Posted on 10/19/2009 3:11:04 PM PDT by pabianice
According to Beck, this Thursday, October 22, Obama's FCC will pass the first set of new regs taking control of the internet. Alleged reason is "to protect consumers from false or misleading information." The FCC will not allow any public comment or input. Obama has given them their orders. Obama also to give bail-out to the "progressive" newspapers which are all going bankrupt. Again, "to make sure consumers get the real news." Spokesman for internet watch dog group said that there is nothing to stop Obama in his drive to control all media and thus silence all criticism and opposition.
Soon, as with all readers of Pravda, we will learn what is happening by what is not in the newspapers, that you wouod expect to see there in the normal course of things.
My Russian friends in the days of the Soviet Union told me that this is how they read the news. I understood them intellectually, but now I un derstand them on an emotional level.
“U.S. gives up Internet oversight role via ICANN”
October 1, 2009 LA Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/10/us-icann-internet.html
“2010 is not that far away.”
What’s going to happen in 2010? We’re going to elect REAL conservatives instead of effeminate RINOS and outright traitors? Remember the last time a Republican majority repealed a bunch of egregious, unconstitutional legislation, cut the size of the government and then cut their own benefits and pay? No? Me either.
OK, I did forget about the telecommunications angle. I have always primarily connected the FCC with broadcast radio and TV.
The FCC has no control over cable or satellite TV and radio, so therefore should have no control over those means of internet, and that is how much of it works any more.
Unfortunately folks like me who have no other source for internet but dial-up will be SOL.
I agree with your point.......however we still may need an alternate way to communicate.
We'll all wake up one day and log into the internet to find it running very slow for some reason. All of our usual sites come up as error. Actually, everything comes up as an error except CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC and CNN.
But, no wait, there are other sites. Obama speeches on health care. Obama speeches on gun control. Obama speeches on the new Civilian Security Force coming to your neighborhood. Obama educational videos are the only thing on YouTube. Obama giving advice on diet, on proper cooking, on hand washing, on good citizenship. You search frantically for something else, even looking on the mainstream media sites for some answers and there is nothing. No acknowledgment that anything is wrong. Just little videos of children singing about the wonders of Obama.
Then a news story comes on and you see a man that looks like Rush, but the image is grainy. You can't be sure that's him. You hear the man say how sorry he was for all the lies he told about Obama and how now he wants to dedicate his life to helping the poor. He publicly apologizes to Obama and asks for his forgiveness. It doesn't sound anything like Rush at all, but the announcer says it is.
You grab your cell phone to call your friend and ask if he's seen the news, but your cell isn't working. Then there's a knock on the door. You answer it and three armed men in a strange uniform you've never seen are standing on your porch. They announce themselves as Patriotic Officers in the new Civilian Corp and tell you your transportation is waiting outside. It's time to get your inoculation, sir. Come along, please.
It should, shouldn't it?
Not just George Soros, the CFR, Bilderberg, Trilats, you name it.
My mother is from Minnesota. She was born on Iron Range, near Hibbing. Went to High School in Duluth.
She met my father in DC during WWII.
I like Minnesota, but not it’s politics.
Beautiful country, many lakes and great fishing.
And many friendly people.
They have unfortunately made some really poor political choices over the past 50 years.
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The Momma Lucie’s in NM were a political faction that met at Momma Lucie’s restaurant.
I’m seeing usual panic here before something happens. Saw the same arm-flapping and screaming last winter when ghetto thug obuma called out his “army” to go door-to-door and demand people sign fealty oaths to king obuma.
Nobody showed up.
Can we at least see the meat in the sandwich before rolling the guillotines down Pennsylvania Avenue?
“We’re going to elect REAL conservatives instead of effeminate RINOS and outright traitors?”
yeah... real conservatives like sanford, delay and larry craig :/
It shouldn’t come to that but I fear it may.
Which, if anyone cares, is unconstitutional. The FCC is making law, which can only be done by an elected legislature. Not appointed bureaucrats.
Congress has no constitutional authority to empower an agency to to write law at will. And the President has no constitutional authority to direct said agency to write law at his behest.
The USA is not in danger of becoming a banana republic, it is one. A person appointed to a position can sit down, write an edit which can be carried out by law enforcement agencies. Your property can be confiscated for violating this arbitrary edit. You can be imprisoned for violating this edit. Is that a banana republic, or am I being oversensitive?
Ping.
Where are the conservative lawyers to challenge this?
Didn’t the left wingnuts claim Bush was going to do the same thing? Color me skeptical of any potential vast government conspiracy that’s going to shut down all dissent.
“Congress has no constitutional authority to empower an agency to to write law at will.”
You’re quite right on that. Unelected bureaucrats writing law is one of the primary features of a dictatorship. It was outlined nicely in the book “The Vampire Economy,” which was all about fascist functionaries in Germany controlling businesses in the 1930s.
Had my ocassional run-ins with these fascists back in the 1990s. I threatened to throw one in prison for mandating illegal laws, and it was funny to see his face melt in shock and watch him slither away.
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