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Good morning to my dear friends and followers. I have been at this whole blogging thing for just a few short months, and already I find myself celebrating 40,000 blog views! When I logged on this morning to write my celebratory and thankful post, I found myself staring at a bunch of black blobs on the WordPress website. My (awesome) blogging platform has blacked out their ‘freshly pressed’ page as a protest against the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). I consider myself fortunate to have unwittingly allied myself with a blogging website that understands the extreme ramifications of these two pieces of legislation.

I am a lot of things: edgy, quirky, a boundary pusher… but I am not a thief or a crook. The ambiguous language of the SOPA and PIPA will allow quick and easy persecution of bloggers like myself (and their hosting websites). Please check out the video that I have posted below and read up on these bills. Thanks for reading!

“In short, protect IP wont stop piracy, but it will introduce vast potential for censorship and abuse.”

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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Buy one pair for $40, two pairs and you get one free! Write them a note if you would like to outfit a group of friends for a protest and they will hook you up!

“Because one is always in protest of something,

We have a mirrored X on each lens.”

I have the tortoise pair:

Mr. William Jennings Bryan really hit the nail on the head OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO in his “Cross of Gold Speech.” I encourage both the 99% and the 1% to (re)read these words.

“There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.”

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

—katiekupcake

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