right, and it's not going to happen until the people take the freedoms back from government officials and start investigating in this area due to a possible payoff. Anybody coming up with a workable solution will become wealthier than all people combined.
I am not hauling train cars and I like to drive from point of exit to point of destination, so no, there is no 'electric car' because there is no infrastructure. I want a nuclear powered car, independent of the grid.
At least some people see what's going on and what must be done, and those who talk about energy independence and those who talk about the environment cannot escape the reality - nuclear is the way forward and the way to achieve it is to do a lot of it, so that more experience can be gained and more new technologies can be worked on and eventually we must have our nuclear powered cars.
Government is automatically for SOPA, there is nothing more pleasing to the ears of the little power and money hungry dictators that you have 'elected' to be your government officials.
Here is a test for you, "progressive" liberals out there, will Obama VETO SOPA and PIPA?
Dream on. He signed the NDAA a week ago, with military style indefinite detention against US citizens, which you really should understand as martial law and concentration camp powers in the hand of the POTUS, this or future.
well, people have to reapply for their driver licenses after certain amount of time, this makes some sense.
But I am looking for the people to overthrow governments and finally to take the power into their own hands and to restart economies by looking at things that we've been prohibited from looking into. I want a nuclear powered car, dammit!
That's fine, but I don't really care if it's Ron Paul, Rand Paul or Gary Johnson or anybody else as long as the message is right. I believe the message is what matters and being a 'fanboi' of a message is not a problem.
Now your problem is that you are completely wrong on the facts, as I showed here, so you can't argue on the facts, you are reduced to some weird form of a personal argument
You truly are what could be described as a fanboi. Carry on
and that just shows your intellectual weakness. You can't admit that you are wrong and you want to 'win', whatever that means on the internets.
One more thing to note - if you were at all correct, (for the sake of the argument, and you are wrong as I pointed out in the earlier comment), then the MSM wouldn't be so entirely involved in vehemently fighting against Paul and yet they are. Clearly whoever gives orders there does not subscribe to your theory. They think Paul would actually do everything he really can out of what he promises, and it scares the shit out of them.
If his vote had any chance of affecting the outcome of any of those things, he wouldn't do it.
- nonsense. You are not getting something - the man does not get approached by special interest lobbyists because it's no use. Just that alone, proves that he actually does what he preaches and there is no evidence at all that what he does, he does just because it has no consequences.
The other part of the proof of-course is that his efforts finally paid off, as he was able to get at least some information from the Fed and that's how people found out that Fed gave over 7 Trillion USD worth of unsecured credit (admittedly to their fake money) to various banks around the world. Fed was fighting against any kind of an edit, arguing it would hurt the economy of the US and the world, etc., and yet Ron Paul got what he was fighting for in that case.
I think it's not him, who 'fooled me', I think you fooled yourself.
Ron Paul believes that private businesses should be able to discriminate in who they serve and who they hire, and that government should not interfere.
- he is absolutely correct, the part of the Civil Rights act of 1964 that dealt with private businesses and individuals violated the rights of private property owners.
Of-course this is precisely how government gets bigger, grows further and destroys the real economy, society and democracy by coming out with special deals for whatever interests. Yes, that Civil Rights Act was correct, when talking about the changes to the government - that government could no longer discriminate against minorities. No, it should never have been passed in that form, that also destroyed the rights of private property holders.
Adhering to the law and preventing government from taking over power it has no right to take over is not being a kook, but in a society where lies are expected and accepted, telling truth labels you as one.
Your society based on individual rights is what got us into this mess. With no restrictions on what a person may do, oligarchy and even monarchy become completely acceptable.
- pure nonsense. It's the society that has no restrictions on what government can do that got people in this mess. People haven't been able to do anything that they want for a very long time.
This should be obvious to anybody who looks at all of the government department, all of the bills and acts and laws and taxes and regulations and spending and counterfeit money.
1. Martial law is not a conspiracy theory, it's NDAA - was signed on December 31, 2011, it includes military detaining civilians for indefinite time periods authorised by POTUS and it denies any rights to a lawyer or a trial, etc.
