[Am-info] Maybe this should deserve a new fresh lokk?

[John Poltorak]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:03:16AM -0500, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
> In
> <20020321111541.CLGX1332.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@billisanasshole>,
> on 03/21/02 at 03:15 AM,
>    "Mike Stephen" <mikestp@telus.net> said:
> 
> >From the Seattle Weekly online:
> 
> This happened in 1995 and no one in the SEC or the USDOJ noticed it or did
> any investigation?  Now that would have been a great reason for a special
> prosecutor to investigate the Clinton administration, instead of who he
> was bopping.  Why did everyone turn their heads on this?  
> 
> I doubt with the bozos running things today, anything will come of it
> though.  They are all a bunch of monkeys, as in "hear no evil, see no
> evil, speak no evil".  Why are they all afraid of enforcing any laws when
> it comes to the criminal organization known as microsoft?

Everyone has their fingers in the pie!

Ashcroft got $10,000 from Microsoft, but somehow as head of the DOJ, 
facing one of its most important cases, he decided the case wasn't worth 
pursuing. That must be the best investment Microsoft ever made.

No one in the mainstream press noticed or remarked on this.

Microsoft has spent millions lobbying congress in the last couple of years 
since the findings of fact came. To my mind, 'spending millions lobbying' 
is a euphamism for buying support.

Has anyone ever seen a TV news or current affairs program spend any time 
explaining the findings of fact - I've certainly never seen one. Bill 
Gates must have all these media people in his pocket.

Microsoft's business partnership with Anderson's has probably involved a 
huge slush fund to get Microsoft solutions rolled out into high profile 
companies. Anderson's have now been found out, but no one is yet pointing 
at Microsoft. It seems that too much is at stake. Too many people have 
managed to line their pockets providing 'consultancy'.

Sooner or later it will all fall down like a house of cards.
 
> 
> Mark
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