Had enough yet?
Ready to stand up and defend our rights, not given by the government, but rights endowed to us by the Creator and documented in our Constitution.
If you haven’t read the Declaration of Independence recently, please do… an excerpt:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
And the US Constitution… here’s the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Seems pretty clear, no? Congress can not take away our rights and one of our rights is freedom of speech.
The internet is now one of the most effective vehicles, if not the most effective, for individual speech. We may not be able to buy a radio station or get on TV, but just about everyone can sit down at a keyboard and write whatever they have on their mind.
So… when our government, regardless of who is control of our government, thinks it is a good idea to give the power to shut down the internet in the event of some nebulous “cyber emergency”, it is time to wake up and tell our representatives, those who are elected to serve us, that we will not allow them to take away this right.
From FoxNews -
A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a “kill switch” to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks — a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties.
Details of a revamped version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 emerged late Thursday, months after an initial version authored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., was blasted in Silicon Valley as dangerous government intrusion.
So… had enough yet?
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