Posted on 08/06/2009 9:44:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Czardom has its privileges. This week, President Obama's health care overlord, Nancy DeParle, launched a taxpayer-funded initiative to recruit an Internet Snitch Brigade that will combat "disinformation about health insurance reform." As the White House explained in a special online bulletin:
"These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails 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 e-mail or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."
What will health care czar DeParle do with this information? Where will it be stored? Who has oversight of the czar's powers, budget and personnel? Concerned citizens, alas, will have a hard time tracking down the "Office of Health Care Reform" created by executive order in April. There is no central website for the office, no direct channel for transparency and no congressional accountability.
At least one member of Congress has started asking questions. Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn sent a letter to Obama demanding that he disband the Internet Snitch Brigade immediately: "By requesting citizens send 'fishy' e-mails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, e-mail addresses, IP addresses and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House," Cornyn wrote. "You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program."
Taxpayers have the right to know what government agencies and third parties the health care czar may share that data with -- and why. Take note: The White House Office of Health Care Reform is working in close quarters with an entirely separate Office of Health Reform created under the Department of Health and Human Services. That office is staffed with several Obama campaign operatives and former employees of the Center for American Progress, including special assistant Michael Halle and HHS Office of Health Reform Director Jeanne Lambrew, a former senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who worked on health policy in the Clinton administration.
CAP is a lead organization in the Health Care for America Now coalition, the "grassroots" lobbying group for Obama's health care takeover legislation run out of 1825 K Street in Washington, D.C., with a $40 million budget. CAP is also the parent group of Think Progress, the far-left website leading the smear campaign against fiscally conservative activists protesting at congressional town halls.
Lawmakers must also dig far beyond the health care czar's flagging operation. Last month, a Washington, D.C., citizen watchdog group filed suit to force the White House to disclose which health care lobbyists and executives it had met with this year to discuss the government health care takeover legislation. White House counsel Greg Craig refused to disclose which administration officials attended the meetings. But at least two of the industry visitors have ties to DeParle.
William C. Weldon is chairman of Johnson & Johnson, which paid DeParle $7,500 for a recent speech. Wayne Smith is chief executive of Community Health Systems, which merged with Triad Hospitals -- where DeParle served on the board of directors. DeParle's options were converted to cash payments worth $1.05 million.
Despite Obama's lip service to transparency, the public is in the dark about which assets DeParle has divested; how many times, if any, DeParle has recused herself from policy matters and meetings; and the exact nature of her conversations with health care executives. While White House press secretary Robert Gibbs lambastes the corporate health care ties of Republican opponents, he has shrugged off the corporate ties of the woman leading the Obamacare charge.
Alert the Internet Snitch Brigade: The fishiest odor is emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I frankly don’t know what to make of this. Being a gummit snitchline, the operators could attempt some serious repercussions such as filing charges of “filing false information with an officer.” Of course if they do, the diarrhea really will strike the supersonic propeller.
That could be possible, and would even explain his racism, as he’s trying to overcompensate for his “wicked” white part. I’ve seen that before.
The idea would be to get it widespread enough to bog down the fascist kings. One Waco, no problem. A hundred Wacos, a problem.
Wel you know what ?I wrote to them and I told them to F off and I left my name and address and if you had balls you’d do it too. Ok , how many right now have written to flag@whitehouse.org and told them off...Lets see a show of hands..If you haven’t then don’t even talk abou tit and log off because we need ACTION not chat.
They can kiss my ass at the white house.
Start with the obama website
Every article this woman writes is better than the one that preceded it.
I don’t know, mrsmel. I share your frustrations (banging head against the wall) but the Leftists have been very successful in infiltrating all of our institutions since the 1920’s according to Saul Alinsky. How do do you fight almost 90 years of this junk, well, evil?
There have always been evil people and now we have one in office in the most powerful position in the world. I myself, in my little part of the world don’t know what to do. I know I’m praying to my savior Jesus Christ a lot more lately to change their minds.
It’s a scary world out there, definetely.
Ever since my brother told me that, I’ve imagined it a lot. We would have to really decide that freedom is worth dying for, or at least that death really is preferable to slavery. I’ve considered that a bit, and I believe that even then I would prefer to die-on my feet of course, fighting back.
While you pray move your feet. God will move mountains but you better bring a shovel.There is PLENTY you can do .
Hit a town hall meeting and tell them how you feel.Write , make calls , join a group of patriots. If no tthen stay out of the way because the sh*t is REALLY going to hit the fan in the net 4 months or so.
That’s part of my frustration-this didn’t just happen out of a sudden whim of the voters for change (even if they, poor sheep, believe it), this is the fruition of careful planning over decades, as you say, of infiltration and takeover from without and within. With some few exceptions, we can write off the coming generation with their life-long media and academic indoctrination. And as you say, one of “them” achieving the most powerful position in the world changes the game entirely, if it’s not already lost. Myself, I’m moving to a holler in deepest Appalachia, learning to be self-sufficient, and just sit and wait until they find me and have to blast me out-LOL.
Well, for the record I have given them a piece of my mind too.
5 USC 552a governs this and it it seems to me that between the snitch line and NTIA, there are plenty of violations going on. Imagine if it was Nixon doing something like this, compiling an enemies list ... oh, wait ...
Earlier today I read that there is nothing that governs the White House gathering data. Either way, BHO and his commissars care nothing for the rule of law, and that includes the Constitution.
Excellent , so it’s you and me . Everybody else is oh so upset by the government of the USA looking for names of dissenters but only 2 of us DID anything about it. Hummmm
Maybe we deserve Obama after all.
Read What good can a handgun do against an Army. There are many great points in that article. I particularly like this one:
Consider that last year there were more than 14 million Americans who bought licenses to hunt deer in the country. 14 million-- that's a number greater than the largest five professional armies in the world combined.
Uh, there’s more. Mrs. Don-O signed them up for some spam as well as making a personal complaint. But, how about let’s have Jim Rob put it on the Activism page along with an invitation to speak your mind.
5 U.S.C. § 552a, United States agencies, including the Executive Office of the President shall, “maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity.”
As I posted, I sent numerous emails yesterday, some serious, some mocking. They’re the government, if they want a nobody that bad, they can utilise the full force of their power to find me.
Beautiful..that’s the way to do things. We need to hit back and hit back hard..I want my country back !
Thanks, going to read it now. It sounds hopeful, from the title.
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