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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. - Martin Luther King jr

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A man can't win a war if he dies after the first battle.

Well I dont think it will come to the extreme the nuts think it will. The government will keep on doing what it has been doing all along. Taking our rights away without force and in most cases having the majority of the public behind them. Be it in the name of terror, drugs, child safety, global warming, or whatever they can think up to make both the left and the right think they need to give up their rights. This goes for both the left and the right. So far its working like a charm.

Sadly that is quite true of "my" battle (if being). I know and like someone said earlier "how can we know let alone post it?" The trouble is that is what we should do, and not what we can do. So what is the answer? Preparation. Not bending over. I would rather die than be a slave. Wouldn't any of you?

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. :disgust


Edit: plus sadly the war is almost over, that's what most of you really don't realize :(

I agree... You should see what they AREN'T doing to educate our kids. I knew 10x more when I was my son's age than he does today. Hell in just one more year he will be the age I was when I walked away from home and there is no way he is ready for that. I cant even get him to get a job.

I read a good article, I wish I could find it, about how kids these days are learning and maturing in this high speed technological internet age and the damages it is causing, not only in social situations but decision making as well.

Everyone thinks this is about security. Most people aren't going to care about whats going on until it really affects them. After the deflation and then the hyper-inflation occurs within the next year most people will question what the hell is going on. I guess by then everyone will be wearing "tinfoil hats." The real wake up call for the webmasters hanging around boards like these will be when they roll out internet 2. If you're not familiar with it you should start doing your research now because it's already in the works. I've talked to the guys running the cabling here in town. They know of it as "the grid." Simply put it will be a corporate controlled very highspeed lowcost if not free internet which most of the large ISPs and IT co's in the US are behind. You will have to get approval from the likes of the FCC to have a website.

Why would anyone want it if all the good stuff is on "internet 1"?

I think it's moreso that the US public has been paralyzed into submitting to authority.

A lot of things have to happen before a riot breaks out, and US authorities are likely to stop the altercation very early.

This is a country where it's technically illegal to protest. You must first get permission though a permit from authorities (who use the approved number of protesters to staff the right amount of riot police next to them). Unauthorized groups get broken up (or arrested) long before they grow to riot level nowadays.

The FCC just recently called for free broadband over the analog TV frequencies that will soon be available.

I've believed for years that they would eventually find some way to obtain internet content oversight like they have for TV and radio. Now think about it. If the internet is going to be available on the old TV airwaves (something they have content power over), then it makes sense that they will go after website content deemed unfit by them.

The idea for these troops is to have them as stay at home soldiers that can be called into action any place in the nation within a matter of hours. Hate to say this, but its nothing new.

there is another way that can escape that. Ever heard of internet over electric lines?? Yeah its real, and the speeds are so fast most puters can not keep up.

Read about it.

According the the article,

"Domestic emergency deployment may be "just the first example of a series of expansions in presidential and military authority," or even an increase in domestic surveillance, said Anna Christensen of the ACLU's National Security Project. And Cato Vice President Gene Healy warned of "a creeping militarization" of homeland security."

As I understand the vocabulary, domestic emergency deployment means on the streets of the USA.

I know those are "big" words for some.....:winkwink:

Because free is much cheaper. When it comes down to paying a electric bill or paying for an internet service I think you know which will go first. When a free solution is offered up by your very own cable provider or phone company most people are going to take it. Although it's said that they are going to switch their customers to it either way. I imagine there will be some sort of upgrade/optout option to not be limited to those few sites but the majority will stick with the free option.

Anyone choosing between paying electric bill and paying the internet aren't going to be buying things online anyways. Think about it, if you could only get free porn on "internet1", there will still be massive demand for it. This "internet2" will make the internet as boring as television.

As much as I would like to think porn ruled the internet it doesn't. If a 1000 or so companies can consolidate the advertising spending on mainstream those few companies would stand to boat loads of cash. Also those who do spend online will be buying through those providers.As far as the boring part is concerned that's the whole point. Right now the people who want to can't control, regulate and tax the internet as it is. So the solution to it and to sell the masses on it would be to provide something faster and free and people will willingly give up their freedoms.

I'm sure there will still be porn on internet2 but it would be more like the playboy channel. I'm also sure there will still be an underground type of internet which is where people who are in the know would hang out. But Internet 2 if it ever does come to fruition will send shock waves throughout the internet as far as those like us who make a living at it. And if you think our governments would do something like that then you might want to think about everything else they've done lately which made no sense.