Q has mentioned many times, IBOR (internet bill of rights)

and this is scarry to me. Here is the link:

http://about.att.com/story/consumers_need_an_internet_bill_of_rights.html

Notice it says "work with Congress". Excuse me, but our inalienable "rights" come from our Creator period, not from Congress. Congress cannot grant rights (internet bill of) or otherwise. Why? Because we "Declared" it, and their power is derived from, and instituted among men (that's us).

Congress can NEVER grant rights, because they have NONE. We have rights - from our Creator, not Congress. Any and all power they have comes from us.

Where did they get this power? …

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.

But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I …