Property "Rights" and Wikileaks

Here's an interesting posting by Cory Doctorow on the BoingBoing site:

Spain's Congress is about to vote on a new and extremely harsh copyright/Internet law. It's an open secret that the law was essentially drafted by American industry groups working with the US trade representative.

But it gets gets more interesting: 115 of the Wikileaks cables intercepted from the US embassy in Madrid were tagged with "KIPR" -- that is, relating to "intellectual property," The big question has been: will El Pais, the Spanish newspaper that has the complete trove of Wikileaks cables release them in time to effect the vote on the new law?

Well, now they've started. The first 35 of the 115 cables have been released, and they confirm the widespread suspicion: the Spanish government and the opposition party were led around by the nose by the US representatives who are the real legislative authority in Spain.

So here's the new question: when the Spanish Congress votes on America's copyright law this month, will they vote for their sovereignty, or act like a US puppet state?

The funny thing is that Americans don't understand why they aren't "loved" by the rest of the world. The media in the US presents a picture of a benevolent state who only does good, spreading liberty, and democracy around the world. The reality is that the torture state does many dark things. Sure it does some good things, but when you do evil all the "glow" goes out of the good things you do. People remember the evil a long, long time.