I am afraid that this whole procedure looks like a kangaroo court, pushed by people with records decidedly adversative, on political grounds, to PR, and has degenerated into farcical wikilawyering and forum shopping, when the gravamen of the charges relates to a private on line exchange of edits and opinions between me and PR . Nishidani 17 : 38, 12 October 2007 ( UTC)
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Their outlook is most frequently summed up by the last lines of their first issue where the editors proclaimed, " it is time to say what you mean . " Yet in the Third Issue, critic James Wood responded to criticism of his negative criticism and, singling out this quote from Issue 1, stated, " The Editors had unwittingly proved the gravamen of their own critique : that it is easier to criticize than to propose ."
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The first was that the " gravamen of the offense may be gathered from the general summary that it is a conspiracy to drive from the field all other traders in the things which make possible the practice of the motion picture art, and to monopolize to themselves that trade, and through this the practice of the art itself . " The defendants argued that they were not engaged in trade or commerce, to which the antitrust laws are limited : " The control, with the seeking of which the defendants are charged, is therefore the control of an art, and not of trade, or of anything which is the subject of commerce, or can be brought within the laws relating thereto ."
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See 16 F . 3d 1537, 1544 ( CA10 1994 ) ( " The gravamen of Adarand's argument is that the CFLHD must make particularized findings of past discrimination to justify its race-conscious SCC program under Croson because the precise goals of the challenged SCC program were fashioned and specified by an agency and not by Congress " ); Adarand Constructors, Inc . v . Skinner, 790 F . Supp . 240, 242 ( Colo . 1992 ) ( " Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment seeks a declaratory judgment and permanent injunction against the DOT, the FHA and the CFLHD until specific findings of discrimination are made by the defendants as allegedly required by City of Richmond v . Croson " ); cf.
