SOPA and NDAA are two peas in the same unconstitutional pod.

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is nothing but another power grab by the combined forces of business and government.  It’s far from the worst offense that Obama has recently committed to the American people but since it affected people in the here and now, it got proper attention and analysis.  Gary North’s evaluation is spot on:

"Let us not be naive. SOPA/PIPA is a payback for to the entertainment industry's generous support of PACs and campaign donations. For a list of who got how much, click here: http://bit.ly/SOPAbucks."

--Gary North

I’ll go one step further.  Let us not be naïve about a lot of things including the recent loss of Posse Comitatus and Habeas Corpus.  None of these things are being done FOR you.  They are being done TO you. 

The SOPA/PIPA assault was like a hammer-smashed finger.  It produced a fierce but short lived backlash that everyone clearly felt and was aware of.  God forbid anyone mess with the Internet now that we have grown so dependent upon it.  But Obama’s signing of the so called Defense Authorization Bill was more like cancer.  Most people didn’t know that it happened and many that heard about it didn’t understand the threat it poses to our freedom and privacy. Cancer patients are screwed unless they have a good and honest doctor who can interpret the x-rays.  Freedom loving citizens are pretty well screwed because they are too ignorant or foolish to seek a doctor who will properly and truthfully interpret the cancer theat posed by government excesses and the concentration of power. 

Like cancer, the activities of Bush and Obama (and the con men posing as leaders before them) have eroded our rights to a degree never before seen since the founding of the United States.  The government now has the legal right to apprehend and indefinitely detain anyone who it claims is in any way associated with terrorism.  The definition is so broad as to exclude nobody.  You simply have to be considered belligerent (whatever that means) and you can be hauled off.  We also have kept our illegal torture center open (Guantanamo Bay) and government now claims the right to assassinate our enemies and even own citizens without trial or due process.  These unconstitutional and immoral activities are potentially far more damaging to our way of life than SOPA but since people can feel and react to a thumb smash they cry out.  I say, beware the cancer far more than the thumb smash.

But SOPA and the Defense Authorization Act and the Patriot Act do have one thing in common:  They are being done solely for the benefit of big industry and big government.  The needs and rights of individual citizens no longer matter.  It is the military industrial complex trying to save itself as their credit and debt induced prosperity begins to collapse. 

The entertainment industry thinks that, by bribing our government with PAC money to pass SOPA, everyone who was sharing music, etc. will come running to them with dollars in hand.  Of course, that is not going to happen.  Whoever is sharing instead of buying has already decided not to buy or that they cannot afford it.  Government edict will not force them to consume. Big industry is willing to piss away the freedom of the people regardless of how little real effect it will have on their bottom line.

All the loss of freedoms open the way toward eventual deployment of the military in our country as a police force in a police state.  The recipe is not complex and Ron Paul has warned us of it many times.  In order to need a bunch of new military policing, all you have to do is to interfere enough with people’s lives.  At some point, the most negatively affected of them will get mad and cause trouble.  Once that happens it becomes an excuse for the rise of the police state.

This is a predictable scam.  It has happened in so many countries around the world so many times throughout history that it cannot be ignored as a real if not longer term threat.  It is in fact the most significant threat facing us as a nation today.  It is a bigger threat than the economy or anything else because it threatens to change the very basis of the US as a nation founded upon freedom to one controlled by fear and fascism.  Make no mistake: cancer never stays hidden forever.  It will one day surface and we will all have to deal with it.  The longer you let a cancer grow, the worse it gets.  Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to this sort of thing.

While you are considering all this, keep in mind why it is actually happening and that is because your government is selling you down the river.  People like Bush and Obama say one thing and then do another.  They are lying agents of the con.  They do not respect the people but rather hold us in contempt.  We are a resource to manage and to harvest.  We are as livestock.  If you don't see this then it really is time to ask yourself why not:

• Perhaps you are just ignorant.  That's no crime but it's really a big shame.  If this describes you, is your ignorance due to lack of intelligence or something else?  You be the judge.
• Perhaps you are just gullible and a poor judge of character.  Again, not a crime but how many times does your gut instinct have to be proven wrong before you start listening to people who have not been wrong?
• Perhaps you are indifferent or jaded.  It's hard not to become like this but things will never change until you add your voice to the side of those trying to change things.  Freedom isn't free.  Copping out is weak and without merit.  If this is you, please consider a change in direction.
• Perhaps you are complicit.  If this describes you then you really do know what is going on but it's somehow working for you.  You might even be smart enough to know that it cannot last forever but you figure you will cross that bridge if you come to it within your lifetime.  You likely suspect and believe that the status quo will last at least until you pass away naturally.  You go along to get along.  You really don't care that your support of the scam is causing long term damage.  You are effectively a collaborator; a sell out; a traitor.  Unfortunately, a significant portion of our population falls into this catagory.  Thanks a bunch for helping to bring down the best country in the world.  Thanks for helping to unravel 200 years of American freedom and prosperity.  You go by many names: George Bush, Barrack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrinch.