Sipsey Street Irregulars: Darrell Issa's statement on the SOPA protests.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Darrell Issa's statement on the SOPA protests.

Just received this via email:

WASHINGTON, DC – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today issued the following statement on the blackouts of many popular websites – including Wikipedia, Craigslist, Google and thousands of others– in response to the serious threats to an open Internet and digital innovation in America posed by the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA):

“The Protect IP Act and SOPA are threats to the openness, freedom, and innovation of the Internet. I applaud the Internet community, including the thousands of blogs and websites that have decided to go dark today, for participating in our democracy and opening up the debate on legislation to the public.

“This unprecedented effort has turned the tide against a backroom lobbying effort by interests that aren’t use to being told ‘no.’ I know suspending and changing access to sites was not necessarily an easy decision, but this a responsible and transparent exercise of freedom of speech. I applaud those participating in today’s protest for their sturdy defense of American innovation, openness and Internet freedom.”

The Oversight Committee had originally scheduled a hearing on DNS blocking for today. The hearing was postponed after assurances from Leader Cantor and the removal of DNS blocking provisions from SOPA were made. Even with this alteration, Chairman Issa continues to oppose SOPA as well as PIPA.

7 comments:

Longbow said...: Removed the offensive provisions, did he?

Well, the bill can always be amended latter, right? Lets get the basic form down and pour in the concrete later...

No man's life or property is safe while the legislature is in session.; January 18, 2012 at 3:31 PM
tmuir said...: Sorry Congressman Issa not good enough, what would have been your feelings if Google, Bing, and Yahoo would have directly supported the protest?; January 18, 2012 at 7:16 PM
Anonymous said...: YES!! A plan in action. With both the websites shutting down AND Congressman Issa giving his stamp of approval - it puts the Libturds on notice, the line has been drawn, cross it at your peril.; January 18, 2012 at 7:23 PM
Seremzh said...: While the media's attention is focused on SOPA, the regressive controlled Senate is pushing an even worse bill called PIPA down the throats of Americans (watch the other hand). PIPA would allow the government to block American as well as foreign websites.; January 18, 2012 at 8:38 PM
Anonymous said...: (quote)
it puts the Libturds on notice, the line has been drawn, cross it at your peril.
(end quote)

I follow both Left and Righ blogospheres. Believe me, they're just as pissed off over on the left as y'all are about SOPA. In fact, anyone who understands it and isn't in the CorpGov circle is pissed. NEVER let the government have any power that you wouldn't want your worst enemy to have access to- Because after the next electoral silly season, he may!

Don't let this #%*¥ing camel's nose in the door AT ALL!; January 18, 2012 at 9:45 PM
Anonymous said...: This country has survived many wars some great,some small.They go on till this day with no end in sight. Millions of bullets-bombs-cannon balls or you name it.Hundreds of thousands of dead on battlefields in every corner of the world....Strange, that in the last three years we have seen it all nullified by the left handed pen of a tin pot wannabe fascist dictator.Our representation in Washington has become a cruel mocking joke.The despots know that in order to complete their fascist agenda they must stop the free flow of uncensored information.This they will attempt just for appearances sake through the charade of a Congressional vote .If that miraculously fails then a "Decree will go out from Caesar Obama" and to hell with you, we want it,and its law. Make no mistake about it there is a day of reckoning coming in this country.When it does I believe it is going to be a horrifying awakening for those who would declare themselves" Kings and Lords"of America.; January 18, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Anonymous said...: I guess the 1st amendment no longer will exist for me at least, or people, otherwise known as traditional Americans, who once had the expectation of freedom for all and being left alone.

The government and it's people have decided they don't like the consitution.; January 19, 2012 at 8:34 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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Darrell Issa's statement on the SOPA protests.

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