AMSTERDAM, Holland (PNN) - May 29, 2012 - Lawmakers in Holland have voted to strike down the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), slammed by many as a free speech and information access choker. Dutch MPs have also ruled the government will never sign any such agreement.
“The treaty should be taken off table, whatever the decision the European Parliament should take," said MP Kees Verhoeven, a major sponsor of Tuesday’s motion in the Dutch Parliament.
As the controversial bill is making its slow way through the EU Parliament, the UK Pirate Party, the Open Rights Group (ORG) and the French La Quadrature Du Net are calling for more anti-bill rallies.
ACTA is an international agreement aimed at violating individual privacy rights and free speech, and intruding into the private affairs of innocent people all over the world. It somewhat resembles the Fascist Police States of Amerika’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was shelved by lawmakers after protests.
The European Union suspended efforts to ratify the treaty in February amid a storm of protests from activists who say the agreement would stifle free speech and access to information.
Thousands demonstrated across the EU against giving big firms the power to ban people from using the Internet based solely on unsubstantiated claims that they are illegally swapping files. Twenty-two countries in the bloc signed the agreement, with a vote on its ratification due this summer in Brussels.
The FPSA, most of the EU, Australia, Canada, Japan, and several other countries have signed the ACTA treaty, but none of these signatories' parliaments have yet ratified it. This last step would make the agreement viable. If ACTA is ratified by any six nations, the dictatorial convention would come into force by the criminal fascist cabal of globalists that seek to rule the world.
