Posted by PTravel on 11/04/06 19:31

"Citizen Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:454cd6a8.2315515@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:53:03 -0800, "PTravel"
> <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote:
>
>>> Those laws are illegitimate, and therefore do not bind.
>
>>The relevant sections of the Copyright Act are not "illegitimate" as a
>>matter of law. As such, they are binding.
>
> They are binding as stautatory law, but not as common law.

That doesn't make any sense. In the case of copyright, statutory law
preempts common law, i.e. there is no longer common law of copyright. That
doesn't make it illegitimate.

>
> Statuatory law depends on the end of gun barrel. Common law depends on
> 1 juror (cf. nullification).

Nonsense. The purpose of law is to ensure predictability in social and
commercial interactions, not to impose the will of a dictator on others.
So-called jury nullification is not legal and, in any event, a judge can
always enter judgment non obstante verdicto ("not withstanding the
verdict").


>
>>> It would be a colossal waste of time to sue me because I don't break
>>> any law.
>
>>Then you have nothing to worry about.
>
> I never did.
>
>>> The Mob has mininterpreted the law and someday Congress will
>>> stop taking bribes and do something to rectify the situation.
>
>>I agree that Congress taking bribes to pass laws (and that is exactly what
>>lobbyists do) is a serious problem, probably one of the most serious
>>problems facing this country. However, as long as the laws it passes
>>comply
>>with Constitutional, they are legitimate and enforceable.
>
> That is not true. In the first place defendants who violate the law
> can be exonerated by 1 juror.

And that is not true.

>
> Secondly the govt itself can violate any law it chooses with full
> impunity.

And that is also wrong.

>
>
> --
>
> "First and last, it's a question of money. Those men who own the earth
> make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or
> pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the
> outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of
> the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do
> justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the
> world."
> --Clarence Darrow

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