The RIPE NCC is not paid for by the USA taxpayer, and most of the personal data they hold has been collected by RIPE.
RIPE is able to register IP's and collect the fees because of the MOU with IANA which is paid for by the USA taxpayer. RIPE can collect user fees because they entered into the MOU agreement with IANA. Part of that agreement is to provide certain services required by the RIR's which includes the whois data. RIPE collected this data under the MOU agreement and has agreed to make the data available under the MOU agreement. The entire system hinges on the US government contract with IANA. RIPE clearly says the members are responsible for entering their own data into the RIP database so the members voluntarily give up any privacy protection under EU directives when they do that. These issues are all on topic and need to be dealt with before you can start discussing you want to discuss. I don't understand why these issues have not be dealt with before but many want to ignore them and run around changing policies without taking this stuff into account. Thank You