[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[FrankR]

Depending the details, I will go absolutely internet-free if this law, er, proclamation, goes into effect. It’s based on an old telephony law from 1921.

We need to be burning up the phones to our reps. The old law can be updated, or repealed by congress?

[DownInFlames]

Piss off the young Internet crowd and things will change rapidly.

[lowbridge]

Just days ago on facebook I was in an argument with a liberal who thinks this is a good thing. The government in shining armor riding to our rescue from the big, bad for profit corporations.

What a friggin idiot.

[Amendment10]

Since Al Gore wasn’t even alive to invent the Internet when the Constitution was ratified, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate the Internet.

So if Obama and the FCC really want to regulate the Internet then they must do the following. Obama and the non-elected federal bureaucrats who run the FCC must encourage Congress to propose an Internet amendment to the Constitution. And if the states choose to ratify the amendment then Congress will have the constitutional authority that it needs to regulate the Internet and Obama and FCC bureaucrats will be heroes.

Of course Congress will not be able to delegate its new legislative / regulatory power to regulate Internet to Obama or the FCC because the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, evidently a good place to hide them from Obama and the FCC, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches or in constitutionally undefined federal agencies like the FCC.

And for a safety net, patriots need to work with state lawmakers to repeal the 17th Amendment so that state lawmaker-elected federal senators don’t pass a bill from the House to unconstitutionally delegate federal legislative powers to third parties like the FCC.

[Charles Martel]

Dial-up BBS, anyone?