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Over the weekend we posted a story about a new copyright bill that creates a new govt. agency in charge of copyright enforcement. Kevin Way writes "In particular, the bill grants this new agency the right to seize any computer or network hardware used to "facilitate" a copyright crime and auction it off. You would not need to be found guilty at trial to face this penalty. You may want to read a justification of it, and criticism presented by Declan McCullagh and Public Knowledge." Lots of good followup there on a really crazy development.
Stop deluding yourself about those 'wonderful times' that are long gone. They only exist in your own mind. If you think first century of America's existence was some kind of paradise of individual liberty, then you are as retarded as those morons who organized the creationist museum that shows how Noah was able to satisfy his passion for zoophilia with just one boat.
All you paulites and wannabe libertarians make use of big words like individual liberty and national sovereignty, but when it comes down it, words is all you have. You have no fucking clue how the world works, you have no idea what the majority of the world is living through. You're just some stupid kid from the suburbs.
So Mr. National Sovereignty, you want to leave UN because the UN does not promote America's interests? Oh yeah? Well fuck you dumb cunt! You can't just revert to isolationism after fucking the lives of countless millions of people.
Let's just look at one little part of the world where America's dedication to maintaining its own national sovereignty and not getting entangled in foreign alliances made the world a better place. Congo. First you guys indiscriminately back Mobutu (even though he's a nutjob despot) just because he opposed to the commies and he was friendly to western exploitation. When the USSR collapsed, you guys left Mobutu go and Congo collapsed into chaos for 15 years and a couple of million people in the process.
Now are you going to tell me that America (and European imperialists for that matter) are not directly responsible for all the shit that went down in Congo? You guys had no regard for the individual liberties of the Congolese population or the national sovereignty of the state of Congo. You guys literally treated the people of Congo like shit. You guy supported a despotic regime when it suited your needs and when you were done you just let things take their course.
The people of Congo have the all the right to expect American national sovereignty to be ignored and American citizens to be taxed to death until you motherfuckers pay back what you owe. You can't have it both ways, interference into the affairs of foreign nations when it suits you and bailing out of the UN when that seems like a better idea.
The vast majority of America's libertarians are just like you. Ignorant, arrogant little fucks who don't know shit about the world and sit and masturbate to Ron Paul and his policies will allow them to spend more money the latest turd that Steve Jobs shat out.
P.S. I am not a Democrat, I take shit from no one. I have no real affiliation to any state/corporation/political organization. I have no particular association with Congo, but it' pretty example of how America fucks with the liberties of other people and then just bails out. I try to avoid excessive language, but I tend to lose it when confronted with dumb suburban 'libertarians' who say stupid shit like how cool it would be to live in the Gilded Age or something like that.