…plotting to pass Net Neutrality.
I’ve written in this space for a while about who the real Astroturfers are in the Net Neutrality fight. Google – and its puppets like Free Press – are promoting this idea that it’s a struggle between big telecommunications firms, and the little guys. Except the little guys are actually bigger Internet firms. The corporations pressing for Net Neutrality are Fortune 500 and even Dow Jones Industrial Average firms, with billions in cash ready to be spent on Net Neutrality, trying to defeat Proposition 8, or even promoting Barack Obama.
That last one makes the FCC’s rush to regulate look bad, given all the placements of Google people within the Obama administration as well as the nearly one million dollars that Google employees gave to the Obama-Biden campaign. How do we know that the secretive Obama White House isn’t directing the FCC to pay off Google?
After all, we know he’s giving donors special treatment. In fact, it has come out that FCC Chairman Genachowski himself was a major fundraiser for Obama, pulling in over a half million for the campaign. Why shouldn’t we believe that this is all a big circle of back scratching in the Obama adminstration, when he refuses to release the kinds of information we need to determine otherwise?
The President has played political games with information all along. He dangles his birth certificate on a string in order to distract the right. He’s keeping as little of the Obamacare agenda in writing as possible, because he knows if we read it and expose his plans, we can win the fight, so we end up with ridiculous spectacles like a Senate committee voting on a bill that hasn’t been written yet. And now he’s playing footsie with donors in secret.
We must encourage and join Senator McCain and Representative Blackburn in their fresh legislative efforts to stop the Google/Obama Net Neutrality scheme. We cannot allow this kind of quid pro quo to go unchallenged.
Suddenly Google cares about power grid issues. Or maybe they’re just shilling for Obama as payback for Net Neutrality.
Ralph Nader wasn’t always a creep with a wack-job agenda. He once made a little sense, back before he was scamming all the money he could from college kids through PIRGs. He was exposing just how unsafe cars were. He was right on some key things: Seat belts matter, and not having the whole car covered in blinding chrome matters. That’s true not just for the driver but for the drivers around him. Glare is glare, especially in environments like southern California.
Well, now some idiots here in California want to reverse that with a “Cool Cars” mandate, which would require cars again to be covered in reflective surfaces. Even worse, by coating the windows with a metallic reflectant, cars would be come more effective as Faraday cages, blocking wireless communications. What a luddite-friendly and safety-diminishing step backwards for California (and America, if this takes off)!
We’ve got to expose how terrible this idea is. Fortunately, we have Rush Limbaugh on the case.
Even if we took the left at face value, and from top to bottom we know we can’t ignore the socialist agenda there, would we want to implement their Net Neutrality policies? Richard Epstein says no. Unsurprisingly, investigation shows that research, development, creativity, and innovation depend on the basic freedom that true property rights allow.
We cannot allow Julius Genachowski, Barack Obama, Free Press, and the left to stagnate the Internet in America.
As most of us watch the special election in New York, we still have a Senate primary in California to deal with. It’s the same old story, though. There are two kinds of Republicans.
One kind celebrates big government and progressive control over America. Carly Fiorina, like Dede Scozzafava, is one of those.
While some of us are fighting hard against the Obama push to nationalize the Internet, Fiorina goes behind our backs and joins them, just as Scozzafava will work with ACORN and Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, Chuck DeVore knows the score and endorses Doug Hoffman.
There are two kinds of Republicans. Some are on our side. Some are more interested in the left. I know which I prefer to represent our party.
You fought well and had a real shot. It was fun. Better luck next year, despite Ned getting re-upped.
It’s not just state Governors who oppose Net Neutrality. Democrats of all stripes are jumping on against it, finds Ben Smith at Politico.
If you haven’t been watching this one, here’s the summary. The FCC meets on Oct. 22 to propose rules for keeping the Internet open and non-discriminatory as it should be. AT&T and Verizon have been pulling out everything they have to make sure the proposed rules are as weak as possible. They rounded up House GOP leadership, House Republicans. Senate Republicans. The ever-turncoat Communications Workers of America. Minority Groups. You name it, things are bombing into the FCC like nothing I’ve seen ever, and I’ve been watching this a long time.
We’re winning. Let’s keep shooting.
