Actually, your only recourse just happens to be impossible.
You must remove the life blood from the beast that inhabits your highest offices. You have to cut off their cash.
Its the only way that you can even get their attention let alone stop them. Everything they do is for the sake of more money and more purchased power over others.
Americans must unanimously boycott their jobs, their taxes, their shopping habits and stop the flow of money from the bottom to the top, until the beast is starved and forced into the open.
Of course, in the most divided country on earth, such a thing is not ever conceivable, let alone doable.
Ya know, I always wondered how the American Courts could find Monsanto to be the victim when Monsanto contaminates neighboring farms with their wind-blown mutant seeds.
But apparently its just another secret part of one of those secret trade agreements!
The courts HAVE to find Monsanto as the victim because the government made a deal with Monsanto to always find Monsanto as the victim when they contaminate other people's non-mutant crops!
Cops patrol the Home Turf, dealing with your brother and sister, aunt and uncle, mother and father, and friends.
The military patrols foreign lands that your corporate rulers want to exploit at low cost, and the military deals with the people in those foreign lands in the fashion that all conquering armies in occupied lands have always treated conquered non-soldiers and its pretty likely that your brother, sister, aunt, uncle, mother, father and friends could not give a shit about any of those folks and will not be affected by the cruel and inhuman treatment of those folks at the hands of your occupying military forces.
Mind you, all of that is about to change as the Cops patrolling the Home Turf become more and more like the military on foreign ground, and the people that the Neo LEOs deal with are perceived more and more by the Neo-LEOs as conquered foreign peasants in an occupied foreign land, ripe for legalized abuse, torture and murder.
Currently though, the difference is still apparent. ---
And just about every other trail available is a manufactured wild goose run. Criminal modus operandi.
And in truth, I consider anyone - who does not accept my conjectures as being at least close to accurate - to be generally normal. Especially those who still watch TV. :)
The only question I'd like an answer to, pertaining to this awful state of affairs called DMCA, is why is the law continuing to allow this obviously criminal behaviour when there are actual legal repercussions for misusing the process?
Why is American Justice absolutely blind to the continued misuse of this system and unable or unwilling to punish those who actually break the letter of the law, repeatedly?
Oh! This just in.
A plain brown-paper envelopes addressed to "You Guys" from "The Hollywood Division of Graft and Payoffs.", and oh look what's inside! 25,000 dollars!
You see, in the beginning, vampires were Un-Dead creatures from Christian mythology, fearing the wrath of God and cringing at the very sight of a crucifix or a priest.
Now however, Hollywood has stolen the concept and altered it to create the new Vampires - sexy living beasts of great power and speed who can make love to a woman for days on end and whose very glance is enough to initiate near orgasmic reactions in living females.
I can understand very well why Christians would be upset.
Too bad they're not willing to admit they created vampires to scare adherents into terrorised submission. Then they could just scream Copyright Infringement and make millions suing Hollywood.
For all those LEOs out there who got upset at my calling you a border-line moron, please realize that I was actually referring to you as being one of the jackasses instead.
Re: You know, insensitivity is not racism, dishonesty, or even evil
Yeah! Damn right!
Lets bring back natural selection!!
Lets re-establish the laws of survival of the fittest.
Ban stop lights. Let cars take their chances at who goes next through an intersection.
Remove all hand railings and barriers that might prevent the "few fools" from falling to their deaths or breaking their bones.
Oh for those greater days when no safety rules were a way of life and the lesser beings could off themselves easily and swiftly at an early age, making more room for those of us who deserved to live.
"...the public might better be served by excising said jackasses from the police ranks entirely."
but... who would then fill these vacant positions?
After all, the job description says :
=================================================== Jackasses and border-line morons, with no respect for humanity, no common sense or understanding of the law and no idea what constitutes appropriate behaviour, wanted.
Retired MAFIA hit-men and ex-military personnel preferred. ====================================================
If you hire assholes, you can hardly expect them to suddenly become angels by putting on a uniform.
American police forces are now made up of people who LIKE THE IDEA of wearing 5 grand worth of Military Assault Gear to serve a warrant - who want to use an armored tank to roust vagrants.
