ronald raygun just happened to be President when it happened.

Very good thought. Unfortunately, we are all guilty of this behavior no matter how “smart” we think we are. We spend a lot of time yelling at each other over politics, but maybe we all should spend a little more time yelling at ourselves.

Very good quotes. Thanks.

Slaves and women did not have the right to vote is because by definition they did not own property (ie have a vested interest). The 47% do not have a vested interest and should not be allowed to vote.

Criminals are on welfare and they dont have a right to vote. Think about it.

The Magna Carta and the Constitution were created and brought forth by the rich and educated. The poor and ignorant have taken hostage our freedoms. Unfortunately, our educational system has created many of the poor and ignorant. No more money for education.

Government is there to serve the people, not to rule us.

If you look at the finer details of Obama Care, for instance, you will notice it may violate the first 5 amendments in the Bill of Rights.

Blame it on Bush

Is that all you Oblabla assholes know?

I don’t remember Bush handing over the Internet to UN fascists.

1776-2008

BO playing his fiddle (and butchering names) in Asia while the world burns.

Okay okay, I’ll pull my thumb out… Yes right, this is nasty business and I’m sorry but it is GWB’s fault. (Actually I think it more the state within the state that Harry [Mr. Truman] warned us about on his way out of the White House, sometimes referred to as the government within a government. The President of the United States always has to have “plausible deniability”, which means he really can’t know the really bad stuff that he is indirectly signing off on via legitimate legislative processes.) However, Mr. Obama promised in his first election that he would begin repealing these clearly unconstitutional invasions of privacy foregoing any due-processes, and I’m also sorry, but to my knowledge, not a one has been reversed.

Seems to me it’s come to be a lot less about who’s in power and a lot more about what’s in power.

I get the best perspective by thinking outside the government, from the point of view of the lobbyists, particularly our Corporate Oligarchy. It is THEY who wrote and shoved both SOPA and PIPA into the US Congress. Their point is to violate the US Constitution in pursuit of media pirates, etc. The result, however, is ENTIRELY different.

Like I said: Traitorous idiot louts.

Therefore, this unconstitutional bill is making an EXCEPTION, illegally bypassing the US Constitution, to ALSO allow surveillance of US citizens WITHOUT a Constitutionally guaranteed warrant.

The result is that EVERYONE gets surveilled, US citizen or not.

A Bible Thumper from The Left Coast. Vancouver, a city so liberal there is a crack seller on almost every downtown street corner.

Paradise, Lotus Land, who needs a job, this city invented social assistance.

He relents.

The vote goes on.

This is going to be a sick moment in US history.

…oh wait, who were the morons who put them there?

“As Americans focused on the U.S. presidential election, the United Nations and a wide swath of its autocratic member regimes were drafting a plan to give a little-known UN agency control over the online world. Among the most contentious schemes: a plot to hand the International Telecommunications Union a so-called “kill switch” for the Internet that critics say would be used to smash free speech.

The ITU’s proposals to “reform” the Internet, drafted in secret and quietly published online last week, revealed a broad plan to rein in what, up until now, has been a largely unregulated tool allowing people all over the world to freely express their views at little to no cost financially. Unlike dictatorships such as the communist regime ruling over mainland China and the governments of Muslim-dominated countries, most Western-style governments have been unable or unwilling to regulate the Web apart from minor restrictions on subjects such as child pornography and the like.

However, that could all change soon — at least if the UN and its tyrannical member states get their way, with a broad coalition of Islamist autocrats and communist despots joining forces to quash freedom of expression for everyone. Representatives from almost 200 governments and dictatorships will be meeting behind closed doors next month at the “World Conference on International Telecommunications” (WCIT) in the United Arab Emirates to discuss handing complete control over the internet to the ITU.

Last week, the UN and the dictatorship ruling Azerbaijan hosted the so-called “Internet Governance Forum” (IGF) in Baku under the banner of “Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic, and Social Development.” Critics slammed the forum, the notion of “Internet Governance,” and especially the host regime, known for its barbaric repression of free speech. But while no binding decisions were made there, UN leaders and despots from around the world took the opportunity to prepare for the upcoming ITU summit in Dubai.

The widely condemned ITU plan calls for reforms that would stifle free speech, regulate social media, force Internet users to pay “fees” for services like Skype and e-mail, and much more. Among the chief problems cited by analysts is a plan to allow UN members — mostly dictatorships — to demand that the ITU shut down content they do not approve of. The scheme would also create a global Internet surveillance regime while permitting governments to restrict or block online information. Anonymity on the Web would become a thing of the past, too.

I have been lucky enough to choose to live among law abiding people. Good luck to those of you who want to hide crime and live in fear of everything.

We are being surveilled. Every US citizen is now a DEFAULT CRIMINAL. Our Corporate Oligarchy wants us afraid and foolish. FUD is propaganda.

Thomas Jefferson: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Your right to privacy: Use it or lose it.

Clearly our Corporate Oligarchy and their puppets prefer that you LOSE IT.

‘Psychological projection’ or ‘projection bias’ is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings

Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted unconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them.

An example of this behavior might be blaming another for self failure.

Encrypt your email:
Pretty Good Privacy @ Wikipedia

FREE VERSION FOR MAC:

GPGTools -GNU Privacy Guard

Your Right To Privacy: Use it or lose it.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

IOW: This bill is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

No email is public. It never will be.

IOW: Our Senators are IDIOT LOUT TRAITORS.

IOW: Our Corporate Oligarchy, who PUPPET our US government, are IDIOT LOUT TRAITORS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/electronic-communications-privacy-act-patrick-leahy_n_2166759.html