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Democrats Are the Ones Pushing Web Censorship
MPAA head Chris Dodd is the former Democratic powerhouse (the same guy who blocked all financial reform). Dodd and Lieberman – another Democrat – have admitted that they want to emulate Chinese style censorship.
Moreover, Raw Story notes:
Democrats are now the core pillars of support for the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which has not otherwise engendered a strict partisan divide among lawmakers.
Far and away, the top beneficiary in the Senate from interest groups that support PIPA is Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who’s taken in just short of a million dollars from those groups, according to data from OpenSecrets.org. She’s also the most recent Senator to co-sponsor PIPA, adding her name to the list on Dec. 12. The runner-up is Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who’s taken $777,383 from PIPA-supporting interest groups, and has co-sponsored the bill since May 2011.
In fact, a list of the top 20 beneficiaries of special interest money in favor of PIPA reads like a list of the Senate’s most influential Democrats: Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) in third; Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) in fourth; Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in fifth; Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the bill’s primary sponsor, in sixth; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in seventh; Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in eighth; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in ninth; and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) in tenth.
The list goes on like that until Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who places 15th with $274,600 in special interest money promoting PIPA. He has not yet announced an official position on the bill. The only other Republican on the list of the top 20 PIPA beneficiaries in the Senate is Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), in 19th place with $212,312. Corker is one of the bill’s co-sponsors.
In total, only two Democrats changed their minds on PIPA during Wednesday’s blackouts: Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR). The other 11 to walk away were all Republicans, who seem more open to Silicon Valley’s warnings against onerous, job-killing regulations.
That may be due to the total sum donated to Democrats on the top 20 list: groups supporting PIPA have given over $7,319,983 to the 18 Democrats on the top 20 list, according to a Raw Story analysis. By contrast, those same Democrats have only taken in $807,502 from groups opposing the legislation.
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As yesterday’s strike wore on, Raw Story reached out to all the leading Democratic senators supporting PIPA, in hopes they would step up to defend the bill. Not a single one did, and none of Raw Story’s requests for comments defending PIPA received responses.
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The Obama administration said recently that it was hedging its bets on the anti-piracy bills as well ….
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press that he would move forward with a full Senate vote on PIPA in the coming weeks, once some of the text had been altered to build consensus on the legislation.
We are wholly non-partisan, but this sell out by Dems on censorship has to be named for what it is.
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you may be correct...however the opportunity that will be presented all States is worth the risk.
Ron Paul is the only candidate trying to remove Washington/Fed.Reservre boot from our necks.
So it can be replaced with a state boot?
Worth the risk?
Imagine what a field day the banksters and predator class will have as we try to battle back Theocracy in all 50 states....the ULTIMATE divide and conquer strategy.
No, this won't be distracting at all...
BWAHAHAHA!!!
your cynical premise suggests that only one kind of government is possible but to be clear I am certain the current "theocracy" must go.
all 50 States...LMAO...have faith fellow hedger!
I wish I could have faith, but I see three evils here...and one of them is largely an unknown quantity and it has been well disguised. In my book that makes it just as dangerous...if not more so...because people see it as an answer or a solution.
Thoughtful Ron Paul Supporter Has Trouble With Ron Paul
http://jonathanturley.org/2011/12/30/american-taliban-meet-phillip-g-kay...
A state boot would be MUCH lighter than the Fed boot. (Which was the original plan.)
Alas, something would happen to RP before he was allowed to take over the Oval Office.
I think state legislatures are easier to bully into adopting extremist religious based laws and pro-predator/bankster class legislation.
Many state legislatures are "part-time." The pay is often low. State reps and senators often hold full-time jobs.
In many respects, they are even more dependent on the post-legislature /lobbyist revolving door to earn the BIG MONEY, so they are more pliable.
That's why ALEC is so successful on the state level.
http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
the public is already stoned. by perscribtion and the others
Can't they find better trolls than you?
Let me give you a hint: most REAL people do not use this kind of format to present their views. This is professional propaganda.
People who like Ron Paul, have read his books, examined his voting record and seen how he lives his life. They can make the distinction betweeen personal viewpoints and Constitutional requirements. These same people are capable of making intelligent choices based on the actions of a candidate and that candidate's consistency on issues.
We are not electing religious nutjobs, we would be electing one of the only honest politicians in the US.
>>>Can't they find better trolls than you?<<<
There's no "they" involved. Just me...and this is Fight Club.
