HEARING THE SILENCE: ESTABLISHMENT VERSUS INTERNET

HEARING THE SILENCE: ESTABLISHMENT VERSUS INTERNET | 2012-03-22

There has been an alliance between evangelical Christians and Marxists to censor the Internet in America the way it is censored elsewhere. The evangelicals scream "pornography" and he Marxists scream racism.

But to my astonishment I found that the American web users are actually fairly bright. I thought I would surprise people when I pointed out this Christian Right-Marxist combination years ago, but I was informed that it had been talked about a lot.

I am not used to any part of the public catching onto ANYTHING.

We just had another illustration of the same revival of extinct intelligence on the web.

Listen. Can you hear the silence about it?

When it came up it had chorus of bells and whistles and was in all the commentaries.

"It" was a bill to censor the internet, not for sin or Thought Crime, but for copyright violations. It was featured in commentaries across the establishment press.

Predictably, Salon.com, a leftist blog that attacks property rights and was all for OWS, came out firmly in favor of protecting the rights of the establishment media. I do not know if the professional preachers held up their end of the coalition to censor the Internet.

Then this bill, which seemed to be running right along, ran into a few million infuriated constituents -- that part of the electorate which knows best how to hit Washington with e-mail and it just DIED.

I have already told you how to tell something was favored by the media establishment:

Listen to the silence. When something very public suddenly gets shot down and everything about it is dead silence and the Memory Hole, no discussions of what happened or even reminders that it DID happen in the media or in respectable conservative stuff, what went down was something the mainline media wanted very, very much.

COMMENTS (3)

#1 Dave | 2012-03-22 11:10

The Establishment is really very poorly equipped intellectually.

All they have is the lawyers' world view and the law professor trained mindset that strangely isn't perceived as being a bullying mindset. That is how weirdly perverted things are inside of academia.

Lawyers are a menace to freedom. At one time they were outlawed in America, but that fact has long gone down the memory hole. Laws schools are really training camps in the arcane arts of bullying, but the aggressive personalities drawn to them do not perceive them like that. But in Internet age, lawyers and their techniques are becoming less and less effective. The legal professional long ago "lost it" regarding patent rights, copyright, and intellectual property rights in general. They have long been stumped on coming up with a way to clean up the mess. Of course, there is no way to clean up the mess and that is the plight of LAW in general. The dumb asses that run RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) are victims of their own overpaid counsel and lobbyists. Now that their Congressional play failed, they turned to the FBI and FBI agents are dumbass lawyers too stupid to succeed elsewhere and actually the FBI, despite appearances, blew it in attacking Megaupload. The proof is the bazillion cyberlockers offering free FTP file transfers for up to 10 gigs that sprang up immediately after Megaupload was taken down.

The Establishment is being "swarmed" and everything is drifting to the raw chaos of the South African situation.

#2 Gavin | 2012-03-22 13:12

Cats will follow laser pointers around for hours. Humans are the same, they will follow whatever the media says is the "hot button issue"

#3 BGLass | 2012-03-25 08:40

At one time they were outlawed in America, but that fact has long gone down the memory hole...."

Admit my education has serious holes, but could you say more? Do realize the law "profession" wasn't always as it is today --akin to Kafka's The Trial-- but know nothing of the change. Even in small towns now, at least, they exist mostly to do a little something with death certificates, maybe a property transfer (but even that used to be done on handshakes)...and that's about all. It was not any sought position, nor any power, and they did not oversee the country, in any way, and many are aware of that, but "outlawed?"

With the medicalist end of the corporatist-militarist complex taking more shape, one easily imagines a "Supreme Court of Doctors" fighting to take it from the lawyers down the road.

What would be key words to research?