If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/23/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta/
Just like the bla bla bla police state bla bla bla, this is getting tiresome in its repetition. The US uses to be a bastion against the global oligarchy (which has been around for centuries (note that being Jewish has nothing to do with this)), but I guess that was because our country just hadn’t been around long enough for our local oligarchy to have its tentacles in total control of everything like it does now. Until the last 20 years or so, I considered that the US was by far the best place to be an entrepreneur since our society rules, as well as our intellectual property and legal system, applied equally to the big boys as well as the little wannabes. That has steadily eroded over the last several decades and has now pretty much reached the point where without being born to the right parents, attending the right schools and/or marrying the right spouse, any chance of vertical mobility has vanished. This unenviable state is the norm throughout most of the world (there might be a few places left, but I can’t convince my wife to consider emigrating, so haven’t done much research on where to go) and things like ACTA just ensure that this will remain the case. I mention a bit about the next paradigm here, that is presuming that the oligarchy doesn’t block it from happening. There is hope if the oligarchy’s grip can be broken, but I don’t hold out any hope for that.
Just when I start to develop small shreds of hope that things will get better, I get deluged with crap like this!
