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Bulletin Board 201202

walterj — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:01:01 +0000

Use the comments of this post during this month if you have things you would like to bring to people’s attention and are not sure where else to post them. I’ll make a new Bulletin Board each month for free posting.

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

Blacking Out the Internet

walterj — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:01:39 +0000

Stop the Stupidity.
Feel free to steal this graphic, this text, this post to help protest SOPA/PIPA!
Blackout your blog and web site. Spread the word.

Now is the time for all good netizens to fight back against censorship while you still have the ability to protest stupid laws.

“Blacking Out the Internet” What does that mean? Well, you know those classified documents the government gives out where all the interesting stuff has been blacked out? Imagine if the Internet looked like that. Imagine if without due process anyone, make that governments and big business, could take down web sites if they didn’t like what was being said. Forget honest reviews of products. Forget being able to discuss politics. Religion? No way. How-to information that lets you do things yourself rather than paying big bucks to Big Corps? That can’t be allowed as it cuts into their profits!

If SOPA/PIPA and other stupid censorship laws are allowed to become the rules of the road then I won’t be able to tell you about XXXXXXXXXXXX and how to XXXXXXXXXXX or make your own XXXXXXXXXX while saving money by XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX and XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Oops! Looks like the censorship has already started!

Congress is foisting this on us under the guise of protecting intellectual property rights but what they are doing is a clear violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Due process is being thrown out the door to feed the greed of the corporate giants who bribe our elected leaders.

Supporters of SOPA/PIPA are doling out some serious cash to bribe Congressional members. Our Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy received $1,321,560 from the proponents of these bills according to Open Congress. I have corresponded with him about this and he is a strong supporter of SOPA/PIPA - no wonder! With a serious bribe like that maybe I would support these bills too! Hey! SOPA/PIPA people! You can send my million dollars to my PayPal address. Anyone else here want a million dollars? Check out the list of supporters who are passing out bribes as documented at OpenCongress.[1, 2] Also look at the list of people who got bribes. Did you get yours? Why not? If our Congressional representatives are getting millions of dollars in bribes shouldn’t the other 99% of us get our bribes too?!? Speak now while you still have the right to question.

If you value your rights to freedom of speech and the power of the Internet then fight back now!

Tell your Congressional Critters to block SOPA/PIPA Internet Censorship.
Write your:
Representatives
Senators

Also contact President Obama at the White House who has shown indications of possibly opposing these bills. Let him know you care and you want him to kill bill.

Dear Mr. President,

Please kill bills SOPA and PIPA because they would destroy due process, violation the Constitution and Bill of Rights and hurt the growth of the Internet. These bills will not stop piracy nor protect intellectual property rights. They are based on greed. We already have laws in place to deal with all of these issues. SOPA/PIPA is not needed.

Sincerely,

-Walter Jeffries

For more information and to see other protests visit:
Wiki, Google, Amazon, WordPress, WordPress Planet, American Censorship, YouTube, CraigsList, Reddit, NoNAIS.org, SeaOnTheMount, FlashWeb.com, BoarTaint.org, GrowlComics.com, TechDirt, Internet Archive, Musician Peter Gabriel, …

Want to be added to that list? Put up this graphic and page on your site (simply redirect if you know how) or something similar and email me the URL of your page. Spread the word. Shout it out. Oppose censorship while you still have the tools.

Outdoors: 999°F/-473°F In the Dark
Tiny Cottage: 70°F/67°F

Daily Sparks:
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. -Thomas Jefferson

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -C.S. Lewis

Tomorrow we will return to our regularly scheduled programming, provided the Internet still exists.

Warning: Internet to Go Down - Don’t Panic

walterj — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:50:12 +0000

This is just a little warning of preparations to black out the Internet. This is just a test. Had it been a real shutdown of the Internet you would now be in the dark.

The point is to XXYXX a XXXYXXXX to the folks in XXXXXYXXXXX, XXXYX about their abuse of Constitutional Rights and censorship.

This is only a test. Do not panic. When it is time to panic I’ll tell you.

The blackout will occur on January 18th, 2012. This is not the end of the world. Tune in later for that.

For more information see here.

