While you were busy trying to be funny or sound like a drunken fool we have been losing our freedoms. Right now I know some of you are rolling your eyes but I remind you of other countries where the people lost their freedom before their very eyes and did nothing until it was too late.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...LEFTTopStories
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnal...With-Rules.htm
Starting in 1936 the Jews in Germany were subject to new laws that proscribed where they could shop, eat, and live. Many said that it would not get worse because the Nazis would be gone tomorrow. When Jewish shop keepers were attacked and their stores vandalized without the protection of the law they said it could not get worse. When people were forced to move into ghettos having to abandon their possessions to the vultures to the elite, they said it couldn't get worse.
http://www.atr.org/fairness-doctrine...-online-a4958#
You know how that ended.
In another country the government made the people afraid of another people in a distant land. The people responded to the fear with anger and paranoia. The government created an agency to feed the people the "right" news. This agency even found citizens willing to spy on other citizens for free. These spies got to carry a badge and scare other citizens with exposure for "crimes". This same government put together a massive propaganda program to affect public opinion. The populace responded by acts of vandalism and murder. This country was the United States in 1917-1920. Look ups: Creel Committee (Committee of Public Information), George Creel, the 4-minute men, Robert Praeger, and Bernays/propaganda.
The above links go to stories where the federal government (without actions of Congress) is now in a position to filter the Internet (yes, that includes sites like this), TV, and radio. In England they are moving towards a complete ban on pornography (their definition of pornography) from the Internet. http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1225973481287
So now I will let you go back to whatever dick pleasing thing you were doing and I know some of you will either make snarky remarks or worse, cast unfair dispersions on my character (because you have no logical response). That means I win but in this case we all lose.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121902461.html
Chavez defends plans to regulate Internet.
To paraphrase Larry the cable guy, what is this? Venezuela? or maybe Hungary http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BK1A220101221
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101220/...es_reporting_2