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Ahh typical congress. Nice to see criminals can make a decent living in our country by being in charge of it.
Ahh typical congress. Nice to see criminals can make a decent living in our country by being in charge of it.
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Who thinks he's wearing a toupee?
you think since he received a whopping $1000 he is bought and paid for???
$1000 is chump change to politicians. I'm sure he is getting a whole lot more behind the scenes to do their bidding but no way for a grand.
Might want to let him know what we all think-
Washington D.C. Office
2409 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-4236
or an email - He makes you jump through hoops
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jaewon223 said: Who thinks he's wearing a toupee?
That's exactly what I was thinking when that mugshot popped up on the screen...
Writing him a letter may just get me added to the RIAA list. I think I'll write a letter to MY congressman letting him know that I don't like this guy and he shouldn't either. i.e. Stay away!
Lamar is so corrupt it's ridiculous.
By the way, sorry for the comment abuse but I had to say it:
Yeah RIT -- represent!
dear agent... err... representative smith,
please feel free to fuck yourself and the greedy douchebags you are representing. i'd like to offer a few points of advice if i may:
a) get rid of the hair piece. you're bald, that's ok, and nothing to be ashamed of.
b) if you're gonna be in bed with big business, choose a better partner. these guys are the crystal meth fiends of big business and that makes you guilty by association.
c) don't you have something more important to work on, like steroids in baseball?
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What a tool, in both the literal and figurative sense.
Further proof that US copyright laws were not enacted and enforced by our representatives, but bought and paid for by special interest groups (read cartels).
@nffcnnr:
\"Typical radical religious right-wing Republican serving his wealthy corporate constituency\"
Err, except the letter's cosigner is a democrat.
@yahonza: hear hear. Neither side of the aisle has a monopoly on greed and corruption.
Furthermore, it was Clinton who signed into law the DMCA made by a republican congress. Apparently, the one thing that both republicans and democrats can agree on is that the proletariat have too much freedom.
WOW! Is that all is takes to buy off a congressman? Shit, we can all piece up right now and buy him!
Oh, wait, that's right...the \"donation\" are just a down payment. His friends and family get jobs with the industry for his servitude...and he will get a really posh job when/if he gets thrown out of office.
Ah, government corruption at it's banal core...aka Thursday.
@oldhat:
Very true. That is why I love consumer self protection (like the Consumerist itself), but I am deeply doubtful of the ability of politicians to \"protect\" us.
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@yahonza:
It being not-unusual for a Democrat doesn't make it any less typical for a religious right Republican.
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it could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly american criminal class except congress.
-mark twain
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thanks, Techno. :o]
Cory Doctorow: Caines sez, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.) are sending threats to 20 universities if they don't provide \"acceptable answers\" to what measures they are taking to prevent illegal file sharing.
Someone needs to find a way to hurt these people...real bad.
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Dear Prospective College Student, the RIAA has done you the service of researching which colleges and universities have top-notch networks. Please consider one of the following schools: Brandeis, Duke, Iowa State, Northern Illinois, Syracuse, and Tufts Universities; the Universities of Georgia, Iowa, Southern California, South Florida, and Tennessee; the University of Texas at Austin; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I'm a board member of USC Free Culture and had the privledge of taking a seminar with Cory Doctorow, a visiting Fulbright professor @ USC's Public Diplomacy program and advisor to USC FC. Believe it or not, we had success politicizing the undergrads; Cory's been amazing and one of our goals next year is a public action against Berman.
So Stephen, we're working on it. Check out our blog: http://imlportfolio.usc.edu/freeculture/
If you want to take a public action, join our flickR group. Already 140 cc pics and we need to take some of Dirty Berman's office location.
They'll go down eventually - http://weblogs.annenberg.edu/digipol/2007/04/in_closing_li...
Remember what Public Enemy #1 said....
@Stepehn Colbert: It's crazy, but how about we actually enforce existing laws? And actually research and vote?
And shouldn't you be a tad more sarcastic, Colbert? You're way funnier on tv.
I miss the pie-in-the-face vigilante...he was cool.
Because US colleges are such quiet and well-ordered places, the House of Representatives have decided they might as well send nineteen of them a long, rambling questionnaire to find out what they're doing about filesharing.Curiously, the US government tried one of these last year, but many schools...
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@nffcnnr:
This does not surprise me, Lamar Smith is shady. Typical radical religious right-wing Republican serving his wealthy corporate constituency.
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Yes Sir! Thank god we have a Democrat keeping it real. I for one thank the open and honest Democrat Howard Berman (D-Calif) watching over those damn Neo-Cons.
What a tool you are, dude. You actually think Democrats are better than Republicans. I still wonder how you even managed to turn on your computer? Did Moveon.org tell you how?
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Dianne Feinstein took $4000. She is the one that started the PERFORM Act that's forcing the Internet Radio stations to shut down. What a #&@#$%@&%*@#$ing @*&#^!#%^$@^#%$$*&@^$*.
I'm not from the U.S (I'm in Australia) but I read a lot about what is going on there via boing boing and various news papers, etc. Also I am going to be there in August. Woop!
The best thing about American Law is your wonderful Cival Liberties, unfortunately it seems that each year your' governments (both Republican & Democrat) seem to chip away at these laws until there will eventually be none left.
It seems to me that your country's laws have been going steadily down the Toilet since about Nixon (although I don't know too much about your politics in the later 70's and 80's). Unfortunately Australia's Prime Minister's head is so far up George Bush's arse that our Country has steadily been heading through the same pipes to eventually wind up in corporate crap land.
@Adam Rock: Dianne Feinstein is proof that men and women are the same: she's just another lousy, war-mongering, corrupt senator. Might as well be a dude, congrats, women, you are just as bad.
Also everything wrong with the senate...it's almost a lifetime gig*. California can do so much better.
* hahaahahah----Santorum----hahahahaha
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@oldhat: Strangely, there seem to be a lot more men screwing things up- maybe because they're rarely in positions of power....
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This does not surprise me, Lamar Smith is shady. Typical radical religious right-wing Republican serving his wealthy corporate constituency.