Off-Topic

I’ve said often enough that this is a non-political blog. Partisan politics are so toxic that they have infected all political discourse, and I have no desire to pour more pollutants into an already filthy mix.

But I must again weary my readers with a political statement.

The assault on net neutrality goes on apace. The free and open and neutral internet is David’s slingshot against giants much more powerful than he who stood “six cubits and a span.”

We have lawsuits from those who would strangle free speech (and profit thereby), and “free trade” agreements (the most closely-guarded documents since the plans for the Normandy invasion) featuring international arbitral panels subject to no laws and no appeal (anyone remember “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation”?).

I’m not picking on one party or bloc over another, as both major parties, and all, or almost all, blocs, are complicit.

But I am constrained to warn—those who do not defend their rights will soon have none.