House Passes CISPA

[Fire$torm]

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We pushed them to the brink, but House Republicans rammed through CISPA yesterday afternoon, ahead of schedule.

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Our hundreds of thousands of emails and tens of thousands of phone calls have had a real impact:

* Amendments were adopted that made CISPA (marginally) better.

* Earlier this month CISPA was supposed to sail through, but we helped foment real opposition, and the vote was far closer than anybody could have imagined even a couple of weeks ago.

* Most Democrats held firm in opposition, and more than two dozen libertarian-leaning Republicans defied their leadership and vote no.

* Most importantly, President Obama has threatened to veto CISPA.

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Freedom is never granted. It must be earned and defended.

[zombie67]

1) People who think there are two different parties are fooling themselves. Whoever is in power wants to keep it.

2) Any power ceded to government will eventually be abused, and will never be pulled back.

3) Do I really need to quote TJ? Fine.



The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William S. Smith, Paris, Nov. 13, 1787

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, with a Syllabus, Washinton, Apr. 21, 1803

No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.--Thomas Jefferson

"But is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? Is it government? Is this the kind of protection we receive in return for the rights we give up? Besides, the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, Q.XVII, 1782. ME 2:224

[DrPop]

I could not have said it better. Amen, Brother. Now, where is Dr. Bob? I believe he will have some great input as well. :o