Last Saturday opponents of ACTA, the secretly negotiated intellectual property treaty, held protests across the European Union.
The protests provoked two very different reactions from EU officials. One came from the European Commission, who reaffirmed their support for the treaty via Twitter. EC spokesman Cezary Lewanowicz tweeted, "ACTA does not change EU law, does not prevent people ... [ read the full article ]
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My understanding of ACTA is that it would give similar power to equally powerless people like that of the IRS here in the USA. Number crunchers, pencil pushers & lit/art graduates are now legal to carry a gun use lethal force if they so choose.
The comment may drip with more than enough sarcasm & dramatics, but it is what got Al Capone put away in 1931, but by no means am I justifying ACTA, PIPA, SOPA or any f*ked up variant.
I am saying that when you give guns & power to plebes that have been stepped on & bullied by the very people who were the bullies... and then those bullies tell them to go out & police up others who are characteristically similar... What would you think?