By now, everybody should know, or at least have heard of what SOPA/PIPA are. Two bills, both seemingly generated by two different yet equally inferior schools of thought. If for some reason you've been living under a rock for the past year, watch the video below to educate yourself on these two proposals and form your own opinions:
For those of you that have kept abreast of SOPA and PIPA, you are aware that Congress has postponed a vote on both of these votes indefinitely after widespread protest. The key word here is postponed. Many people have disillusioned themselves into thinking that this means SOPA and PIPA have died. Make no mistake, they have not. Which brings me to the point of this post. There is a movement that I am taking part in next month. Whether you choose to or not is entirely up to you, and I won't think any less of you if you decide against it, but hear me out for just a brief moment of your time and then I will trouble you no further.
Who sponsored SOPA and PIPA? Your first instinct may be to blame the "liberals", or the "conservatives", depending on where you sit along the political spectrum. This is how the media has trained you, so it is only natural to cast blame on the puppets rather than the puppeteers. Yet there is a more sinister force at work behind the current, yet at the same time directly in plane sight. Every time you purchase a movie ticket, a cd, a dvd, or a video game you are helping to fund this master of deception. They call themselves the producers of the video, music, and gaming industries, but what they really are are nothing more than corporations attempting to carry out the corporate function. You see, corporations are not greedy, and/or sinister. People are greedy, and/or sinister. And corporations are NOT people, much as the corporate shareholders would like them to be. No, corporations are but a safety net to defer liability upon so that the corporate masters don't lost their asses on a bad business deal. A corporation's function is to maximize profits at all costs. The benefits to society of this function are debatable, but that debate will have to wait for another post.
Now that you know the true masterminds behind these two bills, it is time for me to unveil what is to be done about it. In 1773, America was still ruled by the British crown, and that crown functioned much like a corporation. It maximized its profits on the backs of society, stripping away the rights of the people who supported it. The difference between now and then, is that the people responded in kind. I am referring to the Boston Tea Party. And where today's society sits by complacently and does nothing as their corporate masters tick one freedom at a time from their backs with the crack of its legal whip, I choose not to. I choose to respond in kind. Not through violence, or through subversive tactics, but instead through the only power the corporate overseer understands; the power of my wallet.
March shall mark our Boston Tea Party, our stand against the corporate oppressor for those of us who believe enough is enough. If successful, March shall be a time when music cd's and dvd's shall remain on the shelves of retailers, and movie theaters shall be made to endure as seats go unfilled. Our expansive libraries of books and magazines shall cease their perpetual growth, and for thirty-one days corporations shall weep as their first quarter earnings dwindle into record losses. It is my hope that this actions will effectively kill SOPA, PIPA, and any potential future incarnation of such bills, and remind corporation and government alike that there is a people that exists beneath the rich. And we are very, VERY pissed off. Join me in this cause. Race matters not. Creed matters not. The corporate poison is far reaching, blanketing every corner of the globe. If you believe as I believe. If you feel as I feel. Then break free of the political shackles that have controlled you for so long, and make March a month that shall never, ever be forgot.
