Speechcrime is Thoughtcrime

Anyone who still believes that the O-totalitarians are not trying to use the Federal Communication Commission to censor free political speech on the Internet is dangerously gullible.  Only Republican control of the House of Representatives prevents it.  Localism is Big Nanny’s latest euphemism for censorship.  The FCC proposed among other items that broadcast stations create community advisory boards, require staff to be on site whenever a station was on the air and provide reports.  They are promoting this scheme under the guise of protecting children from pornographic predators.  FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell said this about censoring Internet content. 

The government would be compiling data as to what kind of content you were airing and whether the government thought that was appropriate content," McDowell said.  This claim’s despicable arrogance directly reflects White House sentiments.  They plan to use their prejudices to determine appropriate Internet content.     

It could be political speech…we don't know where the government is headed.  Sentient beings know localism’s direction is totalitarian takeover.  Speech articulates thoughts and feelings; censoring speech also censors thought.  Speechcrime is Thoughtcrime.   

They plan to employ standard-issue Corruptocrat incrementalism; first, they contrive a shred of justification for censoring a part of Internet content.  Once done, they will goose-step their way to totalitarian control of the Web to censor dissent before the next election.  First, the FCC will require pre-approval—for online media and individual contributors—prior to publication on the Internet.   

This will necessitate a national online ID.  Next, the commission will appoint community advisory boards in all major metropolitan areas to regulate information dissemination.  Content advisers will bowdlerize all information unflattering to the current regime.  The FCC will close ISPs that fail to comply. 

Corrupt regimes throughout history and across the globe have used regulation and taxation to control thought by controlling speech.  The O-totalitarians are continuing the legacies of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot.  In late June, the FCC released research recommendations for overhauling and updating the agency’s regulatory approach to print, broadcast, cable and the Internet.  This is largely a scheme to redistribute resources to their welfare constituents, although they lack the regulatory authority to do this.

That Hussein O-buma is a traitor is self-evident.  Cicero observed that the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.  He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A more apt description of progressive O-bumites has never been uttered.  They have wrecked the economy; they have turned education into brain washing; they control the mainstream media; the judiciary unilaterally repeals inconvenient legislation.  Everyone who cares about our children’s and grandchildren’s futures should heed this clarion call.

May your gods be with you.                    

O-bumites Creating an American Tass

Make no mistake about it.  Regulation is taxation.  Agents of the state are not volunteers.  Their compensation packages are larded with health and retirement benefits that private sector workers can only envy—as well as to resent and regret having to pony up for the cost.  Now, the Corruptocrats are back with a new round of tax and regulate schemes for the Internet. 

They actually believe that they have a divinely endowed right to take a piece of the action when they find someone who is hardworking and successful.  Theirs is a Tony Soprano type of extortion.  If we refuse to offer up the pound of flesh that they demand, they will wreck the entire operation and insure that no one succeeds. 

The Investors.com editorial “Always More Taxes” exposes some of the latest chicanery by Senator Dick Durbin, Theftocrat, Illinois.  Durbin sponsored a bill that would levy a sales tax to collect revenues on Web sales even when the seller has no physical presence in the buyer's state.  To date, e-commerce has been treated in the same way catalog sales were handled in the days when Americans shopped at Sears and J.C. Penney via the U.S. Postal Service.

Thanks to tax collectors, Amazon.com is closing a Dallas area fulfillment center and canceling a planned expansion of its operations in Texas after the online retailer failed to reach an agreement with the state over taxes.  Dave Clark, who runs the company's operations in North America, said the state's "unfavorable regulatory climate" prompted the decision.

Amazon’s move will cost Texas more than 1000 jobs and tens of millions of dollars in investment.  This is but one consequence of greedily coveting other people’s privately held resources.  Private companies acting as Internet service providers facilitate access to the Web.  The Internet itself is a global network of interconnected computer systems that is not owned by any one entity.  The ISPs are regulated by national, state, and local government agencies.

Since politicians and bureaucrats have largely been prevented from getting their grabby little hands on the Internet, and ISPs are still in private hands, the O-bumatrons want to pull an end run and create a parallel universe-type Internet of their own.  The administration’s brave new Internet is intended to be used for emergencies, health care, education, and energy as though the existing Web cannot provide these services.

Upon closer examination, this federal expansion into the private sector is neither innocuous nor benevolent.  Theodore Forstmann once observed that the gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.  Much as they did with the healthcare industry, the O-bumites have been practicing their theft-by-regulation tactics against AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Comcast, and Time Warner.

The Prowler’s article “National Public Internet,” exposes Theftocrats’ real intentions.  They have been taking steps to create a taxpayer-financed, government-run broadband network that while ostensibly deployed for use by public safety officials, would compete for business against the current wireless broadband companies. 

We have one of the most advanced and competitive wireless networks on the planet, and true to form, O-buma wants to punish success.  When government competes against private enterprise, industries die.  One White House representative said that we're talking about a network that could also be used for commercial purposes…as the government, we'd be able to offer those services at considerably cheaper prices.

Progressives continue to advance White House and Cabinet-level department policies that essentially further 'socialize' our economy, says a senior Republican Commerce Committee aide.  You saw it with net neutrality, you've seen it with health care and the environment and now you're seeing it with wireless communications.  Taking from others against their wishes is still theft.

May your gods be with you.