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Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer For Solicitor General
Xiph1980 writes "President Barack Obama on Monday nominated former Recording Industry Association of America lawyer Donald Verrilli Jr. to serve as the nation's solicitor general. The solicitor general is charged with defending the government before the Supreme Court, and files friend-of-the court briefs in cases in which the government believes there is a significant legal issue. The office also determines which cases it would bring to the Supreme Court for review. Verrilli is best known for leading the recording industry's legal charge against music- and movie-sharing site Grokster. That 2003 case ultimately led to Grokster's demise when the US Supreme Court sided with the RIAA's verdict."
I can understand the argument that he wants the most vicious shark in the tank to be his attack dog. I might could even buy the argument that this WASN'T just another in a long line of examples of Obama prostrating himself before his Hollywood and entertainment industry patrons. But, it seems to me that he could have found an attack dog that was just as vicious who didn't come with RIAA baggage. To hire someone whose such an obvious enemy of much of the online community and such a lapdog of the entertainment industry seems specifically designed to send a message to his patrons that he's definitely in their pocket. It's the judicial equivalent of Eddie Cicotte hitting the first batter in the 1919 World Series.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Of course if you only listen to Rachel Maddow, then you were probably unaware.
If you think that Rachel Maddow doesn't hit Obama for this stuff all the time, then you're just as blindly partisan as you claim other people to be. Characters like Keith Olbermann, Arianna Huffington, and Bill Maher have been giving Obama shit since be got elected - from hiring much of Clinton's economic team with their heavy ties to the financial industry, to his backdoor meetings with healthcare providers promising not to bargain for lower bulk rates if they would support the reform bill.
See, the funny part about all of this is that people like Glenn Beck think that Obama is a socialist, an evil plant of the far-left set out to destroy all American values, but then they turn right around and accusing him of being in the pocket of big business without the least bit of irony. The guy is a centrist, and he's clearly positioning himself to work with the Republican Congress to try and get some compromises and get some things accomplished over the next two-year period - much to the chagrin of his Rachel-Maddow-watching supporters.
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
What's the difference between the Chicago Mafia and the MafiAA again?
The Chicago Mafia's power to extort was limited to Chicago.
Not after we elected its Don to the Oval Office.
Those of you that vote D just to keep the R's out or R just to keep the D's out have fallen for one of the biggest scams ever in the history of this country. Take a look at the ridiculous abuses of your civil rights that continue daily with no end in sight. 9/11 got the ball rolling under the R's but the D's have not done a darn thing to curb those abuses: TSA, warrant-less wiretapping, throwing people in jail for asserting their rights . . . the list goes on and on.
The current systems main purpose is to perpetuate itself. Not to help you in any way shape or form. If you receive some benefit from your vote this is a collateral coincidence and not the intent of the electorate.
For the vast majority of candidates running for public office, when you elect a D or an R to office, you are just picking a particular flavor of lies and erosion of your rights. You are not making this country into a better place. You are helping to perpetuate a system that has been co-opted by special interests and legalized bribery.
Why doesn't the FBI get sanctioned for warrant-less wire tapping of American citizens?
Why is the TSA permitted to continue to operate as it does even though it's been proven time and time again that it's procedures and methods are woefully ineffective?
and so on and so on.
Wake up and smell the corrupt system.
There is a restaurant that I like to frequent. It's a casual place and they have a number of humorous signs posted on the walls. My favorite is:
"If voting made a difference it would be illegal"
It's a joke but like all good humor it's the bit of truth behind it that makes it truly funny.
Yes it's possible that you are "throwing" your vote away when you vote for someone outside the two parties. But at least you are not helping to feed the machine that doesn't give a hoot about you and your rights.
Vote for someone/something else. When enough people do so, the system WILL change.