"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress...who, having previously taken an oath...to support the Constitution of the United States, engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof..." 14th Amendment, US Constitution Ratified in 1868, this amendment specifically targeted the KKK. Designed to negate the influence of oath-bound "ex-Klansmen" in high office, this amendment was crudely violated when FDR appointed Klansmen Hugo Black into Supreme Court. Others would follow. Show a Child You Care
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At the time of the Flight 800 explosion, few insiders believed it was anything other than a terrorist attack. However, the consensus was, thanks to Richard Clarke, that the true cause needed to be concealed from the public. It was speculated that perhaps the main reason for this secrecy was economics: if the US public knew Flight 800 was downed by a terrorist with shoulder-fired missile, the airline industry would collapse when customers became too scared to fly, and the results would be a costly multi-billion dollar airline industry bailout, along with having have a disastrous impact on the international tourism Atlanta expected when hosting the upcoming 1996 Summer Olympics. Who would want to fly in? Why tell the truth and let panic to ruin the celebration of the games? or ruin the international business that the city of Atlanta was counting on? This was a common theory for the secrecy, not the cause of the disaster, that floated around at the time. Another was that the navy accidentally shot it down in a training exercise called "Operation Global Yankee" and it also was plausible. When it came to discussing the secrecy of TWA Flight 800 investigation, the confiscated radar data, the last 5 seconds on the black box data, the contradictions and doublespeak, etc., everyone knew there was a cover-up, but few could guess why. They just knew it was downed but not exactly who or why. Among those insiders who believed it was a terrorist attack, most believed that the downing was a follow-up attack to the Oklahoma City Bombing and that it involved white supremacists, umbrella groups of the Klan whom were at the time, burning down black churches across the nation in the hundreds; and who were also involved in OKC and planned the attack with Timothy McVeigh in Elohim City. Despite this, the Clinton administration, as well as the right-wing Republican leadership under Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich, all chose to do worse than nothing... they abetted and comforted the enemy by not looking for additional suspects after the arrest of McVeigh, insuring known accomplices would plan another attack as virtual "untouchables". The most disturbing aspect of Flight 800 was the realization that domestic terrorists had struck an alliance with an enemy power since Oklahoma City, and that by choosing to ignore this critical element Flight 800 inevitably came to pass. July 17 was, after all, an Iraqi national holiday akin to our 4th of July: National Liberation Day. Iraq had already been bombed by Clinton before Flight 800, when he showered Iraq with cruise missiles as retaliation for a plot to kill George H. Bush. Saddam did have a motive.
Yes, it was a massacre. No matter how you look at at, men, women and children were burned alive in a botched assault that could have easily been avoided had David Koresh been peacefully arrested when he went out shopping for supplies. Instead, Clinton had to make it a gun control infomercial, a psychodrama to involve viewers and educate them on the horrors of the 2nd amendment. It would show Americans how neat it was to have a police state that protected "molested children" by burning them alive. It was seen as Clinton's massacre, and the truth is that by not accepting responsibility for the mistake, like Kennedy did when he took blame for the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the offense to Americans was doubled. The Klan didn't need polls to know the American public saw through the media spin and the latter proved it by turning over the House and Senate to the GOP. (Americans were soon in for a rude awakening, the Republicans brushed over Waco with toothless commissions that amounted to absolutely nothing.) Even now, however, few blame Koresh for the massacre. It's all on a C-SPAN tape, with the clarity of the Zapruder film, and even at a better angle. The federal government, the "UN lackey", was out of control, and only the Klan with its "patriotic" history, connections in DC, and Templar pals in the Scottish Rite could save the day. How? by staging another coup, which eventually culminated in Clinton's impeachment. As was the case with Lincoln and Kennedy, right-wing extremists were involved more than most dare imagine. But unlike Lincoln and Kennedy, Clinton was no hero...he was a product of Mena, Arkansas, and even when playing JFK in the Oval Office, couldn't do better than boinkiing a fat chick. Clinton was simply a lesser evil from two dangerous and entrenched Washington cabals Compared to the Templar Klan apologists the far right offered, such as Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole, Clinton was the Son of God. The far-right in DC, seeing the Klan's nascent militia drives and penchant for a violent overthrow wasn't popular, sought to appease unruly Klaverns in the Invisible Empire through legal means. This still-born coup was the impeachment of President Clinton. Regardless, that which was feared most should Dole have won, the pardoning of Klan terrorism by the executive branch, still happened when Clinton realized he was about to be impeached. The Klan had deftly used the massacre at Waco to recruit followers in the schools, prisons, army, navy, everywhere...and it worked. The recruitment worked so well they gathered enough followers to go national; and to create the greatest arson attack against black churches in US history. Militias popped up in almost every state. Pete Wilson, the governor of America's largest state, California, became the Aryan Nation Hero of the Year in 1995. Publicly, he refused the dubious honor, but privately he gladly accepted their money when campaigning for president in 1996, on an anti-immigration platform geared for the cross-burning demographic. Rally 'round the Stars and Bars At the time, the Klan's Invisible Empire was still hoping to incite a race war by using the banner of Waco and white separatist Randy Weaver. The Klan's terrorism between 1979 and now remains well-documented by the FBI, ATF, and even CIA but was virtually ignored by the media. Why? Because we still have high ranking leaders in both parties who were members of the Ku Klux Klan, ex-Klansmen who would like to stay in office and do it be refusing to designate the Ku Klux Klan as a terrorist organization.
