The proposed Digital Economy Bill is nothing more than a form of collective punishment that will disproportionately effect the poorer sections of society – which unfortunately includes me! This legislation goes against many of the core values on which our justice system was founded - innocent until proven guilty anybody? In reality it is designed to protect the interests of large multi-national monopolies who have been fleecing people for years; now the big boys would like to use our government to protect – and expand – their ill-gotten gains. Anyone who professes a love for liberty should take a stand against this travesty of justice – before they decide to make pirates of us all!

It was legendary priest turned pirate, Caraccioli, who observed:

‘that every Man was born free, and had as much right to what would support him, as to the air he respired… that the vast difference betwixt man and man, the one wallowing in luxury, and the other in the most pinching necessity, was owing only to avarice and ambition on the one hand, and a pusillanimous subjection on the other … ambition creeping in by degrees, the stronger family set upon and enslaved the weaker; and this additional strength over-run a third, by every conquest gathering force to make others, and this was the first foundation of monarchy.’

Nowadays our government has become such that it protects the strong at the expense of the weak – it has abandoned the principles of liberty and justice to appease those latter-day monarchs, the corporations and the bankers.  Once again the only reasonable course of action for those of us who possess a freeborn heart is piracy! – or at least a bit of Wi-Fi sharing ;-)

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