I don’t how else to describe this. I’m not being hyperbolic, I’m not criticizing her just because I’ve endorsed her opponent, and I’m not hyperventilating. I just read this article and those are the words that came to my mind.
Just read what she told VentureBeat:
Asked what she thought about regulation of the web, she said it was inevitable that there would be more regulation of it. Why, for instance, is there no protection of women and children on the Internet, when there is plenty in real life. She said this duality — where anything goes on the wild wild west of the Internet — would have to end.
We cannot ever seriously entertain the possibility that this woman would ever represent the Republican party in any official capacity, ever. This kind of reflexive anti-Constitutional nanny-statism cannot be tolerated. If we wanted that, we’d vote Democrat.
As we have covered before in this space, the far left does anything possible to avoid having a straight-up, honest debate over ideas. Much like the old Communists and Fascists on the streets of Weimar-era Berlin, they’d rather use muscle than ideas to get a victory.
As we’re all aware, one of the current targets is Glenn Beck. In particular, Free Press wants to make him out as a paranoid McCarthyite.
Supposedly he’s seeing socialists, Marxists, and communists everywhere. Even though Senator McCarthy was right, and Communists had infiltrated our government all the way up to Alger Hiss, we’re supposed to think badly of Red hunting. But let’s look at the people themselves at Free Press, leading special interest promoter of the Fairness Doctrine, ownership diversity rules, and of course Net Neturality. Are they as socialist as Beck thinks?
Let’s start with Free Press Staff shocked at the Socialist menace alleged by Beck. Any socialists hiding under the rocks there?
- Megan Tady has a track record of working for places like In These Times, which billed itself as “The Independent Socialist Newspaper”. Are we to believe she was the contrarian influence there, and not another good Socialist?
- Or how about Lindsy Embree? She was, I’m told, a volunteer for The Catholic Worker, an expressly anti-“capitalist” organization that counted as its ally the Industrial Workers of the World. Surely they’re not Communist, he asked sarcastically?
- Finally there’s Alex Kahn, whose CV includes the dynamite claim of a BA in “Social Thought and Political Economy” from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a degree would have had taken him through a course list with entries like “Black Marxism” and “Marxian Economics.” Did he suffer though all that while disagreeing with the Marxist agenda he was studying? Not likely.
Perhaps these buffoons should have looked in the mirror to find the socialists Beck speaks of? Or maybe they could have talked to the top brass in the office:
- Robert McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, is on the board of Monthly Review, which says of itself that “From the first Monthly Review spoke for socialism and against U.S. imperialism, and is still doing so today.”
- Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press, who voluntarily worked as a staffer for Bernie Sanders, the self-described Independent Socialist in Congress.
- Of course Van Jones was a board member of Free Press; funny how Free Press fails to mention in their hagiographical video about him, that he has a tie with that group. And in 2008 he was quite open about his plans to use “green” economics as a first step towards ending all “capitalism.” He also compared himself with Rosa Parks, saying her first step against Jim Crow was just like his first step against capitalism.
So tell us, again, why we shoudln’t think socialists are all over Free Press, when Free Press sends a trio of Socialists to mock the claim, and has socialists all the way to the top?
While the far left links up from Google to Free Press to the FCC to the White House, mainstream Republicans and Democrats alike are beginning to understand why we must defeat the FCC’s Net Neutrality plans.
I have copies of letters sent to FCC Chairman Genachowski by Democrats and Republicans alike, asking the FCC not to go ahead with the proposals. Democrat Governors Beebe of Arkansas, Henry of Oklahoma, Markell of Delaware, Nixon of Missouri, O’Malley of Maryland, Parkinson of Kansas, Perdue of North Carolina, and Rendell of Pennsylvania as well as Republican Governors Barbour of Mississippi, Brewer of Arizona, Perdue of Georgia, Perry of Texas, and Riley of Alabama all question the FCC’s planned actions. Attorney General Bruning of Nebraska, the National Foundation for Women Legislators, the National Conference of State Legislatures also have expressed such doubts.
This is an incredible coalition to have emerged. This is America’s mainstream standing up to the special interests which have wormed their way deep into the Obama administration, corporations fighting other corporations for control of the Internet.
We need the FCC to stand aside and allow freedom to flourish.