Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2014
Friday, February 28, 2014
Judge Who Voted To Censor “Innocence of Muslims” is a Barnyard Porn Pervert
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals got in trouble for putting up “a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal” on his website, but the moral judge drew the line at videos that offend Muslims writing an absurd opinion that has no basis in copyright law.
When the morally superior Judge “Cow” Kozinki isn’t taking a wrecking ball to our freedoms by ordering Google to take down videos, he’s posting photos of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal on his website.
Chief Judge Alex KozinskiThe dhimmi Judge who ordered Google to take down the YouTube video that set off our now constant companion, the hair-trigger violence of the Muslim world, is a pervert who won’t offend Muslims but thinks nothing of degrading women and sharing his predilection for bestiality. Selective censorship, Judge Moo.
The craven cowardice of the 9th Circuit’s ruling was a craven capitulation to the dictates of the sharia was based on technical copyright law. Imagine if every actor and actress sued to remove a film where the producer changed the story or their lines were dubbed: we’d have very little cinema (with the crap Hollywood produces these days, not an altogether bad thing). The ruling was an affront to every freedom-loving American. Did Cindy Lee Garcia sign a release or did she not? And if she didn’t, why not just blur out her craggy face out and give us all a break?
Mark Nakoula, the filmmaker behind the controversial film, “Innocence of Muslims,” and William J. Becker, Jr., president and CEO of FreedomX, a nonprofit public interest law firm supporting conservative and Christian freedom of expression, counsel for Nakoula, are available to the media to respond to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling yesterday requiring YouTube to remove the video.
“The Ninth Circuit’s opinion overreaches and pretends to protect the rights of an actress, who claims to have been targeted by death threats, by ordering the removal of an entire movie trailer that has been up since 2012,” said Becker. “The court could have ordered the removal of Garcia’s appearance without having to censor the entire trailer or its message.”
Becker added: “Garcia’s identity is already publicly available to anyone who wants to learn it. Removing the film from YouTube will not alleviate the alleged harm Garcia claims she will suffer. In the end, this ruling amounts to nothing more than censorship of unpopular speech the First Amendment specifically protects.”
Becker stated that a tidal wave of misinformation about Nakoula is circulating online and in the media. “The Obama Administration apologized for our First Amendment rights when it had Nakoula arrested in the middle of the night simply for exercising his constitutional rights.”
Garcia Film of innocence film The great battle against the Innocence of Muslims trailer has finally been won thanks to a ruling by “Cow Sex” Chief Judge Kozinski. By Daniel Greenfield, February 27, 2016
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals got in trouble for putting up “a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal” on his website, but the moral judge drew the line at videos that offend Muslims writing an absurd opinion that has no basis in copyright law.
Joining the “cow sex” judge in his illegal decision was Clinton judge Ronald M. Gould. Judge N.R. Smith, appointed by President Bush, despite Barbara Boxer’s best efforts, however rightly dissented from the decision, by pointing out that, “the plaintiff did not establish a likelihood that she had a copyrightable interest in her acting performance, nor did she clearly show that the performance was not a work made for hire.”
Judge Alex Kozinski claims that Youssef can’t be considered a filmmaker because he shot a single amateur film, but writing a book or filming a movie is exactly how you become a writer or a filmmaker.
“But if shooting a single amateur film amounts to the regular business of filmmaking, every schmuck with a videocamera becomes a movie mogul,” Kozinski writes trying to claim that amateur filmmakers should have different rules than professional ones.
This distinction is both dangerous and wrong.
Garcia auditioned for a role in a particular film, was paid for her performance and had every reason to believe Youssef would eventually release the film. Without an implied license, the performance for which she was paid would be unusable. Therefore, we agree with Google that Garcia granted Youssef an implied license.
Any such license must be construed broadly. If the scope of an implied license was exceeded merely because a film didn’t meet the ex ante expectation of an actor, that license would be virutally meaningless.
