GESTAPO SEIZING INTERNET

The United States Congress voted not to stick its Federal nose into the Internet. Courts have ruled that the Feds must stay out of it. Nevertheless, the Federal Communications Commission, under the direction of the Obama Administration, is now determined to seize control of the Internet.

You know and I know that the freedom of the Internet is directly responsible for allowing our country to communicate its ideas and beliefs through emails, blogs and websites. This freedom of the Internet and the exchange of ideas played a key role in the 2010 elections. Now, we have an agency that has proven itself to be grossly mismanaged, particularly when it comes to the media, poised to insert itself into the equation.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, a political appointee and Harvard Law classmate of President Barack Obama, is leading the FCC’s charge for new powers over the Internet so it can enact a policy known as “net neutrality.” In reality, the policy will limit consumer choice while granting the federal government unprecedented power over the Internet, power that could force bloggers like me to allow equal time to opposing views on my blogs, in spite of the fact that all someone has to do to find a view opposing mine is to Google “anti-American” and they will have a plethora of opinion available to them.

In recent months, the Feds have shut down thousands of websites without Court hearings or orders and without giving the websites and blogs the ability to defend themselves. The Feds have said they were terrorist websites or selling counterfeit items or violating copyrights, but they don’t have to prove that? New proposed powers will give them the power to shut blogs such as mine down, or to require me to pay a license fee or pass some bureaucratic test before I can voice my opinion.

These actions run contrary to every principle of liberty upon which this great country was founded. We, the people, need to make ourselves heard loud and clear again. This move by the FCC makes the Health Care Plan look like child’s play. If we don’t stand up and raise hell, we will be to blame for losing another aspect of our freedom, freedom fought and paid for with the blood of our forefathers.

Send an email to your Congressman today.