Comments on: ACTA finally leaked http://www.orderingdisorder.com/2009/11/04/acta-finally-leaked/ Creating order from chaos Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:42:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dan http://www.orderingdisorder.com/2009/11/04/acta-finally-leaked/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Dan Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:05:04 +0000 http://www.orderingdisorder.com/?p=296#comment-100 Several Freedom of Information Act requests have already been denied on the grounds of "national security". This leak was a word-of-mouth leak only; apparently the document was watermarked such that even a manually typed transcription would be traceable to its source (particular phrases, misspellings, etc). The biggest problem is that treaties become Constitutional law, thanks to the Constitution itself. I guess it doesn't matter if the treaty itself should be unconstitutional? Several Freedom of Information Act requests have already been denied on the grounds of “national security”. This leak was a word-of-mouth leak only; apparently the document was watermarked such that even a manually typed transcription would be traceable to its source (particular phrases, misspellings, etc).

The biggest problem is that treaties become Constitutional law, thanks to the Constitution itself. I guess it doesn’t matter if the treaty itself should be unconstitutional?

]]> By: Janssen http://www.orderingdisorder.com/2009/11/04/acta-finally-leaked/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Janssen Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:31:57 +0000 http://www.orderingdisorder.com/?p=296#comment-99 Wow. What troubles me even more is that the negotiations are secret. So much for transparency in government, a.k.a. democracy, which could be considered the root cause of problems like this. Any idea where one could find the actual text? I can't seem to find any other stories about the leaked text. Here's a petition about the transparency issue: http://www.keionline.org/acta-petition Wow. What troubles me even more is that the negotiations are secret. So much for transparency in government, a.k.a. democracy, which could be considered the root cause of problems like this.

Any idea where one could find the actual text? I can’t seem to find any other stories about the leaked text.

Here’s a petition about the transparency issue:
http://www.keionline.org/acta-petition

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