Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The "Ministry of Truth": Stealing Our Freedom of Information - From Internet to Obamanet

Every Move is to the Collective under Totalitarian Control! The last thing we need is the Internet to be regulated and run as a utility. Imagine getting a usage bill every month for use of the "Obamanet. m/r

 L. Gordon Crovitz: From Internet to Obamanet - WSJ

L. GORDON CROVITZ Feb. 22, 2015

BlackBerry and AT&T are already making moves that could exploit new ‘utility’ regulations.    

Critics of President Obama’s “net neutrality” plan call it ObamaCare for the
Internet.


That’s unfair to ObamaCare.


Both ObamaCare and “Obamanet” submit huge industries to complex
regulations. Their supporters say the new rules had to be passed before anyone
could read them. But at least ObamaCare claimed it would solve long-standing
problems. Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken.


The permissionless Internet, which allows anyone to introduce a website, app or
device without government review, ends this week. On Thursday the three
Democrats among the five commissioners on the Federal Communications
Commission will vote to regulate the Internet under rules written for monopoly
utilities.


No one, including the bullied FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, thought the agency
would go this far. The big politicization came when President Obama in
November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply the agency’s
most extreme regulation to the Internet. A recent page-one Wall Street Journal
story headlined “Net Neutrality: How White House Thwarted FCC Chief”

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