Monday, September 8, 2008

Priorities

Compare and contrast:
  • Columnist Robert Novak in July hits a pedestrian who bounces off his windshield, and drives away, receives a $50 fine
  • Kevin Cogill posts a handful of Guns N Roses songs on his blog for a couple of hours, then removes them when the musicians' lawyers ask him to, faces felony charges which could lead to $250,000 in fines and three years in prison.
Cogill is being prosecuted under the 2005 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, yet another overreaching copyright law which allows felony prosecution for unauthorized distribution of unreleased songs.

In case you had any doubt what we value are in this country, it's corporate property. Human life and limb? Not so much. (The hit-and-run victim was released from the hospital with minor injuries.)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Robert Novak then finds out that he has a brain tumor which caused his eyesight to fail on his left side. He will never drive again and has been handed a death sentence by this cruel cancer. Your example wasn't very kind and was short on facts, logic and compassion.

Steven Kelly Jones, Albany, Georgia