Why the hell a trade treaty is secret. From anyone... let alone the people of the countrys involved in the agreement.
If you can't tell people what's in it. It's most likely not a good thing and we'd like to hang you for it.
I think a big part of the reason is accountability. Let it be public of who declares what should be done and then suddenly everyone knows to what extent that such-n-such company feels the peoples rights should be eroded away. This leads to one hell of a boycott of that company that isn't just based on guesswork and "Well they are one of the company's involved and I feel they MIGHT be doing that, but no I have no true idea or proof". When you can state and prove what each and every member is doing then action becomes much more powerful and directed with much better focus. And that would scare them and cause many to want to walk away as has been suggested would happen if this ACTA went public.
While it seems that the full name was correct, I'm wondering if the banking information was correct. You can fake most information with just knowing a bank routing number and knowing how many digits long the banks account numbers are, and if you use the right routing number a basic check thru a site like Federal Reserve Financial Services (http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/search_ACH.cfm) would make it seem legit info. Just wondering
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
On a more serious note, I think a big part of the issues isn't that they are being more crazy then there is just a bigger list of mental issues to choose from, and people wanting to pidgin hole any personality quirk as some form of mental disorder. A child isn't just full of energy anymore, they've got a form of ADD. They aren't exhausted or felt put upon by impossibly high expectations, they are depressed or suffering from some other disorder. This is further made into problems with so many drug company's hawking a pill to cure whatever ails your child. A form of Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' with everyone taking a pill, but instead of it being the single pill Soma it's a more type of 'personalized' pill to as one song put it "A pill to make you numb,..., a pill to make you anybody else'.
We are reaching a point that if you or your parents don't like you for who you are with negative personality issues then they can almost trade the core of who you are for a prescription to making you someone else. Tired a lot? Take a stimulate to make your child a more active one. How about too much energy? Are they too much for you to control and distracting you from doing whatever else you want to do? Try something like Ritalin so you can go back to whatever you want to do. Parents are given offers to help make raising a child more of a state of existance then a process done over time without thought to what it will cause in the future, but then again when those new problems happen there are some OTHER pills to help with those problems too.
And lets not forget options of a form of mental illness hypochondriac within the child because mommy and daddy told them too many times that this is truly what they have and this is what they've been told it does and even though it's not the child's fault that they have these issues, they still believe deep down they do since mommy and daddy said it was and promised me the problem quirks would go away if I just keep taking those pills.
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They have been thinking of the lawyers, who else do you think about when your suing someone? (aside from your legal victim)
Why the hell a trade treaty is secret. From anyone... let alone the people of the countrys involved in the agreement.
If you can't tell people what's in it. It's most likely not a good thing and we'd like to hang you for it.
I think a big part of the reason is accountability. Let it be public of who declares what should be done and then suddenly everyone knows to what extent that such-n-such company feels the peoples rights should be eroded away. This leads to one hell of a boycott of that company that isn't just based on guesswork and "Well they are one of the company's involved and I feel they MIGHT be doing that, but no I have no true idea or proof". When you can state and prove what each and every member is doing then action becomes much more powerful and directed with much better focus. And that would scare them and cause many to want to walk away as has been suggested would happen if this ACTA went public.
While it seems that the full name was correct, I'm wondering if the banking information was correct. You can fake most information with just knowing a bank routing number and knowing how many digits long the banks account numbers are, and if you use the right routing number a basic check thru a site like Federal Reserve Financial Services (http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/search_ACH.cfm) would make it seem legit info. Just wondering
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy." On a more serious note, I think a big part of the issues isn't that they are being more crazy then there is just a bigger list of mental issues to choose from, and people wanting to pidgin hole any personality quirk as some form of mental disorder. A child isn't just full of energy anymore, they've got a form of ADD. They aren't exhausted or felt put upon by impossibly high expectations, they are depressed or suffering from some other disorder. This is further made into problems with so many drug company's hawking a pill to cure whatever ails your child. A form of Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' with everyone taking a pill, but instead of it being the single pill Soma it's a more type of 'personalized' pill to as one song put it "A pill to make you numb, ..., a pill to make you anybody else'.
We are reaching a point that if you or your parents don't like you for who you are with negative personality issues then they can almost trade the core of who you are for a prescription to making you someone else. Tired a lot? Take a stimulate to make your child a more active one. How about too much energy? Are they too much for you to control and distracting you from doing whatever else you want to do? Try something like Ritalin so you can go back to whatever you want to do. Parents are given offers to help make raising a child more of a state of existance then a process done over time without thought to what it will cause in the future, but then again when those new problems happen there are some OTHER pills to help with those problems too.
And lets not forget options of a form of mental illness hypochondriac within the child because mommy and daddy told them too many times that this is truly what they have and this is what they've been told it does and even though it's not the child's fault that they have these issues, they still believe deep down they do since mommy and daddy said it was and promised me the problem quirks would go away if I just keep taking those pills.
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