It was bound to happen, and a lot of people don't understand it. Because of the Orwellian name, they will imagine it actually is "neutral".
Sort of like the "Fairness Doctrine" is "fair".
Is it something we can undo when Øbama is history?
We can't put the State-Run Medicine back in the genie bottle...and probably can't reverse the disaster that would be Cap & Tax. So we have to really focus on those.
Can a new FCC head under an actual American president undo this monstrosity? Or will there be so much "infrastructure" installed....their favorite strategy...that it will also be impossible to reverse.
That's the important issue for me, which determines which thing I need to fight to the death. This asshole is inundating us with so much in order to get his REALLY bad stuff passed in the confusion.
I don't want to get side-tracked, or get distracted from the critical issues - by ones that are shit-cakes, but are essentially temporary and reversible.
I just don't know which this one is.
I'll appreciate any input.
The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State
Derailing this Internet Censorship Bill must be priority #1. I look at it this way....
ReplyDeleteThis regime has launched nothing less that a frontal attack on liberty and freedom. As you point out, it has been launched on many fronts. Planning has been in the works for decades and are very well funded.
We the people now have no representation in a self-serving Congress, we have a self-censored press, no standing in Federal courts and a White House intent on crushing our liberties and freedom.
Saving the Nation is now in the the hands of us - the citizens. We've been left nothing except the truth and our willingness take it to the streets? The DC march was but a show of force - yet it rattled them.
The Internet is the critical supply line in our fight. If we lose it, the other fronts fall.
They know this too.
Here's what I mean. Certain changes get "institutionalized" and are nearly impossible to weed out. Government "programs" once instituted, employing thousands of people become untouchable "third rails". That's why we can't allow State-run health care.
ReplyDeleteOther government actions destroy entire industries...which once destroyed cannot be rebuilt - I'm thinking Cap and Trade, for example. We can't let them do it.
The Fairness Doctrine...or "Localism" will ruin AM radio. And would destroy information outlets we desperately need in our fight for liberty.
But other things that are noxious and evil require only a change of executive order, or the repeal of a regulation...
We have to be sure to focus on the right fight, the critical battles—not necessarily the one that's creating the loudest buzz or momentary outrage.
We, too, have to be long-term planners and choose our targets wisely.
I'm not certain which FUBAR disaster could be reversed, but we do need a larger Wolf Pack...more troops to fight the fight.
ReplyDeleteWe should diagram this mess and take a serious look at what it would take turn it around after the fact.
I do agree with Anonymous...the Internet is the critical supply line. If we lose it, we're in deep trouble.
It is hard to prioritize which front to take on first.
You are absolutely correct, we must focus on the right fights, the question is...which ones are they?
I think one of the critical issues that are worth fighting is the enforced vaccination of the population of an untested, unnecessary drug.
ReplyDeleteFox News (forgive me) were actually finally reporting that the police may be given powers to enter homes hold us down and stick needles into our arms.
I keep wondering why the building of FEMA camps everywhere - well I guess they could be for those that refuse to comply, those that get sick from the vaccination or those that die from flu (least likely).
Perhaps its just me. But we are talking about the FLU.
Life is Short but Wide.
IMHO the "Fairness Doctrine" or any mutation of it, pales in comparison to this. AM radio is mostly one way info, it doesn't enable people to communicate and organize - only the internet could make possible the Tea Party movements and their effects DC is so furious at.
ReplyDeleteTHIS is war, and they know it!
As the article you linked to says,
""For them to say that this isn't government regulation, that this is just about fairness and giving everyone the same thing, is just not true," says a Republican Energy and Commerce staffer, who has been working on the issue of "net neutrality" for several years. "Someone has to be monitoring all those networks, all that activity to make sure the networks remain 'neutral.' Who is that going to be? Free Press? George Soros?"
In fact, a representative of the left-wing organization known as Free Press will be present at the Genachowski speech. Free Press, which continues to stand by former White House Obama adviser Van Jones, who served its board, shares its roots with the MoveOn organization, and has received funds from George Soros and funds from senior Google executives, actually wrote large portions of the Markey-Eshoo net neutrality bill, which was introduced in Congress just before the summer recess in August.
