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Unregulated
Capitalism is a continuing crime that has enabled most of what passes for
commerce today.
The latest and perhaps most
serious attempt to regulate those of us who challenge these behemoths of
commerce and industry; is the pending legislation that seeks total control
over who can use the world-wide web. If these people have their way, the
internet will become a toll-road with diamond lanes for them and the
backroads of lengthy delays for the rest of America. If these
multi-national interests get what they want, the money will virtually own
the right of total control, over what gets downloaded, as well as who can
download what.
The ostensible reason for trying
to establish this new regulation over the formally free internet, is to
hand over the ability to broadcast television images on the web - mainly to
yuppies to watch their corrupted media broadcasts of "The their form
of news" on private little phone screens. This will be costly for the
internet providers but by creating these new rules, the money crowd can
both get what they want (and who they want to reach) by taxing everyone
else for the costs of that "new access." Of course in that bargain they
will eliminate all those truly troublesome sites that insist on reporting
what's really going on in the USA and in the world. All of this is being
floated though the houses of congress as an "absolutely necessary" measure
to modernize and regulate something that is
The-Last-Best-Hope-for-Humankind.
Since there have been nation
states in the world, capitalism has largely been what has allowed those
states to become viable. However whenever capitalism is treated as a
religion-with unfettered access to anything they might want to do-that path
has always led directly to disaster. Sometime well back in time The
Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters was eliminated: thus discarding the need
for any broadcast medium to balance whatever they chose to report. This
permanently skewed the "playing field" in favor of those with the money,
and direct access to government regulators. This also insured that their
piece of the public's airwaves could not be contaminated by anything that
might challenge the views that these captains of media and entertainment
wanted to spread. The only avenue still standing that serves to prevent
their total control over America is the World Wide Web. So for Congress to
punish Americans by crushing public access on the web, and allowing only
the most powerful to dictate terms to the rest of us - Congress shall be
responsible for killing freedom of speech and information in the USA - if
they pass this pending legislation.
Let's go back, in order to
understand what happened to "the public's right to know." When
the Bill of Rights was written the scope or reach of information technology
was not even a dream. But the principle the founders were trying to protect
was the right of the public to be informed. The only level playing field on
which that is even remotely possible today - is the Internet. "Information"
is and has always been POWER. To deny the public access to the information
that is needed to make sound and meaningful choices - means that in effect
the public will be confined to the current mass media which is wholly owned
by the same people that are funding the problems and the crimes that are
bringing the world to the brink of global war.
The other aspect in the "selling
of these new rule changes for the internet" is that capitalism must remain
unfettered and free to do what it does best, which is business.
Deregulation of corporate business practices is what unleashed unfettered
capitalism, and than in turn bought us The New World Order! If Capital can
demand de-regulation of all they choose to do - why then is "regulation"
such a good idea for a forum that reaches the entire world, and allows that
world to respond openly and fully on any subject?
Information or data is only that,
if there is no context: and Context is what the web is all about. A story
can be told and augmented with video clips, or interactive web sites that
can actually provide much clearer images of whatever the topic might be.
Precisely because of this capability; and the frequency with which the web
has routinely challenged the lies and the completely fabricated excuses of
governments around the planet-this is why the "too-powerful" are
demanding the regulation of the web. If the public does not DEMAND and end
to these continued attempts to silence any criticism of the corrupted
pathways of the powerful; then congress can no longer hide behind the lie
that they "didn't know" what they were doing when they took on
this question for "new revisions" that would kill what's left of
our resistance to tyranny.
According to those advocating for
- "The Internet of the Future," there is no precedent to show how
well this will work because it has not been tried before. That's a lie.
There was an effort in San Francisco that was begun in 1988, to create a
"Library of the Future." This sad story starred the same cast of
evil characters, who were seeking to make the kinds of profits now
envisioned by those who want to own the web. And it's all about the
telecommunications applications as well as public use.
The story was printed in San
Francisco FRONTLINES, in June of 1997. It was called High-Tech Barbarians
at the Gates: The Plunder of the San Francisco Public Library. The
relevance of that story here is that the entire battle with the current
government over privatizing the internet can be seen in our mini-war with
the San Francisco Public Library. This involved everything from the
criminal misuse and abuse of the public's money - to denial of public
access. From the skewing of political and public interests, to specializing
particular groups for inclusion or exclusion - based on their individual
ability to pay - and all of that had been in the planning stages for ten
years prior to the City Librarian's wet dream of destruction and
mega-profits for the same phone companies (then Pacific Bell, now AT&T)
that are pushing for the "NEW" telecommunications reform act.
