uh huh...
the fact of the matter is ,there is virtually *no* jury nullification for a couple reasons:
1. *most* people are not even aware of the concept
2. even if they *are*, it is pretty easy to be intimidated by The Process to believe that
A. you don't have that right, and/or
B. you better NOT exercise that 'theoretical' right, you anarcho-commie-fascist uppity 99%-er ! ! !
3. no doubt, the judge will fuck with the juror and/or jury who dare to do such an independent action, and simply wave his magic robes and begone with such inconvenient decisions...
just sayin'...
cool in theory, hardly happens in practice...
hell, they tied that old geezer up (new york?) in court for years over his *attempting* to educate jurors about jury nullification by handing out phamplets, etc...
The They (tm) *hate* that shit...
its a real threat...
Re: Re: Legal or not legal the hypocrisy is sickening
Stop right there, citizen!
You have no right nor legal claim in disputing the indisputable: a Public Official made an Approved Pronouncement, therefore, said Pronouncement is, by definition, True True.
Your disputatious attitude in contradicting the self-evident truths of Empire are hereby in conflict with the means and ends of Empire, which has been and always will be: the safety of its citizens and the primacy of kapitalist imperialism. (Not necessarily in that order. Or including both.)
This will go on your permanent record, (ie, posted on Farcebook). Future outbreaks of disputing Empire's True True Truths shall be treated at the newly re-opened Guantanamo Re-Education and Tube Feeding Center.
1. in spite of the loony label being unfairly applied to *ONLY* rand paul (no fan, but i could make a valid argument that he is more 'reality-based' than most kongresskritters); it is appreciated that some *few* kongresskritters stand on their hind legs and bleat against The System (tm)...
...even when they *are* The System (tm)
2. how fucked up is 'our' (sic) gummint when the very few lawmakers who stand up for the Constitution and the People have to FILE SUIT AGAINST THEIR OWN GUMMINT, since NOTHING of import and impact will happen through the normal (coverup) channels...
3. um, ain't it *always* the parasites, er, lawyers who make out like bandits on class action suits ?
...someone ought to file a class action suit about lawyers taking all the proceeds...
oh, wait...
"lynch-mobs and anonymous crowd justice even more"
THAT'S ALL WE HAVE LEFT TO US, nimrod...
THE (in)justice department is ALL ABOUT defending the banksters, covering up their crimes against humanity, and crushing whistleblowers...
you want Justice with a capital J?
ALL WE GOT are Anonymous and a couple brave whistleblowers: the gummint is against US, the korporatocracy is against US, and we have squandered every last drop of morality we had as a nation, so the WHOLE WORLD is -justifiably- against us...
stupid fucking authoritarians: once your precious authority is compromised, YOU HAVE NOTHING ! ! !
pie ?
there's going to be pie ?
no one told me there was pie...
is it cherry pie ?
i like apple pie fine, but cherry pie is the best...
pie...
mmmMmmmmMMmm
i am waiting for the apology from approx 75-90% of the online population who snidely marginalized those who predicted and postulated on the reality of gummint programs like echelon, magic lantern, prism, etc...
there will be no such apology, said sheeple will find some other form of denial...
these authoritarians are an impediment to revolutionary change...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
1. Big Pharma spends MORE on marketing than they do on R&D, that really is as far as you need to go in being skeptical about their claims...
2. on top of that, a LOT of so-called R&D money is actually bullshit marketing fluff in disguise: 'research' on whether viagra should be a blue or red pill; 'research' on whether you'd sell more if it was a caplet or a capsule, etc...
3. these are NOT altruistic organizations working 24/7 to provide comfort and relief to the afflicted, these are soulless korporations whose SOLE purpose is to part you from your money...
as this article makes the point, it can not be emphasized enough that our betters, our superiors, our masters of the universe use these transparent and utterly CHILDISH means of obfuscation ALL THE TIME...
The They are NOT super-smart brainiacs who simply can't let us hoi polloi now the real score, The They are borderline sociopaths who LIE TO US ALL THE TIME...
the gummint's denizens WILL engage in the most breath-taking sophistry imaginable to worm out of any and all, even tangentially embarrassing situations, much less actual corruption and perfidy...
you only have to read the his story of these situations to find out it is ultimately revealed that the secrecy, etc had NOTHING do do with protecting national security, etc, it was ALL ABOUT hiding corrupt or stupid shit...
