DANGEROUS CENSORSHIP BILLS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED WITHIN THE U.S. CONGRESS!!

Joseph Raglione
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, nobody likes censorship! Free speech is a human right and the freedom to communicate our thoughts and opinions and ideas, (within legal boundaries) exists as an important tool within our Democratic system. The Internet is a free-speech forum for any human being who owns a computer and if we allow a few companies to censor the internet, we will all lose an important free-speech communication system. Free speech must be protected! Dangerous censorship bills must not be allowed to pass within the U.S. congress!

Dear Joseph,

More than 40,000 people have told the major news networks to stop ignoring the Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) and Protect IP (PIPA) Acts — bills in the House and Senate that could open the door to widespread censorship online.

At last, some in the media are starting to take notice. Last weekend, MSNBCīs Chris Hayes devoted an entire segment to a debate on the legislation.1 Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defended the legislation on Meet the Press last Sunday.2

The White House just announced its opposition to provisions in both bills that pose a threat to free speech,3 and thousands of websites — including Wikipedia, reddit, BoingBoing, FreePress.net and SavetheInternet.com — are set to go black tomorrow in protest.4 The Senateīs vote on PIPA is scheduled for a week from today.


Momentum is starting to turn as people in the media realize the need to cover these dangerous bills. But we still need to pressure ABC, CBS and Fox News to join MSNBC and NBC and stop ignoring this important legislation. Please tell the media: Donīt ignore the censorship bills.

Thanks,

Josh Levy

Internet Campaign Director

Free Press

SavetheInternet.com

1. "Debating SOPA," Up with Chris Hayes, Jan. 15, 2011: http://act2.freepress.net/go/8175?akid=3207.9213572.fvi1Lo&t=3

2. Meet the Press, Jan. 15, 2011: http://act2.freepress.net/go/8176?akid=3207.9213572.fvi1Lo&t=5

3. Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra and Howard Schmidt, "Combating Online Privacy While Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet": http://act2.freepress.net/go/8177?akid=3207.9213572.fvi1Lo&t=7

4. "Web Goes on Strike!: http://act2.freepress.net/go/8178?akid=3207.9213572.fvi1Lo&t=9

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!

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