That "ACT" will wipe out the public's right to information and
anything like an Alternative American Media! (1)
This "NEW Telecommunications
Act" is also pivotal in another way. Money and Power are at the root
of what most society's value-and yet both (Money & Power) are dependent
on critical information for their growth and their effectiveness. In a
representative democracy, so much depends on everyone's access to events as
they happen, and to the extent possible, to knowledge about who pays for
whatever is happening - so there must exist at least one place where
"the playing field" is nearly level. That place today is the
World Wide Web. The Net makes it possible to read and observe events from
many different perspectives, and from a great variety of viewpoints. This
allows the reader/viewer to decide what to search for, how far they may
want to go to discover what they want to know - and on the web now - they
can take advantage of as much information as they can process.
If the Telecommunications Act
passes, then Multi-national Corporations and this Outlaw government of USA
Incorporated shall become the crown rulers of the American form of the
Internet. This action would inherently deny or severely cripple any site
that publishes anything counter to the government or to the corporate view
that those with the bulk of the money and the power now, seek to see
dispensed - unchallenged! Currently, for a variety of reasons, the people
who own the media now, along with publishing, entertainment and the arts
are the same people who own the major controlling interests in much of
everything that matters in American business, commerce, and government. It
has taken over a hundred years for these changes in ownership and influence
to arrive where they are today. Most of the key positions are now held by
or are directly controlled by Jews. The Jews are not the only people in
power, but many are there now and there can be no real question as to this
fact. (2)
What matters in all of this,
besides whether or not there is another global war, is that for a society
to freely grow and prosper, many diverse people and interests need to be
part of whatever is going on anywhere in this country or the world. No one
group or cabal of individuals should obtain control over all that any
society is trying to do-because that's unhealthy for the nation as well as
the great numbers of those who are not part of the upper classes (without
the middle and the lower classes - no society can long survive).
There is one other pivotal point
where everything comes together in a representative Republic: that place is
in the separation of government from those that government was created to
monitor and control. In the US that place was the Congress of the United
States (where the laws are made and where "oversight"
originates). Yet Congress now freely admits that for the last ten years
they have relinquished their oversight responsibilities, when it comes to
presidential actions. There is no question that they long ago gave up on
regulating corporate interests, monopolies, or anti-trust laws: they just
accept the bribes and let those they are supposed to regulate write the
legislation for themselves - and then they rubber-stamp it all and move on
to the next-big-thing!
But there's an even more damning
connection between money, power and information. That's national election
campaigns. The Supreme Court ruled quite a few years back, that
corporations have a right to free speech (as if they were people). Then
they added to that insult and made Money a legitimate tool of corporate
free speech - so that MONEY could be given in unlimited amounts to
campaigns (depending only on how they labeled what they chose to give). As
an added bonus, most of that money raised in political campaigns tends to
end up either in political bribes to individual politicians, or to the
media campaigns which most of the money goes to pay for. This is "the
best little investment in America." Because the dividends that this
kind of thoughtful giving yields, is something like at least a thousand to
one.
Add to this, the fact that media
is central to everything that Americans see, or think, or do - and you
begin to see how important this controlling feature is; that there is more
than one group controlling all of that information. The reason that all
these happy coincidences of power, money and influence took so long to
happen was that it took time to stack the courts, and coerce the congress
to the extent that it currently will not tolerate anything that smacks of
anything negative to do with Israel's polices, or whatever that country
might choose to do, supposedly to defend their country. It should be
remembered that not everything that's good for one country is by definition
good for the other.
Besides the USA - Israel is the
only other nation that gets away with doing exactly what they please, no UN
resolutions matter to them, no international agreements have any standing
in their world of global special-ness - in brief Israel has become a law
unto itself: and god help anyone who ever challenges that in any way! In
America today, there is still AIPAC, the American Israel Lobby which is a
lobby for a foreign power, but which is still not registered as such.
Congress should also be polled to see how many got what from Israel.
A large number of current
officials within the exiting US government also have dual-passports, and
had them long before they were appointed to key positions in the US
government. People like the head of Homeland Security and key government
advisors within the Pentagon and the US Department of State are also in
that category. Most Americans might wonder why those positions could not
have been filled with Americans citizens exclusively - because as it stands
- this seems like a government conflict of interest in action. So The
Dreamslayers exist, much as they have always existed; except that now they
are about to destroy the internet, the worldwide web - and with it our way
of life.(3) That can only happen if you allow business as usual to happen
in congress, in the courts or in the administration. Americans used to be
thought of as being "very creative people" - isn't it time that a lot more
people began seriously to become "VERY CREATIVE" - in order to
protect not just ourselves but the lives and futures of our children and
our loved ones as well!
Jim Kirwan
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