[sudoroom] Fwd: Hands Off the Internet!

[Troy Massey]

got this sent to me...hyped propaganda fear tactics for sure

However, has anyone done any research into the validity of these claims?

(Leaning in your direction Eddan )

"Many hands make for light work"

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Matt Hawes" <matt.w.hawes at campaignforliberty.com>
> Date: May 31, 2012 3:20:43 PM PDT
> To: Troy Massey <ecoeconomist11 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Hands Off the Internet!
> Reply-To: matt.w.hawes at campaignforliberty.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Troy,
> 
> Imagine government bureaucrats armed with whatever they want to know about you right at their fingertips . . .
> 
> What you read. What you watch. What you buy. What you say. Whom you talk to.
> 
> What you think about THEM.
> 
> Imagine it all being tied into an intricate network combining your Internet use, your credit card purchases, your federal and state tax information, and your health records . . .
> 
> Imagine the Internet – and with it the entire technological revolution – SHUT DOWN with a ball of bureaucratic red tape, higher taxes, and government snooping.
> 
> Well, Troy, without your immediate action, I’m afraid that nightmare is right around the corner – and the days of a relatively free Internet will come to a hard and fast end.
> 
> That’s why it’s vital you complete your Protect Internet Freedom Mandate IMMEDIATELY.
> 
> But before I give you the link, please let me explain why this fight deserves your attention – and hopefully your generous financial support . . .
> 
> Under the guise of “protecting consumers” like you and me with “net neutrality,” “open access,” and, of course, their favorite – “cybersecurity” - the statists have launched an all-out WAR for total control of the Internet.
> 
> But their real target is you and me.
> 
> Just recently, we’ve seen a torrent of massive new regulatory schemes rearing their ugly heads in Congress, including:
> *** Internet Sales Taxes designed to hike the price of goods sold over the Internet;
> 
> *** The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would give the government the power to shut down any website simply because someone made the “allegation” there was a copyright violation;
> 
> *** The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA), which would gut privacy laws and allow Internet providers and websites to hand over personal data to ANY agency in the federal government;
> 
> *** The Internet “Kill Switch,” which would allow the President to shut down the entire Internet at a moment’s notice.
> 
> And this December, the United Nations is meeting to come up with even MORE recommendations for international Internet regulations!
> 
> The Wall Street Journal called it “a wake-up call for the world’s two billion web users, who take for granted the light regulation of the Internet.”
> 
> But sadly, with a constant rash of attacks coming from virtually every direction, winning these battles is NOT going to be easy.
> 
> Instead of trying to ram just one or two schemes through Congress, it seems like the statists’ strategy is to kill the Internet by 1,000 cuts.
> 
> So our one chance is to send a LOUD AND CLEAR message to Congress: 
> 
> HANDS OFF OUR INTERNET!
> 
> 
> 
> That’s why it’s vital you sign the Protect Internet Freedom Mandate IMMEDIATELY!
> 
> And if you can, I hope you’ll agree to a generous contribution of $50, $25, $10 – or whatever you can afford - to help me mobilize millions of Americans from all over the country to this critical fight.
> 
> You see, it’s not just our privacy at stake.
> 
> Internet freedom has unlocked individual self-empowerment, entrepreneurialism, creativity, innovation, and the creation of markets in ways never before imagined in human history.
> 
> In fact, the iPhone App alone has been responsible for creating nearly half a million jobs in the United States since the iPhone was introduced...
> 
> ... All in less than five years - WITHOUT government permission, partnerships, subsidies, or regulations!
> 
> But the statists don’t care about the cost to the economy of shutting down or regulating the Internet.
> 
> The statists don’t care about all the new jobs created over the past few years.
> 
> They only care about one thing – and one thing only.
> 
> CONTROL. RAW GOVERNMENT POWER.
> 
> In one example of what happens when the government gets too much uncontested control, the FCC, which has been charged by Congress with assigning spectrum rights through transparent, market-based auctions, has actually conducted very few fair and transparent auctions. 
> 
> Spectrum is the invisible airwaves that mobile devices, broadcast television, and FM radio use to communicate, and private ownership of spectrum is forbidden by government. 
> 
> But since government controls the rights, it picks the winners and the losers. 
> 
> Instead of being fairly allocated, government involvement in spectrum has essentially created one of the largest corporate welfare programs in history. 
> 
> With control of the Internet, they believe they’d finally have the power to CRUSH our liberty movement.
> 
> After all, politicians and government bureaucrats alike are nervous about the liberty movement’s skyrocketing rise on the political scene.
> 
> And they know it would hardly be imaginable without the Internet and the technological revolution.
> 
> So if they can pull the plug on the Internet - or at least slow it down, raise costs, hamper access, and expand their spying powers - it could be enough to shut you and me up, and shut us down, for good.
> 
> And with the November 2012 election rapidly approaching, there’s literally nothing they’d love more.
> 
> So new legislative schemes are rearing their ugly heads virtually every week.
> 
> New regulations are being crafted virtually every day.
> 
> And new monsters are being conjured up literally every hour in an effort to “sell” this massive job-and-privacy-killing government crackdown on the Internet to the American people.
> 
> The only good news is, if you and I can turn up the heat now, we can win.
> 
> But this fight won’t be easy – or cheap.
> 
> 
> 
> So I’m counting on your IMMEDIATE contribution of $50, $25, $10 - or whatever you can afford - to help me turn up the heat on Congress to keep our Internet free.
> 
> Your signed Protect Internet Freedom Mandate and your generous financial support will both play a critical part in helping me turn up the heat on Congress.
> 
> In fact, a generous contribution of $50, $25, or $10 will help me:
> >>> Contact up to 12 MILLION Americans by direct mail, email, and telephone to urge them to turn up the heat on Congress to stop any attempt to shut down Internet freedom;
> 
> >>> Generate petitions, postcards, emails, and phone calls to members of Congress to remind them of the price they’ll pay should they even think about increasing Internet regulations;
> 
> >>> Pay for hard-hitting Internet, radio, and - if I can raise the money – TV ads to make sure politicians really start to feel the American people’s opposition to their radical schemes.
> 
> If Campaign for Liberty can raise the funds, we’ll be able to send a loud and clear message to politicians of BOTH political parties – HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!
> 
> But I can’t do it without your support, and it’s absolutely critical we launch this fight now.
> 
> This is not a battle we can afford to lose.
> 
> So please, sign the Protect Internet Freedom Mandate and agree to your most generous contribution of $50, $25, $10 – or whatever you can afford - TODAY.
> 
> There’s not a moment to waste. 
> 
> Sign your Protect Internet Freedom Mandate right away!
> 
> In Liberty,
> 
> Matt Hawes
> Vice President
> 
> P.S.  Thanks to the massive liberty movement that has been fueled by the Internet over the last few years, Big Government politicians are using every weapon in their arsenal to shut you and me down – and shut us up.
> 
> That’s why it’s vital you sign the Protect Internet Freedom Mandate and make your most generous contribution of $50, $25, or $10 TODAY!
> 
> Help send a loud-and-clear message to politicians of BOTH political parties – HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!
> 
> 
> 
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