Far better that the Internet tax Massachusetts than Massachusetts tax the Internet.

They invented a bogeyman out of child pornography in order to rationalize mass surveillance. They constructed the bogeyman of cyber warfare in order to co-opt the Internet. They have contrived a bogeyman out of copyright tyranny in order to cow education, creativity and learning.

"precrime"?

Mark Klein, the retired AT&T communications technician, whistleblew the existence of secret NSA spy rooms with data-mining equipment called a Narus STA 6400, "known to be used particularly by government intelligence agencies because of its ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for preprogrammed targets". Senator Lieberman promises the "Internet kill switch" is not really a kill switch and won't be abused like that. The same specious promises were made about not abusing the PATRIOT Act. Lieberman's Enemy Belligerent Act allows for disappearing even American's, without due peocess, into a black hole. If people can be physically disappeared, why not virtually, too? Add to those, the massive NSA data centers, now under construction. You have a recipe for disappearing dissidents and upstarts and most especially, whistleblowers. Think Wikileaks, etc.

You are correct on all points - absolutely certain of it. Some years back government disappeared the owners of a 50-year-old nudist resort I lived in. Then a man suddenly appeared that said he was going to divide the resort in half - with half for clothing only. When that failed to destroy the resort, he resorted to terrorism and succeeded in destroying it. The courts backed him. This will be no different.

They are using the Gulf Oil catastrophe as distraction, as planned, to push through all their draconian agenda, like Biden's new quest for copyright tyranny. With this .xxx campaign, first they create a divide-and-conquer tld. Then politicians pass laws to herd all porn and "objectional material" along a "trail of tears" to this reservation and then they require ID for access and they monitor and keep strict records of all traffic. Then they wall off ever more access until finally they use the imminent Internet kill switch.

maybe I should add, we know these guys are imploding the global economy by design, not because of incompetence. They insisted that they knew what they were doing and that the Congress did not, when they rushed the Banker Bailout bill through without allowing Congress a chance to work its full oversight. The Internet is the number one threat to their draconian designs. They have to seize and remake it.

"Incompetence..." This is such a dangerous assumption. Here's what Dean Baker recently wrote about the architects of the financial meltdown:

"The housing bubble and subsequent crash were the result of extreme incompetence on the part of the country’s top economic policymakers. Somehow these people could not see, or did not care about, the dangers of an $8 trillion housing bubble. Unfortunately, economic policymaking is not like most jobs where workers get fired when they make serious mistakes. In economics, they just keep getting promoted. Therefore, the people who sank the economy are for the most part the same group of people still designing policy today. Now this group of incompetent economists is telling the rest of us that we are going to have to endure five more years of high unemployment."

Yet we can know that they knew perfectly well what they were doing because they rewarded themselves with massive bonuses for the great job they did. Further, the global economic collapse and transfer of wealth to the elite is ocurring simultaneously around the globe - not as a domino effect. And remember, the first cyber security chief resigned, warning us of their plans for the coup.

Copyright law is being forged by globalists in secret cabals and will be foisted into law without shaping by citizens. Their machinations are held secret in the U.S. by Executive Order 12958, Section 6.1(y), which defines national security as the national defense or foreign relations of the United States, i.e., secret. We can disrupt their draconian plans for global tyranny by impeaching their abetters who are currently in high office.

...to know friend from foe.

It sounds right out of When Mars Attacks, misdirection. We need Articles of Impeachment, before these people (run by the International bankers) can fully crash the global economy. Converting the Internet to their police state grid is just part of their plans. But while we can still communicate over the Internet, there is still time to impeach and throw a wrench in their plans.

Copyright treaty and "Cybersecurity" ruses are massive police state measures which will fundamentally alter life as we know it. We need as many minds as we can muster working out Articles of Impeachment just as fast as we can.