On Briar Patches...

Subtitled: Never Say Die

To carry on a bit from where I left off, in the wee hours of this morning, on the subject of the potentially fatal compromising of the Constitution, and therefore, of the rule of law in this country:

I (electronically) signed a petition for a deceptive piece of legislation called The Net Neutrality Act, and wanted to draw your attention to it, and the deviousness of things in general going on In Our Day.1  

It is decidedly not what it purports itself to be.  It is being sold as a way to keep the Internet from becoming 'tiered,' with the big corporations able to pay more for their messages to be 'fast tracked,' and outfits like (relatively cash-strapped) environmentally-oriented NGOs not being able to pay the costs of a faster delivery system online.  And that would not be a fair outcome, indeed; the Internet should be free of such heavy-handedness.  But the cure, as offered, would be worse than the disease.  The 'cure' being offered by the Left is to have the FCC take over the running of the 'net, and regulate it like a public utility.  And therein lies the worse problem.

It's a variation on the theme of Br'er Rabbit pleading with Br'er Bear to do what he wants to with him, but whatever he does, please please not to throw him into the briar patch.  Oh, the horrors!  -

of regulating the Internet to within an inch of its life.  By ideologues.  Of such as the socialists under Obama.  And, if the worm turned, by the fascists under whomsoever they would put up as their front man. Or woman.

Statists, all.  With their respective agendas (particularly of either no private property, or heavily-regulated 'private' property; take your collectivist pick).  But meeting at the top of the pyramid of power, with the same nest of vipers in charge, of their long-sought New World Order, aborning, as we speak.   

Let there be no mistake about this business.  It is the same as the Left attempted before Ronald Reagan - who politically came out of Right field, to the angry resentment of the collectivists of both parties - put the kibosh on the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which would have put the heavy hand of the federal government on the regulating of the airwaves in his time.  It's deja vu all over again: What this similarly nice-sounding 'Net Neutrality' business does really is put the Internet under the regulatory control of the FCC, and what's more - after that seemingly innocent first step in the process  - under the control of ideologues, who want to consolidate their statist hold on that independent source of information and communication, and outlaw speech that they don't like.  Like - oh, say; like: 

Dissent.  

By labeling it - oh, say: 

''Hate speech'.  

Very close to coming into being, now.  On the federal level.

As it already is on some - many? - university and college campuses.  

Under the aegis of the socio-political notion of 'political correctness'.

But it can't happen on the national level?  

Where have you been???

Quoting from a recent letter from a former state attorney general:

"(T)his legislation2 could take away the First Amendment Rights of millions of Americans…"

To which observation one might hear the response:

'You need to stop being so old-fashioned, to say, behind the times.  There simply are no 'First Amendment' rights; because there is no Constitution anymore.  Oh, there is a husk of a document left, on a dusty shelf in the Congressional Library; but we started ignoring it a long time ago around here - and under Republican administrations as well, as a matter of blunt fact.  So it is now simply a dead letter.  We can choose to do whatever we wish to.  That's called growing up.'   

That's called opening the door to/ineluctably leading to such scenarios as the following: 

(Teacher to student:) 'You can't criticize President Obama.   Much less ridicule him.'

'Why not?'

'That's hate speech, chile.  It's not allowed.'

'But, whatever happened to the First Amendment?'

'Chile.  Whatever kind of nation we once may have been, we are no longer a hateful nation.'

That 'PC' mentality is how far we have come from our roots; and how close we are to rebellion (aka 'nullification'), and its consequent chaos, and its giving of the 'imperial presidency' his, and his minions', long-desired excuse for his declaring of Martial Law, and thus the collectivists' pounding of the definitive nail in the coffin of the Constitution.3   

Far-fetched?  But look at what has already been put in place:4

"The National Defense Authorization Act gives our federal government the legal right to indefinitely detain anyone that they decide is dangerous to the country.

"There need not be any evidence against that person.  There need not be any warrant.

"And that person has no right to legal counsel.

"(The Attorney General) simply needs to decide that you are a threat to our nation.

"Barack Obama signed into a law an Executive Order that gives him absolute power and control over all means of communication for any reason, including in an emergency.

"This order includes television, radio, cable, internet and all cell phone communications.

"Finally, Barack Obama has already ordered drones over the skies of our nation and the Attorney General has already sanctioned his actions.

"In fact, it has been decided that Barack Obama has the legal right to use them to shoot Americans on American soil.

"The chess pieces are in place.

"Now, all that is needed is an emergency - perhaps brought on by an economic collapse - a run on the banks.

"Then Barack Obama will control all forms of communication.

"And then through the [NDAA], Barack Obama can detain anyone he perceives as an enemy…

"…With his tailer-made [sic] military and the Department of Homeland Security rounding up anyone they choose.  And Obama has full license to shoot anyone resisting…"

With his job made all the easier, if independent voices on talk radio and the Internet can be shut down, and the way thus paved more smoothly for his imperial takeover.

Just what his Minders want.  Who - as I say - control both sides of the political aisle.

Making of politics in America in this day and age a farce.  A fraud  A cheat.  A delusion. 

Which it has been, actually, for years.

Which some Americans have come to the awareness of.

And the rest are about to find out.

In spades.

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footnotes:

1 Like Agenda 21; another, similar bit of statist legerdemain.  And Common Core.  And…

2 called the 'Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014,' which had been introduced by two Democrat Senators in the last Congress, and may well be coming back for another bite at the apple in this one, the political scene being what it is in this day and age, and Obama needing to hurry up the climate for a Martial Law declaration, since he needs to make his move soon, if he is going to.  Which he will.

   That's what he is there for.  

   What he has been groomed to be there for.

3 Who believe only in group rights - as decided by the Almighty.  State, that is.

4 from another letter in my mail, from another source.  (I hesitate to name them.  One never knows, anymore…)