A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives has proposed a new policy to help Iranians to use new information technologies to build grassroots communications networks, allowing “large numbers of users to bypass censorship and surveillance technologies, for the purposes of promoting Iranians’ unfettered access to the Internet, which is a civil liberty that should be enjoyed by all people.”
Under Gohmert’s proposed law, if the people Missouri had a piece of wilderness where they didn’t want oil drilling, and Texas oil companies came and demanded oil drilling rights, the people of Missouri have to agree to the demands of Texas, or else forfeit the right to get any gasoline from outside its borders. Gohmert’s bill, H.R.4893, would have created a system of economic sanctions within the United States, from one state against another, and all for the benefit of big oil corporations in states like Texas.
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