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Using Copyright To Suppress Political Speech
MacDork writes "As most /.'ers know all to well, Copyright is increasingly being used as a means to suppress free speech these days. And the trend has not been lost on our 2004 US Presidential candidates. Both George and John are using copyright law to 'vaporize' information considered embarrassing or harmful to their campaigns. Don't worry about basing your vote on copyright issues though. Like most other domestic issues (gay marriage: no, offshoring: yes), their stance is pretty much identical (i.e. pro Hollywood)."
I hope you didn't sprain anything with that kneejerk reaction.
Serving "with" does not have to mean in the same boat. Swift boats always operated in pairs or more to provide covering fire if needed. Just like every other type of boat involved in the riverine warfare in Vietnam.
One man, that actually served in Kerry's boat has put out a book that points out Kerry's lies about being in Cambodia during Christmas of '68. The campaign has not been able to answer this because Kerry's words are in the congressional record and a letter to the Boston newspaper. The title of the book is Unfit for Command, just published in the last few days.
Don't forget, Clinton signed the DMCA.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
VVAW wanted the U.S. to pull out of Vietnam and hand it over to the communists in Hanoi. Kerry was one of the higher-up leaders and organizers for VVAW. How much more pro-Hanoi, pro-communist does he need to be? Not only that, but in the 1980's, Kerry was in favor of peaceful coexistance with the communist Soviet Union.
Anyway, all you really have to do is listen to Kerry's speech in front of Congress regarding the Vietnam war. Either Kerry was a war criminal, or he was lying to Congress. In either case, he is unfit to be President.
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/
My other first post is car post.
Funny how the people that trump up Kerry's war record against Bush are the same people that didn't care about Clinton's war record against Dole.
Why is OK for Clinton to leave the country and not OK for Bush to serve in the Nat Guard?
Does Kerry still get to claim his medals after he threw them onto the whitehouse lawn in protest?
Why was it such a big deal that all the records relating to GWB's service be released, while Kerry still refuses to release all of his?
Oh, and they dispute two of Kerry's Purple Hearts. One was caused by flying rice (because he blew up rice and some hit him), for example.
How does a man get three Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star in 4 months? That's one major medal a month (for you math majors). I always thought that you had to be really hurt to get a Purple Heart. I mean the kind of wounds that take you out of action for four months each.
While they say that Kerry did pull a man out of the water, there were other boats that were feet away that were going to save him. However, they were not under enemy fire and the reason Kerry's boat was there first was because Kerry ran when they came under fire.
Did you know that Kerry put in for every single one of his medals himself? The only one recomending Kerry for medals was John Kerry.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
How is this any different than being modded down every single time someone points out even the tiniest flaw in a Democrat? Slashdot and the liberal ignorant masses it possess are pure hypocrits. Anyone with a differing viewpoint that comes to this site is flamed away and modded into oblivion, then the "editors" (for lack of a better word) have the nerve to bitch about NBC not allowing Moore to use a video clip?
I've been visiting slashdot for almost a decade, back when it was hosted on Maldas Univ. Michigan website, but this bullshit has gone on long enough. Fuck this website and all of it's hypocrisy.
Where was it? Where were the calls for justice? The protests? Anything?
Had Bush been president, I can see the headlines now. You can call that OT if you want, but it's no more OT than blaming Bush and the Republicans for the iraqi prisoner torture. I mean yeah, the republicans don't exactly support it, but they do by proxy when they support Bush. He is the president and it's a scandal of his administration. At least with Bush, the perps are being prosecuted. Well, the henchmen are. Whether someone up the chain needs punishing, we may never know for sure, though I suspect someone up the chain knew damn good and well what was going on.
In either event, Waco was a marvelous piece of democrat work. Fire the guys responsible, then hire them back later. Must be nice having a nice fat government job. You can make blunders that cost the lives of your fellow citizen, and count on having a job to come back to when things cool down. You can call me seeing things that way OT if you want, but that's how it worked.
Think for yourself, destroy your television.
Um. Don't look now, but ... Bush went to Yale.
Yep, and apparently going there was about all he did.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
Sure. As soon as we have real documentation as to what his purple hearts were REALLY for, I'd say it's all still hearsay.
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
IS all that is required for marriage in your mind be that it be to a person you love? Does that mean you should be allowed to marry your dad or your brother because you love him? Your argument that "straights can marry people they love but gays can't" is ludicrous.
And you are being willfuly obtuse. Fine, try this on for size: Straight folks are allowd to marry another consenting adult, as long as it is a non-incestous relationship. Gay folks are denied the same right by hateful bigots.
There's much more to it than that.
Really? Like what?
Also, your Nat'l Geographic link is irrelevant.
Irrelevant? You made the argument that Gays are asking for "extra" rights that are an abomination to the natural order of things. I provided a link demonstrating that homosexuality does occur in nature. Myabe I'm missing something here. Perhaps you can give a explanation of what you mean by "natural order of things."We are talking about people not animals. (There are differences between the two, dontcha know!)
Last time I checked people are animails. You know, hairless apes with big brains who walk upright. Wasn't this covered in your high school biology class?
If National Geographic reported that incest was "not unknown" in the animal kingdom, would you support that as well? Again, you have made another ridiculous argument.
Are you honestly suggesting that homosexuality and incest are the same?
thx,
Eric
The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants. - Albert Camus