What Obama's FCC is about to do to the Internet is similar to what Clinton did to broadcasting in 96

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113. The main (and major) item we all are working on is

establishing local ordinances so that within each county the local governance and the newly created ordinances prevail.

My county is undertaking the writing of a local ordinance so that the Right To Grow is firmly established, and that way, should the Federal government send in its agents to force some small organic farmers to plow under the field ("Why, you have to, as that rabbit that just ran across your field could be carrying anthrax&quot that local farmer would have the right as a citizen to sue the Federal agent.

Why this is important is because with the ordinance, the farmer is the plaintiff. That means he or she and their attorney decide which witnesses the defendant can bring in, what the evidence will be, etc. Without the ordinance, the farmer has little right to sue, and could be named as a defendant, which gives no ability to say who his or her witnesses are, or what evidence will be heard, etc.

It also means the Housing Associations cannot tell people that veggie gardens belong only in the back yard etc.