Nevertheless, even a broad implied license isn’t unlimited… Here, the problem isn’t that “Innocence of Muslims” is not an Arabian adventure movie: It’s that the film isn’t intended to entertain at all. The film differs so radically from anything Garcia could have imagined when she was cast that it can’t possibly be authorized by any implied license she
granted Youssef.
If we take the cow sex judge’s argument at face value, then if a movie is marketed in a different way than the actors can sue for copyright violation. This is plainly absurd since movies change dramatically in the process and in the marketing. Comedies can become dramas and vice versa. Plenty of actors have been completely shocked by the film as it was released because it was different from what they thought they were making.
Something a shmuck like Kosinski would know if he had bothered to do the research. Judge Smith quickly takes the cow sex judge to law school.
The majority opinion omits applying the requisite standard of review that is especially pertinent to Garcia’s requested relief. Mandatory preliminary injunctions, similar to the one issued today, are “particularly disfavored.”…
Given this standard, the majority errs in requiring Google to pull the film from YouTube—at this stage of the litigation.
The district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the law and facts did not clearly favor Garcia. Instead, the majority makes new law in this circuit in order to reach the result it seeks. We have never held that an actress’s performance could be copyrightable.
The question is whether Google will appeal. Even if it doesn’t, the decision has all sorts of troubling legal implications for the movie industry that will no doubt lead to further review.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
The Battle Of Athens
The GIs came home to find that a political machine had taken over their Tennessee county. What they did about it astounded the nation.
The Battle Of Athens
http://www.americanheritage.com/
In McMinn County, Tennessee, in the early 1940s, the question was not if you farmed, but where you farmed. Athens, the county seat, lay between Knoxville and Chattanooga along U.S. Highway 11, which wound its way through eastern Tennessee. This was the meeting place for farmers from all the surrounding communities. Traveling along narrow roads planted with signs urging them to “See Rock City” and “Get Right with God,” they would gather on Saturdays beneath the courthouse elms to discuss politics and crops. There were barely seven thousand people in Athens, and many of its streets were still unpaved. The two “big” cities some fifty miles away had not yet begun their inevitable expansion, and the farmers’ lives were simple and essentially unaffected by what they would have called the “modern world.” Many of them were without electricity. The land, their families, religion, politics, and the war dominated their talk and thoughts. They learned about God from the family Bible and in tiny chapels along yellow-dust roads. Their newspaper, the Daily Post-Athenian , told them something of politics and war, but since it chose to avoid intrigue or scandal, a story that smacked of both could be found only in the conversations of the folks who milled about the courthouse lawn on Saturdays.
Since the Civil War, political offices in McMinn County had gone to the Republicans, but in the 1930s Tennessee began to fall under the control of Democratic bosses. To the west, in Shelby County, E.H. Crump, the Memphis mayor who had been ousted during his term for failing to enforce Prohibition, fathered what would become the state’s most powerful political machine. Crump eventually controlled most of Tennessee along with the governor’s office and a United States senator. In eastern Tennessee local and regional machines developed, which, lacking the sophistication and power of a Crump, relied on intimidation and violence to control their constituents.
In 1936 the system descended upon McMinn County in the person of one Paul Cantrell, the Democratic candidate for sheriff. Cantrell, who came from a family of money and influence in nearby Etowah, tied his campaign closely to the popularity of the Roosevelt administration and rode FDR’s coattails to victory over his Republican opponent.
Fraud was suspected—to this day many Athens citizens firmly believe that ballot boxes were swapped—but there was no proof. Over the following months and years, however, those who questioned the election would see their suspicions vindicated. The laws of Tennessee provided an opportunity for the unscrupulous to prosper. The sheriff and his deputies received a fee for every person they booked, incarcerated, and released; the more human transactions, the more money they got. A voucher signed by the sheriff was all that was needed to collect the money from the courthouse. Deputies routinely boarded buses passing through and dragged sleepy-eyed passengers to the jail to pay their $16.50 fine for drunkenness, whether they were guilty or not. Arrests ran as high as 115 per weekend. The fee system was profitable, but record-keeping was required, and the money could be traced. It was less troublesome to collect kickbacks for allowing roadhouses to operate openly. Cooperative owners would point out influential patrons. They were not bothered, but the rest were subject to shakedowns. Prostitution, liquor, and gambling grew so prevalent that it became common knowledge in Tennessee that Athens was “wide open.”
