Gov. John Baldacci on Friday signed a civil emergency declaration granting some relief to logging truckers.
Proponents of the current system — called network neutrality — see that principle as a kind of civil rights declaration of the digital age, one that requires the gatekeepers of the global Internet to treat all users equally, regardless of application, source or download limit.
Some may suggest that I have an over-identification with Scarlett O'Hara's impassioned post-Civil War declaration in the fallow fields of Tara: "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again".
"He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power," the declaration said of George III, and today the military is indulgently allowed to investigate its own crimes in Iraq.
Some Egyptian liberals warn this would grant the generals a licence to kill.Brotherhood leaders say Mr Sisi's call is a declaration of civil war and a precursor to "massacres under false popular cover".
Roman Catholic Bishop Gregory Hartmayer of Savannah, Ga., said the ruling "is primarily a declaration of civil rights and not a redefinition of marriage as the church teaches".
In truth, the civil war predates its official declaration.
About two dozen protesters started their civil disobedience by proclaiming their "declaration of independence from bureaucracy at its worst".
Some said they would welcome the civil liberties provisions in the declaration, if only they had come from the public instead of the military.
But the track is hardly a policy statement for homosexual rights: there are no lines about marriage, civil unions, or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
