PROTECT IP Is Death Incarnate

The full, unedited content of the PROTECT IP Act, as being voted on by our congressmen.

Read it yet? Do it. Assuming you aren't completely ignorant to computer diction, the scary part starts on page 3, line 1, where they define an ‘‘Internet site dedicated to infringing activities’’. Now, you really have to read it because I won't summarize, but I will refer to specific sections. Their definition of such a site begs the question, "Who the hell gets to decide which sites meet this criteria?", and then, "How can this not lead to censorship or large corporations effectively buying out the internet?".


The answer to the first is on page 5 -- The Attorney General. One man. One. Man. His motive for labeling any site as such is completely free from public scrutiny, and there is virtually no way to hold him accountable. Sounds like a lot of profit is to be made for him there. (No offense to Eric Holder; I'm sure he's a great man with the strictest of morals. I only mean that whoever holds that position would also hold supreme power over what is accessible to the public.)

Keep skimming through, and you read details over how the court is to go about punishing these offenders named by the Attorney General, until page 11, line 12. Now we get to the stuff that nightmares are made out of: what powers the government has over these undesirables. Page 11, line 16 is what I consider to be one of the most disgusting bits of legislature that has ever entered our congress. The government would have the power to remove or disable access to any site deemed to be, back to page 3, engaged in infringing activities.

Let's recap: An entrepreneur, be it a musician, artist, or whatever else may be dependent upon the exchange of information, believes that website A is hurting its business. He or she then whines to the Attorney General about it. He looks it over (or doesn't, it's entirely his discretion), and dubs it illegal. The court then takes website A, the owner of website A, and whoever else they can link to website A, and removes all related content from the public eye. Let's make this into a real life example. Many users upload full-length movies on Youtube (in ten-fifteen minute increments) without the express consent of the producer. Obviously, Youtube is dedicated to infringing activities and by this process, it's gone. No questions asked.

I encourage you to read the rest of this horrid bill, but I will end my rant here. In all honesty, these few clauses I have mentioned are detestable enough to never let it see the light of day again.


Wanna help drive this abomination into the seventh plane of torment? You can! Call/write to your congressmen. They work for you, and are therefore expected to reflect what the majority of their constituents believe. Don't let them tell you otherwise (I had a rather unpleasant exchange with my senator, but that is for a different day).

 These guys. Call them.

For more information, and an easy to fill out form that will contact your congressmen for you, go to stopcensorship.org. I have no affiliation with this or any other organization that I may have mentioned.

Poems! The lad reckons himself a poet! Bahahah!

Okay, more of a prose. Deal with it.



"The Old Man has been dead for many centuries, though He still stands in awe of His blaspheming murderers. His very children -- once content under a trivial explanation as to why they served -- acquired an ability to analyze and create faster than He was able to dismantle. And they did create with a voracity that made His lazy week’s work amount to a pittance now unable to be considered sufficient to sustain basic life. Some creature left nameless by the other father’s passing became companion to the mother and in that friendship he asked the damning question.

The Dying Man’s heart was pierced at the sudden monosyllabic utterance, and He could do no more than watch His children hungrily devour His body as He bled out. Many of the blasphemers were infected with his poisonous secretions as they stripped his flesh for their luxury coats, and as the toxin has proven to affect all victims differently if not sporadically. They became hostile toward one another. Even the elders were target to their darting eyes; all but a few sought forgiveness for their greatest obedience.

Despite the efforts of the poisoned, the Man is dead and his own corruption has aspired to replace his bile blood. We damned survivors watch closely as He collapses to His skeletal knees, and we know the day is near when He will complete the descent. There will be no explosion of glory nor will there be any marking event to signify His final breath save the splash of an infant’s feet as he learns to swim under the comforting gravitation of his mother’s guiding hands. The sound will be inaudible to most, but few will hear. A millennium of joyous song will flow from this chosen group’s lips, intoxicating those deaf masses into a sleep to see their Father once more in the void.

We sing today of anticipation, not of triumph. The battle call has long been over and those who still attack the mortal prove only to waste their precious breaths. The poisoned will soon die of their own wounds a feast for worms to convert into a more useful substance. I will not speak the blasphemed words; redundant is their mention. The answers live in your mind for at last, your heart is died.

The Purpose of This Blog

I suppose I should outline what content you will be subjected to in this blog. It will be a sort of mixed bag ranging from updates of my personal life to psychological reviews similar to that of Governor Perry's campaign advert. I will offer my opinion on whatever video game that I happen to be playing at the time in the same breath as a potential solution to some economic issue that may or may not be important at all. If it helps you to comprehend what I am trying to say, consider the pages of this blog as a grounds for my own ravings over whatever topic currently plagues my mind. Eventually, this blog will mature into weekly or perhaps daily entries over specific topics. But until that point, rest assured, the day's specific content will appear random to the point that you may wish to ignore these early entries altogether until I achieve a greater sense of organization.

