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A baseball player lied to Congress and got charged with perjury. James Clapper lied to Congress, all the politicians listed in this article lied to the U.S. pub
by detcader 13y ago
A baseball player lied to Congress and got charged with perjury. James Clapper lied to Congress, all the politicians listed in this article lied to the U.S. public, and what will they get? Industry jobs and high positions when they leave office. Capital rewards behavior benefiting capital.
- quantumpotato_ 13y agoPlease get published so an audience beyond HN can read.
- graedus 13y agoChris Hayes basically wrote this book already - Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
- ajslater 13y agoGlen Greenwald - With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful http://www.amazon.com/With-Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality/dp/1250013836 http://www.amazon.com/With-Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality/dp/... Discusses the era from Watergate to early Obama shielding Bush officials and telecoms.
- detcader 13y agoHaha you mean me? Maybe someday.. (you can find my blog among my submissions if you were really expressing interest in more writing from me)
- quantumpotato_ 13y agoLink me?
- w_t_payne 13y agoSo much for being "equal under the law". If you cannot trust the law to protect you, you must assume that it is being used against you.
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- tlogan 13y agoAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- SimHacker 13y agoSounds like PHP or JavaScript! As Alex Coles @myabc tweeted: truthy || falsy values – like JS, @BrendanEich also has issues with equality – http://projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation/8930/ http://projects.latimes.com/prop8/donation/8930/
- anigbrowl 13y agoDubious syllogism. Baseball players certainly reward capital, in spades. by all accounts, overweening NSA surveillance is hurting capital as Europeans in particular seek other vendors for cloud services. Not to mention the fact that baseball is a sport of entertainment, and is you strike out people won't be blaming the deaths of others on you.
- 001sky 13y agoalt 1: capitol rewards capital alt 2: capital rewards capitol
- detcader 13y agoThere's no baseball lobby, at least not one that would care about an individual player, and I'm sure a couple of Europeans dropping Gmail is not going to make any lobbyists upset at these politicians for trying to defend their special interests (through lying or otherwise)
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- madaxe 13y agoOn the note of lying, Obama just explicitly denied exactly this in his press conference an hour or so ago.
- stefantalpalaru 13y agoHe just gave the least untruthful answer he could give ;-)
- madaxe 13y agoCapitol rewards behaviour benefiting capital. FTFY!
- leepowers 13y agoInvestigating a baseball player carries little or no risk for a politician. It's a safe, easy political win. Worse yet: even the richest athlete in the world is at a grave disadvantage when confronted by the enormous power and resources of the federal government. These type of vanity investigations are nothing more than the institutional bullying of a private individual for political gain. It's frustrating and furthers the perception that congress is filled with opportunistic cowards.
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