Ambassador sorry after signing ACTA
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I say this is just PR (or a publicity stunt. Same difference). Everything after the fact is PR. Always is.
Perhaps I can just "sorry" my way out of ACTA-induced charges?
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986)
Variant: If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in Built to Learn : The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization (2003) by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171
That's how the U.S. Congress works, as an example. There are so many laws on the books written by people who purposely wrote them to be difficult to comprehend so that practically every U.S. citizen is a criminal of one sort or another.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.