>>>most REAL people do not use this kind of format to present their views. This is professional propaganda.<<<
Format? Because I actually bother to present something readable?
and no propaganda...the internet has a looong memory...and Ron Paul has left plenty of tracks in his day.
RP is a theocratic nutball. He speaks their language when he speaks directly to them. His relgion and politics are in lockstep.
He is one of them. Deal with it.
That's a direct quote in bold.
His religious remnant holds the "political truth" together? What crap.
I like my government--federal AND state--secular and want to keep it that way.
He's done a very good job of hiding who he is and who his longtime core supporter are.
Newcomers to civil libertarianism are clueless regarding his past.
As I said before, the internet has a looong memory.
The professional propagandist attempts to frame a discussion through negative associatiations that have nothing to do with the person or idea.
For example: " ...a favorite theme of the reconstructionalists and others in the religious right". This is not Ron Paul, it is a group he has addressed. Trying to paint with a broad brush, you continue with references to the John Birch Society- a group with negative connatations, but a group that stands for Constitutional values and against the corporate state.
"His religious remnant", funny, I don't see where it became "his". Ron Paul has "hidden" nothing. Like you said, the internet has a loooooong memory. Unfortunately, there are those that would distort the reality of Ron Paul with the random snippets of the propagandist. You sir, are a liar and a poor one at that.
I have no problem with Ron Paul's position on the issues. I have read his books and seen his record. Examine his life and then hold it up to all the other choices. The best protection from the religious right is the Constitution- and there is no better defender of the Constitution than Ron Paul.
Professional propaganda? No need. Plenty of actual quotes..or maybe you missed that fact it was a direct quote.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...well, it's a duck...it doesn't matter how it's disguised or if it's holding a membership card.
And who do you think has been keeping him in that rural backwater Texas district he represents all these years?
Relgious theocratic nuballs...that's who.
These are Ron Paul's long-time supporters...people he hires and whose organizations he endorses.
He hired one of them, Gary North, during his first congressional term to be his speech writer and researcher.
Gary North then went on to spend a great deal of time and money fighting his father-in-law, Rousas Rushdoony, a principal founder of Christian Reconstructionism, over whether or not the Sun revovled around the Earth.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/2/16/182146/521
>>>The movement is famously fractious, and for years Rushdoony has been crossing swords with his prolific son-in-law Gary North over questions wondrously exotic. The latest battle is over "geocentrism," the doctrine that the earth is the physical center of the creation. Rushdoony is for it and North is against it. Apparently they are lining up astrophysicists and other scientists to help confirm their conflicting exegesis of Scripture. Is this ridiculous?<<<
No need for propaganda...no need to lie.
You CAN'T make this crap up!!!
People have religious convictions and political ones. That is called "Freedom of Religion". It does not disqualify them from office, for example, Romney/mormon, Santorum/christian, Obama/christian, etc. The Constitution guarantees the free practice of religion. There is nothing in that statement that infers religious extremeism or that it would be used to create policy.
Still, you attempt to tar with a broad brush, referring to "his supporters", which are NOT Ron Paul. You refer to a speech writer, but not to a single speech he wrote and was delivered by Dr. Paul. Again, an attempt at guilt by association.
You are a propaganda troll and a liar and not particularly good at it. As for crap, it appears you can and do make it up!
Stomp your feet and insist he isn't one of them all you want. In his address he used the term "the remnant" when praising them..
>>>'The remnant holds the truth together, both the religious truth and the political truth.'<<<
Your legalistic hair-splitting...he just associates with them...belies your desperation to disassociate him from these nutballs.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, hires ducks to run it's campaign and newsletters, seeks their approval, goes to their meetings, addresses their gatherings in their own language...well, it's a duck. It doesn't matter what's it's disguised as or if it is holding an official membership card.
The more folksy, "If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas," doesn't even apply here. He's a theocratically barking mad and one of the pack from the get-go.
Who they are in their own words from one of the founders--
http://mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com/2010/06/christian-reconstructionis...
and a critique from mainstream Baptists--
http://www.mainstreambaptists.org/mob4/dominionism.htm
Well Mr Propagandist, again you have used an old trick- misquote the author.
The actual article reads :" Throughout his speech, Dr. Paul kept referring to "the remnant," which he described as those who remember and respect the values upon which the United States was founded: self-reliance, personal responsibility, limited government, sound money, the gold standard, etc. He claimed that the important role the JBS has played was to nurture that remnant and added, "The remnant holds the truth together, both the religious truth and the political truth."
Amazing how a full quote can make all the difference you lying bastard.
