[Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

[Orionist]

>
> If I understand correctly, Obama has issued an executive order
> approving ACTA, but that executive order is suppressed as a state
> secret.  And the administration hasnt given it a number because there
> are no gaps in the numbering of Obama's EO list..?


As I understand it's rather called an "executive agreement", which is
another word for "treaty"; so the president signing the treaty itself is
enough and there's no need for an executive order, but I might be wrong.

However, sen. Wyden has been questioning the constitutionality of signing
ACTA without getting Congressional approval:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120126/01545117544/as-ustr-insists-acta-doesnt-need-congressional-approval-wyden-asks-state-dept-second-opinion.shtml

Regards,
--
Orionist



On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:33 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
> wrote:
> > ..
> >
> > One does well to follow Michael Geist's blogs on this
> > [http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ here].  He has been on top of this issue
> since
> > it started, and provides links to developments on his left sidebar.
> >
> > ACTA is probably more damaging outside the US than within because it
> imposes
> > US views in other countries without any of the due process that would
> > normally be available to US persons. The entire agreement is a trade
> > agreement which only happens to have copyright as a major content
> element.
> > It seeks to protect the interests of American business.  By framing the
> > issues in terms of "trade" and "enforcement", it ignores how seriously
> > fucked-up copyright law has become.
>
>
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120124/14071517529/new-petition-asks-white-house-to-submit-acta-to-senate-ratification.shtml
>
> 33,765 votes so far.
>
>
> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK
>
> If I understand correctly, Obama has issued an executive order
> approving ACTA, but that executive order is suppressed as a state
> secret.  And the administration hasnt given it a number because there
> are no gaps in the numbering of Obama's EO list..?
>
> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Barack_Obama/Executive_orders
>
> And in the EU,
>
> 'Kader Arif, the "rapporteur" for ACTA, has quit that role in disgust
> over the process behind getting the EU to sign onto ACTA.'
>
>
> http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/3/3/european_parliament_official_in_charge_of_acta_quits_and_denounces_the_masquerade_behind_acta/
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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