2. There ain't nothing magical about dollar collapse, it's quite straight forward and only the blind and the ignorant don't understand the issue and it has to do with illegitimate currency backed by nothing and given out like candy to whoever knows how to ask.
just when were the good times, then? Was it back when African-Americans were enslaved?
- and this was completely legitimised by the GOVERNMENT of the time and it ended because the free market capitalism made it more profitable to hire free workers rather than to own slaves.
When women had no rights?
- and this was completely legitimised by the GOVERNMENT, which set the rules that only white men with land could vote.
This eventually too, was changed only once the free market capitalism made the people productive enough so that they didn't have to be subsistence farmers and women could finally stop being baby making machines for the farmers and could become economically independent in large numbers, and this was due to the innovation and entrepreneurship that only happened because of sound money and investment and freedom from government chains.
When Native Americans were treated like blacks were in the 60s? When we fought continual wars against the natives pretty much because they were in our way? The Trail of Tears?
- completely legitimised by GOVERNMENT.
etc.etc.
All the things you are complaining about was legitimate by the law of the land and the law of the land had to change, government had to be reigned in and powers had to be removed from it that made it possible for all the discrimination.
Of-course while the discrimination against specific groups of people were becoming less of an issue, the discrimination against a much larger group of people was on the rise - the workers, the savers, the investors.
The modern day worker, saver, investor and tax payer is the slave of the past, but it's done in a more uniform manner.
Of-course the blacks and other minorities are still in a hole, specifically because the government took over the people's power to do with their own bodies as they want, so the war on drugs succeeded in enslaving the blacks once again, instead it's now being enslaved into a system not for providing cheap source of labor, but it's done to increase the power of the police state, provide money for illegal CIA operations and various other political reasons.
Of-course you, being an historian, just like Newt Gingrich, would probably say that the Founders of US Republic would just execute the potheads and other drug users, completely disregarding the fact that the Founders themselves were using all sorts of drugs, from hashish to opiates. But who cares about such inconvenient details, right?
As to achieving goals - he has a very clear path to achieving goals. Cut spending, cut wars, bring troops home, shut down government departments, reduce government power over people, allow free people to work their way out of this economic crisis. This is the only way that the problems can be solved, no increased amount of government can actually solve any of the problems, it can only make problems worse - start new wars, spend more money on regulations, rules, laws like SOPA and PIPA and NDAA and everything else, counterfeit more money, start more sanctions against people you don't like instead of trading with them. How is that going to make lives of people better? It's impossible for things to get better without performing a major surgery and cutting out the huge cancerous growth that is government that has taken over the organism.
The organism is on the verge of a clinical death, the only way to actually start healing is to cut that cancer out.
- orly? I guess until they drop a missile on your head from a drone by the order of the POTUS because maybe you left a 'wrong' comment on some forum somewhere, you will believe you are living in the 'good' times. But it doesn't have to be that extreme, just the destruction of the dollar that is going on for 40 years now, and the eventual result of it being the currency collapsing and standard of living plunging into abyss, while government taking over with the already prepared martial law powers (NDAA etc.), that would be enough.
you also left this comment, but if talk is 'cheap', let's hear at least one more person in the race that is on TV talking about it (well, beyond Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, who isn't really on TV).
Obama sure isn't talking about him signing NDAA with its concentration camps. He ain't talking about TSA, HLS, PIPA, SOPA, Patriot Act. He ain't talking about currency counterfeiting by the Fed, TARP, QE[X], bail outs and stimulus packages. He ain't talking about wars that he started (and having a Nobel Prize for peace makes it very... what's the word.... assholish).
As to 'just talking' - 30 years, on and off in Congress, of talking about the actual real issues and getting yourself known as a 'kook' for talking about the real issues and for voting consistently on all those issues for 30 years straight.
Voting against every single increase in spending. Voting against every unauthorized war. Voting against every bill and act that takes away liberty and freedom. Getting the Federal reserve to open at least some of their books to see what's happening with the money.
