POLITICAL WHORES FOR SOPA ~ PIPA

CONGRESSMEN WHO RECEIVED MONEY FOR SOPA VOTE

 Art work by: Mario Piperni

Politicol News

January 19, 2012

Who sold themselves out, and who sold the justice system down the river for money. These are the political whores who took money, to support the most damaging bills that would put control of the global internet into the hands of the Hollywood directors.

Get the money out of politics. Vote out these people is the one way to clean house and clean out the corruption out of this government.

Here is a list of Congressional politicians in favor of the bill known as SOPA and PIPA and the amounts of money they received from the SOPA backers who bought their favor in voting yes for both bills.

The Winners are:

MONEY RECEIVED FROM PIPA SPONSORS:

Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] $864,265

Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] $665,420

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY] $556,525

Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA] $544,424

Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT] $416,250 (head sponsor of pipa btw)

Sen. Michael Bennet [D, CO] $347,406

Sen. Roy Blunt [R, MO] $341,700

Sen. Robert Portman [R, OH] $337,525

Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] $275,950

Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA] $272,750

MONEY RECEIVED FROM SOPA SPONSORS:

Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] $3,502,624

Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] $2,648,770

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY] $2,080,651

Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA] $1,431,843

Sen. Scott Brown [R, MA] $1,364,872

Sen. Robert Portman [R, OH] $1,363,009

Sen. Patrick Toomey [R, PA] $1,291,744

Sen. Michael Bennet [D, CO] $1,019,172

Sen. Mark Kirk [R, IL] $911,296

Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT] $905,310

VOTE THEM OUT! 

THEY ARE NOT FOR THE PEOPLE!

 

 Speaking of whores....

There should be a star of David pendant or tat somewhere....

SO FAR THE SOPA PROTESTS ARE WORKING

The Internet’s opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) proposed by House Republicans has been fascinating to watch.  All of the big boys have voiced their opposition to the bill – Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and AOL.  Reddit is shutting down for 12 hours today while Wikipedia has been the most forceful in their protests by blacking out their English language site for the entire day.  More on the Wikipedia blackout at the end of this post.

The protest deals with the arbitrary manner in which SOPA would empower the government to shut down any online site found guilty of using copyrighted material (intentional or not).  Opponents of the bill claim that while they agree with the intent of the bill, the potential for abuse by turning the Internet into a Big Brother state is a major concern as is the belief that SOPA is in violation of the First Amendment.  The overall effect of SOPA, opponents say, is that it weakens the power of the Internet.  Wikipedia has a comprehensive piece on the dangers of implementing SOPA.

The protests seem to have worked.  The White House has already stated that it has no intention of supporting SOPA in its present form,

ED: Key words “IN ITS PRESENT FORM”!

“While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet…” and Eric Cantor has promised to not send the bill in its current form to the House floor.

Meanwhile media barons like Rupert Murdoch look to expand their control over information.

 

Ed: They want to create an information monocolture where regimes work with corporations to control more than what we can read, hear and watch, because they will control how we can speak beyond the room we’re in at the moment.

If one knew little of SOPA and the potential it has for destroying the free flow of information across the Internet, knowing only that Rupert Murdoch supports it is more than a good enough reason to oppose it.