In 1995, the Klan, having united with the international neo-Nazi movement since the late 70s, actually had cells in US army bases in Germany, making the Aryan Nation and Klan virtually one and the same. Under Gingrich's wink and nod, 1994 was a time when the Republicans let a Klan leader, David Duke, use their banner to openly run for Congress in Louisiana. News assets friendly to the extreme-right promulgated Confederate flag controversies that erupted in the south, and these were by design. They claimed it was about culture and heritage, but the real reason was psychology, i.e. social conditioning. For the South, the message was clear. This was the flag they were fighting for. The deliberate polarization implied the federals were the enemy, and that enemy was to be associated to the flag it flew: the Stars and Stripes. When the KKK or Aryan Nation rallied through main streets across the USA with the Confederate flag, it was a not-too-subtle suggestion that these Klansmen were not terrorists but "patriots" and were maligned by the "liberal media". Media assets (particularly well-known print, television and radio personalities) literally became the third party that pitted Americans against each other. In fact syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan, one of these media assets, actually ran for president in 1996 and 2000 on a platform that was the Klan's wet dream. And more than anyone, Buchanan jumped on the Confederate flag controversy, hoping to tap into the angry white vote. In doing so, Buchanan proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the divisive Confederate flag controversy was media driven and exacerbated. The broadcast media thus programmed a subliminal association of war flags and their respective bearers:
The Two-Pronged Attack on Minority Schooling: keep them dumb and keep them out In addition to this, western states began efforts to bring legitimacy to Klan ideology, e.g. racial purity was at stake and segregation was the best solution. It was then the anti-immigrant movement exploded in California under Pete Wilson. The governor championed Prop. 187, a measure to bar immigrant children from schools and health care. (It was later declared unconstitutional). Wilson's attack on affirmative action, which also begin in California soon afterwards, was more successful, and it spread. It was targeted mainly at blacks; the underlying message being that immigrants and blacks are victimizing whites and thus unworthy of equal status or protections under the law. Both 187 and 209 (the attack on affirmative action), were focused mostly on schooling: the former on primary and secondary education, the latter on college education. The most insidious aspect of these measures was their attempt not just widen the gap between the upper class and poor, but to create a second class citizen with no higher education or in the case of immigrants, no primary or secondary schooling at all. The medium through which most of this propaganda was channeled was talk radio, but TV chimed in when Rush Limbaugh got his own show, and the era "white victimization" began. Indeed, whites were being victimized and taken advantage of. The gut instinct was right on the money, but the true antagonist was not. They were victimized by leaders manipulating them by their basest instincts, hate and fear, that they might suspend better judgment and act against their own interests. Don't underestimate talk radio... radio, not to mention television, is a very powerful propaganda tool. Around the same time this was happening, at the Atlanta headquarters of CNN, an army psychological operations unit from Fort Bragg had been hired to assist in programming. To this day, little is known about the specific role they had at CNN, other than they shouldn't have been there; we were not at war. What is also known is that the Confederate flag's national spotlight began here. Remember the nationwide Klan-led militia movements, and the motives behind the attempt to bring prestige and honor to the Confederate flag becomes quite clear. All of these scattered militias needed a unifying flag to rally under, and it was the Confederate flag. Using militias to indoctrinate Americans, the Klan could remind skeptical recruits they were a force to be reckoned with, even then. They could point to recent Supreme Court Judges who were Klan leaders, such as Chief Justice Earl Warren and Hugo Black. They could point to Klan atrocities that were either blamed on a "lone nut" or simply ignored by crooked local law enforcement officials unwilling to arrest their own and be labeled a "race traitor". At the national level, they could point to governors, senators and congressmen who were tacitly sympathetic to the Klan and its nascent militia movement; men who quietly appointed likeminded brethren to hobble or control critical law enforcement agencies. These newly compromised agencies, both federal and local, turned a blind eye to everything that pointed to the Klan or its umbrella groups, particularly in