gov't is reneging on prior trade agreements

3) the fact that FOF wants to impose their morality on others, even when it doesn't affect someone else, and which is essentially equivalent to the nanny-staters on the left end of the political spectrum who also believe people must be protected from themselves.


These are the types of arguments that the PPA should be making in one of their own press releases, every single time one of these dishonest rhetoric bombs is dropped by our opponents.

And note when I say dishonest, I mean that basically many/most of our opponents suck at logic and interpretation of facts, and not necessarily that they are being intentionally dishonest. Nonetheless we in turn must make it clear that the primary issue is one of imposing their own moral standards on others, and that the other types of facts and "conclusions" they add to that are false.