EVERY.
SINGLE.
TIME.
as one example relevant: hoover would get called on the carpet by the kongresskritters for some overreach, and when he was in front of kongress, would say: 'oh no, you stupid kongresskritter, we have ZERO illegal wiretaps, etc...'
then he would go back to feeb hq after done testilying, and have all the illegal wiretaps put back on after temporarily discontinuing them so he could 'honestly' say they didn't have any illegal wiretaps...
THAT is EXACTLY the kind of technical dissembling, quasi-legal parsing, purposeful obfuscation, and secret definitions of words The They use ALL THE TIME to avoid the plainspoken truth of the evil they are doing...
the gummint LIES to us ALL THE TIME...
the sheeple are mostly good people, so they find it either difficult or painful to come to that conclusion...
while i am alternately cynical and hopeful, i can not -today- let the statement "we get the gov't we deserve" go by unremarked...
we don't 'deserve' the steaming pile of shit that we have for gummint, because the system which selects said gummint has been corrupted and perverted over time, such that our influence over it has become negligible...
as i've stated on numerous occasions, it is *NOT* one person one vote, it is one dollar one vote... guess who has all the dollars ? it ain't the 99%...
our power has been frittered away, and we are distracted by hot-button issues, bullshit shadows of terrorism, and impending global disasters, such that the reins of power are in the gnarled, greedy claws of the 1%...
i hear 'long pigs' are smarter than dogs, too, but i have my doubts...
they are not as affectionate as dogs, either...
not sure how they taste...
hee hee hee
i'm going to have some smoked bacon, in just a while, a piggie our company bought from a 4-H kid and had butchered, it is ALL yummy, right down to the squeal...
i have always advocated (since the days when echelon "didn't exist": funny the usual suspects who said everyone was paranoid about that shit have not apologized to all the people they smeared as koo koo kwazy k-k-k-konspiracy mongers, who turned out to be 200% correct), that 'everyone' append a list of 'bad' words to their emails, such that 'all' the email trips their filters: when 'all' the email contains 'terrorist words', then their filtering becomes useless...
dog damn i hate the people who are perverting our gummint...
hate'em! ! !
1. as jupiterk says, *everyone* is an artist to some degree or another...
2. while there are certainly 'naturals' and savants in art (as in most disciplines), a LOT of being a 'professional artist' is A. simply *saying* you are, B. getting hooked up with a patron(s) who subsidize you, C. getting popular by dint of excellence, or controversy, or random pet-rock chance, D. practice, practice, practice...
3. like everything else in life, someone doesn't get good at something *merely* because they are a 'natural', it takes practice, practice, practice... almost certainly, that means you are highly motivated to practice, practice, practice, *usually* because you love what you do...
yes, even a neanderthal like king george II can learn to be a good, better, best painter, given time and motivation...
*MANY* people are intimidated from expressing their artistic sides because they 'aren't good enough', which is wrong, wrong, wrong: it is what producing art gives YOU, not what anyone else thinks of it, or wants to buy it for a million dollars...
the worth of art to the artist is in the doing of art and sharing it with others, not the commerce tacked on at the end...
On the post: The Real Scandal: Not That The NSA Broke The Law In Vast Spying, But That It Probably Didn't
Re: Re: Re: Re: Legal != Ethical
the fact of the matter is ,there is virtually *no* jury nullification for a couple reasons:
1. *most* people are not even aware of the concept
2. even if they *are*, it is pretty easy to be intimidated by The Process to believe that
A. you don't have that right, and/or
B. you better NOT exercise that 'theoretical' right, you anarcho-commie-fascist uppity 99%-er ! ! !
3. no doubt, the judge will fuck with the juror and/or jury who dare to do such an independent action, and simply wave his magic robes and begone with such inconvenient decisions...
just sayin'...
cool in theory, hardly happens in practice...
hell, they tied that old geezer up (new york?) in court for years over his *attempting* to educate jurors about jury nullification by handing out phamplets, etc...
