Posted on 02/21/2011 4:52:38 PM PST by Cacique
Maybe the mark of the beast comes from SCS ;). You know,"from the soil you came, to the soil you shall return" and all.
Agreed. They are doing the modern equivalent of looting the town.
Weenie re-accessing to commence at 08:00. Synchronize you watches.
I highly recommend everyone read “ Bloodlands “ by Timothy Snyder. It is an eyeopener. I have it on my Kindle, not very expensive, around 9 bucks and well worth the read. If you do, you will be very very afraid at what is happening right now world wide.
Maybe if we all jump up and down at the same time we can reverse this nightmare.
It is worth a try. Nothing else seems to be working. LOL
Pie from the sky plan.
I have to give Bummer an honorable mention for imagination in this one, but that’s it. I think Republicans are not stick-in-the-muds and would like to do something similar, but know the price is vastly too large for what would be had. There’s already been a shakeout in the private sector of internet services. As the availability of cable and DSL has grown, we see fewer providers who support those little dishes that adorned many housetops in urban areas a decade ago.
And they don't want to track GPS-braceleted sex offenders.
The internet allows the spread of ideas, the state doesn't like ideas they don't spread. To quote Stalin; "ideas are more dangerous than guns. We don't let the people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"
>He is ignoring congress and the courts and acting more like a dictator.<
In so many ways it is hard to keep track of them all. federal judges are ignored. He is sending union thugs to enforce his will against states.
He is really pushing the bounds of his regime as far as he can. I don’t want to sound like some alarmist, but god forbid he wins in 2012 and entrenches himself. I have serious doubts that he would leave after his term limit expired.
>Wonder what the communists like so much about it.<
the ability to reach the masses with propaganda
It's also always helpful to have a war going on, then the National Security in a critical situation or threatened disaster [a usable crisis] scenario comes into play. An "industry may become so lawless, so irresponsible, as to endanger the whole economy" then taking over control by the government "temporarily" is on the table.
But The Wireless Internet? The Internet being shut down in foreign countries in turmoil keeps being repeated. Their governments taking control said for security reasons.
A kindly president, it is said may be able take over an industry for the reasons before mentioned; but another president may have an entirely different or personal agenda in the making to want to assume control. It's scary to conceive the nationalizing of the Internet. The privacy issue alone, "free speech", an underground media railway. Then Congress, by subsequent action, must, I believe, ratify the seizure?
Truman's 1949 domestic legislation program began with:
"Every segment of our population and every individual has the right to expect from our government a fair deal."
"....the Fair Deal included the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, which had passed over a presidential veto in 1947. It outlawed industry-wide strikes, closed shops, and mass picketing; made unions liable to suits; required union leaders, before they could use the National Labor Relations Board, to file affidavits declaring that they were not Communists; set up cooling-off periods before strikes; prohibited the use of union funds for political contributions; and gave the president power to obtain anti-union injunctions"... unlike the LABOR powers within the Obama administration now gifted to the unions and their bosses by the president, himself; as seen here in the already passed Executive Order #13522.
The unpopular Truman, with polls having him down to 23% like someone else we know, then chose to seize the mills in the name of the government. The mill owners went to court, and the resultant decision, in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer , forced Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer to give the mills back to the owners and constituted a sharp blow to Truman's popularity. It was one of the century's most important Supreme Court decisions "limiting the power of the president".
President Wilson's seizures also gave rise to controversy. In his testimony in justification of the Montgomery Ward seizure during World War II, Attorney General Biddle argued that the World War I seizure of Smith & Wesson could not be supported under any of the World War I statutes authorizing seizure. He thus adduced it in support of the claim of so-called inherent Presidential power of seizure. See Hearings before House Select Committee to Investigate the Seizure of Montgomery Ward, 78th Cong., 2d Sess. 167-168.
If history is to be repeated, it seems a lose, lose for the Obama administration and his appointed Labor Generals. In all this time he could not succeed in creating Obamacare to his liking, add that the Olympic games, the creation of Jobs etc ...I don't think we need to worry.
What the govt gives, the govt takes away to get what it wants. Witness govt threats to cut all highway funding if states didn't lower their speed limit to 55 MPH
I'm rural and I dont want this.
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Is part of this the extension of Internet benefits to those who now cannot afford them, in order to skew public opinion toward the poor and young and powerless—i.e., those who tend to be leftist in their politics?
I don’t think that this will happen, because an “alternate Internet” will be created, if not from the top down, then from the bottom up. Such a thing may already exist, heh heh. Remember, the internet protocol was designed to survive military attack, it can certainly survive evil politicians.
why is he to be obeyed on all this..he is not a king
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