That low rumbling sound you can hear is David Lange rolling in his grave at the sell-out of his independent vision for our country.
Labour's nuclear-free zone was a moral and ethical stance of nationhood against US hegemony and, as New Zealanders, we should be equally as determined to protect our self-determination by opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
That's why many Kiwis will protest against the so-called free trade agreement this coming Saturday.
John Key would have us believe that billions and billions will flow from this "free" trade deal with America and other Asia-Pacific nations. Unfortunately for the prime minister, Wikileaks obtained the cable from our chief negotiator, Mark Sinclair, admitting privately that managing the fact we would gain little from the deal was its biggest challenge.
When your chief negotiator warns you that telling the public this deal will earn fortunes is the wrong thing to do because it really won't, everyone must question what we are actually being sold here. The agreement is 29 chapters long, but only five have anything to do with trade. America is playing a Cold War chess game with China in the Pacific, and this deal is really more a national security leash marking America's turf.