My son goes to school approximately five minutes from Dr. Martin Luther King’s gravesite. We live half a block from a street named after another civil rights icon, Ralph David Abernathy. Reverend Al Sharpton’s regional headquarters for his National Action Network is within a couple minutes walking distance from my gate. John Lewis’ 2010 campaign headquarters was literally around the corner.

Living and working so close to the monuments and offices of these civil rights icons always keeps me in a state of reverence when the topic of equal rights, justice, and civil rights comes up.

That’s why it irks me to no end when I hear the far left wing go overboard and sully and misrepresent the meaning of our constitutional rights with another one of their paranoid rants.

Specifically, the Netroots posse argues in a November 12, 2010 Huffington Post blog that Senate bill 3804, Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, will be used by the government to censor “broad portions of the Internet.“ If one reads the bill closely, nothing could be further from the truth.

What S.3804 does is prohibit websites from infringing on the copyrights of other content providers. It takes the war against copyright infringement form the copying machine at Kinko’s into cyberspace. As alleged defenders of media and the little-guy content providers, you would think that the Netroots posse would be lining up in support of the legislation.

Instead, they would rather do what the far left hippie fringe enjoys doing: equating constitutional rights and our civil rights icons with criminal activity all in the name of cool.