We have been describing that human rights come before property rights(2), that people come before the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)(3), and that intelligence rests with the people and not with the big multinational corporations(4). But these fundamental truths have no place in the brainwashed mentality of Mr. Corcoran, and this journalist preaches our social and economic growth as dependent on the intellectual property rights owned by the multinationals. Therefore, Mr. Corcoran advocates the use of these intellectual paper rights to make profits against the intelligence of the people and their well being.

And Mr. Corcoran concurs with the right of a pharmaceutical multinational company of having the monopolistic right of being the only company to market an essential drug for the salvation of humanity. And this is the philosophy of the World Trade Organization, to make money at the expense of people and this not what free trader Adam Smith envisioned when he said that the wealth of a nation is in "the property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property(5)."

Profits don't come before people Mr. Corcoran.

References/endnotes

Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

CANADA'S ECONOMY IN THE NEWSPAPERS, By Brian MacLeans', http://www.geocities.com/brian79/macecon.html

1. Why profits come before people, Terence Corcoran, March 8 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010308/494357.html

2. On Hernando De Soto, a mechanical economist, and Douglas McGregor, a humanist at work, by Mario deSantis, December 30, 2000 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis298/desotoNmcgregor.html

3. A common economic language: People come first, by Mario deSantis, March 1, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_300/desantis337/language.html

4. Intelligence is People and it is Democracy, Intelligence is not Multinational Corporations and it is not Globalization, by Mario deSantis, March 5, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_300/desantis341/intelligence.html

5. The Relevance of Adam Smith. Smith and the American Bicentennial, By Robert L. Hetzel, http://www.rich.frb.org/generalinfo/pubs/relevance