To pretend that this is not the kind of person that the system wanted in these positions is silly. These assholes were hired for the job because they fit the exact profile of the kind of people the boys at the top of the food chain wanted in these positions - Minions, willing to do what it takes to get paid, as long as they can screw over what they see along the way with impunity.
Excising these jackasses is simply not an option as far as the 1% are concerned and therefor, cannot and will not happen.
"Get used to it", is pretty much your only recourse until Americans regrow their lost spine.
"I think you may have taken it a little too seriously but at any rate it was meant as a commentary on the lack of attention to that particular post, not that we're all ignoring you on purpose."
Not at all, really. I take physical blows personally, and little else. I had always assumed that my postings were simply late and that everyone had already said their piece and wandered off to other topics, because my posts appeared to always be the very last one under any particular article.
For this reason I long ago stopped bothering to check for responses after a week passed. Since I post my responses immediately after receiving the TechDirt digest, there was no way that I could respond to articles earlier anyway, so - so be it.
Your apparent claim that you and others were purposely ignoring my posts put another face on the situation that I could not avoid investigating further.
One can hardly post here for more than a month and not notice the obvious rapport which is shared by a number of the "old hands" here.
Your use of the term WE told me there just might be more to the story than late postings. It would be incredibly simple for any number of long standing friends and associates on a blog to PM each other and decide to unanimously "boycott" a specific poster in the hopes of elimination through ostracism.
Its not exactly a new concept.
I wanted to see if that was why there were seldom any new posts after I published mine.
So I presented my suspicion as fact to illicit a response from you or one of the un-named others, because "We were just ignoring you." does sound as if it was being done rather "on purpose" and by many, some or most of whom you appeared to know were also ignoring the posts.
Because your response was immediate, I choose to think your group ostracism, or omniscient revelation of universal intent, is not the reason for my posts killing dialogue and that it is as I suspected, late posting, or as you say, a lack of interest.
---
"And I hope and believe that the techdirt editors will prove you wrong. I think all viewpoints are permitted here."
I really love TechDirt's attitude and format and have sought such a place for a long time, however, I'm 60 plus years old and have been posting on the web for decades under handles such as GEM, N0Mad, Montster and others, yet, aside from a few posts about UFOs from an Astronomy forum more than a decade ago, and a couple posts from Usenet pertaining to hemp during Canada's attempt to prevent the legalization of pot, nothing remains. Even my old website, CopyFreeGEMs.org, where I used to publish Bryce 5 and Poser images for "no strings attached" public use, was cancelled without notice.
I don't blame the websites. I doubt they have a choice.
I bring all this personal shit up simply to let you know that I am not intimidated by words and can no more shut up about what I know than I can stop breathing. So, if you wish to ignore my posts, that is absolutely your right and I'll defend that right to the death.
However, telling me you're ignoring my posts merely triggers my curiosity and starts the process of discovery over which I have little control.
Thank you for not ignoring my baited post and for alleviating my curiosity. It is an itch I cannot not scratch.
My apologies to one and all who have waded through all of this off topic dialogue. It will not happen again.
I don't usually go in for personal shit, but I'll make an exception this time. It will not happen again.
I wrote that silly Royal We post specifically to see if you were telling the truth, and ignoring my posts, or if, as I suspected, the claim was false and you were simply trying to intimidate a poster in order to eliminate a source of irritating concepts and ideas.
In truth, I had considered you to be one of the more thoughtful and intelligent of the "old hands" who post here regularly. I had actually dubbed you "The Corrections Officer", because it appeared as though you were intentionally seeking out errata and falsehoods and demanding corrections.
There are shills out there who are simply trying to eliminate factual information and reroute public thought for the people in power who are truly profiting from human suffering, in return for favors and cash. I have no master.
I extrapolate from know data, in order to determine unknowns before they fully hatch. I present my conjectures in a fashion that pre-supposes truth, without any sense of "may be" or "could be" and I know this pisses off a lot of people. I make no apologies, however, I am always open to new information and always willing to admit I was wrong, although that is very seldom the case.
In most cases, the owners of the blog or posting area will eventually end my ability to post, through "technical problems" or simply by cancellation of my account, so intimidation is both futile and un-necessary as my time here is probably nearing its normal limit anyway.
A member of ISIS, who is also a member of a British Armed Forces Special Ops team, confessing to CNN???
A memo directive issued by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to an American Special Ops team to start training operations in the Middle East with specific emphasis on training local CIA recruited Jihadi terrorists in torture techniques and video falsification processes?
I suspect that you, and "those you speak for", would be utterly unsatisfied with either of the above, as they might be entirely faked.
So again, now that you're apparently no longer pretending to ignore my posts, what would constitute, in your mind, proof of the above conjecture.
It has just occurred to me that nasch may not have been speaking in the Royal sense - referring to himself as We.
It appears as though he may have been actually speaking for a small cadre of long-time poster regulars here on TechDirt, who have decided through PMs to jointly ignore my posts, or at least pretend to.
I am sincerely flattered and momentarily speechless!
Likely no more than about 10 to 15% are Black Water Mercs.
They're damned expensive.
Besides, with 25% Brit SpecOps and probably no more than 25% Yank SpecOps, you have to leave room for some real middle eastern type folks, so you can have a good photo-op where at least one or two dudes have their obviously middle eastern features prominently exposed for the western media.
You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but with Hollywood special effects, a few billion tax-payer dollars, and total control of the Truth-Free Press, you can fool all of the people, all of the time, for a while.
As long as you have a string of manufactured crisis ready in the wings, "a while" is all you normally need for any single scam to do its work and keep the money rolling in. ---
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You must remove the life blood from the beast that inhabits your highest offices. You have to cut off their cash.
Its the only way that you can even get their attention let alone stop them. Everything they do is for the sake of more money and more purchased power over others.
Americans must unanimously boycott their jobs, their taxes, their shopping habits and stop the flow of money from the bottom to the top, until the beast is starved and forced into the open.
Of course, in the most divided country on earth, such a thing is not ever conceivable, let alone doable.
Precisely as planned.
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Hooda thunk it!!
But apparently its just another secret part of one of those secret trade agreements!
The courts HAVE to find Monsanto as the victim because the government made a deal with Monsanto to always find Monsanto as the victim when they contaminate other people's non-mutant crops!
I'll be damned.
Then again, at this rate, we'll all be damned.
---
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Re:
Cops patrol the Home Turf, dealing with your brother and sister, aunt and uncle, mother and father, and friends.
The military patrols foreign lands that your corporate rulers want to exploit at low cost, and the military deals with the people in those foreign lands in the fashion that all conquering armies in occupied lands have always treated conquered non-soldiers and its pretty likely that your brother, sister, aunt, uncle, mother, father and friends could not give a shit about any of those folks and will not be affected by the cruel and inhuman treatment of those folks at the hands of your occupying military forces.
Mind you, all of that is about to change as the Cops patrolling the Home Turf become more and more like the military on foreign ground, and the people that the Neo LEOs deal with are perceived more and more by the Neo-LEOs as conquered foreign peasants in an occupied foreign land, ripe for legalized abuse, torture and murder.
Currently though, the difference is still apparent.
---
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: addendum
Hardly ever fails to lead to the real bad guys.
And just about every other trail available is a manufactured wild goose run. Criminal modus operandi.
And in truth, I consider anyone - who does not accept my conjectures as being at least close to accurate - to be generally normal. Especially those who still watch TV. :)
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Of course, then it will be un-necessary to adjust things in that direction.
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The real question is.....
Why is American Justice absolutely blind to the continued misuse of this system and unable or unwilling to punish those who actually break the letter of the law, repeatedly?
Oh! This just in.
A plain brown-paper envelopes addressed to "You Guys" from "The Hollywood Division of Graft and Payoffs.", and oh look what's inside! 25,000 dollars!
Never mind.
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When did the Christian Church take over the government there?? I missed that I think.
On the post: Texas Religious Leaders Try To Get Public Libraries To Ban Vampire Books For Them
Re: A Canticle For Leibowitz
Had dreams about being trapped under shit for weeks afterwards.