Outdoors: 999°F/-473°F Dark
Tiny Cottage: 70°F/67°F

Daily Spark: “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” -T Jefferson

Stop Stupidity

walterj — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Rather than repeating myself go visit here. Take action now or you might not have the right in the future to use the Internet to fight off the Big Baddies.

Bulletin Board 201201

walterj — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:40:57 +0000

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

10,000 Comments Passed

walterj — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:44:15 +0000

As an interesting arbitrary Base-10 milestone we have passed the 10,000th comment…

Bulletin Board 201112

walterj — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:00:48 +0000

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

Texas Branding Farmers

walterj — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:16:35 +0000

From comments:

Texas has found a way to get millions to sign up-not for NAIS but eerily similar since registering is the first step in the NAIS program….in order to get the tax exempt status for ag, A PERSON MUST “REGISTER” AND GET A CARD THAT THEY CAN SHOW WHEN THEY GO BUY FEED OR OTHER AG RELATED STUFF—

i am not signing up- I will pay the tax but I am sure others cannot afford to not sign up….here they have us by the short hairs…!!!!

ALL THOSE IN TEXAS, CALL THOSE ELECTED OFFAL AND LET THEM KNOW YOU DO NOT LIKE THIS LATEST PIECE OF LEGISLATION!!!

Bulletin Board 201111

walterj — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:00:47 +0000

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

Government Overreach

walterj — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:25:50 +0000

Government bureaucrats are overreaching their authority, attacking farmers without even having warrants or court orders to backup their actions. The latest attack, sent to me by many alert NoNAIS readers, comes at a Farm-to-Fork on-farm dinner at Quail Hollow Farm.

Farm-to-Fork Dinner Fiasco
By Laura Bledsoe | October 24, 2011

When an over-zealous regulator shows up at a farm dinner demanding that food be destroyed as hungry guests await, who do you call? Here’s Laura’s account written as a letter to her guests who had come to Quail Hollow Farm expecting a meal of foods harvested from local small family farms.
-Farm-To-Consumer, -FoodRenegade, -ShanonBrooks & -LewRockwell

Of interest, Nevada, where Quail Hollow Farm is located, is one of the more restrictive states. In the federal and many state regulations about meat slaughter and butchering it says:

Animals slaughtered and processed for animal owner may be slaughtered without inspection as long as the meat is consumed by the owner, members of the family, and non-paying guests.
-AMS.USDA.GOV, -APPPA.org

In Vermont we have:

Exempt - No inspection required:
Slaughter animals of your own raising for your own personal use, members of your household and non-paying guests
-Vermont Dept of Agriculture

The rules and regulations are so complex that there are things that can easily trip you up. Whether s it that way on purpose (government conspiracy) or by ineptitude (government stupidity) is often hard to tell. Many government officials are very helpful - get to know them ahead of time and work with them.

The problem comes when you get an over zealous, antagonistic government official hell-bent on sanctimoniously using their power. Using their power makes them feel like their existence is justified. They are afraid of losing their jobs if they don’t do something. Sometimes they have political motivations for higher office that they’re looking to promote by setting examples of how good they are at doing their job. Don’t let them climb the political ladder on your back.

Some lessons:

Do Seek all exemptions possible that keep the government and regulators out of your affairs. To do this you need to know the laws and regulations. They are accessible online. Read them. Understand them.

Do go slowly and think things out. Do not let the government rush you or panic you. You have rights. The bureaucrat is your civil servant. They should stay civil and serve you. They have limited authority.

Do document everything. Written, audio, video, photograph. Get officials names, ranks, agent numbers, department, phone number, email address, mailing address.

Do have witnesses. Many witnesses you trust.

Do ask for a warrant and under what authority the government is taking its actions.

Do not allow the government onto your property unnecessarily.

Do not allow the government further onto your property than absolutely necessary.

Do not allow events to become labeled as public events.

Do not allow your property to be labeled as a public building.

Do join the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.

Lastly, do keep informed, follow what is happened, talk with others, comment on regulations in progress, contact your representatives regularly, work to fix bad regulations and laws. Work to improve the system.

There are some reasonable regulations, which fit with good sense, about how to harvest, prepare foods, cook, etc. Know them. Follow them. But don’t let government overreach its authority.

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
-Thomas Jefferson