The Bible clearly ranks high among the many books Smith will never read.
Everybody–at the very least every self-serving, crypto-facist dimwit or agglomeration thereof–suddenly wants the Internet and friends to do his, her, or their dirty work. First, it’s the Record Industry Association of America, calling on ISPs to either cut off customers who (according to highly questionable RIAA data) illegally download recorded music…or pay for file-sharing themselves?
Smith champions ” let my cronies do whatever” capitalism, but favors KGB-style tactics against ordinary Americans.
Now, chronic hysteria-monger Lamar Smith and Big Oil errand boy John Cornyn add insult to injury by introducing a bill that could potentially require, not just ISPs, but coffee shops and even private citizens with Wi-Fi hotspots, to keep detailed records of who goes where and does what online under their auspices–for two years.
“Corny” Cornyn: Texan first, oilyman second, Republican third, American…uh…we’ll get back to you.
Ostensibly directed against producers, distributors, and users of child pornography (already amply covered under existing laws), the typically misnamed Internet SAFETY Act smells far more like warmed-over, Bush-era, totalitarian garbola, especially given both good ol’ boys’ relationship with the future felon former President. As for how the extraterrestrial parasites nutjobs Representative and Senator plan to finance all this record-keeping, maybe Corny could kick in some of the dough his tight bro swindler Allen Stanford slipped him over the years.
Meathead, si; good sport, no: Corny swings a phantom organ, misses. When he declared “civil liberties don’t matter much if you’re dead,” during the FISA hearings, he wasn’t trying to scare us into letting the government do whatever it wants to us…he just wanted to share his vision of an ideal zombie police state.