Excellent piece of work that.
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Vampire TM
You see, in the beginning, vampires were Un-Dead creatures from Christian mythology, fearing the wrath of God and cringing at the very sight of a crucifix or a priest.
Now however, Hollywood has stolen the concept and altered it to create the new Vampires - sexy living beasts of great power and speed who can make love to a woman for days on end and whose very glance is enough to initiate near orgasmic reactions in living females.
I can understand very well why Christians would be upset.
Too bad they're not willing to admit they created vampires to scare adherents into terrorised submission. Then they could just scream Copyright Infringement and make millions suing Hollywood.
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Guilty, pending charges. The American Way.
Cripes!
You guys keep up this kind of clear thinking and you're gonna put me completely out of my hobby-job!!
Looking forward to my hobby-retirement. Yay!!!
---
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Quick note:
For all those LEOs out there who got upset at my calling you a border-line moron, please realize that I was actually referring to you as being one of the jackasses instead.
On the post: NYPD Sending Their Best Cops To Twitter School To Learn All About Common Sense
Re: You know, insensitivity is not racism, dishonesty, or even evil
Lets bring back natural selection!!
Lets re-establish the laws of survival of the fittest.
Ban stop lights. Let cars take their chances at who goes next through an intersection.
Remove all hand railings and barriers that might prevent the "few fools" from falling to their deaths or breaking their bones.
Oh for those greater days when no safety rules were a way of life and the lesser beings could off themselves easily and swiftly at an early age, making more room for those of us who deserved to live.
Sigh!
---
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Who cares about serving the public any more?
but... who would then fill these vacant positions?
After all, the job description says :
===================================================
Jackasses and border-line morons, with no respect
for humanity, no common sense or understanding of
the law and no idea what constitutes appropriate
behaviour, wanted.
Retired MAFIA hit-men and ex-military personnel
preferred.
====================================================
If you hire assholes, you can hardly expect them to suddenly become angels by putting on a uniform.
American police forces are now made up of people who LIKE THE IDEA of wearing 5 grand worth of Military Assault Gear to serve a warrant - who want to use an armored tank to roust vagrants.
To pretend that this is not the kind of person that the system wanted in these positions is silly. These assholes were hired for the job because they fit the exact profile of the kind of people the boys at the top of the food chain wanted in these positions - Minions, willing to do what it takes to get paid, as long as they can screw over what they see along the way with impunity.
Excising these jackasses is simply not an option as far as the 1% are concerned and therefor, cannot and will not happen.
"Get used to it", is pretty much your only recourse until Americans regrow their lost spine.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: addendum
You thought I was using a crystal ball? A time machine?
Of course its conjecture.
I don't have omniscient revelations of intent, universal or individual. I simply add 2 + 2 and usually end up with 4.
The fun part is when it comes out 3 or 5, or 172.
Would you prefer that I end each post with something like:
"In my opinion only."
Don't bother answering that, cuz it aint gonna happen.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: addendum
Not at all, really. I take physical blows personally, and little else. I had always assumed that my postings were simply late and that everyone had already said their piece and wandered off to other topics, because my posts appeared to always be the very last one under any particular article.
For this reason I long ago stopped bothering to check for responses after a week passed. Since I post my responses immediately after receiving the TechDirt digest, there was no way that I could respond to articles earlier anyway, so - so be it.
Your apparent claim that you and others were purposely ignoring my posts put another face on the situation that I could not avoid investigating further.
One can hardly post here for more than a month and not notice the obvious rapport which is shared by a number of the "old hands" here.
Your use of the term WE told me there just might be more to the story than late postings. It would be incredibly simple for any number of long standing friends and associates on a blog to PM each other and decide to unanimously "boycott" a specific poster in the hopes of elimination through ostracism.
Its not exactly a new concept.
I wanted to see if that was why there were seldom any new posts after I published mine.
So I presented my suspicion as fact to illicit a response from you or one of the un-named others, because "We were just ignoring you." does sound as if it was being done rather "on purpose" and by many, some or most of whom you appeared to know were also ignoring the posts.
