Breaking: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details

TechDirt.com ^ | 12/08/2011

[yank in the UK]

F*%# the government!!!

[Hoodat]

These people obviously are not familiar with how fascism really works. Ironically, most of their users probably voted for it.

[yldstrk]

Oh yes, definitely, I see what you mean by selective enforcement.....

[wiggen]

When people run for office do the have in their platform things like;
I will spend money in the way to best get me re elected
I will tax internet transactions.
I will bail out corporations.
I will bail out banks.
I will attack other nations because i wish to.
I will raise my own pension.
I will increase my own benefits.
I will trade on inside information.
I will work as few days as possible.
Maybe instead of telling us what they will do they should tell us what they won’t do.
I won’t take vacation after vacation on the taxpayers
dime.
I won’t spend more than the government takes in.
You get the idea. Totally and completely out of control over the top royalists living like some 16th century ruling class.

[wiggen]

Maybe more apt under Obama but this is the government. It was here before he came into office and will be here afterwards and its filled with people who believe that they are our masters and whatever they do is justifiable.

[Carry_Okie]

This is how firmly Zero's lips are stuck to Hollywood's flaming butt-hole.

Campaign money talks, but only because people are so stupid as to believe mass media content.

[Louis Foxwell]

I make it easy for them and use my real name.

Go ahead and come after me for what I post.

Agreed. I dsecided about a year ago to stop hiding behind an alias. Let me be the first to be frog marched by the gestapo. I will be avenged.

[EDINVA]

What I’m trying to ‘get’ is ... yes, there IS a ‘secret court’ for Homeland Security type issues, and I *think* it’s in the DC Circuit. But in those cases I don’t think a lawyer can send someone down to the courthouse to look up the docket (all of which is online in most federal court cases).

[Thunder90]

But Shiaweb.org, a Hezbollah terrorist website IP hosted in Houston, is still up.

[CodeToad]

The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (or FISC) is a U.S. federal court authorized under 50 U.S.C. § 1803, Pub.L. 95-511, 92 Stat. 1788, enacted October 25, 1978. It was established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA).

[Haddit]

Not me, I un-friended my wife yesterday. I’ll stay anonymous.

[Free Vulcan]

Now, put this in the context of recent legislation to make the CONUS a designated military theater of operations so that the govt can take into custody or assassinate people living inside our borders.

It will all be done in secret. They won’t even tell you they have them, and they will hold them as long as they want without trial. It will be illegal and they won’t care.

Secret police type of govt is coming down on us real soon.

[Haddit]

Post #33, Yldstrk:
Question: Would somebody named “Tyler” be likely to yell “Allah Akbar”?
I can’t make you watch the video, I can only provide the link.
Here is another one:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/witness-says-hollywood-shooter-yelled-allahu-akbar/

[no-to-illegals]

Secret police type of govt is coming down on us real soon.

and was praying it was a 503. (cue spooky music)

[Haddit]

This falls under my broad description of Mainstream Media, 60 pages, or my file of Free Speech, 24 pages of links.
It fits somewhere in there, hey, nobody has ever accused me of being normal.

[Kieri]

This was posted a couple of days ago.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2817775/posts

[JerseyHighlander]

Hi ED, I haven't been able to find any info on the legal venue of these proceedings. So far the lawyer Mr. Bridges has not mentioned the venue in public interviews afaik.

.THIS IS A BIPARTISAN THRUST FOR FASCISM. DO NOT BLAME OBAMA. THE MAIN PROPONENT AND BILL SPONSOR OF THIS CORPORATIST FASCISM IS REP. LAMAR SMITH, REPUBLICAN OUT OF TEXAS>

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Legacy media bankrolling campaigns of SOPA cosponsors

By Tessa Muggeridge Dec 01 2011 12:13 p.m. 3 comments

Traditional big media firms have contributed more than $5 million to the sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act, with California Democratic Reps. Howard Berman and Adam Schiff as the top recipients.

The bill, known as SOPA, would strengthen and extend the penalties for online copyright violations, and could force websites hosting pirated content to come down or prevent search engines from sending users their way. Legacy media companies stand to benefit if there's less unlawful movement of their content on the web, like pirated movies and songs for download.

