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Obama's Call to "Spy On Your Neighbor" Was Nothing New For Big Brother POTUS
The Lid ^ | 8/5/09 | The Lid

Posted on 08/05/2009 7:17:30 PM PDT by Shellybenoit

The Obama administration has announced a program asking everyone to spy on their neighbors. The call for an army of spies was announced in a White House’s internet site blog:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

Why is anybody surprised at Obama's attempts at intimidating any dissent? During the campaign it was one of his favorite tactics:


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bigbrother; intimidation; obama; snitches
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To: Shellybenoit

Well, I did alert the flag@gov email site to let them know of “fishy information”. I told them I heard that Obama was accused of saying he “was in favor of a single payer system...but it may take awhile. First we have to get the house back, the senate back, and the white house back”.

I also did my duty to tell them who the rabble rouser was so they could take “appropriate action”...his name is barak obama.

Go get ‘em white house brown shirts!!!


21 posted on 08/05/2009 7:37:15 PM PDT by Dixon (Dixon)
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To: Shellybenoit

Once you are reported to the White House by your neighbor or co worker or someone who overhears your conversation-
then what happens ?
A knock on the door in the middle of the night ?
Hiding your family in the attic ?
Tattoos ?
Reeducation camps ?
Have any of the quislings in the media bothered to ask the White House what Chancellor Obama
plans to do to his new found information about the undesirables ?


22 posted on 08/05/2009 7:41:15 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: jwalsh07

So, are we at war with Eurasia or Eastasia this week.


23 posted on 08/05/2009 7:44:28 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: Shellybenoit

I understand there is a “companion” site: dial up “fag@house.gov” and ask for Bawney. He likes really big stimulating “projects.”


24 posted on 08/05/2009 7:46:10 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: Shellybenoit; All
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

~~ George Orwell

25 posted on 08/05/2009 7:48:09 PM PDT by SloopJohnB (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
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To: NonValueAdded

I grew up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and had the opportunity to talk to a lot of Cubans. They were terrified of their own children, because the kids were taught that it was good and proper to watch mommie and daddy and to tell the government officials at school if they say or do anything that reflects poorly on the state.


26 posted on 08/05/2009 7:52:17 PM PDT by gitmo (History books will read that Lincoln freed the slaves and Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: Rembrandt
“fag@house.gov” and ask for Bawney. He likes really big stimulating “projects.”

I watched a news segment yesterday that said there's just as many germs on a cell phone as there is on a toilet seat. So....don't lick either one of them.
The only person I could think of who might be worried about this was Barney Frank.

27 posted on 08/05/2009 7:52:44 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Shellybenoit

Just say NO to Big Bro “O”!


28 posted on 08/05/2009 7:54:00 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade, There are only two sides. Pick one.)
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To: reg45

This week is domestic.


29 posted on 08/05/2009 7:55:07 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

I am glad that you enjoyed it..
In Russia 50 yrs ago they had a famous kid who ratted out his parents and Stalin strolled him around as a hero.


30 posted on 08/05/2009 7:55:24 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Only dead fish go with the flow...)
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To: bray
Bush/Cheney did issue this order (well, something similar and more expansive), and it caused a significant controversy. It was a short-lived homeland security program that recruited people to keep an eye on their neighbors for suspicious activity. It spooked a lot of people who disagreed with the President.

The broad expansion of Federal ambitions under the Bush Administration to conduct domestic monitoring and surveillance may have been more palatable when there was a FR-supported administration in the White House, but it established a precedent for activities now being conducted by Obama. The tools Bush created are now completely at Obama's disposal, for Obama's ends.

31 posted on 08/05/2009 8:00:48 PM PDT by Devils Avocado
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To: Shellybenoit
The Obama administration has announced a program asking everyone to spy on their neighbors. The call for an army of spies was announced in a White House’s internet site blog:

We could play the devils advocate and put up posters demanding everyone turn in their disobedient neighbors for the sake of the great collective, and put this White house e-mail address on it.

That is what the democrats are asking people to do, isn't it?

32 posted on 08/05/2009 8:01:25 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Dixon

Here’s the email I just sent to some liberal contacts:


In 1939, in Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth were instructed to inform on their parents and neighbors for subversive comments running counter to the government’s agenda.

Today, in the United States of America, President Obama’s administration posted on the whitehouse.gov website, the following:

“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to the end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

Imagine how you would have felt if President Bush’s administration had encouraged American citizens to inform on other American citizens for daring to speak ill about his attempted Social Security reform. You would be understandably furious, and rightfully outraged by a government run amok, trampling one of our sacred of our civil liberties—Our right to free speech. Yet you give Obama a pass. Why?

Well, I’m ready to earn my spot on the government’s list of subversive enemies of state: The goal of this so-called healthcare reform is not noble. It is about surrendering your freedom to ever-increasing government control. Obama is lying when he says he wants private insurance to co-exist with a public option. Here, in his own words, before he knew he would have to lie to get it passed, he affirms his goal of single-payer, universal healthcare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE

So, because I am exposing the President as a liar, please do his bidding and report my subversive comments immediately. If you are still convinced that the “change” you voted for has not turned disastrous, and you still stand proud of your vote for “hope”, you owe it to your President to help transform the greatest nation on Earth into the the Marxist state he dreams of, by reporting my unpatriotic dissent.

TURN ME IN! I’m daring you! I’ll even make it easy for you: flag@whitehouse.gov

Or maybe you’ll wake up, realize that your Emperor has no clothes, and join me in trying to save this great nation.



33 posted on 08/05/2009 8:09:00 PM PDT by Carlucci
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To: reg45
So, are we at war with Eurasia or Eastasia this week.

We've always been at war with Eurasia...

34 posted on 08/05/2009 8:12:46 PM PDT by meyer (It's 1938 all over again - the democrats are the new NAZIs and conservatives are the new Jews.)
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To: Devils Avocado

Apples/Oranges, that was shortly after 911 and nobody knew where the sleeper cells were. The Extreme Left Media went nuts over that idea and are now predictably quiet. This WH wants us to report on each other not terrorists.

Pray for America and Our Troops


35 posted on 08/05/2009 8:33:04 PM PDT by bray (The messiah has no robe)
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To: screaminsunshine

So it starts—the witch hunts and all the evil they bring. You don’t like your neighbor—report him to Obama as a Birther or a Tea Bagger. You want to force someone out of their home—report them as talking smank about Health Care.
The Government will use all in its power to break the back of the anti-Obama movement. Sorry, Americans don’t play that game. Every use of force will be countered. This can’t end well. By 2012 there may not even be a USA. We could become broken into several states. I would never have imagined I would live to see this. I am only glad my father is dead and doesn’t have to live in this era.


36 posted on 08/05/2009 9:58:10 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: screaming eagle2

They don’t believe it. I was telling a friend about it today and I got......”That’s not true.....did you put it in snopes”


37 posted on 08/06/2009 12:04:44 AM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (Prayers Up! It's our last defense!)
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To: proudtobeanamerican1

THey don’t believe it because they can’t possibly think it’s true....until it actually hapens ...and by then it’s too late.


38 posted on 08/06/2009 9:04:44 AM PDT by screaming eagle2
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