OKC. Consistently, and to this day, these compromised agencies mischaracterize every large scale terrorist operation involving the Klan's international cabal as an isolated aberration of "splinter cells" not tied to the Klan, or done by one or two people acting on their own. Stop for a minute and think about that... It was the equivalent of saying all the suicide bombers to hit Israel were isolated "lone nuts" with no ties to the PLO or Hamas, acting on their own accord. A good example of this aforementioned subversion of federal law enforcement is Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, of W. Virginia, who was a Klan recruiter. He illustrates the sobering reality that even the Democrats won't purge its own of "ex-Klansmen" whom are afraid to confront the magnitude of unaddressed Klan terrorism because it might reflect badly on them. As for the Republicans, as late as 2002, they were still giving parties for the Klan's most revered standard-bearer, Sen. Strom Thurmond. Byrd is mentioned here because he is, in fact, the most dangerous face of the Klan. The most dangerous face of the Klan is not the angry, monosyllabic redneck hiding under a hood, but the polished and kindly gentleman that "found God" and the error of his ways. But the apostle Paul he is not. No scales fell from Byrd's eyes after seeing Jesus. He didn't attack the Klan from within, warn Americans, or resign so that an uncompromised candidate could replace him. He just found God and walked away. Moreover, Byrd is a man with enough legal training to argue his way into staying in office despite the 14th amendment which was written, and ratified in 1868, to explicitly to bar former Klansmen from holding office. "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress...who, having previously taken an oath...to support the Constitution of the United States, engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof..." 14th Amendment, US Constitution Covering up Klan involvement in Oklahoma City sounds like giving aid and comfort to the enemies of US Constitution. But I guess that's just me. Despite this, Byrd and his ilk in both parties have reason to be smug. The Supreme Court won't touch them, a matter which will be discussed presently. In 1996, for those of you with a short memory, the entire nation went through a period of church arsons unparalleled in US history. The Klan made no secret it was divided against some uppity ex-members still in power in DC, such as Sen. Robert Byrd or Fritz "Sen. Disney" Hollings. They were divided, but the rift wasn't enough to destroy the immunity Klan terrorists had enjoyed since 1939, when Hugo Black became the first Klansman to become Supreme Court Justice. The obvious was covered up, many in the the Klan gleefully boasted of downing Flight 800, yet the unproven "mechanical failure theory" was promulgated as gospel by unethical, partisan news assets. Eventually, the lie was repeated often to be believed. Just remember though, that not once has CNN, ABC, PBS, NBC, FOX, CBS, etc. ever disclosed this simple glaring fact: The so-called "mechanical failure theory" has never been duplicated in any controlled environment. EVER. For the first time in history, the NTSB offered a crash theory they had not first duplicated in experiments. They tried, to be sure, but the fuel vapors proved too rich to ignite! (More on these tests coming soon.) Now, one thing that has been duplicated in a controlled environment many times, particularly one night over Long Island in July of 1996, is the downing a plane with a stinger missile. If you believe the NTSB, however, there is no evidence that a missile designed to blow up plane could do just that. They insure us that anyone who believes such a missile can down a plane is a conspiracy nut "showing off" their mastery of high school physics. Anyone who believes in such "fantasies" as self-interest and political corruption influencing NTSB appointments and findings remains unwelcome in the debate, even if he was a former NTSB official willing to testify under oath. Fast-forward to 9-11. The consequence of the NTSB whitewash was that nothing was done to protect airliners from relatively cheap Stinger missiles, and because any leads connecting white supremacists with middle-eastern terrorists were systematically ignored, a critical intelligence source was lost. Even back in 1997, before the Columbine massacre, junior Klan members Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold discussed using planes to attack New York City. By the time 9-11 came along, Americans paid the ultimate price for the criminal negligence and deception of self-serving cabalists in the Republican and Democratic parties. The hijackers, as it turned out, were a little more ambitious than Klebold and Harris when they hit the Pentagon and NYC. They wanted to bite the nose off America to spite us, and did it. Had the Clinton Administration and even just a few Republicans chose honesty and nation above elitist cabal and self-interest, had they risked losing a few