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Once again, these are not the senators who think linking to a website should be a felony, these are the senators who have no idea what they are doing and are supporting bills handed to them by the copyright lobby.

Not that that's any better.




Don't let them fool you, these people are not dumb. They know exactly what they're doing.


Yeah: ingratiating themselves to the people with money, and damn the consequences.

They don't have to understand the consequences - they don't consider themselves to be affected. Only little people serve time, duh!


In that case, I don't understand their motivation.


They obey the name on the check, and yours isn't on it. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A


Their motive is authoritarianism; an unfortunate disease which sadly afflicts most politicians.


money + power? campaign contributions?




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