Secret vote on ACTA to be held in the EU on the 21st of June

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Link: http://acta.ffii.org/?p=1472

If that's true, it's hardly a surprise. It's the European Union's type of democracy - if they want something done, and a giant majority of the population opposes it, they just do it secretly. Recently, the debate about flooding a tiny patch of land was much more heated than the debate about signing away in excess of €8000 per capita in guarantees to a European fund that's going to be empty within two years, and defaulted on within ten. Everyone knows the money is lost, and the politicians lied in the exact same way they did about financial aid to Greece two years ago. The exact same wording was used: "we'll get all of it back, and we trust them".

For an organisation that keeps moaning about democracy in other countries like the coward it is, it's disturbingly weak and undemocratic itself. As I've said before, it's like giving Zimbabwe's government access to the budget of the United States. They're just throwing more and more money at it, even though everyone knows it's lost by now, that Greece will collapse, that Spain and Portugal won't be able to cope, and that all money we've poured into them previously is completely lost.

This rumour fits right in with that - appeasing 'the financial markets' by punishing the population against their will.

Not at all. This one will fail. However, the European Union, in the long term - unless it collapses before that - will try to push those rules through very quietly, in several rounds if it has to. The Dutch voted against it, certainly - but that hasn't stopped the European Union from having those provisions passed before. In one case, we voted against a constitution in a referendum by a very clear majority, even after eurofetishist parties had made ads saying we'd be facing war and genocide unless we voted in favour. After that, they put most of the provisions in 'The Treaty of Lisbon' and had our parliament pass it quietly.

It's the preferred method of democracy for the European Union, because the European Union can't count on support from its inhabitants. Luckily, most legislation they pass can be passed without speaking to one ordinary civilian.

Depressingly, I have to agree with you.

Instead of people telling their governments they don't want this, they need to think about going on the offensive and asking their reps. to push legislation that stops this from happening. They are eventually going to lose if they don't.