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The nine berobed big brains of the Supreme Court make sense of what appear to be arbitrary, archaic distinctions of profanity and nudity.
That’s right folks, America is still the land of blood and violence on television, but show a side boob and everyone goes apeshit and starts fining people. If you’re going to let the government dictate your moral standards, there should be some sort of standard and not random fines depending on who is in office at the time.
Knuckles is back! This time, he’s helping celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Gitmo. Who can believe the Guantanamo prison camp has been around that long. See what Knuckles has to say about this special day and Obama signing the National Defense Authorization Act that brings indefinite detention to US law, yay! A Mark Fiore political animation.
Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist.
If SOPA were law, the man who wrote it would also be violating it.
Here is Smith’s pre-SOPA website.
Here is the background image, made by DJShulte.
Vice.com discovered the images.
So I took a look back at an archived, pre-SOPA version of his site.
I contacted DJ, to find out if Lamar had asked permission to use the image and he told me that he had no record of Lamar, or anyone from his organization, requesting permission to use it: “I switched my images from traditional copyright protection to be protected under the Creative Commons license a few years ago, which simply states that they can use my images as long as they attribute the image to me and do not use it for commercial purposes.
“I do not see anywhere on the screen capture that you have provided that the image was attributed to the source (me). So my conclusion would be that Lamar Smith’s organization did improperly use my image. So according to the SOPA bill, should it pass, maybe I could petition the court to take action against www.texansforlamarsmith.com.”
Oh dear. Luckily for DJ, there are people out there like Lamar making new laws to protect the little guy against online copyright theft. Keep fighting that good fight, Lamar!
