If you haven't heard of Tucker Max then you're either not a college a student, or living under a rock.
He's up there with Maddox and internet cult followings.

If even you think Tucker is a total dick (and well...he is and admits it), he's the sort of self-made 'net celebrity that people rally behind.

A while back there was a big hullabaloo about some laws they tacked onto the end of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) - that basicalyl said it is illegal to annonymously "annoy" someone on the internet. Yes, you read that right. Now if you spend any time on internet websites, blogs, and especially message boards, you're wella ware of the variety of trolls and anonymous poo-flinging that goes on online. Most of it is harmless. The problem ehre s how broad a definition of "annoy" it is. When this came out I remember hearing brushed aside remarks about how it would never be used in lawsuits for internet fights, it was supposed to protect people from recieving harassing emails and phone calls.

Well think again. Under that same law Tucker is getting sued. In all honesty it's total bullshit - to begin with, he himself said nothing, but he is being sued for hosting the website that has the message boards wer other people freely proclaimed their dislike of someone.

Oh yeah, you read that right. If you run a website or a blog or a livejournal, and other people come to your site and say "annoying" things about someone - you can be sued!

It's a load of crock, but it's happening anyways. Even if you hate Tucker, you had to admit he and his fans have the right to say what they want. Tucker's post linked above has all the news articles outlining why this case goes farther than just this individual case and has implications for all internet news boards.

So pass it along and hopefully it'll get beat down in court like a red headed step child in Walmart.

We are not going to see any more US troops come home in body bags at Dover for the sake of some Cheney affiliate grabbing the petroleum in Iran's Ahvaz fields.

We are not going to have another 15,000 wounded vets flood onto our streets with spine damange and brain damage.

We are not going to put Yazd behind barbed wire to liberate it, as a millenarian Christian general did to Habbaniyah in Iraq.

We are not going to imprison and torture thousands of Iranians at Evin Penitentiary in Tehran, as worthy successors to the bloodthirsty Shah and Khomeini.

We are not going to kill 200,000 Iranians with aerial bombardments of Tabriz, Isfahan, Qom, Kerman, Shiraz and Mashahd.

We are not going to let dozens of US corporations loot the American people and the Iranian people alike with no-bid "contracts", embezzlement, corruption, and graft.

We are not going to let you have a war against Iran.

So sit down and shut up, American Enterprise Institute, and Hudson Institute, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and American Heritage Institute, and this institute and that institute, and cable "news", and government "spokesmen", and all the pundit-ferrets you pay millions to make business for the American military-industrial complex and Big Oil.

Full article here - WARNING - has some fairly graphic images associated with this quoted block of material.

I saw a comment on one of the many blogs I read daily yesterday that really struck me - the gist of it was that this is not the country it used to be, where has my country gone? And it's about time we stood up and started fighting to take it back.

I think when I get home I shall begin small by posting a couple signs.