Come on, El Reg, you left off the end of the quote...
"Agreeing to your proposal would not only be an unprecedented and unwarranted circumvention of the due process and checks and balances carefully crafted in the structure of our democracy, but an irresponsible abdication of the operating control required to deploy world-class and globally competitive communications networks that are every bit as essential to our country's economic vitality, public safety and national interests as the airline industry, As well, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries."
Why is everything suddenly a threat to our (US) democracy? Or is that just the new, hip way of saying "think of the children"?