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Seriously, we lose this and... if we don't lose it all soon after, it'll be pure luck.
I was shocked that neither our local Tea Party coalition, nor Gateway Pundit has anything up on this (I left a comment on each)... IT IS HUGE!!!
Call your congressmen & senators, call the radio shows, raise a ruckus!
Gunslinger says: "We have to be sure to focus on the right fight"
ReplyDeletePerhaps their strategy points the way:
The three pillars they must put in place for Statism are Healthcare, Energy and Education. We know what is planned for the first 2 - stayed tuned for the third.
To maintain the power they need to control the press/internet, need intimidation and fear (even a national police force), and, to control pools and districting.
Covering a few of these with the hope that the regime falls, as the others get put in place, assume it is permanent. All politicians are addicted to power and government - they do not give it up.
A massive "vote them all out" effort might focus the attention of the freshman on a return to the Constitution and small government
I'm thinking:
ReplyDeleteHealthcare, Energy, Amnesty, Communication.
With Education a necessary, but longer term strategy.
"A massive "vote them all out" effort might focus the attention of the freshman on a return to the Constitution and small government "
ReplyDeletePardon my wet blanket moment, but while that's a nice thought, and it'd definitely feel good to toss them out, no doubt, but no... it will change nothing, and in fact, I think, will accelerate and entrench matters further.
I know this isn't a very popular ideas, but... the politicians are the lest numerous part of the govt, and actually, with only a few exceptions, the least powerful members of the govt. On any given day, it is the aides, assistants and bureaucrats who run things, and write things, and tweak the politicians 'unpolished' proposals. Take a look at the bailout & healthcare bills, your. congressmen. did. not. write. them. Not in the main, they were built around a framework submitted by outside groups. The harsh reality is that the longer a politician is in office, the more likely they will actually be able to implement their own ideas, because with time, they begin to make the associations and contacts, favors (aka 'power') which they otherwise depend upon their 'people' for.
And that's still dealing with the least powerful portion of govt.
Since Teddy Roosevelt, we've been establishing, stocking and spreading the reach of regulatory agencies (FDA, IRS, SEC, etc), their reach, size and depth, and the number of regulations which elected legislators write are dwarfed by the mammoth number of regulations - having the force of law, and through their intertwined dept's and codes, in most cased take precedence over the laws written by our elected legislators.
Term limits will do nothing, but weaken your say in the operations of the govt. Turning everyone out in 2010 will do nothing but the same.
There aren't ANY easy answers. The only, ONLY hope we have, is getting the active interest of the mass of people who have traditionally had no interest and wanted nothing to do, with politics. WE THE PEOPLE have a responsibility to learn, understand, and apply the Constitution, learn the ideas which were formative to it, and vocally demand they be followed.
It is going to take WE THE PEOPLE taking responsibility, and oversight, of Washington, and forcibly (politically speaking, not with actual force) causing, essentially, the repeal of the legislative and regulatory mass of the 20th century. And of course, scraping - not 'fixing' - scraping the school systems, wholesale.
That is, IMHO, our only hope. The Tea Party movements have given me hope because they are an example just that beginning to happen.
And that is why the Net NUTrality actions are so dangerous. And I believe they know it.
There is no question that removing the current vipers just to replace them with a new set of incipient vipers will not fix anything.
ReplyDeleteI call it "draining the swamp". Like Van Jones said...we need a NEW SYSTEM.
I just don't mean it like he did. We need to return to our roots. We need to somehow shut down all those agencies, bureaucracies etc. or nothing will change.
The massive size of government is the problem. The institutionalized leviathan has to be dismembered.
I call it "Dismantling the Imperial State."
And I agree the only way is for a significant minority of We The People to demand it until we get it. Nothing less will do.
I'm coordinating a 9-12 Project group in my area, and it's amazing in this terminally Leftist locale, how many of "us" are hungry to "do something". It's amazing and awe-inspiring.
I hope everyone within the sound of our keyboards is also organizing in their area. We need to be as numerous and as ubiquitous, fighting for Liberty, as the left-wing organizations working for Tyranny.
We're just getting started, we're late to the game...but we have the passion and the understanding of what's at stake.
"Failure is not an option."