p2pnet - rss feed: On the road with Alberto Gonzales
p2p news / p2pnet: America will be relieved to know federal attorney general Alberto Gonzales is on the road, fighting the good fight.
He’s pictured below hyping Los Angeles area high school kids …
… on Hollywood’s behalf.
He’s spending hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of taxpayer dollars making sure students know that making sure the movie industry bottom line remains in good health is vital to the nation.
This undated pic is carried on Court TV.
Court TV? Yes. And there are a lot more.
The caption reads: “The Town Hall Meeting featured actors, senior executives from movie studios, educators and FBI agents. Center: U.S. Attorney General Gonzales. Present from Court TV, far left, Fred Cambria, Executive Producer and Vinnie Politan, Anchor. Front row, center, Scoot MacPherson, Executive Vice President, Corporate and Government Affairs, and far right, Lee Tenebruso, Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Educatio
(Thanks, Gentry)
April 25th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
These Americans are NUTS !
The politician is running around pushing industry propaganda with non other than senior executives who’ve lobbied (paid for) these outrageous laws (DMCA), and not a soul is so much as raising an eyebrow? This is the epitomy of arrogance and stupidity of a people.
Fuck this, I have no more sympathy for Americans. The RIAA/MPAA have effectively purchased itself the most powerful nation on earth, they’ve won without a fight or so much as a whisper.
April 26th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Damn this is really messed up. It’s like manchurian candidate goes to Costco to buy the government in bulk.
April 26th, 2006 at 5:15 am
American politicians: In the pocket(s) of major political contributors, ignorant of both recent technology plus social change(s) over the past 20 or so years, and proud to stay that (ignorant) way.
After all, didn’t James Carville say “We are right, you are wrong; end of story”?
April 26th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Herr Hi,mler working fot the Fuhrer over again, corrupting tender minds.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
It is a not very well hidden fact that the Congress of the United States can be bought and paid for, if the price is right. The problem has become worse since the advent of Multi-million and multi-billion dollar corporations, such as those that make up the entertainment industry and the computer technology industry, spawned as it was by the insatiable greed of Microsoft. The only way we Americans are going to take back our government is by the use of that incredibly powerful little tool, the single vote allotted to each adult American. Congress must be made to understand that our single votes are more powerful than the billions of dollars used to line their pockets and re-election campaign chests.
Even so, until we Americans wake up to the fact that the abrogation of even the simplest of our civil rights is the basis upon which all of our rights will be ripped from us, we are hopelessly doomed to slip into a dictatorship of the wealthy. We must vote against every incumbent who has voted his support of the PATRIOT Act and those pocket-lining copyright laws. Put aside partisanship. Vote for the Greenpeace party or the Libertarians, if you must, but vote against the bought and sold incumbents. Refuse to return them to Congress where they can continue to erode our freedoms. And do not listen to those who insist that it is best to sacrifice some small degree of liberty to assure our safety. Remember the words of Ben Franklin: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” And taking that one step further – by giving up essential liberties, they are destined to lose their safety.