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A federal appeals court today struck down price caps on intrastate phone calls made by prisoners. Inmates will thus have to continue paying high prices to make phone calls to family members, friends, and lawyers.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with prison phone company Global Tel*Link in its lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission. But that's exactly what the FCC's current leadership wanted. The FCC imposed the prison phone rate caps during the Obama administration, but current FCC Chairman Ajit Pai instructed commission lawyers to drop their court defense of the intrastate caps.
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(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:49PM
you got that right, nudenick, fucking kongresskritters use the so-called 'commerce clause' to stick their fucking noses in all sorts of shit they should not be touching...
it has become a catch-all for doing whatever the fuck they want, even if otherwise directly contradictory to the constitution and small-dee democracy...
reason being, they can give a kevin-bacon-like six degrees of separation from ANY HUMAN ACTIVITY on the planet, and 'splain how that effects 'interstate commerce'...
it is all bullshit, but WHO is going to call them on it ? ? ?
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when those in the system (MOST especially including kongresskritters) who are set up to be the 'checks and balances' in the equation, stop checking and balancing, then there is nothing to stop the power elite from simply ignoring the -now- TOTALLY THEORETICAL 'checks and balances' and doing whatever the fuck they want with no consequences...
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gee, how *did* we get in this mess ? ? ?
*snort*
let's see: we set up a system of profit uber alles, and are then surprised when humans have no value in such a system ? ? ?
HOW can you be surprised ? ? ? WE SET UP THE SYSTEM that way and allow it to run amuck...
what ELSE did we expect ? ??
like a galbraith quote about capitalism (paraphrased, TLTG*) : capitalism is the insane idea that allowing the most greedy of men to run things based on their predatory actions will result in the best of outcomes for everyone...
sumpin like that...
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(*TLTG = too lazy to google)