![]() But is he really? Here are some funny things I’ve noticed about the PAC.ġ. ![]() What is Lessig up to here? On the surface he claims to be trying to clean up politics and get the “dark money” out of campaigns. Don’t believe me? Dig in and draw your own conclusions.Įxcel here: MayDay PAC addresses redacted I’ve helpfully compiled all the donors listed on the FEC documents into a single Excel file that you can search and sort on 22 fields. So many that one shouldn’t be faulted for questioning whether this was coordinated. No surprise the serial innovator of artist rip-offs, Sean Parker (Napster, Facebook, Spotify), tops the list at $500,000! But something else becomes readily apparent when you dig down deeper into the midsize donors: there sure are a hell of a lot of Google employees who’ve donated to this PAC. It’s a who’s who of Silicon Valley and anti-copyright ideologues. ![]() Just look at the list of donors especially the big donors. In this case the MacGuffin is campaign finance reform but to my eye the real plot line involves a clever new way for Silicon Valley to influence (or threaten) our elected representatives with BIG money. This is classic Lessig: co-opting a seemingly populist cause like copyright reform, while faithfully carrying forward a corporate agenda. Support from Thiel for Lessig’s campaign to reform campaign finance laws is not only eyebrow-raising because of his libertarian politics - the Libertarian Party has called for the repeal of all campaign finance laws since at least the 1970s - but also because of a political treatise he penned in 2009 declaring, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” In order to “reform” campaign finance, in order to get billionaires and corporate interests out of politics he went out and collected millions from billionaires and corporate interests? Huh? Especially suspect since one of the biggest donors (Peter Thiel) appears to oppose all campaign finance reform. Mostly because the whole proposition itself seems pretty suspect. But I’ll get back to this in a minute.Įver since Lester Lawrence Lessig III launched the MayDay PAC -” the PAC to end all PACs”- I’ve been watching this with some interest. A Chairman that may very well survive the election. I doubt that Rove would be foolish enough to personally and repeatedly taunt a sitting house committee chairman from his personal twitter account. MayDay Pac: Has Lawrence Lessig Become Silicon Valley’s Karl Rove? No this isn’t an Onion article although it should be. Looks like he has a new Silicon Valley billionaires “grassroots” PAC that is aimed at getting “big money” out of politics by injecting “big money” into politics. In this case we look at Lester Lawrence Lessig III the piracy-defending- party-pokering-Harvard law professor and former Anton Scalia clerk. With regular treatment and physical therapy, I see no reason why he shouldn't continue to keep American minorities down for another 50-60 years.Since it’s election season we thought we’d take a break from artists’ rights today and see what one of the “usual suspects” is up to this elections season. "If anything, he'll probably live a lot longer with an artificial heart than he would have relying on that big dirty meatball. Rattanaman at Inova Fairfax to save Dick Cheney when it was discovered he had no heart, Justice Scalia is expected to fully recover. Thanks to methods pioneered in 2005 by Dr. I mean, I don't know if he watches Jersey Shore or not, but I'll ask him once he regains consciousness," Dr. He's a big, fat, mean, Italian son-of-a-bitch who hates minorities and gays. "From what we can tell, Justice Scalia's general practitioner really should have tested for the disease. Still, he's quick to remind us that recent studies in the New England Journal of Medicine have shown strong correlations indicating those who watch Jersey Shore are at an increased risk of dying from the disease. Rattanaman speculates that it takes a unique combination of genetics, obesity, bigotry, and hate. Scientists aren't sure what causes meatball attacks. "It really is the damnedest thing," said Chief Surgeon Raj Rattanaman, "I mean instead of the typical human heart there's just this undulating ball of cholesterol, ground beef, tomato gravy, and cheese about the size of a Grizzly Bear's heart. The so called "meatball attack" had only been observed three times within living memory in the Washington D.C. FALLS CHURCH, VA - Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was rushed to Inova Fairfax Hospital to receive specialized treatment for a rare medical condition on Tuesday evening.
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