SOPA

I don't pretend to understand every aspect of a law, the process, the system or to be a close follower of politics. But, since the current bills of SOPA and PIPA have directly impacted areas I am present, they can't be ignored. And what I have read and been able to follow is enough to scare the hell out of me, and it should scare others, I think.

So, I'm hardly the most politically minded person in the world, but I'm supporting efforts to stop SOPA and PIPA. My site will not be going through the blackout, because quite frankly I know almost no one reads it and I don't think it will impact, but I have placed the Stop SOPA banner on my blog here and sent an email to Congress (via http://americancensorship.org/).

Hopefully others will too and the insanity will be stopped before it gets too far, because the more we know, the better.

Although I don't agree with the character on the whole, I think the following Ainsley Hayes quote from the West Wing sums up my feelings on this matter: "I believe that every time the Federal Government hands down a new law, it leaves for the rest of us a little less freedom. So I say let's stick to the ones we absolutely need in order to have water come out of the faucet and our cars not stolen."

And here is my inelegantly written statement. Do with it as you will, because you have the right to read it as much as I have the right to say it, and for us both to do with it as we please.