[CT] CBCNEWS - U.S. bill would allow Hollywood to hack file-sharing networks

[Daniel Moran]

At 09:05 AM 7/26/2002 -0400, William December Starr wrote:
>"The Apprentice" <apprentice at attcanada.net> said:
>
>Yeah, but DKM just ripped off that whole "asset forfeiture upon
>suspicion" thing from real-life U.S. law.

Don't you _wish_ that was science fiction?


> > It's times like these that I really start to wonder what the
> > hell is the difference between a Republican and a Democrat.  Or a
> > Progressive Conservative and a Liberal.
>
>Just because two political parties or movements both have some -- or
>perhaps even a majority of -- rotten apples, that doesn't mean that
>there's no difference between them.  No matter what Ralph Nader might
>try to tell you.

The US is a plutocracy in practice, even if a republic in theory. Be glad 
there are guys like Bob Barr (to name someone on the other side who I 
despise) in the government; Barr has actual principles that guide his 
actions; he's not merely a whore for the money interests. Certainly there 
are differences between the parties, but what they have in common -- 
obedience to the people picking up the check -- is really much stronger 
than what separates them. The rare politician on either side who isn't a 
total whore for the plutocracy are a decided minority.

The plutocracy that runs the country would much prefer not to have to fuck 
around with the forms of democracy, given the choice. The idea that their 
vote isn't 10,000 times more important than that of a bus driver is so 
offensive to them that they've created a world where the bus driver's vote 
doesn't matter.

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