Bloggers To Get Hit With a Branch of COPE

Nobody’s Opinion; Get ready bloggers---you are about to be delegated to the slow lane of cyberspace, where the politicians would much prefer you would go. And, this journey is not only going to piss you off, it will also dig into your gas money.

They are so clever…just so clever.

The program is called COPE, the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act. (Don’t you just love it when they give sinister losses of freedom such grand and noble sounding names?)

This “act’ will promote as always, the rich guy and the politically correct, and demote all us freedom loving little guys who are finally excited about being able to express our opinions, where other normal nobody’s can read them.

AT&T and Verizon want to divide the information superhighway into separate fast and slow lanes. Guess which one you and I will be in? And the Congress wants to do this, as soon as possible.

If you pay a fee for you web site, you might get on the fast lane. If someone wants to get on your website and you don’t pay, your site will take up to a day to load, or the searcher will be taken to another site. You might want to read Doug Powers’s thoughts for the day, but you will get taken to Rosie O’Donnell’s poem masturbation site. Not funny.

In other words---censorship of the internet. And just as with the border issues which will not be taken care of, both political parties are about to pass this major legislation, very quietly of course. President Bush is all for it. The big conglomerate companies who control the news want it very badly. Control of what YOU read and hear is essential.

They know the American people are not too happy with government right now. Even Bill Fist said that statement on Bill O’Reilly tonight.

If you haven’t noticed, there have been many powerful pundits and politicians scathing about honest and in depth reporting on the internet. And the politicians are mentioning the bloggers with spit in their eyes. Many recent scandals have been uncovered on the internet by normal people.

They hate it when they are exposed.

President Bush is expected to sign it, in between lobbying for his brother to be President.

He’s no fool…he was watching when his buddy Bill Clinton was taken down to the road of impeachment by a simple report from Matt Drudge, a regular guy---and it was on this regular guy’s internet site, The Drudge Report that I first read about this.

Now, they all know they can’t tax us just yet. We would scream bloody murder. But censorship is essential, and they seem to have figured out a way to do it.

It won’t be called censorship anywhere---oh no. Even though others will be deciding what comes into your home and how fast, it will be sold as a much better arrangement for you and your children. We will be “enhanced.” It won’t be censorship, just a matter of business. The site will just not load in. Most people have go back to work. Like the emission tests on all our cars that we had to add on, we will have nothing to say about it.

We should be just as mad about this as we are about the takeover of our country by Mexico. Why? Because it’s only on the internet that free speech can flourish.

I mean, where in the world can simple citizens express their concerns about what is happening to the country if not on the internet? Even though you might be able to get onto a radio talk show after waiting an hour…the host will guide the conversation. C-Span lets people on, but you’ve got about 30 seconds. And television? Well, you can go and vote on your favorite singer on American Idol.

Not exactly free speech.

In other words, think about it. The general public has no where to converse with each other in detail, except the internet. And God Bless Tim Berners-Lee for giving it to the world.

Actually, we should all have known this day was coming. The freedom of the internet seemed too good to be true. The United Nations has been wanting to get control of it (coming soon)…and if the CEO’s of the big search engines have no problem with censorship in China, why should they care about it here? Think again. They have no principles.

Communication is vital for the survival of a free nation. In the beginning of our country, a young poor guy named Sam Adams went around to every town in New England, stopping in each, gathering leaders, informing all the people everywhere of the plans and news. He helped formed town committees. He organized and started the conversations of debate. It was the beginning of our independence from Britain.

Sam would get the people to gather under the Liberty Tree. And that’s what the internet has become: a branch of liberty, connecting free speech and people everywhere.

It would be a loss to the world if they pass this. The companies seem to control our government, and now they want the internet. Let’s not give it to them.

Nobody’s Perfect; I wish Sam were here, he would tell me to put down the M&M’s. and get a grip. He would also tell me he was not too happy that his statue ended up in the basement of the Capitol building, right in front of the entrance to the ladies restrooms. It should have been Bill Clintons’ statue there instead.

Nobody Knows: If half the children under five in the country are Mexican and can’t speak English, will they insist that their children learn Arabic and practice Islam and polygamy when they are grown up and taken over some day?

Nobody Cares; Jane Fonda is going to get paid $700,000 by L'Oreal cosmetics to promote makeup for communists, I mean aging baby boomers. She just can’t seem to get enough of herself. I won’t be surprised if someday there will be a Jane Fonda museum, where she will be preserved in perfect condition, the first movie star to be mummified and put on display…kind of like Roy Rogers’s horse Silver was. Or was it Trigger? OK…I admit it, I’m not that old.