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SBC Promotes Texas Anti-Wireless Bill
rhythmx writes "Details of this bill have been previously covered on Slashdot. SBC has since put up TV ads and a website saying that our telecom laws need to be changed. From their propaganda, "The Texas legislature has the opportunity to modernize telecom regulation and promote innovation to finally reach our goals for new technologies and enhanced consumer benefits." They hardy even mention the bill itself, basically only that it is "Good for Texas -- Good for Texans." This bill has already passed through the House and is now in the Texas state Senate."
We're Texans! We done damn know freedom, so let's vote as Texans to do this thing!
While we're at it, let's vote for legalized prostitution! Texans always like a good romp in the sack, and by golly let's vote for this thing because we're Texan!
And now, come to think about it, let's vote for legalized guns in the workplace! Texans always used to carry their guns to work, let's get together as Texans and rally together a huge Texan vote for this Texan-commonsense policy for Texas!
YeeeHah!
You make an excellent point.
The same can be said about similar infrastructure in Canada. This includes Natural Gas pipelines, phone lines, fibre lines and even our railway.
Citizens have forgotten that we and many generations before us are shareholders in these infrastructures and we most DEMAND our politicians represent our position on these matters as such!
Of course we all now the these politicians don't have a fuckin' clue when it comes to these technologies and its more about campaign contributions then real representation...
Honestly, what the hell did US citizens expect when they re-elected BUSH INC! Talk about selling out a generation!
It isn't a democracy, and for good reason. It's a republic and that means that the 'will of the people' do not, and can never, trump the Constitution. The moment the 'people' start acting in a dictatorial manner to everyone who doesn't agree with them, excusing their behavior with arguments along the lines of "that's how democracy works", then you know the entire system has been compromised.
Democracies are just as totalitarian as any dictatorship. Having the numbers on your side doesn't make it any more moral than your garden-variety fascism.
The government is only a structure to implement the common will of the people.
No, the government's first and foremost duty is to uphold the Constitution *regardless of the will of any group arrogant enough to call themselves 'the people'.* If 'the people' don't like that little fact, too fucking bad for them.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Just thinking of it, I bet you get a knot in your stomach, don't you? Just thinking about all these Americans doing whatever they can to weaken the monopoly power of the telco companies, just thinking about them fighting back against the hierarchy, that gives a "traditionalist" like you heartburn, don't it? You like to style yourselfs as "libertarians" or "conservatives" these days, but in reality you are really just the manifestation of redneckism or fascism or the witch hunt. You are the eternal voice of hardwired brain circuitry of the pack animal, the voice of the pack, the voice of tradition, the voice of darwinian animal that demands obesiance to the leader, to the alpha male, to religion, to the status quo, to perpetuating the genes of those at the top.
You aint nothing new. We however are new. We are the anti-animal, the new human. We started up about the time of the French Revolution. We were there at Shay's Rebellion, and at the Haymarket riots and on the demonstration lines protesting the Vietnam war. And we say "Fuck You" to power and to corporate feudalism. We will continue to fight in whatever venue we can.
eat shiat and bark at the moon
I still submit that George Bush is not actually from Texas, but was hewn from the bones of still born babies from the depths of hell.
I'm a libertarian because I believe in getting the government out of private life. Rampant corporations need to be controlled, because they're destroying our country.
If that offends you, get the fuck over it. The LP needs moderating influences if it's ever going to be more than a bunch of freaks on the fringe of the political world.
Unless you actually enjoy having advertising on every available flat surface, and being treated as a 'consumer' rather than a citizen, in which case, there's no hope for you at all.