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23 January 2006 - 03:35 UTC

Commentary

Protection of intellectual property

by Jack Grant

Protection of intellectual property has been recognized as key to both encouraging innovation along with stimulating the economic development of the nation for over 200 years. Now, in the name of protecting intellectual property, Congress is getting ready to expand the stifling of innovation that was expanded by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Note that yet again, industry lobbyists are exerting undue influence that will result in the passage of laws that remove rights that the public at large have enjoyed for over two centuries to preserve obsolete business models.

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23 January 2006 - 02:11 UTC

Commentary

What is the appropriate response to an administration that shows contempt for both the law and the Constitution?

by Jack Grant

Ronald Reagan, upon the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. said that it was just the sort of “great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order, and people started choosing which laws they’d break.”

Now, the current holder of the office of President of the United States is issuing “signing statements” of Congressional bills passed that he knows would be over-ridden and made into law if he used his veto, but his “signing statements” essentially gut the laws and promise non-enforcement at best, if not totally ignoring the intent of the Congress in the typical case, along with an arrogant presumption that defies rationality.

So much for “law and order” if the contempt is coming from the President.

Do your own math.

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