I would have preferred to live in a country that had principles similar to what USA used to have before this nonsense kicked in and destroyed the liberty of the nation that became most prosperous, most inventive and innovative creditor nation on the planet after it had its unnecessary and destructive Civil war and before the politicos cracked the system and figured out how to cause unfettered cancerous growth of their power by growing government by counterfeiting currencies, living off people's income rather than proportion of their spending and being able to borrow from the entire world and have the entire world subsidise the insane cancer of government.
As to me 'getting out', don't worry your pretty little head, I have already.
Also, what the hell is wrong with you that you think copyright enforcement is worth killing people over? What the hell? Look, I'm against SOPA. I'm against the DMCA. Heck, my personal belief is that the copyright system needs to be reformed completely; we need a much greater emphasis on fair use and a much lower limit on copyright terms - I'd be happy with five years. But your attitute to the situation is batshit insane. This is nothing worth ending a life over.
- I agree with you.
This attitude about SOPA is WAAAAY too late. It should have started back with everything else:
1. Establishing the Federal reserve bank. 2. IRS collecting income taxes. 3. SS, Medicare, Medicaid and all other 'bread and circuses' programs. 4. Getting off the gold standard. 5. Starting wars all over the place without asking permission of the people and people not caring that the wars are started in their name without even a formal declaration. 6. FDIC, FDA, EPA, FHA, HUD, CIA, FBI, FCC, FAA, Dep't of education, energy, commerce, agriculture, interior, Patriot Act, TSA, HLS, NDAA, every war since 1945, TARP and all other bail outs, stimulus packages and nationalisations of private businesses.
Yeah, this latest outrage over SOPA and PIPA just maybe the last straw that will break this camel's neck.
What "fundamental freedom" is being curtailed by SOPA?
- oh, just the first amendment rights (and every other human right as well, including ability to pursue happiness, to do business without being abused, everything).
SOPA is not about copyrights, it's not about patents, it's about government getting power to prevent free speech and business by government. Copyrights, etc., those are all excuses.
but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States
- the people and the politicians have nullified the legitimacy of the federal government once the 16th amendment was passed, because 16th amendment specifically contradicts this contract (and Constitution ratification is contract signing), since the "Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States" was contradicted by the 16th amendment, which allowed the income taxes to be collected regardless of proportionality among States.
Pick your favorite: MSNBC, FOÐ¥, CBS, ABC, NBC - they don't talk about it, they only call Ron Paul a 'kook', while Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate in the elections who is talking about actual issues (and I mean he is the only candidate, regardless of the 'party' denomination), be it the Patriot Act, NDAA with the indefinite detention of civilians by military based on POTUS's request provision (so think concentration camps not just for funny looking foreigners, but for your own citizens).
But that's it. Where do you think the MSMs of the world stand on the entire Internet idea? They fucking HATE IT. They can't control it, it cuts into their BULLSHIT that they are spewing and it cuts into their bottom line as few people are watching.
The only reason for SOPA not to pass is because of-course there is a lot of money on the other side of it as well, but even given Google, Yahoo, Facebook, whatever Internet company/provider/content provider, eventually in USA laws like SOPA and PIPA (and maybe these very laws) will pass, it's not a matter of 'if', it's just the question of 'when', and the 'when' will hit hard IF something happens and Ron Paul becomes too popular all of a sudden during these elections going further on and even if he doesn't win (which is most likely), to prevent anybody like that from competing with the establishment power in the future, the government will see that it is necessary to prevent people from being able to do their own 'congress' on line and to prevent any rise of popular candidates that will take the country on the course of liberty, they will build in every possible thing into the system to shut down the Internet and throw whoever they see as dangerous into their newfangled military ran concentration camps, and deny them any rights (the real name of NDAA that passed should be "Repeal the 4th Amendment Act").
The government is shaking down the Internet related businesses, and that's what these laws are aimed at I think. The politicians are looking at Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc., and asking themselves a question: WHAT THE FUCK? Why aren't these putzes paying us the racket money like the rest of them? Of-course those businesses are also paying something that has to do with taxes, but there is so much money there (and everybody knows about it), that the politicians want more than just tax optimization/evasion money, they want REAL money, they want - "hey, you have a nice business going here, it would be a shame if something was to happen to your entire business model and you were shut down" money.
