SanFran Mayor Considers WiFi Internet a Basic Human Right.

NJCSD ^ | Tuesday, 04 October 2005 | editor

[Fun Bob]

SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has declared universal access to wireless Internet to be a "fundamental right of all citizens" and stated that access to the Internet "is a civil rights issue as much as anything else." 

This is the same San Francisco government pushing a complete ban of all handguns within city limits.  They are putting it to a referendum and proposition H will be on San Francisco city ballots next month.  If it passes, any possession of a handgun within city limits will be banned.  Everyone but government personnel and security guards will have to surrender their handguns within 90 days.  What hypocrisy for an anti-authoritarian city to labor to remove rights from the people and create a police state.  Not only will Prop H ban handguns, it will prohibit "the sale, distribution, transfer and manufacture of all firearms and ammunition."   Hopefully the images coming out of NOLA will have some impact on the left coast and SF residents will be mindful of the harsh realities of the real world and the necessity of self defense when the SHTF.  Proposition H is no Preparation H for gun crime--there will be no relief.  Creating a population of unarmed victims will exacerbate gun crime.

This is the same Mayor who gained notoriety last year for illegally marrying homosexuals in contravention to the California Constitution and the will of the California voters who passed proposition 22 by a landslide.  I only point this out because his illegal actions were called "civil disobedience" and praised by many with others following his lead in New York and Massachusetts.  If people in the self-defense crowd were to commit acts of civil disobedience by exercising our rights transgressing immoral laws infringing our right to do so, we'd end up incarcerated and/or shot.
 

So according to San Francisco:

gay marriage -- human right

free sex changes operations -- human right

free internet -- human right

owning a tool of self defense -- a criminal act

There is no more fundamental right than your right for you and your family to live and if you are denied the tools to defend that right, that right is not wholly yours. San Francisco considers your right to check your hotmail to be more important than your right to live. The latter they will not even deign to recognize as a right.

[Khepera]

Thank you so very much

[AndrewB]

Proposition H is no Preparation H for gun crime--there will be no relief.

I'd say Proposition H feels good-on the whole.

[lilylangtree]

San Francisco where the state govt is operated by tulips who tiptoe in the garden.

[lilylangtree]

Make that city govt is operated by tuilips.

[tophat9000]

Get as a telcom and computer tech I'm a civil rights pioneer...who would of thunk it?

[narby]

The last thing we need is a government monopoly on internet access. I'm sure they'd write in "non-compete" clauses at some point, and the internet would stop advancing then and there.

Keep the UN, and every other level of government AWAY from the internet.

[infowarrior]

If this ban on handguns passes in S.F. and the police do not get to an emergency in time will the victim/victim's family be able to sue Newsome for not protecting them/disarming them?AWB

No. Already decided and "stare decisis" applies...

the infowarrior

[albertp]

"stare decisis"

This is the argument that liberal judicial activists and their legislative counterparts use to defend laws that are clearly unconstitutional, including the so-called "pro-choice" right to (therapeutic)abortion-on-demand.

The term "co-conspirators" could apply to these liberals, except that they do it in the open with much clever Orwellian double-think. How amusing it is, too, that liberals can refer to conservative judges as "judicial activists"!

Well, if Supreme Court justices are busy striking down those acts of Congress, the President and lower courts that exceed the Constitutional limits on their authority, then I suppose conservative judges may be seen as "activist" in that light! Or would restorers of balance be more accurate?

[Believe it or not, there is a group called Libertarians for Life (www.L4L.org)].

[infowarrior]

This is the argument that liberal judicial activists and their legislative counterparts use to defend laws that are clearly unconstitutional, including the so-called "pro-choice" right to (therapeutic)abortion-on-demand.

The actual meaning of the term legally is "let the decision stand", although I do not disagree with your opinion as to factuality. What my point was, is that given the judicial climate of today, there is no possible way Newsome would be held legally accountable for the results of his "utopia"...

the infowarrior

[BigTom85]

I too visited San Fran once... when i was 5 yrs old.. I will never venture back there. free internet? Anything that comes out of San Fran has to be taken with a grain of salt... well mabey a whole salt shaker full! Hopefully that city breaks off and starts drifting out in the pacific soon!

[Fun Bob]

The next "fundamental human right" of the left?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4309012.stm

Dane fights for state-funded sex


A disabled Danish man is fighting for the state to pay for him to have a prostitute visit him at home.

Torben Hansen, who has cerebral palsy, which severely affects his speech and mobility, believes his local authority should pay the extra charge he incurs when he hires a sex worker - because his disability means he cannot go to see them. His case is currently being considered.

In Denmark, local authorities compensate disabled people for extra costs incurred because of their disability.

"I want them to cover the extra expenses for the prostitutes to get here, because it's a lot more expensive getting them to come to my home rather than me going to a brothel," Mr Hansen told BBC World Service's Outlook programme.

"It's a necessity for me. I can't move very well, and it's impossible for me to go there."

[lilylangtree]

Unbelievable! People lacking moral character arrive at asinine ways to spend other people's money in their quest for "my rights".

[rlmorel]

If he wins, I'm going...

(Only kidding, of course. We know what government issued cheese is like, and what government issued health care is like...imagine, if you will, what government supplied sex would be like...eeeewwwww)

[Fun Bob]

Ha ha! Good point but seriously...this guy is already buying sex in Amsterdam. Can't get much more eeeeewwww than that.

[rlmorel]

Good God, how true...scary...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just posted this:

Boston: Sides chosen in Logan WiFi battle ~ Wireless and airport lobbies join dispute

I also linked back to this thread.....getting interesting.