Comments on: SOPA isn't dead, it's back on

By: zachstronaut

zachstronaut — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:22:00 +0000

Corporations are people. But they are people that cannot die. And they are people that suck the life out of other people.

OMG! Corporations are VAMPIRES! SHARPEN YOUR STAKES! BLESS YOUR WATER! COVER YOUR NECKS!

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:06:00 +0000

Scumbags like Lamar Smith who would rather sell our country’s interests for personal gain do not have any honor.

By: lafave

lafave — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:55:00 +0000

quoted from the article to which you linked:

“It remains to be seen, amidst this sweeping bribery of public officials, if the Obama administration would truly be willing to veto a bill like SOPA/PIPA.”

By: Fnordius

Fnordius — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:37:00 +0000

@lafave:disqus Since you’re too lazy, here’s the first I found after only 10 seconds of searching:
http://www.dailytech.com/Obama+Admin+Declares+War+on+SOPA+SOPA+Author+Caught+Stealing+Work/article23783.htm

Remember, he only has to express disapproval, as too many in the Republican party have chosen “opposite of Obama” as their only tenet.

By: lafave

lafave — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Link for the Obama veto threat please?

IIRC, Obama expressed dislike for IP/DNS blocking, but no veto threat.

By: Cocomaan

Cocomaan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:37:00 +0000

Good point. David Graeber described honor as “excess dignity”.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:34:00 +0000

If you’re going to bug your Texas folks about something, bug them to find someone to oppose him in the R primary. Call his bill “big government run amok”. That should pull the baggers out of their hidey-holes.

By: deaduncledave

deaduncledave — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:25:00 +0000

Not the news I was hoping to read this morning. -_-

By: Tom Morris

Tom Morris — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:26:00 +0000

You forget that since corporations are now people, he’s representing the people really well.

By: Robert Menes

Robert Menes — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:39:00 +0000

Well, no one else is going to give up easily to make sure SOPA doesn’t go through.

By: bluest_one

bluest_one — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:52:00 +0000

What’s that saying about how democracy breaks down when the people realise they can just keep voting themselves free money?

A similar thing happened with Capitalism; the corporations discovered their wealth could be used to ensure greater and continued wealth by buying the politicians and circumventing that pesky ‘one person one vote’ thing.

What we seem to keep experiencing of late, is democracide at the hands of the corporations.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:39:00 +0000

It´s so absurd how this is the exact opposite of what his job supposedly is, namely to represent the people. The people´s voice has been raised and the message is unmistakeable. It doesn´t get much more clear-cut than this, shithead.

By: zarray

zarray — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:37:00 +0000

looks like I have to bug all the Texas people I know to start a recall petition.

By: Fnordius

Fnordius — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:27:00 +0000

@google-c5868c47252dbe2d7b51541d5f7b6f51:disqus I am sure that also plays a role, but I think this is more a case of ego. That, and the way President Obama threatened to veto the bill must also have played a role in his decision.The size of the anti-SOPA protest and the large number of defectors must have stung, and his behaviour fits the stereotype of the modern conservative Texan politician: winning trumps being right, compromise is for sissies.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:56:00 +0000

If by Honor you mean ‘payday contingent on this bill passing.’

By: Fnordius

Fnordius — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:23:00 +0000

I think this is the main reason, that Lamar is taking it personally. The actual merits of the bill are now moot – this is now a question of HONOR for him.

By: Rindan

Rindan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:43:00 +0000

Those bribes are not free. If congressmen don’t do their job and pass industry written laws that are completely against their constituents wishes, what exactly are they bribing them for? It seems pretty reasonable that Lamer is willing to get on with it and get that law passed.

By: imag

imag — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:45:00 +0000

It seems pretty clear that this jerk’s retirement is based upon passage of this thing. I’m sure if he gets it through, he gets a nice cushy do-nothing job for the rest of his days.

He is not going to give up easily. None of them are. What a completely fucked up system we have.

By: Geekized

Geekized — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:41:00 +0000

*sigh*

By: zachstronaut

zachstronaut — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:40:00 +0000

Let it go, Lamar.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:39:00 +0000

Maybe the hearing will be on February 15th; since that’ll be 28 Days Later. Washington loves a zombie.