Encouraged by his initial success, Cantrell began what would become a ten year reign as the king of McMinn politics. In subsequent elections, ballot boxes were collected from the precincts and the results tabulated in secret at McMinn County Jail in Athens. Opposition poll watchers were labeled as troublemakers and ejected from precinct houses.
The 1940 election sent George Woods, a plump and affable Etowah crony of Cantrell, to the state legislature. Woods promptly introduced “An Act to Redistrict McMinn County.” It reduced the number of voting precincts from twenty-three to twelve and cut down the number of justices of the peace from fourteen to seven. Of these seven, four were openly Cantrell men. When Gov. Prentice Cooper signed Woods’s bill into law on February 15, 1941, effective Republican opposition died in McMinn County.
McMinn County Court, which was still dominated by Republicans, directed the county to purchase voting machines. The Cantrell Democrats countered by having Woods get a bill passed in Nashville abolishing the court and then selling the machines to “save the county money.” Department of Justice records show investigations of electoral fraud in McMinn County in 1940, 1942, and 1944 —all without resolution.
Read More- The Battle Of Athens
Christopher Dorner Manhunt FINAL Analysis
A lot of things left unanswered...yet the MSM acts like it is over.. it's hard to know what really happened
Monday, February 18, 2013
Rinse & Repeat Obama's Presidents Day Vacation
Rinse & Repeat
FLASH BACK
Uploaded on Feb 21, 2011
Michelle Obama Goes Skiing in Colorado
by Keith Koffler on February 19, 2011, 11:34 am
First Lady Michelle Obama is on "a private family trip" in Colorado where she is skiing with daughters Sasha and Malia, according to an administration official.
"The First Lady and several close friends are chaperoning their children on a ski trip," the official told the press pool reporter who is following President Obama today.
Reports coming out of Colorado say she arrived Friday night and is staying at the Sebastian Hotel on Vail Mountain. Rooms start at $605 per night for a room with two queen beds and head north of $2,000 for multi-bedroom suites.
Mrs. Obama has decided to jet out to Vail -- instead of visiting slopes closer to Washington DC in Virginia or Pennsylvania -- despite already incurring criticism for taking opulent excursions, particularly a trip last summer to Spain. There, she stayed at the country's swankest hotel and, like this weekend, was traveling without her husband.
Mrs. Obama also raised eyebrows in December when she left earlier than President Obama for their annual vacation in Hawaii, incurring added expenses for taxpayers that likely ran well in excess of $100,000.
The trip to Vail, which almost certainly requires use of a large Air Force jet, would likely be much more expensive for taxpayers than a shorter journey by chopper or motorcade to a resort near Washington. Mrs. Obama will likely pay for a portion of her trip, but many costs of a first lady's travel are borne by taxpayers.
President Obama today went to serve as the "parent coach" for for Sasha's basketball team, even though Sasha was not there.
Meanwhile, Vice President Biden and his wife are spending the weekend in Key Largo.
Watch Obama Golf as the World Burns
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
The Prettiest Sound on Earth – Barack Obama
Egyptian Child-Preacher Curses Bush and Obama and Prays for the Destruction of Israel
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Watch Obama golf: Our Nero fiddles as the World burns
A little reminder on how much he golfed, played basketball and partied instead of being President of the greatest country ever on the face of the earth.
Obama's Presidents Day Vacation (Sacrifice is for you)
Don't judge a man by his but judge him from his deeds.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Tuesday Morning War Porn…
Do I need a Class 4 licence for one of these?
Friday, October 12, 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)