sacred cows in a DC purge of compromised Klan sympathizers and former members, 9-11 might have still happened. At least we'd have been prepared, however, and could have struck a massive blow to an Klan/Aryan Fifth column that is always a threat, since it remains willing to take any middle-eastern money to finance their sputtering little separatist race war. The Clinton Impeachment: Lott and Gingrich's Failed Neo-Confederate Coup This, then, is why the obvious missile attack in TWA Flight 800 was covered-up. You had elitist cabalist advisors in the Clinton cabinet like Clarke, who were more interested in preserving the status quo than preserving national security. Moreover, back then the Senate was controlled by Trent Lott, a prominent Klan sympathizer who risked losing his seat should the present Klan influence in Washington DC come to light. Likewise, the House was then controlled by Newt Gingrich, a 33rd degree Scottish Rite grand poobah that knew he'd also get the boot if Klan involvement in domestic terrorism since 1963 was fully exposed; when questions regarding Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, who lies in a honored crypt at the Scottish Rite's DC temple headquarters, began hitting the mainstream media. After Flight 800, to appease the more violent faction of the Klan's nascent militia movement, Lott and Gingrich put their heads together, and decided to impeach Clinton. But all they had was Monica Lewinsky and a deflowered cigar. If you think the secret impeachment hearings and all that trouble were merely for a presidential blowjob, you've missed the forest for the jizz spattered Lewinsky tree. Perhaps it all boiled down to one word: treason, and who was guilty of indulging in the most of it. Perhaps some believed the Klan was actually patriotic because it brought attention to the injustice of the Waco massacre, and ultimately the Klan was an innocent social club provoked into action by Clinton's massacre in Waco and the cover-up no one ever bought. Perhaps others reminded these Templar Klan apologists that burning churches, taking money from Saddam to fund militia groups, killing women and children in OKC, and inciting a separatist movement/race war was also treason. But surely one other group must have won out in those secret impeachment meetings. Maybe it was a group that included Richard Clarke, a group which decided, perhaps, to suggest the following: "Wait a minute, let's not tell anyone about the Klan's involvement because we'll all burn for it...let's settle this matter in secret." And this they did. The Flight 800 papers, OKC papers? most are still sealed. As are the majority of the files on the church burnings and Columbine. Do you see the pattern here? Any terrorist act that points to the Klan or associated white supremacist activity was immediately quarantined and suppressed. And neither party, out of plain human decency or concern for the nation's safety, is about to unseal the documents that condemn them all. Until the Klan itself is recognized for what is is, an organized terrorist establishment, they control your Bill of Rights- period.
Al Qaeda doesn't write, interpret or enforce your laws, but "reformed" Klansmen in both parties do; even as practicing Klansmen nationwide have tacitly organized and carried out brutal attacks against Americans with virtual immunity. These oath-bound "ex-Klansmen" couldn't do this without friends in the media...FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. This is why both parties pander to the entertainment industry, which controls the news outlets. Knowledge is power, and keeping you misinformed is keeping you powerless.
Al Qaeda had no influence in the
drafting of the Patriot Act. "Reformed" Klansmen did, which may help
explain why the KKK isn't categorized as a terrorist group.
Moreover, the sweeping powers of Patriot Act are now in the hands of the FBI, which as the evidence above suggests, is itself compromised by Klan sympathizers both inside the bureau, and sympathizers in Washington DC. Same goes for the CIA.
If a Klansman or Klan cells therein, under the color of law, can use this act to detain you in secret without charges or access to a lawyer, we have effetely lost everything we won in the Civil War itself.
Also, the 4th amendment protection against
unreasonable search and seizure is now gone. Under Section 505 of the Patriot Act,
e.g., the FBI has the secret power to obtain, without court oversight or need to show any evidence of criminal activity, highly personal information from practically any business,
such as travel agencies and credit bureaus. Section 215 dramatically expands the the use of secret "national security letters" that allow the FBI to get your personal records without judicial oversight.
Ultimately, those who render the
Constitution meaningless will have a hard time convincing anyone
that doing so does not aid and abet the
enemies of the same. You
cannot protect the Bill of Rights by taking them away, and anyone
who believes it possible is, well, a tard.
