Oh, tell us how you *really* feel, Aaron (heh)<br><br>-- CHS<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:08 PM, aaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 2009, Feb, 09, , at 11:49 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:19, Jeff Lightner <<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>> It doesn't matter what the rules are. Awful Telephone &<br>
>> Telegraph (as<br>
>> well as most other ILECs) ignored them and the FCC under Dubya let<br>
>> them<br>
>> get away with it. As an apparent quid pro quo they went ahead and<br>
>> did<br>
>> illegal call data gathering for the NSA. A spineless Democratic<br>
>> congress later passed a law preventing prosecution.<br>
><br>
> Oh geeze. Can't you keep this crap on just digg and slashdot?<br>
<br>
Corruption of governmental oversight and destruction of our commonwealth<br>
through corporate influence peddling and monopoly political graft is as<br>
much a part of the failures of internet distribution and technology<br>
access in this country as anything in the purely technical domain, so<br>
commentary on the corporatist controlled political systems has merit,<br>
especially in light of the manufactured global economic crisis.<br>
The comments being criticized above may be overly generalized, but they<br>
have some truth at their core and some remote bearing on the thread.<br>
(At the least, they are a lot less of crap and a lot more on topic than<br>
discussions of radiator fluids).<br>
<br>
In any case, we certainly don't need any censorship to sustain<br>
desperate,<br>
knee jerk defenses for the death throes of the disastrous and globally<br>
failed mythology of "free market", "invisible hand" political<br>
economics or<br>
the totalitarian, elitist, crisis driven, war machine, police state<br>
torture<br>
regimes these economic policies have invariably fostered and<br>
entrenched for<br>
decades. The only invisible hand in the radical right wing Friedman<br>
fascism<br>
experiment is the one that's been choking democracy and human rights to<br>
death in every single nation that it has infected in the past 60 years.<br>
<br>
peace<br>
aaron<br>
<br>
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