~SH~ said:
There was no PSA violation! NONE! You are wrong again.
~SH~
That is just your opinion. To come up with that conclusion, the appellate courts had to add something in the law. They showed their ignorance of an economic law meant to curb the abuses of market power by not interpreting it litterally. They had to have the word "whatsoever" taken out by the Clinton administration for a 5 year time period to get some case law that made it easier to change the "or"s into "and"s in the case law (Glickman vs. IBP included, Agman).
They rewrote the law to get the answer they wanted. All this started with Hillary's payoff through Tyson of $100,00.00+- from the insider trading commodities scam. Attorney Bill Clinton already knows how to change the meaning of little words. What is the definition of "is"?
What gets me is that this scam goes over two administrations and includes either a little help from the USDA or requires them to take a little "nap". They have been "napping" on a lot of poultry issues that have come before GIPSA and the court even cited the London case, where another judge overruled the jury.
Maybe we should just not have a jury system anymore and rely on compromised judges like they do in Mexico. Oh, that is already the reality. This case screams for justice. So far those screams have been muted by Tyson's money machine. These are more like mafia tactics. I suppose that is why the poultry people call Tyson the chicken mafia. It doesn't help to have Arlen Specter on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He acts in the Senate as if he is still representing the interests of Frank Perdue, as he did before he became governor of Pennsylvania. And yes, Frank Perdue did have ties to the mafia (Frank died earlier this year). Some people are obviously above the law when they have friends in such high places.
The process for complaints for poultry goes like this: GIPSA investigates (or tries to squash any investigation and tell Tyson who made the complaint) and then asks the Justice Department to prosecute. They never do. Economic harms are never corrected and farmers never collect the value of the economic harm. All tied in a nice and convenient little bow.
The power of the packer's influence at the USDA is showing up in this, the Bush administration but the seeds were planted a long time ago. Wendy Gramm has a lot to do with it, as her hands are soiled by her influence by being on the board of the commodities futures trading board, enron, ibp, and the ultra conservative think tank in Texas that Delay is now having to deal with.
All of these are economic harms. Wendy and her husband, x-Senator Phil Gramm are both economists in positions that would allow these scams to be played out. What a story!
These abuses create deadweight losses in the economy. They have enriched a few choice politicians at the expense of the producers. They are a part of the revolving door politics here in the U.S. and they underpin the current loathesomeness of our current government.
