Seasonal flame bait - Charlie's Diary

1. The USA is already a functional oligarchy. 2. It's impossible to be elected to high office without so much money that anyone in high office is, by definition, part of the 0.1% 3. Public austerity is a great cover for the expropriation of wealth by the rich 4. Starving poor people with guns and nothing to lose scare the rich 5. Worse, the poor have smartphones. 6. The oligarchs are therefore pre-empting the pre-revolutionary situation by militarizing the police 7. Modern communications technologies (including the internet) provide people with a limitless channel for self-expression 8. So I infer that the purpose of SOPA is to close the loop, and allow the oligarchy to shut down hostile coordinating sites as and when the anticipated revolution kicks off.