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RIAA Victim Wins Attorney's Fees
VE3OGG writes "Debbie Foster, one of the many caught-up in the RIAA's drift-net attacks who was sued back in 2004 has recently seen yet another victory. After having the suit dropped against her "with prejudice" several months back, Foster filed a counter-claim, and has just been awarded "reasonable" attorney's fees. Could this, in conjunction with cases such as Santangelo, show a turning of the tide against the RIAA?"
If George Bush can lie and have hundreds of thousands of innocent people killed as aa result, why not the rest of us?
As an aside, why isn't that asshead being impeached? They tried to get Clinton impeached and all he did as pork his intern. I guess the moral standards have been lowered somewhat.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Clinton was not impeached - he was cleared.
I would say killing innocent people is the most heinous thing anyone can do.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
So, lying is bad? Okay then, to reiterate the original post: why hasn't Bush been impeached yet? Clinton lied about his sex life, which ought to have been a private matter anyway. Bush lied about Iraq having WMDs, resulting in thousands of people dying!
And don't try to tell me some bullshit about how "lying in court is heinous but lying to the American people (and Congress) is A-OK!"
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It's absurd that we're getting this off-topic in a conversation about an RIAA-related legal battle, but ...
Neither form of lieing is OK. Didn't your mother teach you that?
Clinton's lieing, though about a matter many consider trivial in the grand scheme of things, was before a grand jury. That makes it perjury. That makes it illegal. That also makes it significantly morally wrong, particularly for someone whose job involves representing the country and its system of government. Perjury is very, very bad if your goal is to have a functioning judiciary, a key part of that system of government.
Bush's lieing is also very, very bad, albeit not necessarily illegal. It would have been a perfectly good reason to vote him and all of his associates out of office, but the American people unfortunately stopped just short of that in 2004. If any of it does amount to criminal activity, then he should be prosecuted. But the fact that is lieing inspires great moral outrage (as well it should) has nothing to do with whether it violates written law. So far, no one's brought a cohesive and compelling argument forth that Bush broke any law.
Completely off-topic and this has been covered time and time again, but Clinton wasn't impeached for porking his intern. He was impeached for committing perjury
But didn't he still serve out the rest of his term as President? Impeaching an official is rather pointless if it dosn't result in their immediate removal from office...