That, and also of-course they want the RIAA and MPAA money and they want ISP money and they want your money and they want to be able to shut down the Internet because it's scaring them - just look at the way Ron Paul support grew because of the Internet.
So you have too much freedom - and that's what politicians want to take away and I had a longdiscussion about the fact that every single law that politicians push forward ends up reducing your freedoms and increases 'strength' of the government while weakening the individual liberties and the economy and the society of the nation, and even on this site people don't see this.
What do you mean "a move that benefits no-one except the 1%'?
It's the exact opposite - while the country was ON gold (never mind 'standard'), the economy was growing, USA was an attractive place for innovative entrepreneurial people who came from everywhere to try and do something that they couldn't do in their places of birth. Instead the gold was replaced with paper, which allowed enormous growth of government and gov't power, which destroyed any possibility to do business in USA and simultaneously gave rise to insane speculations fueled by the Federal reserve and various agencies, from FDIC to FHA, HUD, Freddie/Fannie and this insane gambling fueled by UNCHECKED CREDIT was the main reason for the debt crisis and that's what will kill US economy at the end.
Gold standard IS the 'regulation' that prevents this from happening - prevents banks and gov't from destroying the money, setting price of money, destroying private credit, growing uncontrollably and trading with non-existing money, causing massive leverage that will take down USD and bonds.
Gold standard is gov't politician and bankers' worst nightmare and it's the best thing for the 99%.
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right, and it's not going to happen until the people take the freedoms back from government officials and start investigating in this area due to a possible payoff. Anybody coming up with a workable solution will become wealthier than all people combined.
I am not hauling train cars and I like to drive from point of exit to point of destination, so no, there is no 'electric car' because there is no infrastructure. I want a nuclear powered car, independent of the grid.
At least some people see what's going on and what must be done, and those who talk about energy independence and those who talk about the environment cannot escape the reality - nuclear is the way forward and the way to achieve it is to do a lot of it, so that more experience can be gained and more new technologies can be worked on and eventually we must have our nuclear powered cars.
Government is automatically for SOPA, there is nothing more pleasing to the ears of the little power and money hungry dictators that you have 'elected' to be your government officials.
Here is a test for you, "progressive" liberals out there, will Obama VETO SOPA and PIPA?
Dream on. He signed the NDAA a week ago, with military style indefinite detention against US citizens, which you really should understand as martial law and concentration camp powers in the hand of the POTUS, this or future.
Ha! DNS?
It's becoming illegal to buy Drain Cleaner without photo-identification and a log signature
Yes, in Chicago.
well, people have to reapply for their driver licenses after certain amount of time, this makes some sense.
But I am looking for the people to overthrow governments and finally to take the power into their own hands and to restart economies by looking at things that we've been prohibited from looking into. I want a nuclear powered car, dammit!
Well you sounded reasonable, until i read that you go to jail if you dont pay.
- because you can avoid paying your taxes and not go to jail?
Do, tell, it's fascinating.
The largest interest is the government's status quo, that's why the MSM companies are all PRO SOPA / PIPA, because MSM is PRO government, all of them.
The real pushers behind the scenes are probably in the White House right now.
That's fine, but I don't really care if it's Ron Paul, Rand Paul or Gary Johnson or anybody else as long as the message is right. I believe the message is what matters and being a 'fanboi' of a message is not a problem.
Now your problem is that you are completely wrong on the facts, as I showed here, so you can't argue on the facts, you are reduced to some weird form of a personal argument
You truly are what could be described as a fanboi. Carry on
and that just shows your intellectual weakness. You can't admit that you are wrong and you want to 'win', whatever that means on the internets.
One more thing to note - if you were at all correct, (for the sake of the argument, and you are wrong as I pointed out in the earlier comment), then the MSM wouldn't be so entirely involved in vehemently fighting against Paul and yet they are. Clearly whoever gives orders there does not subscribe to your theory. They think Paul would actually do everything he really can out of what he promises, and it scares the shit out of them.
If his vote had any chance of affecting the outcome of any of those things, he wouldn't do it.
