Kathleen. I agree the government has gone way to far in way too many areas. What tends to happens is we lose one freedom at a time. Folks get used to it and in the end, its considered a "dead law."

I personally do not feel for you or any of your constituents as you all didn't bother to get the fanatics to quit speaking for you. It sucks, but I hope this shows everyone that if we all don't pitch in for freedoms of others, no one is going to speak for you. Most of the laws I'm not happy with came specifically from the religious fanatics that are now tied up in that battle, and somehow i believe more people will be silently laughing at you for bringing this up now. Your civil liberties are shot. Most of us are. Was it ok for you to vote to forgo jury trials? Was it ok for you to make laws against the homeless and the Occupiers? Why didn't we just leave them alone? They would have scedattled when people quit listening Let us know how it goes on that front.

The only way a democracy can work the way it was thought up was that instead of arguing each other and de-moralizing each other, we should be sticking up for each other. I've had little help, most people don't waste their time going to meetings or even writing an email, though they'll write entire novels here. Its sad and scary. I thought bush and them were whackos who didn't care about our security, but when you make moves to include the US as a battlefield therefore allowing your military to come into the country. It may not be used today or tomorrow, but it is scary. The last thing you want is the United States Military policing the population.

The little, medium and big governments that are bloated and mostly a waste of money all think they are bad a$s, Boulder city council is a great example. Its time to make one last law. If the law is too complex that even lawyers can't figure out what it is saying, its time to burn the library down and start over.

Most folks do not fight for anything unless it directly affects them, and now, its just too late.

Seriously. Good luck. Don't forget to look over your shoulder and report any behavior that seems "strange" to YOU. Be a good patriot. .

There is no one to choose from. Our election procss is screwy. It made sense when you had to ride a horse 1000 miles to PA to figure out who won. It made sense then to have an electoral system. It made sense to caucasus. Iowa does nothing for me or anyone. We should all be able to choose. Its just a back-ass way to hold on to the past. Lets get real, vote for the most popular president and move from there. I also would suggest that we rid ourselves of democrats vs. republicans.

I don't happen to look at everyone as Left or Right. I know that most of my friends and their friends and their friends have all sorts of overlapping beliefs based on the way they were raised. I look at it more like a balloon or to make it a little more simpler, a dartboard. Right now we have both parties about 1 bar apart from each other. I don't even feel this is much of an election. There are so many more sides to this than lft and right. Unfortunately we take one of the most important freedoms and we break it down to 2 choices. Whoever has the most money wins generally.

And Super-PAC's.... Can we get real?!

I can think of a whole lot of better ways to do this, but congress and the president like this system It works well for them. I really don't believe that "the people" have much power anymore, unless each person is worth one dollar.

There is absolutely no way in hell that in the US, unless they call you a terrorist (I can't believe I even have to put that in there), that a trial by jury is one of our rights and can't happen.

This is nuts. We have all been punished directly for the actions of a few. Civil Disobedience is absolutely no justification to make it so that everyone is screwed. If you want to go around making laws that put so many people into the courts way, you should probably look at the law that fills up courtrooms and figure out a better way.

You don't get to just make laws when convenient. This is ludicrous.

Nothing like a birds eye view.

Religions are attacked all over the world. Its not America the mixing pot, its welcome to the world's mixing pot America.

People fight for and about religion all the time and have been for thousands of years. Is this just what it looks like as we start the fight? The mid-east what it looks like after 3000 years? The Buddhists? The Catholics? The Mormons? The Hindus?

Christianity has been the main religion of this continent for about 250 years. We are not used to seeing and really tolerating other religions, though if faced with it many might do just fine. This is what goes on overseas. In your face placards that say "My religion/non relgion is right for you"

I think everyone has to make their own decision and really, come on, is a billboard going to do this? Where are we in how comfortable in where we live and whatever message we give out? It seems the least comfortable the more outspoken.

I'm staying A-position. I find it fascinating to see what folks say though.

Oh God. Here we go again.

Takes months to cultivate a MJ crop. Takes hours once you have the chemicals to make meth and split.

“Now we're probably a decade behind.” -- What a joke. Compared to what? Where?

This is just bad. Why don't they just stop trying to do anything. They've turned this place into a giant HOA and have so many laws on the books that they create more that just are reworded. They don't listen to the people and in a small town like this, its amazing that they can't figure out a way to deal with the few homeless that we have. Instead of dealing with people issues though, your going to block my right to watch the stars? Make me prove that I'm not a transient if I fall asleep watching the stars with a license? I'm not even sure that is legal. Take away the flatirons and Boulder is just a bunch of snobs that care more about what everyone else thinks than how they live, their own freedoms and this scared of the dark nonsense is just ridiculous.

How about you all try to NOT do anything this year. We'd be just fine without the council. Had they not made 1 law in 10 years, this place would still be fine to live in.

So instead of freedom, and people's rights, we treat each other with the lowest common denominator of life and make everything an issue of "Your free as long as you don't bother me". Plastic bag removal? No smoking in public places? I don't even smoke, but as long as they pick up their cigarette butts and aren't blowing it in my face I'm fine, and there are already laws about someone getting in my face and blowing smoke. Unfortunately the council isn't subject to those laws when they meet.

How about a 730 day retreat or so. In the meantime we'll vote for a new city council with 1 new rule (with 10-20 subsections in memory of our old council)....a) You can't buy your seat. b)No help c)no donations c)limit of $5k spending money for signs and d)gas to and from debates and public forums.

This bill is not about piracy. Its about a United States virtual fire-wall that lets the US government have first say on what is acceptable and what is not. This is about total control and access to information. With this, they are allowed to say, "site.com has some nudity and due to the FTC ruling on xxx, we are going to block them. With this, all you have to do is make a complaint and an entire website would have to be brought down.

The money that this will cost is beyond comprehension. You can not find this because the calculation are so enormous that it would do nothing but kill this bill. How much does it cost to build a system that blocks all material the US Government says is no good? That shouldn't even be a question, but with this it is. #1, to build a system that can keep up with the flow of complaints that in many cases will have to be settled in court ($), the lawyers that will have to be provided to internet companies that have $0 ($), A HUGE bureaucracy to run this system and to deal with this. It will be slow, it will kill the internet as we know it. It will cost companies millions to try to stay away from this and to pay off claims and suits due to this for things that right now are already spelled out on how to deal with them without having to drag the entire economy into this.

This legislation is all about the government becoming much larger. It is not about piracy. Its been shown time and time again, the more folks pirate a movie, the better the movie does. This is because people say "hey, this is a good movie". They go see the real thing on the big screen. We like big screens. Say you have a date and you have to pick between 2 movies, you watch them both first and one sucks, you take your date to the one that doesn't. You just paid for the movies, but this part of the bill is so small its peanuts compared to the full deal of what this bill can block.

I wont get into the techie reasons, but you can not just get around this by changing DNS servers, you can not get around this with a firewall, you can not get around this by moving your company overseas thinking the government can't block your blog, you can not do any of these things and the thing with it is that as Americans, it makes us liable for the entire world and what they post on your website, and as Americans, we are the only ones punished, even if what we do is overseas.

Its too broad. Its kills the internet and innovation.

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