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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. public, and what will they get? Industry jobs and high positions when they leave office. Capital rewards behavior benefiting capital.

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So 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.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Sounds 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/

Dubious 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.

alt 1: capitol rewards capital

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There'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)

Please get published so an audience beyond HN can read.

Chris Hayes basically wrote this book already - Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

Glen 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/...

Discusses the era from Watergate to early Obama shielding Bush officials and telecoms.

Haha you mean me? Maybe someday.. (you can find my blog among my submissions if you were really expressing interest in more writing from me)

Link me?

Investigating 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.

On the note of lying, Obama just explicitly denied exactly this in his press conference an hour or so ago.

He just gave the least untruthful answer he could give ;-)

Capitol rewards behaviour benefiting capital.

FTFY!

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