Everybody loves the giddy thrill of convention season, but the beginning of one man's political career is the start of another man's lobbying campaign, and few sights in contemporary politics are less edifying than watching swarms of lobbyists descend like locusts on the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in hopes that whoever wins will be amenable enough to bribery to shower exemptions and special favors on their industry should they get elected. And as far as this shameless behavior goes, it don't come much more shameless than that of the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America.
The RIAA and MPAA, two mobbed-up, indescribably crooked organizations whose entire histories consist of marginalizing the payments made to the artists who make them rich in order to maximize their own profits, are both sniffing around Denver -- and will afterwards drag their sorry, crooked carcasses to the Twin Cities -- in order to coke up interest in their latest scheme to unlawfully protect their own shoddy, dying industries and punish the average consumer for their own failures: MPAA boss and former senator Dan Glickman, apparently unaware that the economy is tanking, the environment is polluted, and the country is fighting a war on two fronts, seeks the creation of a cabinet-level "copyright czar" to assist his organization in illegally fixing prices and suing retirees for copyright infringement.
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