CoffeeMate said:
elorei said:
Is it me, or does the wording of the bill allow for the DOJ to ignore "fair use" rules at their whim?
I know it is an extreme example, but with the bill the way it is, couldn't the DOJ even decide to shut this site down, because we quote other news articles? This very thread quotes another, copyrighted, source. Who decides if the quoting we do makes the sharing of copyrighted material "central" to the site? I would bet that over half the posts here have quoted material in them.
No doubt providing a link to another website somehow affects interstate commerce. :roll:
Yes it does. Actually, the fact that you don't buy something also affects interstate commerce, apparently.
The FDR era decision that said the federal government can regulate and control anything that could possibly have to do with interstate commerce is one of the worst decisions ever given, and it has been, and will continue to be how the government continues to control and regulate every aspect of our lives. It will be the single decision that allows the government to violate everyone of our rights.
That decision needs to be completely reversed, and furthermore, I'd love to see the commerce clause completely wiped off the books forever. I think we'd be better off for it. The Supreme Court has given the federal government entirely too much power to regulate and control every part of our lives.
At this moment, the federal government can do anything they want to us... that we will let them. At some point, I hope Americans will wake up and say enough is enough. Unfortunately, there are so many Americans that agree with these rights infringements, and furthermore, we have people on this very website, which about 50 percent or so hold more libertarian principles than the rest of the population, that agree with infringement on our rights. I don't see enough people waking up at the moment. I hope things will change in the future, but I'm not holding my breathe. I imagine everything will just keep on chugging along until we find ourselves in a Socialist Police State. We are well on our way there, now.
Also, the Tea Party isn't enough. A lot more people are going to have to wake up and stand up before things change. Probably the worst thing that they have on their side is public schools. They indoctrinate our children, the next generation, tell them liberal revisionist history, with quite a few lies and half-truths tied in. Its really a disgrace and its sickening that my property taxes help to fund these government indoctrination centers. That's the battle we're fighting folks. Its for the hearts and minds of our children. Are they going to grow up in a Socialist Police State, or are they going to grow up in the America pre-1861 minus intolerable slavery, of course. That's the real question here.
I think its going to be a Socialist Police State, if I had to put money on it.
