CRITICAL!!! Bill Quietly Moving Forward During Debt Ceiling Theater

The debt ceiling fiasco serves the government in many ways, not just the reasons outlined previously. While everyone talks about the debt ceiling that will be raised anyway these are the real laws being passed.

Currently moving forward from committee in the house is a bill that forces ISP's to record everyone's every internet move for twelve months and makes them accessible to government entities such as law enforcement.  You'll find the bill here.

It's funny, because this bill doesn't really stop anything illegal from happening online.  If a criminal wanted to stay anonymous, they could use a Proxy Server, a VPN connection, or they could just walk into a Starbucks and use their wireless.

Did you notice the name of the Bill?  The "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011."  Are they protecting children from viewing internet pornography?  Or are they wording it so it sounds like they're protecting children from child pornographers?  That's funny, because this bill does neither of those things.  How about a quote from the article:

"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes."

Knowing that we can't stop any relatively smart criminal engaged in illegal activity online; what might those "other purposes" be?  My guess is that the main purpose is to track and ultimately crack down on individuals that challenge the status quo.  Even just today the South Carolina Police were on alert after a political activitst 'liked' an article on Facebook.  Hell, just for having this blog I could be labeled a "Terrorist."  Once they label me a terrorist they can lock me up indefinitely without charging me, or having any evidence that I've done something illegal.  They can already detain anyone indefinitely, they were just waiting for an efficient solution to find out who to detain.

Bye Bye rule of Law, I hardly knew ye