Posted on 02/16/2009 6:59:38 PM PST by kristinn
The American Spectator's Prowler column published today has a disturbing report on the plans by the Democratic Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Henry Waxman to regulate political speech on the Internet.
In addition to details of methods Waxman is considering to rein in conservative talk radio, The Prowler reports on Waxman's desire to use the power of the federal government to investigate amd control political content on the Internet.
The article quotes an unnamed committee staffer as saying of Waxman's power grab:
"Does one heavily trafficked Internet site present one side of an issue and not link to sites that present alternative views? These are some of the questions the chairman is thinking about right now, and we are going to have an FCC that will finally have the people in place to answer them."
"Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we're seeing that some web sites are able to control traffic and information, while other sites that may be of interest or use to citizens get limited traffic because of the way the people search and look for information. We're at very early stages on this, but the chairman has made it clear that oversight of the Internet is one of his top priorities."
"This isn't just about Limbaugh or a local radio host most of us haven't heard about. The FCC and state and local governments also have oversight over the Internet lines and the cable and telecom companies that operate them. We want to get alternative views on radio and TV, but we also want to makes sure those alternative views are read, heard and seen online, which is becoming increasingly video and audio driven. Thanks to the stimulus package, we've established that broadband networks -- the Internet -- are critical, national infrastructure. We think that gives us an opening to look at what runs over that critical infrastructure."
The article reports that Waxman intends to work with Democratic Party President Barack Hussein Obama's nominee to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, who is awaiting confirmation by the Democrat controlled Senate, to investigate and regulate free speech on the Internet.
Commerce = internet sales taxes.
Yeah, and Obama was too busy vacationing (after two weeks on the job, he needs a vacation?) and waiting for his photo op to sign the bill that was such an emergency that they couldn't allow anybody the time to read it. Being had doesn't even begin to describe this catastrophe.
I just flashbacked to that scene where the woman pulls off some of the skin of one of the Visitors. The people of Earth for the first time began to understand what was going on. Metaphorically, we need to do the same thing.
So, what does Alinsky have to say about this?
This is what I kept trying to get across to people that we could not allow these people to own all three houses of government. To be honest I fear for the safety of our SCOTUS, guess I’ve read too many Grisham novels.
Getting scary, and obviously going to get bloody.
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Yes! I just wish we didn’t have to suffer for some people’s refussal to look at the whole picture... and it’s only going to get worse, do you realize we are not even 30 days in to this yet?
Yes! I just wish we didn’t have to suffer for some people’s refussal to look at the whole picture... and it’s only going to get worse, do you realize we are not even 30 days in to this yet?
You have a point there.
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW
Suggest that the first site on their list should be Huffington Post.
I have no doubt that I’m on that list.
But isn't that just a little bit anti-life, anti-liberty, and anti-pursuit of happiness???
What do they want to do? Start a revolution again? I think it's time to outlaw the democrats. They are turning into a real pain in the keister lately.
Yo, Molly! Where did you pack my World War II paraphenalia?
Hey Waxman, I’ve got your oversight right here.
Yeah, and just like Chavez, they don't intend to lose any future elections either.
Yes. And my favorite part was when the boy’s Holocaust sruvivor grandfather showed him how to deface the “Visitors Are Your Friends” posters, with the “V” for Victory.
That, and when they took the scientist’s family in. “We have to take them in, else we haven’t learned a thing.”
That was great stuff. Worth remembering.
Time for some serious grit, folks.
Is he batboy’s dad or something?
Too many conservatives sat on their asses in November and now the whirlwind comes.
"Who else can stand up for liberty in the world?"
Mikheil Nikolozis dze Saakashvili, President of Georgia, August 13, 2008.
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