The They (tm) *hate* that shit...
its a real threat...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The Real Scandal: Not That The NSA Broke The Law In Vast Spying, But That It Probably Didn't
Re: Re: Legal or not legal the hypocrisy is sickening
You have no right nor legal claim in disputing the indisputable: a Public Official made an Approved Pronouncement, therefore, said Pronouncement is, by definition, True True.
Your disputatious attitude in contradicting the self-evident truths of Empire are hereby in conflict with the means and ends of Empire, which has been and always will be: the safety of its citizens and the primacy of kapitalist imperialism. (Not necessarily in that order. Or including both.)
This will go on your permanent record, (ie, posted on Farcebook). Future outbreaks of disputing Empire's True True Truths shall be treated at the newly re-opened Guantanamo Re-Education and Tube Feeding Center.
Citizen, keep your head down!
OBEY ! ! !
On the post: Senator Rand Paul Wants A Class Action Lawsuit Against NSA Surveillance
pluses and minuses...
...even when they *are* The System (tm)
2. how fucked up is 'our' (sic) gummint when the very few lawmakers who stand up for the Constitution and the People have to FILE SUIT AGAINST THEIR OWN GUMMINT, since NOTHING of import and impact will happen through the normal (coverup) channels...
3. um, ain't it *always* the parasites, er, lawyers who make out like bandits on class action suits ?
...someone ought to file a class action suit about lawyers taking all the proceeds...
oh, wait...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Anonymous Participant Who Drew Attention To Steubenville Rape May Face More Years In Jail Than Rapists
Re:
THAT'S ALL WE HAVE LEFT TO US, nimrod...
THE (in)justice department is ALL ABOUT defending the banksters, covering up their crimes against humanity, and crushing whistleblowers...
you want Justice with a capital J?
ALL WE GOT are Anonymous and a couple brave whistleblowers: the gummint is against US, the korporatocracy is against US, and we have squandered every last drop of morality we had as a nation, so the WHOLE WORLD is -justifiably- against us...
stupid fucking authoritarians: once your precious authority is compromised, YOU HAVE NOTHING ! ! !
On the post: DOJ Argues Secret Ruling Over Secret Unconstitutional Surveillance Must Remain Secret Because It's Secret
Re: Mike, apply your Google standard: "no evidence of real harm",
FOAD, shithead...
On the post: DOJ Argues Secret Ruling Over Secret Unconstitutional Surveillance Must Remain Secret Because It's Secret
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: NSA Spying Revelations Start To Cause Outrage In Europe; China Next?
Re: Congrats, Obama!
/snarkasm
On the post: Fox News Too Cowardly To Refuse Critical Ad Because It's Critical, Claims Copyright Instead
Re:
there's going to be pie ?
no one told me there was pie...
is it cherry pie ?
i like apple pie fine, but cherry pie is the best...
pie...
mmmMmmmmMMmm
On the post: More Details On PRISM Revealed; Twitter Deserves Kudos For Refusing To Give In
Re: Re: Re:
there will be no such apology, said sheeple will find some other form of denial...
these authoritarians are an impediment to revolutionary change...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Washington Post Quietly Backtrcks On Claim That Tech Companies Knowingly Gave NSA Data, As Denials Get Stronger
Re: Re: HA! Supports that it's an intentional leak!
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
On the post: Senators: Why Is Everyone So Worked Up About Verizon Spying? We've All Known About It Since 2007
Re: Re:
by far, it has been duly formed gummints who promote genocide...
individuals and NGOs, not so much...
(and if you want to talk diseases, i have some smallpox infested blankets to give you...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Oh, And One More Thing: NSA Directly Accessing Information From Google, Facebook, Skype, Apple And More
Re: Re: Re:
MOTHERFUCKIN' EAGLES, bitchez...
its motherfuckin' eagles all the way down...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Despite Spending $50 Billion Per Year In R&D, Pharma's New Drugs Less Effective Than Drugs Developed 40 Years Ago
Re:
2. on top of that, a LOT of so-called R&D money is actually bullshit marketing fluff in disguise: 'research' on whether viagra should be a blue or red pill; 'research' on whether you'd sell more if it was a caplet or a capsule, etc...