- nonsense. You are not getting something - the man does not get approached by special interest lobbyists because it's no use. Just that alone, proves that he actually does what he preaches and there is no evidence at all that what he does, he does just because it has no consequences.
The other part of the proof of-course is that his efforts finally paid off, as he was able to get at least some information from the Fed and that's how people found out that Fed gave over 7 Trillion USD worth of unsecured credit (admittedly to their fake money) to various banks around the world. Fed was fighting against any kind of an edit, arguing it would hurt the economy of the US and the world, etc., and yet Ron Paul got what he was fighting for in that case.
I think it's not him, who 'fooled me', I think you fooled yourself.
Ron Paul believes that private businesses should be able to discriminate in who they serve and who they hire, and that government should not interfere.
- he is absolutely correct, the part of the Civil Rights act of 1964 that dealt with private businesses and individuals violated the rights of private property owners.
That's my recent comment, I meant that exact point, whoever responded to my comment said this: Yup. I see exactly what you are. implication being I am a racist somehow because I disagree with the violation of rights of people to deal however they want on their own property.
Of-course this is precisely how government gets bigger, grows further and destroys the real economy, society and democracy by coming out with special deals for whatever interests. Yes, that Civil Rights Act was correct, when talking about the changes to the government - that government could no longer discriminate against minorities. No, it should never have been passed in that form, that also destroyed the rights of private property holders.
Adhering to the law and preventing government from taking over power it has no right to take over is not being a kook, but in a society where lies are expected and accepted, telling truth labels you as one.
Your society based on individual rights is what got us into this mess. With no restrictions on what a person may do, oligarchy and even monarchy become completely acceptable.
- pure nonsense. It's the society that has no restrictions on what government can do that got people in this mess. People haven't been able to do anything that they want for a very long time.
This should be obvious to anybody who looks at all of the government department, all of the bills and acts and laws and taxes and regulations and spending and counterfeit money.
1. Martial law is not a conspiracy theory, it's NDAA - was signed on December 31, 2011, it includes military detaining civilians for indefinite time periods authorised by POTUS and it denies any rights to a lawyer or a trial, etc.
2. There ain't nothing magical about dollar collapse, it's quite straight forward and only the blind and the ignorant don't understand the issue and it has to do with illegitimate currency backed by nothing and given out like candy to whoever knows how to ask.
3. Comments on /.? Sure, why not. It can be any comments, it can be youtube videos or being associated with people who post such videos, for example being their children.
just when were the good times, then? Was it back when African-Americans were enslaved?
- and this was completely legitimised by the GOVERNMENT of the time and it ended because the free market capitalism made it more profitable to hire free workers rather than to own slaves.
When women had no rights?
- and this was completely legitimised by the GOVERNMENT, which set the rules that only white men with land could vote.
This eventually too, was changed only once the free market capitalism made the people productive enough so that they didn't have to be subsistence farmers and women could finally stop being baby making machines for the farmers and could become economically independent in large numbers, and this was due to the innovation and entrepreneurship that only happened because of sound money and investment and freedom from government chains.
When Native Americans were treated like blacks were in the 60s? When we fought continual wars against the natives pretty much because they were in our way? The Trail of Tears?
- completely legitimised by GOVERNMENT.
etc.etc.
All the things you are complaining about was legitimate by the law of the land and the law of the land had to change, government had to be reigned in and powers had to be removed from it that made it possible for all the discrimination.
Of-course while the discrimination against specific groups of people were becoming less of an issue, the discrimination against a much larger group of people was on the rise - the workers, the savers, the investors.
The modern day worker, saver, investor and tax payer is the slave of the past, but it's done in a more uniform manner.
Of-course the blacks and other minorities are still in a hole, specifically because the government took over the people's power to do with their own bodies as they want, so the war on drugs succeeded in enslaving the blacks once again, instead it's now being enslaved into a system not for providing cheap source of labor, but it's done to increase the power of the police state, provide money for illegal CIA operations and various other political reasons.
Of-course you, being an historian, just like Newt Gingrich, would probably say that the Founders of US Republic would just execute the potheads and other drug users, completely disregarding the fact that the Founders themselves were using all sorts of drugs, from hashish to opiates. But who cares about such inconvenient details, right?
