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EDIT: I think that my conclusion in this message is wrong.

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[PDF / page 8] http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...

PES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_European_Socialists and The Green Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Green_Party voted for ACTA.

EPP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_People%27s_Party voted against ACTA.

... and people call the right wing "evil fascists who eat babies".

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You're misreading this. The motion that was defeated against the votes of the center-left was this:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION...

It is a resolution that is critical of ACTA and asks for necessary clarifications and improvements. It is pretty much the exact opposite of "voting for ACTA".

The center-right parties then succeeded in getting a motion of resolution approved for the following text:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION...

According to the text in the votewatch report you linked, the European Peope party voted against the proposition from the left in order to get their version to pass : "However, to win on this issue, the EPP and ECR first had to reject the joint Motion for Resolution proposed by the centre-left. The EPP and ECR managed to win thanks to 11 defections from ALDE and 13 from S&D members (the entire British Labour delegation)."

I think you might be right. Anyway, my distrust for ALL politicians still remains.

The left-wing's MO is "think of the children" while the right-wing's is "we must fight terrorism". But in the end they all have the same goal.

Seriously? Maybe this is a European thing, but conservatives pull "TEH CHILDREN" just as much as anyone else.

I'm a left-winger and I support this message. Post-WWII political categories are getting increasingly meaningless.

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