Last week in a move seen by most as a condolence fuck you to Hollywood for not passing SOPA the Us Department of Justice took down the worlds largest filesharing site, megaupload.  Megaupload wasn't that big in the porn circles but in terms of hollywood movies it was the biggest.

From the DOJ Press release:

The indictment alleges that the criminal enterprise is led by Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, 37, a resident of both Hong Kong and New Zealand. Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited and is the director and sole shareholder of Vestor Limited, which has been used to hold his ownership interests in the Mega-affiliated sites.

 

In addition, the following alleged members of the Mega conspiracy were charged in the indictment:

• Finn Batato, 38, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the chief marketing officer;
• Julius Bencko, 35, a citizen and resident of Slovakia, who is the graphic designer;
• Sven Echternach, 39, a citizen and resident of Germany, who is the head of business development;
• Mathias Ortmann, 40, a citizen of Germany and resident of both Germany and Hong Kong, who is the chief technical officer, co-founder and director;
• Andrus Nomm, 32, a citizen of Estonia and resident of both Turkey and Estonia, who is a software programmer and head of the development software division;
• Bram van der Kolk, aka Bramos, 29, a Dutch citizen and resident of both the Netherlands and New Zealand, who oversees programming and the underlying network structure for the Mega conspiracy websites.

Dotcom, Batato, Ortmann and van der Kolk were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand, by New Zealand authorities, who executed provisional arrest warrants requested by the United States. Bencko, Echternach and Nomm remain at large. Today, law enforcement also executed more than 20 search warrants in the United States and eight countries, seized approximately $50 million in assets and targeted sites where Megaupload has servers in Ashburn, Va., Washington, D.C., the Netherlands and Canada. In addition, the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ordered the seizure of 18 domain names associated with the alleged Mega conspiracy.

The interesting thing about this is that since most of the large porn filesharing sites have shut their doors or limited download capabilities to only what YOU have uploaded.  Rapidshare, filesonic and others have thrown in the towel making even bigger targets out of the few that remain like wupload and oron, expect them to follow suit.

Finally the good guys catch a break, hopefully the tube sites are next....yup thats you Fabian/Manwin.

I got a call this morning from a polling company and one of the questions was:

"Did the interview with Newt's ex wife Mary Anne Gingrich change your opinion of Newt Gingrich?"

I answered no, absolutely not, I knew he was a complete scumbag before I ever heard that interview.

She laughed and thanked me for my participation.

I am absolutely appalled at what I have seen the last couple of days....

For one we have Google, wikipedia and others participating in an online protest over SOPA legislation.  We also have Los Angeles passing a condom mandate, and let me tell ya porners are all up in arms, threatening to leave L.A. ( They won't because nobody else would have them)  They are also threatening to photograph the inspectors and even the drooling imbeciles on ADT are talking about how can this happen in a Democracy...hello you morons we live in a Republic NOT a Democracy.  Yes everyone is all up in arms about something.

Here's my question.  Where was all this uproar when G W Bush and Congress enacted ad signed into law the abhorrent "Patriot Act"?  Where were they when Obama and the Congress made the NDAA 2012 law?  These people usurped 200 year old constitutionally protected rights, they shit on the very document they swore an oath to uphold and where was all the outcry about that?

Fortunately I probably won't live long enough to have to deal with the real repercussions of this.  I  hope I live long enough to see an overthrow of the tyranny that is taking hold in Washington DC but I am not holding my breath.

And what will you people do in 2012?  I know what you will do, you will restaff Washington DC with the same criminal scumbags that got us into this mess, same as you have done every election.  Then you will bitch and moan that it's the other parties fault that it will be more difficult for you to steal porn now.

Then you will kneel and lick the boot of your oppressors.

Andrew Paolo Napolitano (born June 6, 1950) is a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and now a political and legal analyst for Fox News Channel. Napolitano started on the channel in 1998, and currently serves as the network's senior judicial analyst, commenting on legal news and trials. He also hosts the talk show Freedom Watch on Fox Business Channel.

Source: http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano36.1.html

What If Elections Don't Matter?

by Andrew P. Napolitano

What if Democrats and Republicans were two wings of the same bird of prey?

What if elections were actually useful tools of social control? What if they
just provided the populace with meaningless participation in a process that
validates an establishment that never meaningfully changes? What if that
establishment doesn't want and doesn't have the consent of the governed? What if
the two-party system was actually a mechanism used to limit so-called public
opinion? What if there were more than two sides to every issue, but the two
parties wanted to box you in to one of their corners?

What if there's no such thing as public opinion, because every thinking person
has opinions that are uniquely his own? What if public opinion was just a
manufactured narrative that makes it easier to convince people that if their
views are different, there's something wrong with that -- or something wrong
with them?

What if the whole purpose of the Democratic and Republican parties was not to
expand voters' choices, but to limit them? What if the widely perceived
differences between the two parties was just an illusion? What if the heart of
government policy remains the same, no matter who's in the White House? What if
the heart of government policy remains the same, no matter what the people want?

What if those vaunted differences between Democrat and Republican were actually
just minor disagreements? What if both parties just want power and are willing
to have young people fight meaningless wars in order to enhance that power? What
if both parties continue to fight the war on drugs just to give bureaucrats and
cops bigger budgets and more jobs?

What if government policies didn't change when government's leaders did? What if
no matter who won an election, government stayed the same? What if government
was really a revolving door of political hacks, bent on exploiting the people
while they're in charge?

What if both parties supported welfare, war, debt, bailouts and big government?
What if the rhetoric that candidates displayed on the campaign trail was dumped
after electoral victory? What if Barack Obama campaigned as an antiwar,
pro-civil liberties candidate, then waged senseless wars while assaulting your
rights that the Constitution is supposed to protect? What if George W. Bush
campaigned on a platform of nonintervention and small government, then waged a
foreign policy of muscular military intervention and a domestic policy of vast
government borrowing and growth?

What if Bill Clinton declared the era of big government to be over, but actually
just convinced Republicans like Newt Gingrich that they can get what they want
out of big government, too? What if the Republicans went along with it?

What if Ronald Reagan spent six years running for president promising to shrink
government, but then the government grew while he was in office? What if,
notwithstanding Reagan's ideas and cheerfulness and libertarian rhetoric, there
really was no Reagan Revolution?

What if all this is happening again? What if Rick Santorum is being embraced by
voters who want small government even though he voted for the Patriot Act, for
an expansion of Medicare and for raising the debt ceiling by trillions of
dollars? What if Mitt Romney is being embraced by voters who want anyone but
Obama, but don't realize that Romney might as well be Obama on everything from
warfare to welfare?

What if Ron Paul is being ignored by the media not because they claim he's
unappealing or unelectable, but because he doesn't fit into the pre-manufactured
public opinion mold used by the establishment to pigeonhole the electorate and
create the so-called narrative that drives media coverage of elections?

What if the biggest difference between most candidates was not substance but
style? What if those stylistic differences were packaged as substantive ones to
re-enforce the illusion of a difference between Democrats and Republicans? What
if Romney wins and ends up continuing most of the same policies that Obama
promoted? What if Obama's policies, too, are merely extensions of Bush's?

What if a government that manipulated us could be fired? What if a government
that lacked the true and knowing consent of the governed could be dismissed?
What if it were possible to have a game-changer? What if we need a Ron Paul to
preserve and protect our freedoms from assault by the government?

What if we could make elections matter again? What if we could do something
about this?