My OperaTake Action Now:
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:52:07 PM
January 18, 2012
Dear Representative Rooney:
Dear Senator Nelson:
Dear Senator Rubio:
The "Stop Online Piracy Act" (H.R. 3261) and the
"Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of
Intellectual Property Act of 2011" (S.968) sound good but do not work for the
Internet, or for our economy.
The Internet has created millions of jobs, trillions in GDP growth, and
expanded economic opportunities for millions of Americans. Yet, a time when
our country needs economic drivers like never before, Congress has
introduced legislation that would almost certainly curtail the innovation
and economic promises that only a free and open Internet can yield.
We cannot afford legislation that is crafted so broadly that it burdens the
effectiveness of the Internet as a job creating engine that produces crucial
innovation and growth. Nothing short of our financial global competitiveness
is at stake, please don't cut the legs out from under the Internet as we have
come to know it.
While piracy needs to be addressed, please rethink, rewrite, recreate the proposed acts so that the real issue is addressed, appropriately, and the "free" citizens of the United States do not have to endure further restriction of our rights as Americans.
Privacy acts, while originally well-intentioned, seem to hurt the citizen it was meant to protect, to wit, HIPAA.....It was presented as a way to ensure that insurance companies could not deny medical coverage based on pre-existing conditions...however, it seems EVERYONE, except family members and/or friends can have access to an individual's medical records. You need only to have an ill family member, one who had been too sick or unconscious, and unable to sign the waiver, to know how detrimental to public welfare this act is. And the same will be true if the two above mentioned laws are enacted...another way for the government to intrude upon, interfere with, but not really help the citizens on whose behalf it is meant to help.
The government has become more intrusive in our daily lives, and this is no longer a government for the people, by the people...rather it's a government that makes laws "for our own good" as if we were recalcitrant children, unable to make decisions for our own well-being. We may continue to pretend to be free society, but the government's continuing insistence on enacting laws "for our own good" that end up censoring, restricting or otherwise inhibiting freedom of expression, actions, lifestyles, are a clear indication that we are no longer a free, democratic nation.
So, on behalf of this once and future great nation, please act on behalf of your constituents, and not on behalf of those who would diminish our freedom.
Sincerely,
Mrs. L xxxxxx
Dear Representative Rooney:
Dear Senator Nelson:
Dear Senator Rubio:
The "Stop Online Piracy Act" (H.R. 3261) and the
"Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of
Intellectual Property Act of 2011" (S.968) sound good but do not work for the
Internet, or for our economy.
The Internet has created millions of jobs, trillions in GDP growth, and
expanded economic opportunities for millions of Americans. Yet, a time when
our country needs economic drivers like never before, Congress has
introduced legislation that would almost certainly curtail the innovation
and economic promises that only a free and open Internet can yield.
We cannot afford legislation that is crafted so broadly that it burdens the
effectiveness of the Internet as a job creating engine that produces crucial
innovation and growth. Nothing short of our financial global competitiveness
is at stake, please don't cut the legs out from under the Internet as we have
come to know it.
While piracy needs to be addressed, please rethink, rewrite, recreate the proposed acts so that the real issue is addressed, appropriately, and the "free" citizens of the United States do not have to endure further restriction of our rights as Americans.
Privacy acts, while originally well-intentioned, seem to hurt the citizen it was meant to protect, to wit, HIPAA.....It was presented as a way to ensure that insurance companies could not deny medical coverage based on pre-existing conditions...however, it seems EVERYONE, except family members and/or friends can have access to an individual's medical records. You need only to have an ill family member, one who had been too sick or unconscious, and unable to sign the waiver, to know how detrimental to public welfare this act is. And the same will be true if the two above mentioned laws are enacted...another way for the government to intrude upon, interfere with, but not really help the citizens on whose behalf it is meant to help.
The government has become more intrusive in our daily lives, and this is no longer a government for the people, by the people...rather it's a government that makes laws "for our own good" as if we were recalcitrant children, unable to make decisions for our own well-being. We may continue to pretend to be free society, but the government's continuing insistence on enacting laws "for our own good" that end up censoring, restricting or otherwise inhibiting freedom of expression, actions, lifestyles, are a clear indication that we are no longer a free, democratic nation.
So, on behalf of this once and future great nation, please act on behalf of your constituents, and not on behalf of those who would diminish our freedom.
Sincerely,
Mrs. L xxxxxx