"Apparently they are lining up astrophysicists and other scientists to help confirm their conflicting exegesis of Scripture. Is this ridiculous?"
Unfortunately, many Americans wouldn't find it ridiculous at all and religionists have been pretending in earnest lately that their ideas are compatible with science.
Reason's twilight is growing dimmer by the day.
You are dead on.
I fear for any semblance of secular government and a true civil republic.
The only vote that matters is Diebold.
Rage fatigue.
I mean I don't want to come off as mean spirited but I hate- yes hate - these people's guts and livers.
What do you mean 'sell out'? This implies that these people had principles to begin with. Some people may believe that humans are born principled, that they become corrupted along the way. I don't know what I feel. I'm sure some of these people wanted to do the right thing before getting into power, but after a while they forgot what that was and just focused on maintaining power.
I like perfect timing. I just finished writing a comment stating that the world is one, big Statist brothel. That is embodied in any corporate structure.
http://georgesblogforum.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-daily-climb-2/
gw - this article is vanished on NC. Could not get it to stay up (nearly frosted my machine) even though I could see it for an instant.
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Just sayin'
It's not a Democrat-Republican thing... they both do the bidding of big corp. Republicans and Democrats are bought.
I mean how crazy is to stop freedom of information. to protect billionaires. [Hollywood, music industry]
PL
It's call FASCISM.
Under fascism, the state, through official cartels, controlled all aspects of manufacturing, commerce, finance, and agriculture. Planning boards set product lines, production levels, prices, wages, working conditions, and the size of firms. Licensing was ubiquitous; no economic activity could be undertaken without government permission.http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html
Exactly! Anytime I see "democrats did this" or "republicans did that", I know that the writer hasn't grasped the big picture yet. And a lot of freedom writers still do this. I don't know why. It may have to do with the daily propaganda bombardment by the mainSCream media.
The demo/repub factions are the same party. The only differences are the personal methods of subjugation for the masses.
Eyes off the ball and on the curtain...
"Eyes off the ball and on the curtain...". You hit the nail on the head.
I wish to remind HZ readers that Mr George Washington uses his OWN STORIES as confirmation of his new stories, he quotes himself as a "source of facts" !!!. And, if and when he uses someother 'source', it is a source that is NOT objective.
GW's blogs are an insult to ZH readers who trust they are reading something reasonably honest.
I'm becoming very suspicious about is the whole Google being anti SOPA shit. Wasn't google a CIA sponsored enterprise which continues to do the government data mining work for them? Facebook being the same where morons divulge more personal information about themselves even the Nazi's couldn't extract. Without these two sites alone, the IRS is back to keeping tabs on everyone. That's so 1997.
one is totally effed if they are tied to google via gmail, chrome, toolbar and any of their other myriad of products that require a google account - your data is locked, stocked and ready for sale to the highest bidder
Really? Yes effed.
Facebook. That is the word.
The birds the word, facebook is the word. yea...
They really want that OFF switch badly. And the bucks of course...
http://creditnewsline.com/news/volcker-rule-to-be-refined-despite-opposi...
Anything with Lieberman's paw prints on it stinks of conspiracy, treason and deceit. Someone please send his fucking ass to Israel already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnfEkzZm-fI&feature=g-all-u&context=G2f8d...
Leiberman is a whore, for sale, nothing more.
BUT>>> Shame on you George Washington, once again you distort and or make up a story to fit your agenda. I avoid your posts as much as I avoid reading anything by ROBO TRADER. But this headline could not be avoided.
Where is you truthfullness on the brain child and sponsor Mr Marko Rubio of Miami (R) who was forced out to the Republican lead Florida Senate because he is so full of Fascism and a danger to common sense that he even scared them? You make this sound like the whole of the GOP in congress were quite happy to sit on their hands.
No, it many not be hard to find supporters on either side of the isle for any half wit idea, but YOU HAVE AN AGENDA and Tyler and ZH should send you packing. Your truth is selective, and I am not the only on reading ZH that thinks so, and we all wonder just who is your employer that you have so much time to write 'blogs' with a special twist.
And, I forgot...
GEEE George why don't you look into the relationship that a mouse has with FL and CA and the poitiians for this bill? HUMM??? Look at the contributions, follow the money, and don't forget to bring your E ticket. Go look up you history while you are at it and see who was among backers of Nazi ideas in America.
To Hard for your hard hitting investigations?
I suggest a grammar and spell check for you because I didn't understand a mofo thing you just wrote.