January 17, 2012

ACTION ALERT

INTERNET CENSORSHIP

Bear Witness Central Joins the Fight Against SOPA/PIPA

On January 17th, 2012 Bear Witness joined the fight against the internet censorship by partially blocking the website with a warning sign about the internet censorship in protest for the looming PIPA and SOPA Bills. We are joining with many other national websites across the internet who are going dark on January 18th in protest or are partially blocking the website with a warning sign.

Congressman Darrell Issa has scheduled an emergency hearing of his Oversight and Governance Committee, in a last ditch effort to stop H.R. 3261, the House version of the Internet takeover bill. The hearing will be held January 18th.

On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.

Our First Amendment protected right of free speech is now directly under assault by a berserk U.S. Congress and White House. Our voluntary blockage is being done in conjunction with countless other websites to help the public understand the serious dangers in SOPA and related bills awaiting passage in Congress right now.

SOPA and PIPA are to the First Amendment what the NDAA military detention and trial provisions are to the Fourth, Fifth, And Sixth Amendments - allowing for the "black bagging" and "disappearing" of websites on a mere accusation alone.

Without our First Amendment rights, peaceful redress, correction, and removal of oath breaking officials becomes impossible, leaving you with only the Second Amendment to secure your rights. The internet is our most powerful weapon of free speech, which is exactly why the powers that be want to shut it down. With a free internet, they no longer have a monopoly on the exchange of ideas and the spreading of information, and that scares the hell out of them. So, we can expect them to do all they can to find a way to shut the internet down or to tightly control it.

Spread the word! We must defend all of the Bill of Rights, for all Americans. Period.

Our website will continue to be available after clicking off the blockage, to bring relevant information that needs to be read before is taken off the internet.

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Read the entire article and view the video here>

AMERICA’S EMERGING DICTATORSHIP

There is now no doubt that the current President of the United States considers himself a de facto dictator who is so much smarter than the rest of us that he can ignore the Constitution, the supreme law of our nation, and do whatever he wants. History has taught that in order to establish an effective dictatorship there must be three decisive actions taken. Read the post here>

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“Your grandchildren will live under Communism. You Americans will not accept Communism outright, but we will keep feeding you small doses of Socialism, until you finally wake up finding that you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you. We will so weaken your economy, until you fall into our hands.” - Khrushchev