SOURCE

"Attorney General

Alberto Gonzales said he transmitted to Congress on Monday a new legislative
initiative that would give authorities more muscle to act against counterfeiters
and copyright pirates, especially on health and safety cases.

The "Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007"
would "provide stronger penalties for repeat offenders and increase the maximum
penalty for counterfeiting offenses if the defendant knowingly or recklessly
causes serious bodily injury or death," he said."

Further in the article

   "While crimes like IP theft may appear harmless to some, we know
that the reality is much different. Imagine a heart patient undergoing emergency
surgery at a hospital that unknowingly purchased substandard counterfeit
surgical equipment or medications," he said.

"These crimes, as we all know, also have a direct
impact on our economy, costing victims millions of dollars and, if left
unchecked, diminishing entrepreneurship," he added.

Based on Gonzales's figures, the United States
convicted 57 percent more defendants for criminal copyright and trademark
offenses in 2006 than a year earlier. "

PLEASE SEE THE LETTER TO SPEAKER PELOSI ON THIS.

Here is a sample

 "Accordingly, section 12(a)(l)-(2) provides enhanced maximum statutory
penalties for counterfeiting offenses that endanger public health and safety.
The proposal increases the maximum penalties for 5 2320 offenses from 10 to 20
years imprisonment where the defendant knowingly or recklessly causes or
attempts to cause serious bodily injury, and increases the



(The Honorable Nancy Pelosi

Page 7)



maximum penalty to life imprisonment where the defendant knowingly or
recklessly causes or attempts to cause death. Both the mens rea standard
("knowingly" or "recklessly") and the level of enhanced penalties are consistent
with other existing federal criminal statutes that provide enhanced penalties
for offenses resulting in serious injury or death. See, ex., 18 U.S.C. $5
1030(c)(5) (computer hacking) and 1365(a) (product tampering)."

So, here is a life in prison for counterfeiting.

And, how about the "attempting to copyright infringe?

See this:

"  Section 4

Section 4(a) creates a new federal offense of attempting to infringe a
copyright. The

completed crime is currently defined in 17 U.S.C. S 506(a). Section 4(a) makes
no change to the elements of the offense of copyright infringement. It does,
however, criminalize attempts to commit this offense.

Section 4(a) is needed because, as with other criminal intellectual property
laws, such as the criminal counterfeit goods and services statute, 18 U.S.C.
2320, an attempt to violate the criminal copyright statute should be counted an
offense whether it is successful or not. It is a general tenet of the criminal
law that those who attempt to commit a crime but do not complete it are as
morally culpable as those who succeed in doing so."

Attempted copyright infringement is less serious than attempted murder, yet Gonzales wants to group the two together.

And why would a hospital be purchasing counterfeit surgical equipment? That right there is beyond me. I know hospitals are always looking to cut costs, but they tend to have major suppliers for their equipment.

And then how is someone going to counterfeit medicines? The costs along make doing so prohibitive.

So really, I don't think anyone's going to die from someone purchasing counterfeit Gucchi bags or Versace clothes.

Oh, and Gonzales, those who attempt a crime, but don't complete it, they usually have second thoughts before executing the crime. How many times have you heard of people going in to rob a bank or a convenience store and not going through with it? Should they still be locked up just for thinking about it? Have we finally become like 1984 where we punish people for thinking about something? It would appear we have.

As far as I know of, the only person killed in relation to copyright infringement was that guy an off-duty cop working for the RIAA shot to death for walking past.

Surgical equipment and medications are down the hall in the Patent Office. Does Gonzales know anything?

The RIAA can't prove actual copyright infringement in a court of law. How the hell are they going to prosecute attempted infringement? When you search for something and don't find it?

Oh, wait. I forgot. Internet wiretapping started yesterday. We're now going to dedicate the resources of the federal government in the fight to send little children to jail.

Your tax dollars at work.

"It is a general tenet of the criminal law that those who attempt to commit a crime but do not complete it are as
morally culpable as those who succeed in doing so."

Oh, so, following that line of reasoning, we need to institutionalize "thought police" that can go around monitoring brain waves of people to find those who are deserving of being prosecuted for thought crimes. Yeah, that's what we really need, alright. . . because there's just not enough intrusion into the way we think.
BTW:
Going around prosecuting potential hate crimes has a higher sense of urgency than protecting privacy, you know. Hell, it might even be just as important as first amendment rights! Undoubtedly, those who think hateful or discriminating thoughts ought to land in jail. We need to weed out bad thinkers from society, and telltale evidence from breakthrough encephalograph technology could help lead the way.
Yipee!

[brandishing the most sardonic sneer imagineable]

Oh, wait! I just thought of another thing we could go after people about -- inappropriate facial expressions!
Yeah, let's add that to the list too.

"While crimes like intellectual property theft may appear harmless to some, we know that the reality is much different."

While assinine proposals may appear harmless to some, we know that the reality is we should consider the source.

Alberto Gonzales has commited acts of High Treason against the USA. This "law" isn't about copyright, it's a tool to propagate mroe internation laws which supercede and completely ignore the sovereignty of nations.

These are the weapons of the One World Government push. Remeber, traitor Gonzales had said that he was "just getting started" with regards to "clamping down" on the Internet.

All they have to achieve is make copying and pasting links illegal, and the 1st Amendment on the Internet is completely decimated instantly. They wish to achieve this because they do not want anyone to be able to avoid mainstream psy-op Pentagon run propaganda like Fox News.

"Oh, wait. I forgot. Internet wiretapping started yesterday. We're now going to dedicate the resources of the federal government in the fight to send little children to jail."

The real purpose behind wiretapping is this: To archive databases of all people, and particularly to red-flag anyone who is for exposing government corruption, 9/11 truth, Christians, anyone who is aware of what the bible says about the end times (knows the NWO is the enemy). They want to know this so that when martial law is declared, they can isolate their strongest perceived opponents and go after them immediately, kidnap/arrest them for sedition, torture them, and kill them.

Freedom is their enemy, Alberto Gonzales IS Al-Qaeda, along with many others in the administration. Only Rep. Ron Paul can defeat these Illuminist puppet treasonous scumbag trash sons of bitches, that is why an all out WAR has been waged against him, because he is ANTI NEW WORLD ORDER, HE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE WHO IS.

These scumbags will fail in the end, but only after much suffering and bloodshed of the world and the American people. Millions will die in the coming civil war/revolution, if they do not die from resistance, they will die via pacifism. Stock up on armor piercing ammo and spend a few thousand dollars on guns NOW, you'll need it to get through their level 5 ceramic impregnated riot gear when the physical war against the U.S. Constitution actually begins in the streets. THIS IS REAL.

mroe internation

correction:

more international

In his 1981 inaugural address, Republican President Ronald Reagan summed up his belief in limited government when he said, "In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."[1]

I believe in the fight against wide-scale pirates, like these making 10,000 copies of music. The RIAA should focus on that now, as well as the MPAA.

But what the RIAA should not do is to take away my rights to make personal copies of media that I purchased, and then edit them and move it around my network.