[governance] US Lawmaker Opens up ACTA to Online Comments

[Riaz K Tayob]

Well if the dog can't wag its tail (sopa or pipa) then the tail can wag 
the dog... so acta will do the job...

actually, it was the same with the deregulation of financial services in 
the 1990s - there was local resistance to undoing Glass Steagull (the 
seperation of investment from commercial banks - the 1930s law). the US 
committed at the WTO to undo it, and voila...

I think our progressive friends in the rich countries have been 
struggling against enormous odds in their countries (from a public 
interest, rather than vested interest pov)... national interest can be 
rather short term and detrimental in the longer runs...

Lets hope they can defeat this, otherwise it will become their next 
export to poor countries...

On 2012/03/07 12:30 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
> Hi Riaz,

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