The secrecy over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) currently being negotiated by countries from across the world has hit elected MPs in the UK, who cannot get access to any ACTA documents. Junior business minister David Lammy said documents related to ACTA will not be put in the House of Commons library, due to the desire for other countries to keep the negotiations secret.
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Quote:EU customs, frequently confronted with traffics of drugs, weapons or people, do neither have the time nor the legal basis to look for a couple of pirated songs on an iPod music player or laptop computer, and there is no intention to change this,
just like the police are so busy trying to catch burglars murderers and thieves they don't have enough time to stuff envelopes with fixed penalty notices for offences caught on gatso's
Quote:EU customs, frequently confronted with traffics of drugs, weapons or people, do neither have the time nor the legal basis to look for a couple of pirated songs on an iPod music player or laptop computer, and there is no intention to change this,
just like the police are so busy trying to catch burglars murderers and thieves they don't have enough time to stuff envelopes with fixed penalty notices for offences caught on gatso's
They do when the IFPI (Sony & Co) grease the governments pockets.
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Governments are supposed to servethe public , NOT International meglomaniacal corporations . They really are insane and so are Governments for going along with it. How can it be possible that these scumbags can insist on secrecy , when we all know its because if they can do it on the quiet , it'll cost less for them and of course easier if there are no objections from the public.
It's quite simple ,ANY laws passed in the uk should be open to full debate . If they dont like the idea of that then dump any proceedings , as anything less would be UNDEMOCRATIC..
Unfortunately we all know in the UK as elsewhere , any politician involved in the process would have been entirely bought and paid for by the lawyers now running the media industry .
Where's the Freedom of Information act? and they (Govt) cant cite terrorism as the reason why we cant know. Our democracy is being trampled flat by these scum and our governments are screwing every one of us for them.....
What a big pile of sh*t.
Originally posted by KillerBug: When they made seatbelts mandatory, they said they would never pull anyone over for not wearing one...now they have checkpoints!
Never believe anything a police officer tells you, and you should run if someone from the government says the words, "I am here to help you".
They are not all bad. I once thought as you. I am very glad to have befriended my brother in law. He is an ex marine and a cop. And a great guy. I drive without a license and showed him the legality of it and he is much more inclined to show me stuff that is straight up bullshit now since I gave him "the BLUE Pill"