On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:16 PM, wgw <wgwin...@gmail.com> wrote: > there are still reasons to work on GOOD THINGS (™) without abandoning the > work against the BAD THINGS (®).
I agree completely. > I particularly appreciate Lessig's Google presentation > (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc) and TED talk > (http://www.ted.com/talks /lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim) Thanks for these links. I'm watching the first talk now. It's great stuff. I'm finding Leo hard to work on precisely because I find politics so interesting and important. Not pretty, just important. > . He makes a convincing case that money pollution is the most fundamentally > destructive pollution we are facing today. Again, I agree completely. That's why I cited McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. Whether grass roots campaigns, regardless of their targets, can ever compete with full-time well-funded propaganda (not to mention almost-full-time dialing for dollars) remains to be seen. I am not hopeful. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
