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Terrorist Link to Copyright Piracy Alleged
xbsd writes "John Stedman, a lieutenant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in charge of IP violations, testified in front of the Senate Homeland Security committee that some associates of terrorist groups such as Hezbollah may be involved in copyright violations. According to CNET's Declean McCullagh: 'Even though Stedman's evidence is circumstantial, his testimony comes as Congress is expected to consider new copyright legislation this year. An invocation of terrorism, the trump card of modern American politics, could ease the passage of the next major expansion of copyright powers'."
At the same time, China is the software-piracy capital of the world.
Socialism includes state housing, healthcare, and welfare.
And special legislation protecting pet industries.
What you are thinking of is right wing authoritarianism, also known as facism.
Joe Stalin loves your definition.
Please use proper terminology when trying to state a flame war over political ideology.
Stalin was a socialist. Hitler was a socialist.
I don't need your flawed definitions to understand socialism.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
Stalin was a socialist. Hitler was a socialist.
Both used the State to advance thier political ends.
Fucking socialists, right or left.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
At the same time, China is the software-piracy capital of the world.
You're forgetting that with the things you mentioned comes both increased government control of every aspect of a person's life, and inversely, a lack of control of what they do with their life. If socialistic practices become mandatory (as they are now, in many respects), then it becomes a bit of a facsistic socialism.
Fascistic socialism is just communism. Communism and socialism share most of the same ideals, afterall.
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Socialism, communism, fascism. Same old song and dance, just a different tune. The only way in which they differ is in the ideological sophistry that is used to justify and defend them. All are an assault upon individual liberty and personal sovereignty.
I do agree that he is incorrect to call these guys socialists, but then it is an easy to make mistake given that socialists are just as evil as fascists and the end results of both ideologies when put into practice is a police state complete with secret police and gulags.
Lee
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
Stalin was the ruler of the USSR, the United Soviet SOCALIST Republics.
Hitler was the leader of the National SOCIALIST party in Germany.
Both men may have been many things (murderous thugs for example) in addition to being socialists, but that doesn't change the fact that they were socialists.
Lee
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
"How many bills had Bush vetoed?"
You have to be able to read them to veto them.
Sadly, I don't even think that revolution will work, since there are too few people concerned with Freedom and Liberty, but instead concerned with "Everyone Loves Raymond" and "Survivor".
I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. It seems to me that as the current administration builds this fascist state, it passes more and more laws to make the Entertainment Industry larger, more profitable, and more powerful, which serves an important purpose for such a state: keeping the masses placated. When the government passes laws which blatantly favor the media companies, the message that I, the citizen, get from the government is "Go watch TV."
You are a sick fuck to think Hitler is a good guy. May you never reproduce.
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