12 Year Old Music Sharer a
Terrorist, a Klansman a Patriot
As it is now, should Hatch and Leahy's
Induce Act become law
(it's really the Patriot Act II by another name), "national security letters" could be used by the FBI to target
P2P users. And therein you have the true measure of insanity: both
Democrats and Republicans would label a child sharing a music file a terrorist, but not a national Klan leader such as the one featured in this
CNN video. Neither would the Klan and its collective umbrella groups be targeted as a terrorist organization, despite the Klan's history of terrorism and assassinations which by default, demands the terrorist categorization.
Disturbingly, the name "Patriot Act" has an
onomastic double-meaning impossible to ignore: "patriot" is how the Klansman typically refer to themselves and other members. So the question lingers.... Was the Patriot Act written by true patriots or the church-bombing variety? Well,
again, consider this: the Patriot Act doesn't recognize the KKK as a terrorist organization.
If the Klan was recognized as a terrorist organization, these powers afforded to the FBI would certainly be justified, because as noted herein, unusual powers would be the only way to root out crooked judges, law enforcement officials and legislators that enable and abet enemies of the state by obstructing their prosecution.
Good men in both agencies, CIA and FBI, some of the best our nation has to offer, are still persecuted and silenced by a "good ol' boy" system that grants full scale immunity to any Klan or white supremacist umbrella group guilty of treason.
Speaking of which, keep in mind that
news assets often refer to the Klan's umbrella groups as "splinter cells" to isolate and mischaracterize the Klaverns in the Invisible Empire
as separate from the KKK, but they are one and the same.
The most immediate threat is the media itself. It's unchallenged by Americans who trust their futures to partisan news assets when the sole objective of the broadcast media has been to
condition and mislead, rather than empower citizens or inform. By monopolizing the broadcast media and putting every major news asset into the hands of a few partisan lackeys, the
true gravity of their betrayal cannot be emphasized enough.
In the long run, the partisan media barons who prevent the exposure of "ex-Klansmen" in high office are just as guilty of obstructing justice as the leaders they protect. Eventually-- and this is sooner than later-- these men
will pay the same price as those they defended for deliberately misleading the nation to the unfathomable danger "reformed Klansmen"- literal ex-terrorists- still pose to our rights and national security. Irrefutably, wittingly or unwittingly, they are protecting
an active fifth column that also extends to the heart of the nation's military, since the appointments of key generals are also subject to the influence of compromised "ex-Klansmen" in Washington DC, "ex-Klansmen" quite desperate to stay in power
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The Broadcast Flag Born in Nazi Germany
In Nazi Germany, the production of radios that received signals other than German broadcasts was expressly forbidden; all radio equipment had to meet the approval of the state. Hitler hoped to prevent Germans from listening to British and French radio and was largely successful. So successful, in fact, many Germans thought they were still winning the war when Allied troops entered Germany, and most critically, most believed that there was no holocaust. To achieve this incredible social control and deception meant having complete control of the communications media. With radio, several frequencies were isolated and "Volksradios" could not tune into anything but Nazi stations. Listening to anything else meant the radio was likely modified. This was an act punishable as treason. Today, the entertainment industry proposes the same thing. The flow of information which Americans receive is dominated by the RIAA and MPAA, the head of the entertainment pyramid which represents Viacom, Time-Warner, Sony, BMI, Vivendi-Universal, Fox, etc. These corporations, in turn, own the news channels and even major internet news feeds like AOL, which Americans rely on to make decisions affecting their lives...from going to war to electing politicians in a two party system subservient to the same. All of which is to say, the MPAA and the RIAA are more powerful and dangerous than you think. What's at stake is social control and behavior modification; the manipulation of the masses for commercial, political, and even military purposes. Under the broadcast flag pushed by the MPAA and RIAA, the FCC will criminalize the production of any electronic equipment capable of receiving anything outside HDTV broadcasts approved by the FCC. Whether intentional or not, the act will make the FCC a state sponsored propaganda ministry disturbingly similar to Josef Goebbels’ Reich Ministry of National Enlightenment and Propaganda. More so. Both the FCC and Reich Ministry of Propaganda were created in the 30s, both shared enforcement powers, both were tasked to allocate the airwave bandwidths (e.g., different frequency bandwidths must be used for military, police or public radio receivers), and both could define what is obscene and what isn't. Of course, "obscene" was and is a label generously applied to silence or harass personalities or groups hostile to the ruling party or monopoly interests. This is ironic, because there was a time in our history, in the Nuremburg Trials, when propagandists could be prosecuted as war criminals rather than glorified and mislabeled as "patriots" and agents of "national enlightenment." Consider things today. The debate rages as to whether or not we have any business in Iraq, but one thing remains clear: the broadcast media, all of it and not just FOX, wanted war. We're there now and have to see it through, perhaps, since neither Bush or Kerry plans a withdrawal. Did the media encourage the war in Iraq in the early days of the invasion? Name one network asset that didn't. And if they did knowingly push a nation to war under false pretense, how many media executives would also be tried as war criminals under the Nuremburg standards? It certainly wouldn't stop at FOX. Related:
