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J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System
MexiCali59 recommends an account up at Hillicon Valley on a speech by John Perry Barlow to the Personal Democracy Forum in New York. "The deluge of information available on the Web has made the country ungovernable, according to EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow. 'The political system is broken partly because of Internet,' Barlow said. 'It's made it impossible to govern anything the size of the nation-state. We're going back to the city-state. The nation-state is ungovernably information-rich.' ... Barlow said there is too much going on at every level in Washington, DC, for the government to effectively handle everything on its plate. Instead, he advocated citizens organizing around the issues most important to them. 'There is a circle of fat around the Beltway that is incredibly thick. We can no longer try to run this country from the center. We've got to run it, just like the Internet, from the edges.' Barlow also said that President Barack Obama's election, driven largely by small donations, has fundamentally changed American politics. He said a similar bottom-up structure is needed for governing as well. 'It's not the second coming, everything won't get better overnight, but that made it possible to see a future where it wasn't simply a matter of money to define who won these things. The government could finally start belonging to people eventually.'"
And for being the leading cause of vaginal dryness around the world!
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
Well, arguably the federal government has gradually been re-instituting slavery only this time around it is affecting all of us.
Protecting and enforcing the values upon which the nation was founded does not require massive micro management.
Like slavery...
Funny. Wasn't a problem with Shrub in charge...
Well, it WAS a problem, it's just that libertarians and MSM ignored or hid the problem (with the rightwing proclaiming that they had guns, therefore Shrub couldn't be a tyrant).
The federal government already wields power unconstitutionally, amending the constitution to make it more illegal doesn't seem like it would be very effective.
Don't idiots every get tired of blah-blahing that response over and over again?
If by that you mean idiots who think they can make up any shit about the person they are replying to and get modded up, no, I don't think they tire of it. And even if they do, there's always another waiting to take their place.
No, wanting the federal government to act as outlined in the constitution does not mean we want slavery. Wanting the 10th amendment enforced does not mean we want slavery. Wanting local jurisdiction to have more control of their localities does not me we want slavery.
Please quote where either I, or the person I replied to, said anything in line with what you wrote.
Here, let me quote the whole fucking thing for you, since you were too lazy to even read it, let alone quote it (it's not even two complete sentences):
Protecting and enforcing the values upon which the nation was founded does not require massive micro management.
Like slavery...
I never said or implied that you, or people like you, want slavery. I made the point that "the values upon which the nation was founded" includes slavery.
JP Barlow likes to talk a lot about politics. But what's he actually done? He is a Republican. He helped Dick Cheney get elected to the House of Representatives from Wyoming.
Yeah, Barlow helped start EFF, but he's had nothing real to do with it since then. Yeah, Barlow wrote some songs for the Grateful Dead, but they were for Bob Weir, who's an idiot (though I loved the GD, and saw them over 100 times).
Barlow is an opportunist, who's got a real talent for being where the action is. But he and his Republican buddies have broken the political system. Because they hate government. They're corporate anarchists, hiding behind the brand name "libertarian".
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If you took an internet poll vs a scientific poll, you'd probably find that in the internet poll people would be substantially more likely to believe that US astronauts never landed on the moon or that Barack Obama was born in Africa.
pedant> His name is Hussein Obama. Barack is his middle name. What are your reasons for specifically not using his first name? /pedant
Seems to me like fuckers like you are trying to disguise Hussein Obama as something he is not: a Natural Born U.S. Citizen, and a Christian.
Hoping to vote Bachman/Paul or Paul/Bachman in '12
Of course I also think we may have some national emergency
that activates NSPD 51- HSPD 20 and delays the elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqD_vzC-kZc
All it will take is border mayhem, N.Korea mayhem, ...
Iran mayhem, Israel Mayhem, ad naseum
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"