Because your response was immediate, I choose to think your group ostracism, or omniscient revelation of universal intent, is not the reason for my posts killing dialogue and that it is as I suspected, late posting, or as you say, a lack of interest.
---
"And I hope and believe that the techdirt editors will prove you wrong. I think all viewpoints are permitted here."
I really love TechDirt's attitude and format and have sought such a place for a long time, however, I'm 60 plus years old and have been posting on the web for decades under handles such as GEM, N0Mad, Montster and others, yet, aside from a few posts about UFOs from an Astronomy forum more than a decade ago, and a couple posts from Usenet pertaining to hemp during Canada's attempt to prevent the legalization of pot, nothing remains. Even my old website, CopyFreeGEMs.org, where I used to publish Bryce 5 and Poser images for "no strings attached" public use, was cancelled without notice.
I don't blame the websites. I doubt they have a choice.
I bring all this personal shit up simply to let you know that I am not intimidated by words and can no more shut up about what I know than I can stop breathing. So, if you wish to ignore my posts, that is absolutely your right and I'll defend that right to the death.
However, telling me you're ignoring my posts merely triggers my curiosity and starts the process of discovery over which I have little control.
Thank you for not ignoring my baited post and for alleviating my curiosity. It is an itch I cannot not scratch.
My apologies to one and all who have waded through all of this off topic dialogue. It will not happen again.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: addendum
I don't usually go in for personal shit, but I'll make an exception this time. It will not happen again.
I wrote that silly Royal We post specifically to see if you were telling the truth, and ignoring my posts, or if, as I suspected, the claim was false and you were simply trying to intimidate a poster in order to eliminate a source of irritating concepts and ideas.
In truth, I had considered you to be one of the more thoughtful and intelligent of the "old hands" who post here regularly. I had actually dubbed you "The Corrections Officer", because it appeared as though you were intentionally seeking out errata and falsehoods and demanding corrections.
There are shills out there who are simply trying to eliminate factual information and reroute public thought for the people in power who are truly profiting from human suffering, in return for favors and cash. I have no master.
I extrapolate from know data, in order to determine unknowns before they fully hatch. I present my conjectures in a fashion that pre-supposes truth, without any sense of "may be" or "could be" and I know this pisses off a lot of people. I make no apologies, however, I am always open to new information and always willing to admit I was wrong, although that is very seldom the case.
In most cases, the owners of the blog or posting area will eventually end my ability to post, through "technical problems" or simply by cancellation of my account, so intimidation is both futile and un-necessary as my time here is probably nearing its normal limit anyway.
nuff sed.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: addendum
A member of ISIS, who is also a member of a British Armed Forces Special Ops team, confessing to CNN???
A memo directive issued by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to an American Special Ops team to start training operations in the Middle East with specific emphasis on training local CIA recruited Jihadi terrorists in torture techniques and video falsification processes?
I suspect that you, and "those you speak for", would be utterly unsatisfied with either of the above, as they might be entirely faked.
So again, now that you're apparently no longer pretending to ignore my posts, what would constitute, in your mind, proof of the above conjecture.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: addendum
Well that is awfully big of you.
But....
I thought you and all those that "you speak for" were ignoring my posts.
It would appear that you were, as I suspected, only pretending to ignore them, by not responding in any way.
However, here you are now... responding.
So, what changed??
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Re: Re: Re: addendum
It appears as though he may have been actually speaking for a small cadre of long-time poster regulars here on TechDirt, who have decided through PMs to jointly ignore my posts, or at least pretend to.
I am sincerely flattered and momentarily speechless!
I think I just blushed!!! :)
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Re:
They're damned expensive.
Besides, with 25% Brit SpecOps and probably no more than 25% Yank SpecOps, you have to leave room for some real middle eastern type folks, so you can have a good photo-op where at least one or two dudes have their obviously middle eastern features prominently exposed for the western media.
You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but with Hollywood special effects, a few billion tax-payer dollars, and total control of the Truth-Free Press, you can fool all of the people, all of the time, for a while.
As long as you have a string of manufactured crisis ready in the wings, "a while" is all you normally need for any single scam to do its work and keep the money rolling in.
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