A Simple, Overlooked Reason SOPA and PIPA Have Appeared, Like a Cancer
By anonymous anonymous
this anonymous posting has a lot of wisdom.
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There is a very simple, and we think overlooked, reason why the
abominations of SOPA and PIPA have appeared like cancerous growths in the
House and Senate, and it has more to do than just censoring the internet.
It goes deeper than that. It hits a nerve. The very idea of a bottom-up,
people driven internet clashes violently with the ideological and
political worldview that surveillance should only exist in one direction:
>From the top down.
You see we've overlooked what it really means in terms of discomfort and
career risk to those who normally bask and benefit from the art of
statecraft. You see, the ordinary, unwashed masses - that would be you and
me - are in possession of one of the most powerful forces the earth has
ever seen.
And you have learned to use it in a way that is indeed alarming.
Ordinary people, with little or no political knowledge or even education,
are using it to keep their elected employees under surveillance 24 hours a
day seven days a week - like real hiring managers should.
You see, you're all figuring out that your computer desk at home is now
headquarters - it's now the head office - and your acting like the boss,
and these employees don't like it one bit.
You're calling them out for having a business on the side. For taking long
lunches with your competitors. For using the company car and copy machine
for their personal use without telling you. For improper conduct that
would violate any employee ethics manual. For noticing that they exempt
themselves from it, but not you, the boss.
In other words you are finally (as the founders intended, and would be
ecstatic to see) holding your elected Federal and State employees
accountable beyond their wildest imagination.
You're watching "the help" like any good supervisor, manager or owner
would and THEY DON'T LIKE IT.
Why? You're tirelessly performing hourly, daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly, and annual performance reviews. You are writing them letters of
praise or reprimand. You are sending them the equivalent of performance
improvement plans ("improve or remove" coaching letters). You are
expressing your anger or disappointment for lying to you during
presentations (i.e., debates on the floor of the House or Senate, during
interviews with the press, or during campaign speeches) since you're able
to compare a report they delivered a year ago, or a month ago to one they
gave today. And even post a clip of them lying that they cannot deny or
hide from. You're catching them lying on or padding their expense reports
or catching them investing or accepting rewards or favors where it's a
conflict of interest to you personally as the real CEO of this country.
You have harnessed a resource at your fingertips -Google alone processes
24 petabytes of data alone per day - that you can use to micromanage them,
in a way that they prefer to use instead to micro-manage you.
In other words, you are doing things that they prefer to DO TO YOU
INSTEAD, AND TO YOU ONLY, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
SOPA and PIPA have been introduced (along with other abominable
legislation of late) to keep you and the Constitution of the United States
from activating at a level that they will never be able to suppress unless
they act now. A tipping point in what they believe is the wrong direction
is at hand. A tipping point that could restore the Republic to its
original Constitutional form and end a 100 year reign of the kleptocracy.
You and your use of the internet have inadvertently leveraged an 18th
century Constitution, a Bill of Rights, the Privileges and Immunities
clause, and powers reserved to the States or the people themselves, and
raised them all to an unprecedented, almost astronomical power.
You have accidentally taken the rights and powers in these old parchment
documents all to a level several orders of magnitude above the most basic
objections against the divine rights of kings and despots that were so
eloquently expressed, even in the Declaration of Independence, to a
dizzying height never thought possible by the Founders.
You have arranged yourselves in direct competition to them, into virtual
Senates, virtual Houses of Representatives, virtual Judiciaries, and
virtual Inspectors General's, all in a manner that redefines what consent
of the governed will mean from now on. You can all now deliberate every
decision, every move, every dollar, every law, beyond the mere vehicle of
freedom of assembly and freedom of speech.
You have arranged yourselves into a neural net, or brain of the actual
Republic, as originally intended. but never foreseen.
And it is from that height, that the internet has allowed the US
Constitution and you as the owner to, almost without being fully aware of
it, to decimate the worldview -the philosophy of empire - that to this day
would prefer that the nuisance of the cult of liberty vanish from the face
of the earth along with its insufferable US Constitution once and for all.
You have it on the run.
And there you have the real reason for SOPA, PIPA, and the NDAA provisions
and other laws that the House and the Senate have had the temerity to
introduce while simultaneously flouting these words written by giants that
will forever tower over them and cast long shadows over their dealings...
"Congress shall make no law....."
STOP SOPA. STOP PIPA. HOLD ONTO THE INTERNET TIGHTLY AND DON'T LET GO.
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