It is scary how wrong people can be.

Internet good - Many of us wouldn't have found out about Dr. Paul and his message without the internet. It is truly "free" press. Not distorted and manipulative. That's why Dr. Paul had a huge internet following. We're not all a bunch of main stream media babies.

Internet bad - You can see or read about anything, and anything you post can be seen or read by anyone. Again, it is truly "free" press.

Dr. Paul has it right. What it boils down to is this...

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY.

If you don't want to see porn... don't look at it. If you don't want your child to see porn, supervise them while they are on the internet.

If they decide to restrict access to the internet for any reason... we're screwed. It's the only free press we have left in this country.

And about the kids playing outside, I agree. I'm 41 years old, and my entire childhood was spent outside. Instead of the Playstation being my electronic baby-sitter, the whole outdoors was my playground.

Of course, we only had 3-4 channels on tv, all full of reruns, and no video games until I was a full-blown teenager.

I took my 2 boys fishing when they were age 15 and 9 and I had to put the worm on the hook for them. They thought it was "gross".

When I was a kid, I used to catch crawfish with my bare hands, clean them with a pocket knife and cook the tails on a fire I started myself.

Of course, I didn't have virtual worlds to play in on the tv set. It's a different world nowadays.

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"We don't have to start a brand new revolution...All we have to do is restore the original Constitution." -Ron Paul

We should allow everyone to own property.

The Occult World Of Commerce

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Description: Jason Whitney presents brief yet elaborate audio-visual occult/esoteric roadmap to understanding how our legal/banking systems are fundamentally predicated upon one thing, "commerce,” and the regulation thereof. The questions to consider are however, who is doing the regulation, what sort of regulation is being done and who has reaped the benefits from such regulation? Jason Whitney further asserts that the extraction of money "energy" from society is made possible by and through corrupt judges and other judicial henchman demonstrating the economic element of their criminal enterprise and how the fines, fees, restitution and forfeitures received by the courts have been deviously embezzled by Judges and their co-conspirators. The occult dynamics, esoteric concepts and other intrigue presented by Maxwell and Whitney is fundamentally essential for anyone who desires a greater insight as to how our out-of-control legal/banking construct is designed and operates in America. This presentation addresses: Man as a Word-Controlled Creature Civil Law vs. Admiralty/Maritime Law Maritime/Admiralty Law Superimposed over Civil Law One's Mother as a Merchant Vessel Giving Birth as a Commercial Maritime Concept Hospitals and Energy Farms Spiritual Beings vs. Human Beings Freemasonry, Banking and the Court Connection Judicial Slush Funds The use of Public Records Act Requests

let people join whatever religion they choose.
Let people speak their mind.
And let everyone own a gun.

It's a lot easier to rule over the masses with such restrictive laws.

Let's make it federal law that all kids must live outside until sun down.

God forbid people actually PARENT their kids anymore ... then internet safety, etc. would probably be less of an issue. I agree 100% with whoever it was that said to make your kids play outside!!! Geez! No wonder we have a bunch of fat, insolent, lazy kids coming up. Nobody wants to do their job and parent. Instead we give the job to TV and Internet and X-box. Give me a break.

People need to look at the other side of things. The title to this tread is correct, but it needs to be looked at in reverse. You can call me a "kook" all you want to. It doesn't change anything. "They" call Dr. Paul a "kook." Doesn't mean it's true does it?!

And people will read this and actually believe it. That's pretty sad. I suppose it'd be too far out of the intellectual reach of the writer of that article to grasp the concept that the USA is supposed to be a REPUBLIC, let alone the major difference in the rights of an American INDIVIDUALS to privacy vs. the need for government transparency.

As a member of the generation that the author of this article is about, I can confidently say that this person does not know what they are talking about. Nobody I know on facebook or myspace puts their personal information. Nobody of my generation that I know personally is dumb enough to allow complete public access to their profiles. They only allow their friends to access it. And for the stupid ones who actually do put their private information out in the open, they are figuring out the hard way that it's a bad idea (for example, having a parent or employer find your profile.) I have a problem with people from older generations calling the younger generation ignorant. We grew up with the internet. If anybody knows about violations of privacy or sex predators online, IT'S US! And for parents who take away the internet for their kids, the internet is not TV. The internet is a place where you can learn anything instantly. The internet is a place where you can be anonymous and express yourself freely. The internet is a place where like minded people can organize to get a presidential candidate elected president and raise millions of dollars in one day.

Especially since I have been thinking here lately about how screwed we're going to be if they start taxing the internat and regulating it's use... if they take it away from us.

As far as the kids are concerned, that's the parent's responsibility. I don't need the federal government to baby sit my child by determining the content of what I can access on the internet.

If you don't want your child to abuse the internet or be abused because of the internet, don't let them on unsupervised.

Imagine if the content of the news and information on the internet was just as controlled and manipulative as the main stream media. Ron Paul would only have a tiny group of supporters, I'm afraid. Where else would they get his message? You sure didn't see much of it on tv, and when you did it was marginalized.

If they take away the internet, the last bastion of truly free press will be gone. The internet AIDS democracy, it doesn't inhibit it. That's what the MSM does.