OT: laws and persecutionn [was: Re: Tablets and filePro]

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>When asked his whereabouts on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:43:09PM -0800,
>Bill Campbell took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> 
>> There's a law against pretty much everything if the prosecutor
>> wants to get you.  Google ``three felonies a day''.
>
>Or the government.  *cough*Assange*cough*
>
>The guy isn't even a U.S. National, so unless he sets foot on U.S. soil,
>he's not technically subject to U.S. laws.  Yet it's amazing to watch the
>morons in the comment blogs in cnn.com articles crying for Assange to be
>killed for treason.

There's a long history of government supressing disent.  In the U.S. the
Federalists passed laws making it a crime to speak out against the
government and elected politician in 1796 if I remember correctly.  In
Woodrow Wilson's regime, ``laws'' were passed which jailed people for years
who spoke against his war in Europe to protect the interests of J.P. Morgan
who largely financed the British (see historian Jim Powell's book
``Wilson's War'').

There's an equally long history of government lying, corruption, and
murdering people whether they're foreigners who's goods they want to steal,
or their own subjects who speak out against the government or engage in
behaviour unacceptable to the government, (e.g. Waco and Ruby Ridge)

The ruling class really doesn't like their dirty laundry exposed to the
world for all to see.  The free availability of information on the Internet
is their worst nightmare.

Bill
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