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Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus Formed
questionlp writes "News.com reports that three members from the House of Reps has formed a caucus that aims to stop piracy and make for stronger IP laws. One of the members of the caucus: helped author a note last fall to 74 fellow Democrats assailing the Linux open-source operating system's GNU General Public License as a threat to America's 'innovation and security.'"
Perhaps not his campaign per se, but I think it's quite possible Gore would have won if there weren't all these people taken off the voter rolls in Floriday "by mistake". Did I mention that the Florida Governor was his brother? How many times do we have to ask the question: if this happened in some third world country, who would believe that it was just a coincidence?
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
There's no exception to being a greedy Democrat. They're all greedy. That's why they (and the Republicans too) tax us all to death so they and their constituents don't have to get real jobs.
You can turn it off - it run by commercial companies.
But you can wait untill Congress will turn GPL off - on the territory of USA of course (unless they will send USA Army to liberate other peoples from GPL dictatorship). Then Americans will have a pleasure to see as year by year their economy is going more and more down, while in the rest of the world it's going up.
The ultimate outcome will be good: USA will be one of the other countries, *A* country (not *the* country as it is now). Finally. Perhaps that will teach Americans to respect the rest of the world, not to control it.
Less is more !
The only way out is to kill. Real blood will have to be shed by a majority of Americans. It will take losing all freedom of speech, all freedom to innovate, all gun rights, all privacy rights and when they come to put the chip in your head, that's when you'll go to fight back. But it will be mostly too late. You'll have no gun. You'll have no free internet to get the word out. Your phone will be tapped(eschelon), your email watched (carnivore), your position known at all times (gps cell phones). Fox and Cnn will both tell you why this is for your own good. Just bend over and let them put the chip in your ass. Go ahead, be a PATRIOT. Be a good honest American. What have you got to hide. Your not a JEW are you?! ---oh sorry, wrong country, wrong time -- You're NOT A MUSLIM TERRORIST ARE YOU???
_ Free.h tml
Forget your bill of rights, that breeds terrorists. Forget your freedom of speech, your right to vote, your right to privacy, your right to be a real American.
Forget it all, it's all soon to be illegal.
"First the Nazis went after the Jews, so I did not react. Then they went after the Catholics, but I wasn't a Catholic, so I didn't object. Then they went after the workers, so I didn't stand up. Then they went after the Protestant clergy, and by then it was too late for anybody to stand up."
Martin Niemoeller, Protestant theologian
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were
(I don't know what else is on this site. This is decidedly a warning, so it's clearly not a neo-nazi hate site. That doesn't mean someone scanning logs won't use thirdreich.net against you. It's America after all, the truth doesn't matter.)
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
In order to become president, you need to win the electoral college. The electoral college is made up of one vote per representative or senator from each state.
Florida has a law that say they will send electors who support the candidate who gains the majority of the votes.
In the event that it is a close call, Florida state law says that there must be 1 and exactly 1 recount.
Bush won the initial count. It was close, so that didn't count. He won the recount. There was no evidence of foul play. Stupidity, yes, foul play, no. (Yes, there was evidence of foul play. But I will not mention them here, because it makes my blood boil).
Gore's team tried to legally challenge the vote. He first wanted only a few, heavily democratic regions recounted. The law says no. A judge, who was a liberal, said "Yes", without citing any laws. A judge above him held it up in court. The supreme court of Florida held it up as well. They are all liberals, and were very opposed to Bush. Some have even stated publically their distaste for Bush. This means they were not impartial in their decisions.
The Supreme Court said "You cannot change the state law after the election. Therefore, since the state law says that whoever wins the recount, wins the race. Therefore, Bush won the race.
Now, several things could've happened, which would have been very curious indeed, because they are legal, yet have never been done before.
1) The legislature is responsible for choosing and sending the electors to the electoral college. They gave the power to the people to choose. They could've taken it away, and sent whomever they wanted. The constitution says it is the legislatures who decide who to send, or how to choose who to send.
Bush told the legislature not to meet and not to overturn the law and choose electors. That would've been just too weird.
2) In the event that the legislature can't decide by a certain date who they will send, the election can be thrown to the house of representatives. The house of representatives would've decided who would be the next president if the Florida Secretary of State did not stamp the piece of paper that says Bush Won in time enough to send the electors to DC.
This is not just made up on the spur of the moment. This is the constitution. This is the way we all agreed it should be 200 years ago.
Why did the Supreme Court step in? Because it was the only organization that would've given the people a feeling of sincerity and impartiality. I think it was wrong for the Supreme Court to get involved, but it was only because of the Florida courts and their corruption and mangling of the law that it was necessary.
Now, your job is to go read the constitution. We live in a nation where we all made a deal with the government, and we laid out what they can and most certainly cannot do. We laid out how we choose who is in the government in no uncertain terms. Anyone who stands to defy that is a traitor to the constitution, and threatens the only thing that keeps us together and prevents a second civil war or worse. That deal cannot change unless by a specific process that we laid out. That deal is binding beyond the Supreme Court (the Supreme Court owing its existence to the document) and should the Supreme Court overthrow the document, the people will overthrow the Supreme Court.
Remember this: During that frightful time, there were people assembling for war. There were many who said that they had had enough of the courts overruling the constitution. They would gladly have taken up arms to overthrow the government, knowing full well that it would have cost them their lives.
Remember, we walk a fine line, and it is near another civil war, this time between conservative, God-fearing Christians, and socialist environmentalist degenerate wackos who want to overthrow our nation and freedom by subversion and sabotage. The only thing that prevents one from waging open warfare with the other is the constitution, which guarantees that
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
Actually you have to be a black liberal to discuss issues, black conservatives have joined and have been told to sit in the back and shut up.
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This is perfectly reasonable though.
Any black person stupid enough to be a conservative is dumber than dirt and has no possibility of contributing anything meaningful to the discussion.
Just look at the republican policy on minority voting:
"Niggers will not be allowed to vote".
See the Florida voter purge
The scumbag traitors like Strom Thurmond and his ilk.
You forgot to put the period after "idiots".
Time makes more converts than reason