No, MSM is full of shit and Ron Paul is not a kook.
What Here is an interview, the guy is talking about issues. Talking about issues does not make one a 'kook'.
As to achieving goals - he has a very clear path to achieving goals. Cut spending, cut wars, bring troops home, shut down government departments, reduce government power over people, allow free people to work their way out of this economic crisis. This is the only way that the problems can be solved, no increased amount of government can actually solve any of the problems, it can only make problems worse - start new wars, spend more money on regulations, rules, laws like SOPA and PIPA and NDAA and everything else, counterfeit more money, start more sanctions against people you don't like instead of trading with them. How is that going to make lives of people better? It's impossible for things to get better without performing a major surgery and cutting out the huge cancerous growth that is government that has taken over the organism.
The organism is on the verge of a clinical death, the only way to actually start healing is to cut that cancer out.
Yet we're living in the good times.
- orly? I guess until they drop a missile on your head from a drone by the order of the POTUS because maybe you left a 'wrong' comment on some forum somewhere, you will believe you are living in the 'good' times. But it doesn't have to be that extreme, just the destruction of the dollar that is going on for 40 years now, and the eventual result of it being the currency collapsing and standard of living plunging into abyss, while government taking over with the already prepared martial law powers (NDAA etc.), that would be enough.
you also left this comment, but if talk is 'cheap', let's hear at least one more person in the race that is on TV talking about it (well, beyond Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, who isn't really on TV).
Obama sure isn't talking about him signing NDAA with its concentration camps. He ain't talking about TSA, HLS, PIPA, SOPA, Patriot Act. He ain't talking about currency counterfeiting by the Fed, TARP, QE[X], bail outs and stimulus packages. He ain't talking about wars that he started (and having a Nobel Prize for peace makes it very ... what's the word.... assholish).
As to 'just talking' - 30 years, on and off in Congress, of talking about the actual real issues and getting yourself known as a 'kook' for talking about the real issues and for voting consistently on all those issues for 30 years straight.
Voting against every single increase in spending.
Voting against every unauthorized war.
Voting against every bill and act that takes away liberty and freedom.
Getting the Federal reserve to open at least some of their books to see what's happening with the money.
Makes one a 'kook'.
I would have preferred to live in a country that had principles similar to what USA used to have before this nonsense kicked in and destroyed the liberty of the nation that became most prosperous, most inventive and innovative creditor nation on the planet after it had its unnecessary and destructive Civil war and before the politicos cracked the system and figured out how to cause unfettered cancerous growth of their power by growing government by counterfeiting currencies, living off people's income rather than proportion of their spending and being able to borrow from the entire world and have the entire world subsidise the insane cancer of government.
As to me 'getting out', don't worry your pretty little head, I have already.
and when that happens, it's not him, who is going to be given the 'riot act', it's everybody who wants liberty and supports him.
Also, what the hell is wrong with you that you think copyright enforcement is worth killing people over? What the hell? Look, I'm against SOPA. I'm against the DMCA. Heck, my personal belief is that the copyright system needs to be reformed completely; we need a much greater emphasis on fair use and a much lower limit on copyright terms - I'd be happy with five years. But your attitute to the situation is batshit insane. This is nothing worth ending a life over.
- I agree with you.
This attitude about SOPA is WAAAAY too late. It should have started back with everything else:
1. Establishing the Federal reserve bank.
2. IRS collecting income taxes.
3. SS, Medicare, Medicaid and all other 'bread and circuses' programs.
4. Getting off the gold standard.
5. Starting wars all over the place without asking permission of the people and people not caring that the wars are started in their name without even a formal declaration.
6. FDIC, FDA, EPA, FHA, HUD, CIA, FBI, FCC, FAA, Dep't of education, energy, commerce, agriculture, interior, Patriot Act, TSA, HLS, NDAA, every war since 1945, TARP and all other bail outs, stimulus packages and nationalisations of private businesses.
Yeah, this latest outrage over SOPA and PIPA just maybe the last straw that will break this camel's neck.
