Internet takeover by Obama Administration

By Jim Killebrew

[February 13, 2015]  When you think about it the average guy in the country, our country, or any country, simply wants to live life on a daily basis just getting along. We want to be able to shop in safety, send our kids to school and feel certain they will return home safely at the end of the day. We want to enjoy our family, engage in recreation every once in awhile and feel safe doing it. We want to love and be loved, maintain our privacy, live free and above all, maintain our own beliefs without others trampling on them.

The average Joe or Josephine in America, or anywhere in the world, simply wants to go to work every day, earn a salary, support their life-style and their family, while being left alone. They don't want to be spied upon by their government, they don't want to be taxed and they don't want to be afraid of their government. For sure they don't want to live in an environment of war where they fear even going outside since there is a danger of being killed.

We could name dozens of countries in the Middle East, Northern Africa, Europe, both Eastern and Western, Asia, Central America, South America and even North America where the average person simply wants to be free, live a life of a semblance of security while interacting with his neighbors next door, across the street, and in his various social clubs to which he belongs. Around our country, and around the world, there is something all of have in common.
 

What we all have in common is no matter what type of government is in power in any country in the world it is likely 90 percent of the citizens would be extremely satisfied to "live and let live" with their friends and neighbors and everybody around them if everyone could live in freedom. The other thing they all have in common is they are being controlled in some way by the governments that are established in their country. Whether a democracy, theocracy, totalitarian, or monarchy it is the very few who hold the power, the wealth and many or most of the resources in their respective countries.

In the United States we have an advantage of living under the foresight of those insightful men who were able to take their dream of freedom and articulate it into a document like the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. That is a gift from our forefathers who recognized that when people live free they live more harmoniously with one another. Through the years of freedom, creativity, industriousness, and creativity from inventors, people in the United States have excelled exponentially in technology, freedoms, and communication. One outcome of that free market system with unfettered individualization and freedom is the invention of the world-wide web called the internet.

The internet has spawned innovation in communication along with a "dot.com" enterprise system that has created information sharing around the world opening up conversations with people heretofore totally unreachable. I can now speak with family members in the United Kingdom, or anywhere in the world, in real-time. That has introduced democracy and open societies lifestyles to closed societies and has enriched cultures the world over. Yet, now we are hearing about the President of the United States trying to make plans to have the government take over the freedom of the internet with the ubiquitous presence of the government intervention with oversight from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

We are hearing that on February 26, 2015 the Administration has ordered the FCC to implement a plan of rendering the internet with "Net Neutrality," which in effect, makes the internet a "public utility." Without a doubt, the interference from the mega-governmental involvement, it will produce policies and regulations restricting how service providers can operate their businesses. This is a total, direct assault on the free market system that will inevitably bring about total regulated control from a growing federal government. Make no mistake about it, it will also bring thousands of fees, taxes and hidden charges that will restrict free market movement, and in turn will restrict free speech and other freedoms of commerce. There is no doubt it will end being a massive tax on the middle class in America.

This process will work with the Administration's FCC placing the regulations meant for the antiquated land-line telephone systems of years past being overlaid over the internet operating in the United States. The constrictions of bureaucracy, along with the growth of the bureaucracy, will tie up the internet for years to come. Anything the government takes over to control from central command is usually doomed to die a slow death and become a disaster imposed on the people. So, something that was born out of free enterprise and used for the betterment of people all over the world, may now be taken over by the government bureaucrats who will stifle its effectiveness for millions of people by restricting free communication and free enterprise.

Once again, people all over the United States, all over the world, who have found a free communication system that has become essentially part of the DNA of American culture, reaching out to touch the entire world, will eventually be stymied by the touch of an over-reaching government headed by the current Administration. And all in the name of creating more taxes that in itself is contributing to the collapse of the American economy. Americans need to rise up and voice their concerns about the government take-over of the free internet! Once again the average Joe and Josephine simply want to be left alone to enjoy the freedom they have had with the internet rather than having to give over even more of their freedoms to the massive growth of government.

[By JIM KILLEBREW]