In the mean time, please enjoy this picture of Darth Vader, Sauron, and Voldemort sharing an evening at a tavern:

That image serves as the background for my laptop. I thought it was interesting, at least.

Rick Perry should come out of the closet.

A few words of explanation are needed before I begin my first review, so skip this paragraph if you just want to read a psychoanalysis of Rick Perry's 2012 presidential campaign advert. I am the Spud Man, and one of the purposes of this blog is to evaluate the psyches of political and celebrity figures in the most empirical way that I can without actually talking to them personally. The reviews that you will read on this page are all done at face value, and I do not mean to imply that anything I say is true about their actual personality. Rather, my analyses are over the public fronts that they present to us, the viewers of whatever media they are displayed upon. The only real sources for these personae are these public appearances of their respective characters. By character, I mean that public front. I do not mean to imply that all of the subjects of my reviews are actors in the strictest sense, but that I am simply discriminating from their personal and public lives. With that said, let us turn our attention to Governor Rick Perry (R, Texas) and his apparently homophobic ravings present in the included video.

Transcript of campaign ad:

I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. As President, I'll end Obama's war on religion. And I'll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage. Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again. I'm Rick Perry and I approve this message.

This commercial is as blunt as I can imagine. Gov. Perry is expressing that he is opposed to homosexuals being permitted to openly serve in the United States Military and that he believes that faith in the Christian belief is what the country needs to return from an apparent lapse in power. He also accuses President Obama of enacting legislature to outlaw religion, specifically Gov. Perry's personal faith. The truth of this claim is covered to what I consider a satisfactory extent by the Amazing Atheist in his video here. (NSFW, language, alcohol reference) However, whether that claim is true in any sense is irrelevant to the psychological state of the one stating it.

It is evident, at least to me, that the Rick Perry we view in this advert is exhibiting strong narcissistic and neurotic traits. He believes, to the point of paranoia, that there is some force beyond his control that is determined to undermine and outlaw his personal faith, withal evidence to support the accusation. The narcissism is apparent in his condemnation of homosexuals having the right to serve in the military being juxtaposed with the lament that children cannot pray openly in schools (again, this is false and also covered in the Amazing Atheist's video).


Consider if this behaviour was present in a group of children. Gov. Perry would fill the role of the larger, perhaps misunderstood, child that the others fear to an extent. He will have a close-knit group of friends joined together initially by that fear but ultimately because of an adherence to similar beliefs. Now, introduce another student that disagrees with this group's assumption that blue is the best colour (an arbitrary example). In the mind of the governor's character, this discrepancy is a personal attack against something that he holds very dear to his identity. At this point, it is impossible for the child to be reasoned with into seeing how this other child with a favourite colour of green could easily coexist in the same classroom without confrontation. Perry's group will begin by alienating the undesirable through teasing in an effort to prevent other, neutral groups from siding with the greenie. If this fails to change green's opinion, then the group will openly wage a type of 'war', to the best of a child's extent, against him (an increasing frequency of bullying, refusal to even speak to him, etc.). Green's retaliation is to explain the situation to their teacher, who scolds Perry and the blue group for their lack of acceptance (assuming that public school policies haven't changed since I visited one last year). Instead of the positive punishment immediately molding Perry's behaviour, he develops more disdain for Green and all he stands for as the source of the punishment.

Now comes the time for my personal opinion to be introduced. Please note that the previous speculation is just that, and I have attempted to withhold my political and social beliefs from the equation until now. The references to the Amazing Atheist's video are matters of opinion, but I believe that it is possible to differentiate fact from opinion in his work.

I have a hard time believing that Gov. Perry agrees with a single one of the statements that he presents in this advert. Rather, I see this all as an appeal to his voting demographic's being predominantly Christian. To a logical-minded republican, I would assume that these statements and accusations will raise a red flag to the likelihood of him being elected in any campaign against President Obama. Even if he could somehow scrape through the primaries with a majority vote, he would be labeled as a bigot and prevented from ever standing a chance against the whole of the democratic party and the considerable number of republicans refusing to vote for him. I wouldn't be surprised if this advert was simply Perry attempting to commit political suicide without appearing to be a coward by dropping out of the race altogether. It is an odd sense of morality that we Americans hold when we place cowardice as a worse sin than illogicality. Not to mention that, as the title of this post suggests, it is entirely possible that his condemnation of homosexuality is merely a front for him to simultaneously expose himself to the culture without appearing to be subscribed to it (much like the alcoholic attending an AA meeting not to become better, but to remain tied to the culture whilst prevented from partaking in it). In short, the man owes me a new gaydar.