EU ACTA Chief Resigns In Disgust Over Disrespect At Citizens; Next Steps - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

"This just in: the European Parliament’s rapporteur of the ACTA agreement...just quit in disgust over how the whole process has been designed to keep citizens and lawmakers in the dark. From the website of La Quadrature, which quotes and translates Numérama interviewing Kader Arif, former rapporteur for ACTA: ”I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament’s demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.” ...I’ve never seen words this strong from a Member of European Parliament before. He’s essentially saying that parliament was deliberately kept in the dark – this description comes very close to describing a coup d’état."