Obama’s corporate cronies take power: Donald Verrilli, etc.

February 5, 2009 by A.B. Dada  
Filed under Copyright




Republicans are known for their warmonger appointments to unelected positions.  Democrats are no better, although this time the enemy is you and I.  When Obama picked Biden as his VP candidate, people should have remembered that Biden is one of the most vile tyrants in the copyright monopolist sector.  He’s worked hard to make information controlled by the distribution monopolists; he’s worked hard to extend copyright laws to last forever, and he’s worked hard to punish common consumers and citizens for performing acts with their time, their tools, and their bodies.

CNET’s Dennis McCullagh kicked off an article today about the stacking of the justice department with RIAA cronies: ”President Obama is continuing to fill the senior ranks of the U.S. Department of Justice with the copyright industry’s favorite lawyers.”  The first mention: Donald Verrilli, the lawyer who destroyed Grokster and sued Google on behalf of his client, Viacom.  

He’s also the vermin who sued lowly consumer Jammie Thomas in a long and drawn out court case titled Capitol v. Thomas.  Thomas,  a Native American single mother of two from Brainerd, Minnesota, was found guilty of sharing 24 songs.  The jury awarded Capitol Records $222,000 or over $9000 per song shared.  Her case was “luckily” overturned for an appeal, but the focus is that Verrilli was the scumbag who pursued this poor consumer, showing he has no moral judgment and is a crony to the big monopolists.  His kind should be chasing ambulances, not doing what he is doing today: he’s the  Associate Deputy Attorney General.

He was part of the case in suing Google for the “piracy” of songs on YouTube — a website that other labels and artists use as free advertising for their art.  Verrilli doesn’t see it this way, of course, so let’s put him into the U.S. legal system.

Biden’s the biggest loser when it comes to his opinions on copyright, wanting to create a Federal felony for distributing music under copyright.

It gets better:  beyond Verrilli the Vermin, we have an entire cast of Copyright Outfit mobsters ready to force nice folks like yourself to do their bidding:

Tom Perrelli:  Tom “the Pimp” Perrelli will be in charge of the DoJ’s civil, antitrust, and civil rights division.  ”The Pimp” has been the RIAA’s top lawyer, going after all the little miscreants that he labeled pirates.  Worse, Perrelli worked under former thug Janet Reno in his last stint in the Justice Department:  Perrelli worked hard to expand the size of Federal government by defending the constitutionality of federal statutes, defending federal agency action and making sure all those new regulations passed constitutional muster.

Neil “The Monopolist” MacBride: This gangster was the  Vice President, Anti-Piracy and General Counsel, of the Business Software Alliance, an organization that thinks it has the power to enter small businesses and see what they have on their hard drives.  MacBride is just as bad as the anti-consumer infomongers: he’s the guy that decided to give employees of companies a nice cash prize if they turned their employers in.  That doesn’t smell of the Stasi, does it?  MacBride will be an Associate Deputy Attorney General.

Finally, we have David W. “Dubya” Ogden, a regular in White House circles.  He worked in the Justice Department and the Department of Defense under Willie Clinton.  He comes from a long history of horrible public service in his family, with his mobster father being Horace G. Ogden, who worked in the Bureau of Health Education and then the Centers for Disease Control.  I guess the use of force runs in the family.  He’s coming back to Washington to be a Deputy Attorney General.

This is all Biden’s doing, but Obama picked the collusive crony of corporations.  It’s not unexpected, since people demanded change.  They’re getting it, in the form of more restrictive rights to use their mind, body and tools as they see fit.  This is good, because most of my friends who voted for Obama are already teetering on financial doom.  Now that life will be even harder for all to get out and start their own company, the very people who voted for Obama and prefer to be in the arts market will find themselves slaves to the big corporations that get much more preferential treatment than the lowly employees ever will.

This is good for me, though, since I can afford to develop patents and pursue copyright infringements if I so choose.  I wouldn’t, but I love it when a plan comes together: you do the campaigning, donating and voting, and then I get power over you.  What an amazing country.  I have a ton of hope for business growth, and I can only thank those who put these shills in office.

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