What "fundamental freedom" is being curtailed by SOPA?
- oh, just the first amendment rights (and every other human right as well, including ability to pursue happiness, to do business without being abused, everything).
SOPA is not about copyrights, it's not about patents, it's about government getting power to prevent free speech and business by government. Copyrights, etc., those are all excuses.
but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States
- the people and the politicians have nullified the legitimacy of the federal government once the 16th amendment was passed, because 16th amendment specifically contradicts this contract (and Constitution ratification is contract signing), since the "Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States" was contradicted by the 16th amendment, which allowed the income taxes to be collected regardless of proportionality among States.
By the way, MSM LOVE SOPA.
Pick your favorite: MSNBC, FOÐ¥, CBS, ABC, NBC - they don't talk about it, they only call Ron Paul a 'kook', while Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate in the elections who is talking about actual issues (and I mean he is the only candidate, regardless of the 'party' denomination), be it the Patriot Act, NDAA with the indefinite detention of civilians by military based on POTUS's request provision (so think concentration camps not just for funny looking foreigners, but for your own citizens).
CNN devoted an evening to mentioning SOPA.
Judge Napolitano on Fox Business talks about it often.
But that's it. Where do you think the MSMs of the world stand on the entire Internet idea? They fucking HATE IT. They can't control it, it cuts into their BULLSHIT that they are spewing and it cuts into their bottom line as few people are watching.
The only reason for SOPA not to pass is because of-course there is a lot of money on the other side of it as well, but even given Google, Yahoo, Facebook, whatever Internet company/provider/content provider, eventually in USA laws like SOPA and PIPA (and maybe these very laws) will pass, it's not a matter of 'if', it's just the question of 'when', and the 'when' will hit hard IF something happens and Ron Paul becomes too popular all of a sudden during these elections going further on and even if he doesn't win (which is most likely), to prevent anybody like that from competing with the establishment power in the future, the government will see that it is necessary to prevent people from being able to do their own 'congress' on line and to prevent any rise of popular candidates that will take the country on the course of liberty, they will build in every possible thing into the system to shut down the Internet and throw whoever they see as dangerous into their newfangled military ran concentration camps, and deny them any rights (the real name of NDAA that passed should be "Repeal the 4th Amendment Act").
The government is shaking down the Internet related businesses, and that's what these laws are aimed at I think. The politicians are looking at Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc., and asking themselves a question: WHAT THE FUCK? Why aren't these putzes paying us the racket money like the rest of them? Of-course those businesses are also paying something that has to do with taxes, but there is so much money there (and everybody knows about it), that the politicians want more than just tax optimization/evasion money, they want REAL money, they want - "hey, you have a nice business going here, it would be a shame if something was to happen to your entire business model and you were shut down" money.
That, and also of-course they want the RIAA and MPAA money and they want ISP money and they want your money and they want to be able to shut down the Internet because it's scaring them - just look at the way Ron Paul support grew because of the Internet.
So you have too much freedom - and that's what politicians want to take away and I had a long discussion about the fact that every single law that politicians push forward ends up reducing your freedoms and increases 'strength' of the government while weakening the individual liberties and the economy and the society of the nation, and even on this site people don't see this.
What do you mean "a move that benefits no-one except the 1%'?
It's the exact opposite - while the country was ON gold (never mind 'standard'), the economy was growing, USA was an attractive place for innovative entrepreneurial people who came from everywhere to try and do something that they couldn't do in their places of birth. Instead the gold was replaced with paper, which allowed enormous growth of government and gov't power, which destroyed any possibility to do business in USA and simultaneously gave rise to insane speculations fueled by the Federal reserve and various agencies, from FDIC to FHA, HUD, Freddie/Fannie and this insane gambling fueled by UNCHECKED CREDIT was the main reason for the debt crisis and that's what will kill US economy at the end.
Gold standard IS the 'regulation' that prevents this from happening - prevents banks and gov't from destroying the money, setting price of money, destroying private credit, growing uncontrollably and trading with non-existing money, causing massive leverage that will take down USD and bonds.
Gold standard is gov't politician and bankers' worst nightmare and it's the best thing for the 99%.