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Can you be imprisoned for false or unproven damages? If Sen. Orrin Hatch, (R), Sen. Patrick Leahy (D), Rep. Howard Berman (D) and others have their way: Yes. If you think this shouldn't concern you, think again. There is no way to enforce this proposed legislation without law enforcement monitoring any and all traffic from your pc. Once, just once, it'd be nice to see these legislators visit the prisons where they put non-violent offenders. Maybe then they'd understand the cruel obscenity they hope to inflict on their own constituents for the sake of campaign contributors, and this over unproven or false damages. The RIAA and MPAA claim file sharing has contributed to tangible losses (ignoring the ongoing RIAA CD boycott), and they have repeated this absurdity often enough to have some in the media actually believe it. However, one major study released in March of 2004, by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, found that file sharing actually increased CD sales at a rate of one CD sale for every 150 files shared. The record and movie industry have contradictory studies, but it just goes to show the so-called damages are unproven at best, and downright falsehoods at worst. Download the study in PDF here. Today, video and DVD sales account for 50% or more of a movie's revenue, and the VCR has became a boon to Hollywood: sleeper hits- movies that spent little time in theaters- found a larger audiences in video sales and made millions when the film would have lost money otherwise. Yet there was a time when Jack Valenti, the head of the MPAA, would have denied the same movie industry of its cash cow when he lobbied against the introduction of the VCR. "The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone" he argued before a Congressional panel in 1979. He was a clueless simp then, and his condition has only worsened. Technology then was ahead of the entertainment industry, as it is now. What could be making these industries money is instead being foolishly attacked, and the industry is alienating potential customers in the most critical demographic group: 18-34. If any anti-P2P legislation is passed, it sets a precedent wherein anyone can be imprisoned for false damages. This alone makes for a rock solid constitutional challenge by P2P users. Moreover, if you share your CD with some friends, there is no way of proving that this act contributed to lost sales; directly or indirectly. On the contrary, it is actually easier to prove sharing a file contributed to a CD sale than otherwise; and it is virtually impossible to prove it lost one. Just because someone downloads and previews a song on their pc doesn't mean they would have bought the CD otherwise. That would make anyone who heard FM radio a pirate! How many of you out there have heard a catchy tune on the radio, liked it or even requested it on air, but never bothered to buy the CD? No one on P2P is trying to sell these albums, so just calling it piracy is a malicious representation that speaks volumes on the moral integrity of those who wrote the Pirate Act and similar legislation. Sharing exposes the artist to potential customers who might want to buy their own copy. Not sharing means no exposure for an otherwise obscure or unheard act. It cannot be assumed that a shared music file would have been purchased without consumer exposure to the same, but this is the insulting and contradictory claim of the major labels.
The only certainty in the P2P debate is sharing brings another customer and that this can easily be proven; and that not sharing brings no word of mouth and no customer at all. The business model defended by the RIAA and MPAA insures the vast majority of their catalogues remain hoarded in the warehouse, away from the view of customers. Artists that could make money make nothing at all, because the label's promotional efforts are focused only on major acts, at the expense of all the others. Worst of all, in every appeal to lawmakers, the RIAA whines about lost sales but have yet to acknowledge the RIAA CD boycott which went into effect in 2002, when they went after innocent parties like one grandfather, Mac users who couldn't even use Kazaa, and an 11 yr. old girl. Millions of potential customers in several dozen internet petitions signed up for an international CD boycott in protest, the RIAA knew of this boycott but never acknowledged its effect. Had they done this, they'd realize the tactics they used against consumers cost them sales, and cost them dearly. Would you buy a CD at a record store where the employees abused you verbally, treated you like a criminal, and wanted to tap your phone line? As long as customers are threatened and mistreated, record labels and movie companies will only accelerate their own demise. Of course the industry argues that this boycott has nothing to do with the recent sales slump in CDs, but much like the bus companies in Alabama who persecuted their own customers in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, they're about to learn that you can't force or threaten anyone into buying something they don't want; no matter what legislator they bribe. Make your vote count this year
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