DEMOCRAT MEGADEATH
A giant fat German guy (six-foot-six, 300 pounds of blubber) with a decidedly sketchy background (pleading guilty to embezzlement is just one of many examples) and a goofy artificial name would seem an outlandish candidate for a catalyst of Democrat Megadeath – but you know what truth is stranger than.
Kim Schmitz grew up in Kiel, Germany, where he dropped out of 9th grade and became a criminal child prodigy like the kid Leonardo DiCaprio played in Catch Me If You Can. After an endless series of scrapes with the law (including two convictions both with 2-year probations), in 2005 at age 31 he founded a company in Hong Kong called Megaupload, a "file-hosting service" with an elaborate array of websites for video sharing, music sharing, and online commerce.
By this time, Schmitz had legally changed his name to Kim Dotcom, and moved to New Zealand. Because Megaupload made it super-easy for members to share anything video including full-length movies and anything audio including the latest rock hits and albums, it exploded in popularity with 50 million visitors a day, $100 million in annual revenue, and accounting for 4% of all internet traffic worldwide.
This allowed Schmitz/Dotcom to live a purposefully over-the-top lavish lifestyle in Kiwiland, with a 25,000 sq. ft. mansion, helicopters, yachts, race cars, and bevies of beauties ("fast boats, fast cars, and fast women" – albeit not the latter since he got married and is now a father). In doing so, he became Hollywood’s Public Enemy #1, a "Pirate King" for enabling Megaupload members to view Hollywood’s movies and listen to Hollywood’s music on their computers for free.
So, after a few phone calls from Hollywood moguls to their buddy in the Oval Office, Eric Holder was instructed to destroy Kim Dotcom. He issued a DOJ indictment for criminal copyright infringement, paid the Kiwi cops to launch a massively armed SWAT Team assault on Dotcom’s home last January (1/20/12) to arrest and jail him without bail, and cops in Hong Kong and Germany to seize his every asset. The FBI shut down the Megaupload site, replacing Megaupload.com with a FBI Anti-Piracy Warning.
Big mistake. Dotcom promptly found the DOJ indictment riddled with errors, as were the Kiwi warrants allowing the assault arrest – resulting in a Kiwi judge ruling the raid "illegal." He’s out on bail, the case against him has collapsed, he’ll never be extradited to the US. And now he’s fighting back – by going directly at Zero’s jugular.
Last Friday (7/20), he announced, "The war on internet freedom was declared on Obama’s watch," and came out with this 4-minute video attacking Zero:
On the same day, he came out with a new website: kim.com. In front of a gloomy pic of the White House, it declares "The Truth will come out Mr. President: The war for the internet has begun… Hollywood is in control of politics… Government is killing innovation."
Dotcom has now become the champion of internet freedom, and is succeeding in designating Zero as its enemy. He has a lot of ammo. Note all the signs in his video protesting ACTA. This is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a treaty signed by the US (but not ratified by the Senate) that creates a global police force to arrest anyone Hollywood doesn’t like.
The entire world internet community hates this fascist monstrosity cooked up by the Motion Picture Association of America – whose chief lobbyist, Chris Dodd (he’s the old guy in the video; the most corrupt Senator of modern times), got Zero to support it.
Thus on his website, Dotcom asks point blank:
The US Government has declared war on the internet.
Millions of Mega users want their files back
If Megaupload.com is not back online by November 1st
WILL YOU VOTE FOR OBAMA?
There are two reasons why this is a catalyst for Democrat Megadeath.
First, Dotcom has Alinsky-ized Zero, by picking him as a target and personalizing the attack. One of the most crucial factors enabling Zero’s 2008 election was the wild enthusiasm for him by under-30 voters. This enthusiasm has been falling off a cliff for some time, and now it is in cement at the bottom of the cliff with Zero being seen as an enemy of the internet. Millions of under-30 folks now hate Zero’s guts.
