When it comes to fraud on a massive scale, this doesn't even come close to the theft of the people's gold by the government and the banks when FDR decided to renege on the promise to redeem US dollars for specie.

Yes, it was a tragedy that the rich (the only ones able to stockpile gold for obvious reasons) took one for the team for one time in history. Austerity is for the little people!

Not his job to fix the problems with your storyline.

Maybe you should also join them and research some history because you are inferring tired mostly dis-proven ideas.

Maybe you should read up on the depressions of the 19th Century before going on about "dis-proven ideas".

Most gold bugs advocate at least some backing of the currency due to the fact that the currency remains stable in comparison to a full fiat currency. The numbers and history back up that belief

Except they don't. Gold bugs just skip the slight issues of hoarding and other changes in the supply of the backing.

Then root the damn thing and un-install all that crap!

And just convert your engine to biodisel so it gets the advertized 40mpg instead of real-world 25mpg.

Simple!

Will this fucking lie ever die, or does it have to be KILLED WITH FIRE?

Except: that's not killing it. Your quote talks about LG's operating profit, and their smartphone sales, but not drawing a direct link between the two. That's like taking Sony's overall profit numbers and saying the Playstation 3 has been a money winner for them.

Need a few more dots between those points....

Or go to trial, or take the deal and spend a mere 6 months at Club Fed.

And face bankruptcy.

And face the real chance of being raped in prison.

And possibly lose the right to vote or own a firearm.

And have the Scarlett Letter of a felony conviction for his every rent or employment application for the rest of his life.

And face the possibility that the judge would go ahead and throw the book at him, regardless of any plea deal with the prosecutor.

All the assholes wondering why Swartz didn't bend over and take it should give martyrdom a try before telling anyone what hot shit it is.

You can't total up times that way.

Yeah. You can. That's why prosecutors split up a single alleged crime into a dozen felonies: so they can be sentenced to a longer prison term or get them for one charge where others might fail. Like: kidnapping + crossing state lines + rape + assault + gun charge....

He had been offered a deal of six months in a minimum security prison by the prosecutor. Realistically, that's also about the maximum term a court would have imposed anyway.

Not if the judge was as trigger-happy as the prosecutor. And the judge wouldn't have been restricted by the plea deal - that's between the defendant and the prosecutor.

It makes perfect sense to blame the DA for overreaching and harassing Swartz but not blame her for the suicide.

Makes perfect sense to blame her for that as well, when she was warned of the possibility and still tried to cut off his proverbial arm for shoplifiting a pack of gum. It's like buying an alcoholic a round of drinks and then pretending you had no involvement when he gets in a drunken car crash.

Nobody said that civil disobedience and "fighting heroically for internet freedom" was a 9-5 job where you could kick back in comfortable luxury at the end of each and every day.

Nobodys said you aren't a snobby asshole, eager to tell others how they should be martyrs.

Martha Stewart, for example, has had some hassles with travel related to her 4 felony convictions, but she's still doing quite well.

4 felony convictions that are batshit irrelevant to cooking or housekeeping, just as Michael Vick's felonies weren't for anything having to do with football.

Because they still haven't compensated the Americans whose property they stole through nationalization?

You may be a shitbag imperialistic apologist for colonialism, but at least you're a funny one.

The Cuban government (and some misinformed Americans) likes to blame the U.S. embargo on Cuba's woes, being poor with little hope of advancement. But, the reality is that ALL of Cuba's woes are the failure of the Cuban government.

The stupid, it hurts. Ask anyone from any country that's been under an economic boycott or embargo about it's effects on the economy and the goods available. Palestinians who can't even get wheelchairs in Gaza, parents who lost kids in Iraq due to the lack of medicine, which is now being done a second time in Iran. For an example outside of southwest Asia, try asking someone from South Africa when that country was being boycotted for Apartheid.

The rest of your post is similar first world arrogance. As if there isn't hunger and mismanagement in the United States.

This is why many venezuelans think that their (our) country is being controlled politically by the Castros in Chavez

Right, in the same way the United States is "controlled" by miniscule foreign aid donations that make up a percentage of a fraction of a sliver of it's GDP. You know.....paranoid right wing Alex Jones bullshit.

So it's not at all nonsense to think that groups in favor of "gun control" are aiming to completely disarm Americans.

It's exactly the same sort of nonsense. Banning clip sizes and certain gun types isn't on the same planet as total Prohibition, and only a troll or a moron who attended the Pete Hoekstra school of analogies would claim otherwise. Regulating guns no more involves 'removing guns from society' than bank regulation involves 'removing banks from the economy'.

The "gun control" lobby's goal is to remove all guns from society

Right, just like the goal of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is to get all Americans to give up cars.

Or, maybe that's all just stupid nonsense.

I take a different tact - tinfoil hat on - the 2nd is about keeping the government in check.

When has that ever worked. It didn't work for Randy Weaver, it didn't work for Leonard Peltier, and it didn't work for the Black Panthers.

Citizens are surveilled without warrant, jailed without charge, property seized without cause - all in the guise of "anti-terrorism".

And how much success have your local Wolverines chapter had in reversing these policies by driving up the sales numbers of Smith & Wesson?

with a side order of willful obtuseness thrown in for good measure.

The US Justice System is there to enforce the law.

Where the hell is the wire fraud in this case? And where the hell are the prosecutions for the banks and Buscho torturers?

Over 100 people were tortured to death under the Bush Administration. Banks stole millions, billions, trillions of dollars and none of them have faced any prosecution. HSBC laundered billions for drug cartels and Al Queda, and they're not prosecuted. Meanwhile, a mother who is found to have 5 pounds of cocaine in her attic - possibly left there by her drug-dealing ex - is sentenced to life in prison for her priors, and because she had no information to give prosecutors. The actual drug dealers were able to cut deals and are now out of prison.

"Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind." - Edward Gibbon

He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud among other things and when someone alerts the authorities that this may have taken place, they investigate it. If I bypassed your home's security and installed a laptop in your home that connected to your network and took all your files, would you want there to be laws against that?

Would I want you charged with trespassing, or hit with terrorism and home invasion charges and threatened with 30 years in prison? Are you really so obtuse as to not see the draconian response to the actual offense? Are you filling out visa applications so you can see some shoplifters hand cut off for allegedly stealing a pack of gum in Saudi Arabia?

You know, that almost sounds like an endorsement for suicide which is probably one of the most disgusting and vehement posts I've read here so far.

You almost sound like your priorities are fucked up on a galactic scale. Threatening someone with 30 years in prison for what is, at worst, breaking and entering: not a problem. Talking about suicide to avoid 30 years in prison, probable rape in prison, bankruptcy, and a felony record that makes you neigh-unemployable: now that's a tragedy.

You almost sound like the Church Laddies that were more upset that pictures were published of bodies floating in New Orleans then the fact that a major American city was allowed to drown by a careless and indifferent government.

What actions of theirs do you find culpable for forcing Aaron Swartz into no other choice than to take his own life?

Gee, maybe not make a literal federal case out of it to begin with? Or if they do, make the charges fit the alleged crime? Simple answers for bloody stupid questions...