Saturday 06-04-11

Not sure if this is staged or not, but i'm sure people are being violated everyday by these "government servants".






Documents show FCC coordinated 'Net Neutrality' effort with outside group (Outside left wing groups, no real surprise)

Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials with a left-wing advocacy group in a campaign to expand government regulation of the Internet.
The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch in a December 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, were created after Democrat appointees solidified their 3-2 control of the agency in March 2009. Judicial Watch is a conservative nonprofit that specializes in using the FOIA and other avenues to expose corruption in government.
The coordination between FCC officials and Free Press, the advocacy group, was on behalf of a proposal that the agency assert authority to regulate access to the Internet as if it were a public utility in the interest of insuring "Net Neutrality."
Proponents said doing so would assure equal access for all Internet users by barring companies from offering preferred rates for higher delivery speeds. Other users, especially in communities with limited Internet access, would be forced to accept poorer service. But critics said the proposal would actually give the FCC the first tool it needed to ultimately regulate content, and they argued that the FCC has no authority over the medium in the first place.
It would be akin to forcing FedEx and UPS to treat all packages the same way the U.S. Postal Service does. Free Press is the most vocal of a number of far-left and liberal advocacy groups that for nearly a decade have pushed numerous proposals for vastly increasing government regulation of the Internet. The evidence of coordination between FCC Democrats and Free Press uncovered by Judicial Watch includes:
•Emails between former Free Press president John Silver and Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps from October 2010, coordinating "how we'd like to proceed during these next three months on NN [net neutrality]."
• Documents summarizing a phone call between Silver and Copps in which, before an FCC vote on the proposal in November 2010, Silver "emphasized that a strong net neutrality rule is critical to preserving the Internet as a vibrant forum for speech, commerce, innovation and cultural expression."
• Correspondence between FCC Special Counsel David Tannenbaum and Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott coordinating speakers for a taxpayer-funded series of FCC "internet workshops" that were intended to generate public support for the proposal.
Free Press was co-founded by Monthly Review editor Robert McChesney and the Nation contributor John Nichols. The Monthly Review is "an independent Marxist journal," while the Nation has long described itself as "the flagship of the left."
Free Press is partially funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute. In April 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the FCC did not have the legal authority to regulate the Internet. Despite this ruling, in December the FCC voted 3-2, along party lines, to begin the Net Neutrality regulation process anyway.
As an independent agency, the FCC is required to regulate impartially. Internal FCC rules require all employees to disclose all communication made by interested parties and "directed to the merits or outcome of a proceeding" unless they fit a narrow set of exceptions (e.g., the communication "directly relates to an emergency in which the safety of life is endangered or substantial loss of property is threatened").
An FCC spokesman failed to return multiple calls seeking comment. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the documents released by his organization suggest "nothing less than the Obama administration's attempt to stage a government takeover of the Internet under the guise of Net Neutrality.
So it should come as no surprise that Free Press, the hard-left organization with socialist ties, is improperly driving the so-called Net Neutrality agenda from inside the Obama administration." Fitton added that "the FCC is supposed to be an independent agency that follows the law. The American people should be deeply troubled by the fact that the Obama administration, on issue after issue, seems to be run by shadowy leftist organizations."

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/06/conn-carroll-documents-show-fcc-coordinated-net-neutrality-effort-outside#ixzz1ODF3ZK3u

An interseting list and State rankings, they have Maryland ranked about right, imo

Overall Freedom Ranking by State and Other Interesting Numbers
by M.D. Creekmore Interesting numbers to help you choose a survival retreat location. Overall Freedom Ranking by State according this report - the report factors in a number of elements, such as gun laws, homeschooling, seatbelt laws, economic freedom, smoking bans, marijuana legislation etc.
1. New Hampshire
2. Colorado
3. South Dakota
4. Idaho
5. Texas
6. Missouri
7. Tennessee
8. Arizona
9. Virginia
10. North Dakota
11. Utah
12. Kansas
13. Indiana
14. Michigan
15. Wyoming
16. Iowa 0
17. Georgia
18. Oklahoma
19. Montana
20. Pennsylvania
21. Alabama
22. Florida
23. North Carolina
24. Nevada
25. Mississippi
26. Delaware
27. Oregon
28. Nebraska
29. Arkansas
30. South Carolina
31. Alaska
32. Kentucky
33. West Virginia
34. Louisiana
35. Minnesota
36. New Mexico
37. Wisconsin
38. Ohio
39. Maine
40. Vermont
41. Connecticut
42. Illinois
43. Massachusetts
44. Washington
45. Hawaii
46. Maryland
47. California
48. Rhode Island
49. New Jersey
50. New York

