Ah, the same organization that gave us our beloved abstract-as-hell DMCA with overly broad and restrictive powers that prevents "fair use" for anything that uses copy protection (like encryption) now gives the reverse-osmosis "We the government of 1984 must know everything there is to know when we demand it" Bill.
Above "The Law" ? Sometimes, laws are BAD, even EVIL. I recall this country being founded on the premise that the British had unfair laws that provided no representation of the colonies for their taxes. I would like to know where OUR (we the people) representation is in Congress for our HEAVY TAXES!!!!!! This government does not represent WE THE PEOPLE anymore, but WE THE CORPORATIONS, LOBBYISTS and CORRUPT CRONIES representing those corporations we call a "government". But seeing as we now have a rubber stamp obviously corrupted Supreme Court that declared corporations to be "people" (even a 5 year old knows better than that), I wouldn't trust that court system to tell the truth if my life depended on it!
I can't help but notice that the media pushing HARD against Bernie Sanders more than any other candidate (other than the extreme liberals against Trump and Republican Party against Trump) and I can only surmise that is because Hillary is in their back pocket (4-8 more years of the same) while Trump is a loose cannon and Bernie is an FDR style candidate who wants to put government back to work FOR THE PEOPLE. IMO, EITHER is preferable to another god damn tow-the-status quo corporate serving SHILL where nothing changes and the top 1% get richer and the middle class disappears and we become a 3rd world country (already well on the way there).
I don't care if this country goes back to the middle class of the 1950s-70s or becomes more like Germany. EITHER is preferable to the Corporate States of America where all the jobs are sent to cheap labor countries and then sent back to the USA with no tariffs or charges. Even an economic moron can see that will lead to the mass exodus of high paying US manufacturing jobs yet they continue to tell us free trade is the way to go. It IS the way to go for corporations! They are legal entities (not people) that have no allegiance to a given country since their stock holders can be from anywhere. Thus, PROFIT is their SOLE MOTIVE for doing ANYTHING! How can a corporation that has no country loyalties by default have unlimited money rights to try and RIG elections in this country when the share holders could be from Russia or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else on Earth??? That is the DUMBEST Supreme Court move of ALL TIME and clearly shows where the ones that voted for it loyalties lie, not to the people, but the corporations that make them RICH.
Capitalism without restraints = Oligarchy, not true Capitalism that is meant to BENEFIT the consumer, not remove their jobs and send them to a sweat shop in Panama or China. We need FAIR TRADE (that adjusts tariffs for unequal labor costs) not "FREE" trade (that always benefits the corporations sending factories there and 3rd world countries, but rarely the 1st world country. I see places like Forbes arguing HARD for free trade. Yes, no crap! Forbes is a corporation! It makes 100% economic sense for them to argue for FREE trade instead of FAIR trade. It makes ZERO sense for the citizens of this country who have those jobs to lose and then have to look for service jobs that pay NOTHING by comparison. "Get a degree" doesn't work when we outsource high-end jobs also (e.g. Computer Science jobs to India or worker programs that bring them here). There are a LOT of people that have degrees who are now in debt up to their armpits and STILL can't find a job. Let them get a different degree, Marie cries! Ah, but we won't pass any bills that help with job retraining or getting a different degree because we sent all our jobs overseas or to Mexico.
Let's face it. Corporations have a vested interest in doing ANYTHING to make money and that means screwing over the country or state they are currently in and all their blue-collar workers if need be to make MORE money. The shareholders not only generally like this; they LOVE it since it's not their jobs, lost tax revenue (from said workers) or life that is ruined by these souless "people" whose "sole" function is to serve Mamon (the money worshipers' deity of choice). Of course, the top 1% agree with corporations and a lot of clueless people that don't have a clue what this does to America or the national debt in turn as well.
