Uh, here, let me fix that for you.
Jan
27
2012
Jan
22
2012
Jan
21
2012
The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us.
Yet when we watch their movies, we support them.
Even if we don’t watch their movies in a theater or buy their plastic discs of hostility, we’re still supporting them. If we watch their movies on Netflix or other flat-rate streaming or rental services, the service effectively pays them on our behalf next time they negotiate the rights or buy another disc. And if we pirate their movies, we’re contributing to the statistics that help them convince Congress that these destructive laws are necessary.
They use our support to buy these laws.
So maybe, instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law and changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform.
(Source: azspot, via anticapitalist)
Jan
18
2012
THIS, my friends, is what I see in Ron Paul. Notice how EVERY OTHER Republican candidate has been dead silent on this enormous issue of fundamental liberty….
Statement Introducing Repeal of Sec. 1021 of National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
Mr. Speaker: I rise today to introduce a very simple piece of legislation to repeal the infamous Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act, quietly signed into law by the president on New Year’s Day.
Section 1021 essentially codifies into law the very dubious claim of presidential authority under the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force to indefinitely detain American citizens without access to legal representation or due process of law. Section 1021 provides for the possibility of the US military acting as a kind of police force on US soil, apprehending terror suspects – including Americans — and whisking them off to an undisclosed location indefinitely. No right to attorney, no right to trial, no day in court.
This is precisely the kind of egregious distortion of justice that Americans have always ridiculed in so many dictatorships overseas. A great man named Solzhenitsyn became the hero of so many of us when he exposed the Soviet Union’s extensive gulag system. Is this really the kind of United States we want to create in the name of fighting terrorism?
(via baseballlibertarian)
Jan
18
2012
Jan
12
2012
This is my biggest problem with Dr. Paul, although if you consider the state (no pun intended) of our current federal government overreach, it is but a minor problem for now. We need a candidate that reaffirms the idea that individual rights are the highest priority.
(Source: glitchthemachine)
Jan
05
2012
I want to go before the United Nations as President and say, “America’s back.” … That we are not a country that runs prisons which lock people away without ever telling them why they are there or what they are charged with. That is not who we are.
Candidate Obama, 2007 (eBooks, Databases, and other searchable on-line content from askSam)
Remember when Democrats ate stuff like this up?
(via jeffmiller)
Yeah, I was one of those
(via lalibertarienne)
(via evilteabagger)
Dec
22
2011
Dec
22
2011
Major Internet companies have formed a united front in their opposition to the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. Well, almost. One exception has been the domain registrar GoDaddy. In a op-ed published in Politico shortly after SOPA was introduced in the House, GoDaddy applauded the bill and called opponents “myopic.”
Need to move my domains over to another domain registrar, post-haste!
Dec
15
2011
