Government Vs the People's Internet ( Lobby, Legislate, Litigate, License, Criminalize )(tm)
Govt. is in partnership with the corporations and social control institutions of our nation. This time their purpose involves repeating the great land grab (this time the land is called internet property and the victum is not the Native American Indian, but the Native American Internet Surfer). The earlier great land steal had a slogan which was very popular: WESTWARD HO! the new slogan is INTERNET HO! In both cases it was the economics that drove the government to justify its take over on behalf of those wanting to make money without regard to the welfare of the Indian.
The government used social control [today we call it mass media control] to convince its white population, that Indians, were red, uneducated, savages, adherents only to tribal law, subhuman, to be feared and eradicated on sight. In short, the message was: push them off their lands. Make them subject to our law, and since they have no deed under our law, they have no right to the Land or its Buffalo.
Savages, the message went, were not law abiding citizens. The law of course, the government was talking about, were the many such laws that the government was in the continuous process of writing, as the need arose, according to the lobbyist.)
Justifying that lands occupied by Indians, did not actually belong to the Indian, took a lot of thought, considerable lobby power, a lot of congressional time, much newspaper and magazine media control, several epic books, many courses in college, much executive branch consideration, widely distributed military readiness, and the determination of many, many wealth seekers and their worker bee followers and their families. To be sure the Indian had his/her day in court. None were hanged without due process: but many were killed while they were at home asleep.
Self justified laws and subsequent court decisions confirming the constitutionality of the laws that failed to recognize savages as citizens passed by congressmen, who listened to the lobbyist, and President's that fib in courts, or who buy the court, etc. It doesn't matter much, Republican or Democrat, this is INTERNET HO!.
This time the Native American Internet Surfer NAIS will discover he/she has no deed to his p;iece of the Internet Land and just as the American Indian discovered without a recorded deed he could not claim his land. The deed you need today, is called copyright, or patent, or trademark, or domain name. The type of property that these new fanged Internet deeds give their owners is called intangible property. So the little known law of the Internet is the Intangible Property Law.
History repeats! Laws unknown to the Native American Internet Surfer! Defeat by complication. .Recording in courts houses unknown to all but the most diligent internet surfer!!
Lobbyist everywhere are begging congress for laws laws that make everything you say and do on the Internet subject to some kind of Intangible Property Law. So, anything you do on the internet, requires you first, to pay or have a license, or to find in the maize of intangible property laws, an exemption. Finding an exemption, means you have a copy of the law nearby or you are willing to pay your lawyer before you surf. Otherwise, anything else you do is unlawful.. That is their plan.
The interests whom the lobbyist represent have found a way to use your own constitution against you. Some people blame the lawfirms, but they are just the paid technicians; some people blame the congressmen, but they must somehow live; and some people blame the president, but he is just fullfilling campaign promises; some people blame the courts, but they can only rule on the laws. Then who do we blame? The answer of course is the corporations, certain government agencies, and certain social institutions. We are experiencing a corporate take over of the Internet Land. The means of taking over the internet is called "conversion". They are converting public free access property[where the buffalo roam) to private property with no treaspassing signs posted. I am sure you have seen them, the signs, I mean, give us your personal data and we will let you see this or that, sign up first, or pay, or become a paid subscriber...
Certain principles in their strategy have begun to emerge: lobby, legislate, litigate(test in the court the validity and functionality of the law they got legislated to be sure the court will enforce it, and award judgements against violators), license(provide for a license), and criminalize( use paid govt law enforcement to enforce the corporate right) (see ipmanual issued to government agents). Let's look at that one more time, LLLLC! Yipes: lobby, legislate, litigate, license, criminalize (LLLLC)
Just as the government found ways to make laws that make it legal to ignore the rights of the American Indians and to make them pay for what used to be a free native indian right, for and on behalf of the great westward movement ( basically in the name of economics) so too are the corporations lobbying for intangible property law to make the Native American Internet Surfer pay and pay and pay and if they dont then off to jail they go!. I wonder if you will be lucky enough to have a trial, or if they will just do it to you while you are in bed.
more on the LLLLC?