To tell you the truth, comrade, I don't see a whole lot of good in what America is doing to the world's working class; farmers, ranchers, small family-owned businesses. Free trade has devastated their culture.

Corn has been grown in Mexico for 9,000 years and in that period of time, crops have evolved to grow in many different conditions; high altitudes, low altitudes, areas with little water, areas where it can be brutally cold, etc. These farmers base their whole lives around these crops, then America, with it's glorious free trade agreement is selling it's bio-engineered corn in Mexico, which the upper/middle classes are buying up and turning their backs on the farmers they've depended on for so many years.

We see corporations dominating the third world, we see the working classes' econimic situation worsening; people unable to afford a real education and forced to enroll in trade schools where they learn to perform a certain task assigned to them rather than becoming the person they want to be. And those who can't even afford trade schools continue to labor for the corporations who're the only ones offering jobs since all the small family businesses have been shut down because they can no longer compete. PEOPLE ARE NOT MEANT TO LIVE THAT WAY. It nullifies their free will and destroys their lives.

WTO and NAFTA are a pin-prick when it comes to all the terrible things America has done all in the name of profit or Christian morality. And apparently, conservative republicans support these things.

I have respect for peaceful men, but when their beliefs infringe upon others' rights, then there's a problem. I agree that John Paul II was a great man. Though, I think no single person or institution should have such a vast influence on the free minds of this planet.