It’s not that their enthusiasm is being transferred to Romney – it isn’t – it’s that it’s gone. Zero is not going to get the youth vote this November – not anywhere remotely close to the numbers he needs to win. The same applies to Democrats running for the Senate or House.
Second, not only has Dotcom portrayed Zero and the Democrat Party as enemies of freedom, but condemned them as obsolete. This is especially damning for the under-30 set, and applies to Dems across the board, not just regarding internet innovation.
Dotcom argues that Hollywood’s business model is obsolete – and thus it uses government fascism to ward off competition and innovation. This is a message almost anyone under 30 gets immediately. I asked my 20 year-old son, Jackson, about this, and he showed me the Ektoplazm music file-sharing site as an example.
This is a completely free, and completely legal site with nothing "pirated." Musicians provide their music for free as a way to advertize and get a following. Then they make money by people paying to attend their concerts. It’s the new innovative business model that’s driving the Hollywood record label companies nuts. (Note: my son suggests TTPers would enjoy the "Down Tempo" music offerings on Ektoplazm, but probably not the "Techno" or "Trance" stuff.)
Now let’s look at a Swiss site, 1channel.ch. This is a "pirate" site on which you can watch almost any movie you want. Right there on the front row is Dark Knight Rising (someone copied it with a video camera in a theatre – which will be immediately replaced with the DVD version once that comes out).
What can Hollywood do about this? Just about nothing, anymore than they could about video cassettes or DVDs. People pay to see a movie in a theatre just like they pay to attend a concert – it’s a social experience, not like watching or listening alone at home. But Hollywood doesn’t get it because it’s anti-competition/anti-innovation fascist. Which is why, of course, Hollywood is Democrat, and pays Democrats to pass fascist legislation.
This has been bugging young folks and the entire internet community for a long time, but it took this huge fat German to nail Zero and his party on it. His timing is perfect, because it’s becoming gin-clear to millions of voters of any age that the Democrat Party is a party of obsolescence. They have no new ideas, they simply want to maintain the status quo while expanding their failing government programs. Everything they do now is obsolete and failing.
You can see this reflected in the collapse of Dem voter enthusiasm in the Gallup Poll released yesterday (7/25). Or the Rasmussen Poll today (7/26), showing Romney pulling away from Zero, 48% to 44%.
With every passing day now, Zero steps deeper into failure, obsolescence, and irrelevance. With every passing day, millions more come to understand he and his party are the problem, not the solution, the past and not the future.
Romney still has to close the sale. But he gets closer to closure with every speech like his moral defense of capitalism (scroll half way down) in Irwin PA last week (7/17) and his Reaganesque VFW address in Reno last Tuesday (7/24).
As TTPer "richnaylor" commented on the Forum regarding the VFW speech: Romney’s "righteous anger has been long due and is very welcome. He is speaking with the anger that I think we all feel as the incumbent tears at our beloved country. I think this anger is rampant throughout the country… I think he is going to thrash the community organizer and show him for the fraud he is. God Bless America!"
Very true. The Democrat Party is dying. Their members are frustrated to the point of violence, confused, depressed, helpless, and lost. Lots of them will drag themselves to the polls on November 6th to vote for Zero with neither enthusiasm nor optimism. But not enough of them to prevent a Romney landslide.
November 6th is shaping up to be a Democrat Megadeath. They will lose control of the White House and Senate, along with vast numbers of state offices. More than simply electoral defeat, however, the party itself will die in one of two ways. Either Dems retaining some vestige of sanity will abandon the Moonbat Anti-American/Anti-Capitalist leftie lunacy that has ruined it, transforming it into a far different party – or the party itself will go the way of the Whigs and become extinct as a political institution.
Neither, of course, will happen on November 7th or for some time after – but it will be obvious to all that the Party’s over.
With that – also of course – our work has just begun: to replace the RINO leadership of the GOP with Tea Party leadership, and corral the Federal Government back within the boundaries of the Constitution.
That’s for tomorrow. Today, let’s focus on ensuring Democrat Megadeath on the 6th of November.