3. these are NOT altruistic organizations working 24/7 to provide comfort and relief to the afflicted, these are soulless korporations whose SOLE purpose is to part you from your money...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The NSA's Favorite Weasel Word To Pretend It's Claiming It Doesn't Spy On Americans
Re: Re: Honest Answer
The They are NOT super-smart brainiacs who simply can't let us hoi polloi now the real score, The They are borderline sociopaths who LIE TO US ALL THE TIME...
the gummint's denizens WILL engage in the most breath-taking sophistry imaginable to worm out of any and all, even tangentially embarrassing situations, much less actual corruption and perfidy...
you only have to read the his story of these situations to find out it is ultimately revealed that the secrecy, etc had NOTHING do do with protecting national security, etc, it was ALL ABOUT hiding corrupt or stupid shit...
EVERY.
SINGLE.
TIME.
as one example relevant: hoover would get called on the carpet by the kongresskritters for some overreach, and when he was in front of kongress, would say: 'oh no, you stupid kongresskritter, we have ZERO illegal wiretaps, etc...'
then he would go back to feeb hq after done testilying, and have all the illegal wiretaps put back on after temporarily discontinuing them so he could 'honestly' say they didn't have any illegal wiretaps...
THAT is EXACTLY the kind of technical dissembling, quasi-legal parsing, purposeful obfuscation, and secret definitions of words The They use ALL THE TIME to avoid the plainspoken truth of the evil they are doing...
the gummint LIES to us ALL THE TIME...
the sheeple are mostly good people, so they find it either difficult or painful to come to that conclusion...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: NSA Says It Doesn't Spy On Americans As Obama Administration Defends Letting NSA Spy On Americans
Re: The American public still won't care
we don't 'deserve' the steaming pile of shit that we have for gummint, because the system which selects said gummint has been corrupted and perverted over time, such that our influence over it has become negligible...
as i've stated on numerous occasions, it is *NOT* one person one vote, it is one dollar one vote... guess who has all the dollars ? it ain't the 99%...
our power has been frittered away, and we are distracted by hot-button issues, bullshit shadows of terrorism, and impending global disasters, such that the reins of power are in the gnarled, greedy claws of the 1%...
power NEVER devolves voluntarily...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: DailyDirt: The American Bacon Obsession
Re:
they are not as affectionate as dogs, either...
not sure how they taste...
hee hee hee
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: DailyDirt: The American Bacon Obsession
Re: Re: Re: Yuck!
das piggie ist sur gut ! ! !
i'm going to have some smoked bacon, in just a while, a piggie our company bought from a 4-H kid and had butchered, it is ALL yummy, right down to the squeal...
pig-gie!
pig-gie!
pig-gie!
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter And Yahoo Refuse To Cooperate With UK's 'Snooper's Charter'
Re: Vaguely Related: Government Terror Keywords
dog damn i hate the people who are perverting our gummint...
hate'em! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter And Yahoo Refuse To Cooperate With UK's 'Snooper's Charter'
Re:
On the post: Art And Copyright In The Age Of Compulsive Looking
Re: Re: Re: Blind mouse theory
2. while there are certainly 'naturals' and savants in art (as in most disciplines), a LOT of being a 'professional artist' is A. simply *saying* you are, B. getting hooked up with a patron(s) who subsidize you, C. getting popular by dint of excellence, or controversy, or random pet-rock chance, D. practice, practice, practice...
3. like everything else in life, someone doesn't get good at something *merely* because they are a 'natural', it takes practice, practice, practice... almost certainly, that means you are highly motivated to practice, practice, practice, *usually* because you love what you do...
yes, even a neanderthal like king george II can learn to be a good, better, best painter, given time and motivation...
*MANY* people are intimidated from expressing their artistic sides because they 'aren't good enough', which is wrong, wrong, wrong: it is what producing art gives YOU, not what anyone else thinks of it, or wants to buy it for a million dollars...
the worth of art to the artist is in the doing of art and sharing it with others, not the commerce tacked on at the end...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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