*How the Credibility Gap [of Nixon] Became a Chasm [under the bullshitter].

The Manchester (England) thug department sabotaged the prosecution of its thugs for killing an innocent man (supposedly planning armed and dangerous, but he wasn't) by refusing to turn over evidence in its possession.

It is absurd to allow thug departments to sabotage justice.

Thugs in Washington DC trapped a group of protesters on the street and tried to arrest them all. Residents welcomed the protesters into their homes to protect them.

Thugs fired tear gas into a house, and at one point blocked a delivery of food for the protesters.

Non selectively arresting everyone in a large group implies that, for most of them, the thugs had nothing specific to accuse them of. It was repression, pure and simple.

There are protests around the world against the murder of George Flynn and other associated acts of repression in the US.

The Internet Archive acquires and scans paper books, then "lends" each copy digitally with DRM. It argues that this complies with US copyright law. The few consolidates publishing companies have sued the Archive, claiming that this is is "piracy".

The main question in the lawsuit is whether the Archive's practice is covered by fair use. For the Archive's sake, I hope it is, but my main disagreement with the publishers is at the moral level. I say that everyone should be free to non commercially copy and share any published work. Regardless of what laws say, what they are doing is wrong.

Ironically, those "borrowed" books are off-limits to me because reading them requires nonfree software. I won't run that software, naturally.

Unless paper copies are available, the only copies of most of those books that are distributed nowadays without oppressing the readers are the unauthorized copies. In any case, insist on having a local copy that is not encrypted or copy-protected, so that you can share copies if you decide to. Accept nothing less.

Please join me in refusing to use or legitimize the term "piracy"; it is propaganda for repressive copyright. I respond to the term with the retort that "piracy is attacking ships."