A Coordinated Attack On Free Speech? White House "Copyright Czar" From Same Firm As Obama, Righthaven Founder.

yep, and it all links with what i said here.
a multi tiered attack...

Thread: wikileaks = controlled opposition? did they leak these docs so that the Gov can turn around and censor the web?

The idea that the recent lawsuits against blogs & forums may be from originating from the White House is quickly coming clear as being reality...

SHR's discovery of Righthaven founder Steven Gibson's Chicago links to the Obamas' via Sidley Austin just became even more pivitol...

Thread: RightHaven the Blog and Forum lawsuit firm and the ties to Obama....SHOCKING!

Because Not Surprisingly...

The White House Copyright Czar, Victoria Espinel, also worked at Sidley Austin.

[link to www.nndb.com]



Ms. Espinel also served as Deputy Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property and as Associate General Counsel at USTR.

Before joining USTR, Ms. Espinel was with the law firms of Covington & Burling in London and Washington, D.C., and Sidley Austin in New York...

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

[link to thomas.loc.gov]



Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator

About the Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC)

Hi, I am Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.

I am honored to have been appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve in this new position created by Congress in the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008.

Given the unique nature of this job, I’d like to describe what I’m doing in my office and how we want to engage the public to get input on what we, as a government, should be doing. More...

[link to www.whitehouse.gov]

This is a planned & executed move by DC.

A clear assault on free speech...


USA is being gutted.

Scrump, I am going to post this on my FB if you don't mind.

Great work to you and SHR for bringing this to light; one thing I find funny is they are using WikiLeaks to help expedite the process of shutting down blogs and alternative news sights through releasing of "sensitive and classified" information.

Keep up the good fight.

Good post, Scrumpy. Can hardly wait until your next newsletter comes out and you give TPTB, the "Full Scrump" treatment on this new way to silence WH critics.

When you think about it, IT'S ALREADY had it's effect, just like the scariest time after 9/11 was the next day when everyone who worked in a building taller than 2 stories, spent the day watching for hijacked airliners!

Even on GLP, the urge to collapse in a heap of futility is rearing it's ugly head. The post views are down and the comments are defiant but with a certain sense of empty fury. After all, what can the average individual blogger do, under the weight of a federal lawsuit and pockets deep enough to reach all the way back to that pocket lint in the bowels of the White House?

I just hope Trinity means what he says about fighting this to the declaratory judgment phase. Otherwise, it'll be "nice knowing you" for ALL of us!

A clear assault on free speech...


USA is being gutted.

Scrump, I am going to post this on my FB if you don't mind.

Great work to you and SHR for bringing this to light; one thing I find funny is they are using WikiLeaks to help expedite the process of shutting down blogs and alternative news sights through releasing of "sensitive and classified" information.

Keep up the good fight.




Go for it, Tols.

I agree that the wikicrap is nothing but a timed excuse to do what they've said all along that they'll do.

This is important... if we can't make this a viral issue NOW & get the MSMtards squealing about it (not easy... since they back it)... we're done.




Good post, Scrumpy. Can hardly wait until your next newsletter comes out and you give TPTB, the "Full Scrump" treatment on this new way to silence WH critics.

When you think about it, IT'S ALREADY had it's effect, just like the scariest time after 9/11 was the next day when everyone who worked in a building taller than 2 stories, spent the day watching for hijacked airliners!

Even on GLP, the urge to collapse in a heap of futility is rearing it's ugly head. The post views are down and the comments are defiant but with a certain sense of empty fury. After all, what can the average individual blogger do, under the weight of a federal lawsuit and pockets deep enough to reach all the way back to that pocket lint in the bowels of the White House?

I just hope Trinity means what he says about fighting this to the declaratory judgment phase. Otherwise, it'll be "nice knowing you" for ALL of us!




Thanks AC, & Agreed.

This issue is 'the last stand' for sites like this one... it's certianly not the only attack we've got coming at us, but will be a DECISIVE first-shot... either way that it turns out.

The day is coming that we'll click GLP & see this:

:sitegone.2.gone:

Or something like it... If this can't be stopped.

I'm not gonna be able to respond to this thread until this afternoon.. gotta head out the door to work.

But I invite everyone to do everything that you can to dig up info on this issue & spread it far & wide... it's important.

I wonder who also worked at Sidley Austin...

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

From 1984 to 1988, Bernardine Dohrn was employed by the prestigious Chicago law firm Sidley Austin.[30] She was hired by Howard Trienens, the head of the firm at that time, who knew Thomas G. Ayers, the father of Dohrn's husband. "We often hire friends," Trienens told a reporter for the Chicago Tribune.[31] However, Dohrn had not been admitted to the New York or Illinois bar. She passed the New York bar exam but had not submitted an application to the New York Supreme Court's Committee on Character and Fitness.[30] She also passed the Illinois bar, but was turned down by the Illinois ethics committee because of her criminal record. Trienens said of the Illinois rejection, "Dohrn didn't get a [law] license because she's stubborn. She wouldn't say she's sorry." [31]

It's all the same club, folks.

Hmmmm obviously the hate session is full on so the time for thinking about this has already passed for most of you, im just not so sure....


If they wanted to shut the internet down there are thousands of better ways to go about it.

You guys always want to spit how obama has ultimate power etc... so if that were the case he could simply evoke executive privlege.

Its not like they are only going after reichwing sites like glp wdn.


Also how is it exact a attack on free speech when no speech is being denied?

The articles still exist, we can still link to them and read them, and 50% is still cut and pasted.


Like i said i understand the hate session is going on right now but just worth thinking about after you have calmed yourself down.