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Tell Congress not tocensor the Internet NOW! - fightforthefuture.org/pipa

          PROTECT-IPis a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and ismoving quickly through Congress. It gives the government andcorporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting"creativity". The law would let the government orcorporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judgethat the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement."
        The government has already wrongly shut down sites withoutany recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video withanything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitterdo, would be considered illegal behaviour according to this bill.
        According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill wouldcost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that's for a fix thatwon't work, disrupts the Internet, stifles innovation, shuts outdiverse voices, and censors the Internet. This bill is bad forcreativity and does not protect your rights.

      We keephearing rumblings from our shiny politicians about regulating thebanks and curtailing those monopoly money bonuses. But I wouldn'thold my breath on anything actually happening, afte all most of the politicians have friends in that little racket, all the patter is forpublic consumption only. It is difficult to find on what criteria thebankers base their right to those obscene bonuses. They can't justifytheir bonus claim on hard work. If it was hard work that meritedthose staggering bonuses, then I would probably be a very rich man.Not because of my hard work, but that of my father, he was a coalminer all his working life. The pits used to close for the GlasgowFair fortnight, but they always needed a skeleton crew to go down thepit every day to check for gas and/or flooding etc. So he volunteered forthat year after year. My mother and her wee gang would head off toDunoon for our two weeks holiday, my father never came, we saw him atthe weekends. Now that is hard work, so if stratospheric bonuses werebased on hard work my dad would have been a millionaire, and nodoubt, me being his only son, would have benefited very nicely afterhis death, however, I'm just one of the nations poor pensioners. Sowe can discount the hard work theory for big bonuses. Perhaps it isbased on the amount of money you generate, they could believe thatthe more money you generate, the bigger your bonus. So the lessmoney you generate the less of a bonus you get. Of course if we carrythis to its natural conclusion, if you don't generate money then youare in trouble. Meaning that people like surgeons etc. who go off towork every day, cutting and stitching people, don't generate anymoney. In fact they cost us money, should we then charge these peopleto work for us? Or should we base remuneration on a simple “fairdays wage for a fair days work”, principle?

       Thetruth is that there is no justification for those ridiculous,mind-blowing bonuses, it is just the simple law of gangsterism. Justas in the Al Capone days, the mobsters looked after “their boys”,so that they could rely on them to do their dirty work and protectthem and their wealth creating racket. So the financial Mafia of today, lookafter “their boys”, so that they can rely on them to do theirdirty work and protect them and their wealth creating racket. It isnot in the remit of the financial Mafia and “their boys” to doanything for the community at large, it is simple to gather as muchwealth and power into their particular section of the rackets.

        Greece,Hungary, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Romania, and the OccupyMovement in America, across the developed world people are on thestreets protesting. All this has nothing to do with nationalgovernments, it is a world wide corporate assault on the publicpurse. The national governments are just carrying out the dictates ofthe corporate financial Mafia. Here in the UK there are those who seethe privatisation of public services, including our health service,as a Tory Party affair, yet across the world the same thing ishappening irrespective of the political persuasion of the government.In Romania the riots there are against the austerity cuts and theattempt to privatise their already rather flimsy National HealthService. Social Democrat, Liberal, Socialist, Conservative, orwhatever, they all have the same agenda, cut public spending andprivatise everything that can make money for the billionairecorporate class. Call it what you will, but it is corporate fascismin full frontal attack on the conditions of the ordinary people.Voting for this party or that party, is like choosing which end ofthe egg to crack first, the big end or the little end. You end upwith the same thing on your plate.

         This system of corporate fascism can't be modified, repaired, orreformed, it can't be turned into a benevolent beast that will see tothe well being of the people. It is an elitist system where controlstays firmly in the hands of the super wealthy, themillionaire/billionaire parasites that sit nameless, in rooms inmarble halls shuffling their billions around the globe destroyingeconomies and countries in the pursuit of ever increasing wealth. Inthis system, wealth means power, and it is rigged to make sure youand I don't get our hands on the wealth or the power.

       Ifwe want a better world for ourselves, our kids and our grand kids,then we have to destroy this profit sucking, parasite controlledmonster. We can't look to the people who stand to gain from thisfinancial sewage system we live under, why should they want to giveup privilege, power and unbelievable wealth for our benefit? Forgetthe ballot box, forget the party political system, these are the toysyou are give to play with while the big boys rip you off. The system can never work in your favour, it has to be a new way of thinking, grassroots, people power, community organisations, direct action,occupations, are the only road to real change, we have to take control ofour society if we want to change it to benefit all our people.