About That Missing Blog Post From John Linder...

You know--the one about me asking him directly about specific parts of the Fair Tax proposal? Well, I now have an answer.

It seems our politicians and elites are in fear for their careers, if not their lives--there are two proposals on the hill (one emanating from each side of the aisle) that would greatly enhance the ability of the government, the recording industry, and the motion picture industry to have the ability to seek cut-off of vast portions of the internet. This includes social media, news aggregators, individual blogs, porn, uploaded video sites, music-sharing sites, etc.--just about everything except Amazon (and they'll finally tax that, too).

It seems the Occupy Wall Street protestors have hit a nerve, and someone is trying to prevent an Arab Spring right here on our shores.

Politicians and other elites want control of the message, even if it means replacing it with propaganda, and they can't have it as long as technology exists that's largely out of their control. As you recall, the Arab Spring particpants were keeping in touch with each other through texts, emails, blogs, video, and social media, and the word was getting out to the world--something the governments there tried to stop, but only made worse. They succeeded in hacking into phone calls, but that only drove communications underground. All that was left for them to do was disconnect the internet, and that still didn't stop the news from leaving the area.

In case any of this comes to fruition in the near future, start thinking now about what you're going to do when the...no, not the electricity, but the internet and phones go down, or become heavily monitored to the point of uselessness. Couple this with the new expanded powers given to Homeland Security through the Patriot Act, and you have no-knock warrants to retrieve your computer(s) and phone(s).

Maybe you should start thinking about what you have stored on your hard drive(s) and cell phone(s), and erase anything somebody might find incriminating for whatever reason. This is how frightened the elites are, and how desperately they want to control EVERYTHING.