[kucheravka]

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/...-get-even.html

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

SOPA: Don't Just Protest -- Get Even

source Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

The entire reason why SOPA's authors and supporters have the money, influence, and power to put forward draconian bills like this in the first place is because of our daily patronizing of their corporations and the goods and services they provide.

SOPA supporters include the US Chamber of Commerce, the MPAA, and many of the mega-corporations Americans, and indeed people around the world, support on a daily basis. The key to stopping SOPA and the watered-down feigned "concession" that will surely followis to undermine the unwarranted power and influence of the corporations and financiers backing.

If Americans withdrew their support from these corporations -- if theaters were left empty, if Pepsi and Coke were left collecting dust on the shelves of an empty Wal-Mart -- bills like SOPA would not exist, let alone have a chance to be passed into law.

Below is just one letter signed by just one group of these corporations and organizations. Boycott, put out of business, and replace these corporations with local alternatives.

Sponsors of this letter in support of "rogue sites legislation" include:

3M
Alliance of Automobile Manufactures
American Apparel and Footwear Associations
Autodesk Inc.
Bose Corporation
Broadcast Music Inc (BMI)
Caterpillar
CBS
Council of Fashion Designers of America
Electronic Arts (EA)
Ford Motor Company
GlaxoSmith Kline
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Johnson & Johnson
L'Oreal
Macmillian


Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
National Basketball Association (NBA)
National Football League (NFL)
NBC Universal
News Corporation (Fox News)
NHL
Nike
Nintendo of America
Oakley
Pfizer
PGA of America
Philip Morris International
Reebok
Rite Aid
Rolex
Rosetta Stone
Software & Information Industry Association
Sony
Dow Chemical
McGraw-Hill
Timberland
Walt Disney
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner
Toshiba
US Chamber of Commerce
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
Universal Music Group
Viacom
Wal-Mart
Warner Music Group
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Xerox Corporation
Zippo Manufacturing

If you can't live without the endless crass torrent of "bread and circus" as well as trinkets provided by the above mentioned supporters of this corporate-fascist agenda -- the literal crafting and backing of legislation of-by-and-for corporations -- you don't deserve the freedom you believe yourself entitled to.

There is not one corporation listed above that society could not live without and in many cases replace with decentralized, superior local alternatives. Freedom is not simply voicing your opposition, or choosing representatives to do so on your behalf; freedom is also about the responsibility to keep in check the creation of unwarranted power and influence garnered from your daily payments in attention, money, time, and energy to corporations that would seek to impose their will upon society using the very mechanisms of governance designed solely for the people's benefit.

Identify the source of power behind bills like SOPA, and indeed many of the government policies wrecking our society, miring us in endless war, and leaving us in economic destitution. Boycott them, and replace them. We cannot be blamed for the greed and depravity of the global corporate-financier elite, but we can be blamed for fueling their megalomania on a daily basis.

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/...-get-even.html

Tony Cartalucci's articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at
Land Destroyer Report.

[Suvuseh]

Thanks for the link Hermie.

I was browsing some other articles @ activist post, and one in particular about SOPA had a comment that really hit me hard.

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/...s-we-will.html

Anonymous said...

What I find the most disturbing about this whole scenario is not the public's outcry against the passage of SOPA and PIPA. No, what I find most apalling is the almost total LACK of a public whimper against the MUCH more egregious NDAA for 2012.
January 18, 2012 11:53 PM Stepping back for a minute, the main reason Joe6Pack is angry about SOPA is that the daily routine of internet provided bread and circuses stands to be disrupted.

I am, in no uncertain terms, referring to the type of folks on GSUS, ZH and the like - people like us will always find a way to get and share information.

The Joe and Jane 6packs of the world did not even know that NDAA was passed, let alone what it stood for. There should be full scale rioting against the White House for signing NDAA, and as that comment I posted above says, there was not even a whimper.


We've said for a long time on these forums that the people will not revolt until their NFL/Dancing with the Stars is taken away from them (and never will be) - the ruckus caused online by the potential to pass SOPA coupled with the utter lack of complaint about NDAA, is a damning indictment of our current state of affairs in the US society.

[User-Luser]

Thats a very painful observation I didn't even ponder.

Yeah were pretty much effed

[nobodyhere]

We can hold the mainstream media responsible for all the abuses that are experienced due to the NDAA because they failed to cover it. That failure was their explicit support of the loss of our freedoms.


Hatha