Personal Freedom Ranking by State according to this report – Freedom to do what you want with your life, liberties and property as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others.
1. Alaska
2. Maine
3. New Mexico
4. Arkansas
5. Texas
6. Missouri
7. Oregon
8. Idaho
9. Virginia
10. Wyoming
11. Vermont
12. Arizona
13. New Hampshire
14. Utah
15. Kansas
16. Colorado
17. West Virginia
18. Tennessee
19. Indiana
20. Michigan
21. Montana
22. Mississippi
23. Florida
24. South Dakota
25. Iowa
26. Kentucky
27. Oklahoma
28. Hawaii
29. Pennsylvania
30. North Carolina
31. Minnesota
32. Nevada
33. North Dakota
34. Nebraska
35. Washington
36. Delaware
37. California
38. Connecticut
39. Wisconsin
40. Louisiana
41. South Carolina
42. Georgia
43. Alabama
44. Massachusetts
45. New Jersey
46. Ohio
47. Rhode Island
48. New York
49. Illinois
50. Maryland


Rank State Population Density starting with the most populated (2010) from wikipedia.
District of Columbia 9,857 inhabitants per square mile
1. New Jersey 1,196 inhabitants per square mile
2. Rhode Island 1,018 inhabitants per square mile
3. Massachusetts 839.4 inhabitants per square mile
4. Connecticut 738.1 inhabitants per square mile
5. Maryland 594.8 inhabitants per square mile
6. Delaware 460.8 inhabitants per square mile
7. New York 411.2 inhabitants per square mile
8. Florida 350.6 inhabitants per square mile
9. Pennsylvania 283.9 inhabitants per square mile
10. Ohio 282.3 inhabitants per square mile
11. California 239.1 inhabitants per square mile
12. Illinois 231.1 inhabitants per square mile
13. Hawaii 211.8 inhabitants per square mile
14. Virginia 202.6 inhabitants per square mile
15. North Carolina 196.1 inhabitants per square mile
16. Indiana 181.0 inhabitants per square mile
17. Michigan 174.8 inhabitants per square mile
18. Georgia 168.4 inhabitants per square mile
19. South Carolina 153.9 inhabitants per square mile
20. Tennessee 153.9 inhabitants per square mile
21. New Hampshire 147.0 inhabitants per square mile
22. Kentucky 109.9 inhabitants per square mile
23. Wisconsin 105.0 inhabitants per square mile
24. Louisiana 104.9 inhabitants per square mile
25. Washington 101.2 inhabitants per square mile
26. Texas 96.3 inhabitants per square mile
27. Alabama 94.4 inhabitants per square mile
28. Missouri 87.1 inhabitants per square mile
29. West Virginia 77.1 inhabitants per square mile
30. Vermont 67.9 inhabitants per square mile
31. Minnesota 66.6 inhabitants per square mile
32. Mississippi 63.2 inhabitants per square mile
33. Arizona 56.3 inhabitants per square mile
34. Arkansas 56.0 inhabitants per square mile
35. Oklahoma 54.7 inhabitants per square mile
36. Iowa 54.5 inhabitants per square mile
37. Colorado 48.5 inhabitants per square mile
38. Maine 43.1 inhabitants per square mile
39. Oregon 39.9 inhabitants per square mile
40. Kansas 34.9 inhabitants per square mile
41. Utah 33.6 inhabitants per square mile
42. Nevada 24.6 inhabitants per square mile
43. Nebraska 23.8 inhabitants per square mile
44. Idaho 19.0 inhabitants per square mile
45. New Mexico 17.0 inhabitants per square mile
46. South Dakota 10.7 inhabitants per square mile
47. North Dakota 9.7 inhabitants per square mile
48. Montana 6.8 inhabitants per square mile
49. Wyoming 5.8 inhabitants per square mile
50. Alaska 1.2 inhabitants per square mile

States Declared Disasters starting with the state with the greatest number and decending to the lowest from FEMA data.
1 .Texas
2 . California
3 . Oklahoma
4 . Florida
5 . New York
6. Louisiana
7 . Alabama
8 . Kentucky
9 . Missouri
10 . Arkansas
11 . Illinois
12 .Mississippi
13 .West Virginia
14 . Tennessee
15 . Nebraska
16 . Minnesota
17 . Kansas
18 . Washington
19 . Pennsylvania
20 . Ohio
21 . Iowa
22 . Virginia
23 . North Dakota
24 . North Carolina
25 . South Dakota
26 . Maine
27 . Indiana
28 . Wisconsin
29 . Georgia
30 . Alaska
31 . Vermont
32 . New Jersey
33 . Oregon
34 . New Hampshire
35 . Michigan
36 . Hawaii
37 . Massachusetts
38 . Federated States of Micronesia
39 . Arizona
40 . Puerto Rico
41 . New Mexico
42 . Idaho
43 . Maryland
44 . Montana
45 . US Virgin Islands
46 . Nevada
47 . Colorado
48 . South Carolina
49 . Connecticut
50 . Northern Mariana Islands
51 . Delaware
52 . Guam
53 . American Samoa
54 . District of Columbia
55 . Wyoming
56 . Utah
57 . Rhode Island
58 . Marshall Islands
59 . Palau
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/overall-freedom-ranking/