Some of the nation's top tech companies — Facebook, Google and Microsoft, among others — have spoken out against the bill while media companies have pushed to defend it. SOPA's companion legislation in the Senate, the PROTECT IP Act, is on hold.

Earlier this month we noted that Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the bill's sponsor in the House, has received nearly $400,000 from the TV, music and movies industry during his career, including some recent timely donations from broadcasting and television groups that are lobbying for the bill.

Legacy media companies stand to benefit if there's less unlawful movement of their content on the web, like pirated movies and songs for download.

Among the 25 SOPA cosponsors from both sides of the aisle, here's a breakdown of which legislators have brought in donations from big media in TV, music and movies during their careers in Congress.

• Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., $1,727,156. His southern district border is Hollywood Blvd. and he was the beneficiary at a fundraiser earlier this month hosted by two lobbyists at a firm that represents the National Broadcasting Association.
• Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., $516,400
• Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., $488,731
• Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., $488,636
• Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Tex., $392,995 (sponsor)
• Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-VA, $316,686
• Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., $261,700
• Rep. Lee Terry, R-Nev., $248,168
• Rep. John Barrow, D-GA, $210,900
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., $204,199
• Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., $133,023
• Rep. Melvin Watt, D-N.C., $130,100
• Rep. John Carter, R-Tex., $75,850
• Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., $64,648
• Rep. Steve Scalise, R-LA, $54,000
• Rep. William Owens, D-N.Y., $42,850
• Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., $30,000
• Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Penn., $21,300

The nearly 40 cosponsors of the Protect IP Act, SOPA's partner legislation in the Senate, have received more than $13.5 million from the TV, music and movies industry since entering Congress. Here's a rundown:

• Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., $1,996,470
• Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., $1,465,160
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., $1,295,718
• Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., $899,366 (sponsor)
• Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., $890,668
• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., $747,491
• Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mont., $503,291
• Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., $493,069
• Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, $492,407
• Sen. Robert Menéndez, D-N.J., $445,575
• Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., $430,500
• Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., $368,733
• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., $365,589
• Sen. Robert Casey, D-Penn., $343,225
• Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., $312,320
• Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., $297,771
• Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, $291,621
• Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, $284,225
• Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., $254,162
• Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., $237,084
• Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., $230,569
• Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., $218,539
• Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., - $217,847
• Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., - $171,790
• Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., $158,066
• Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., $94,450

Many groups have lobbied for the PROTECT IP Act, including several that employ lobbyists who have worked for the members of Congress who have signed on to the legislation. Among them:

• Comcast Corporation, which spent nearly $4 milion during the third quarter of this year lobbying against the PROTECT IP Act and other bills. Comcast lobbyist Joseph Trahern is a former aide to cosponsor Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and lobbyist Phil Tahtakran is a former legislative director to SOPA cosponsor Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
• National Cable and Telecommunications Association spent $90,000 on lobbying for this bill and others. NCTA hired lobby firm Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock. Firm lobbyist Aleix Jarvis, who worked on the NCTA account, is a former legislative director for cosponsor Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
• Cox Enterprises Inc. spent $790,000 lobbying for this bill and others.
• Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. spent $600,000 lobbying for this bill and others during the third quarter.

Amazon spent $450,000 on lobbying during the third quarter, some of which was pushing against this bill. Google Inc. also spent some of its $80,000 in third quarter lobbying on fighting this measure, as did Intel, which spent nearly $1 million lobbying in Q3.

SOPA was introduced at the end of October, so lobbying on that bill will show up on fourth quarter lobbying disclosure forms.

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[dmartin]

Agreed. I dsecided about a year ago to stop hiding behind an alias. Let me be the first to be frog marched by the gestapo. I will be avenged.

Could you let me know how you changed your username without losing your join date? I have asked the admins for that multiple times over the years and was told it couldn't happen.

I figure I am probably on a list anyway, may as well use my own name.

[Louis Foxwell]

I emailed Jim. He took care of it for me.

[Louis Foxwell]

Bad boy. I unfriended my daughter once. Caught hell.