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ROCKEFELLER BILL WOULD GIVE PRESIDENT "EMERGENCY" CONTROL OF THE INTERNET
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html ^

Posted on 08/29/2009 12:21:21 AM PDT by UncleVanya

ROCKEFELLER ... yes, the one of oligarchy fame with folks like Soros and Rothschild ... and EMERGENCY ... yes, such as when too many people on the Internet trade messages about Obamanist LIES ...

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Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and ... certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill."

Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller's aides this week ... more >>


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 111th; internet; obama; rockefeller; s773; sourcetitlenoturl; tyranny

1 posted on 08/29/2009 12:21:21 AM PDT by UncleVanya
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To: UncleVanya

Obama wants one branch of Government.. Executive.


2 posted on 08/29/2009 12:30:11 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts (“Cap and Trade bill tells us how to live.. Health Care bill tells us how to die.” Bauer and Rose)
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To: UncleVanya

Sounds like a bunch are needing a 12 gauge Prostate Exam


3 posted on 08/29/2009 12:47:43 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Orwell's 1984 - To Conservatives, a WARNING - to Liberals, a TEXTBOOK!)
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To: UncleVanya

4 posted on 08/29/2009 12:55:33 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: UncleVanya

St. Isidore of Seville, pray for us.


5 posted on 08/29/2009 1:12:49 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: UncleVanya

“Whatever Else, Call Him Correct”

A prophetic speech by Robert Welch.

http://www.freemyrepublic.com/


6 posted on 08/29/2009 2:09:32 AM PDT by Boucheau ("Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism." - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: UncleVanya
I can't, for the life of me, think of any instance where the curtailing of free speech via the Internet would necessitate the blocking of all access to that Internet - oh - unless of course you live in Communist China.

Mel

7 posted on 08/29/2009 3:41:33 AM PDT by melsec (A Proud Aussie)
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To: UncleVanya

"Here we go!!"

8 posted on 08/29/2009 4:08:07 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: melsec

Or Iran.


9 posted on 08/29/2009 4:15:39 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: UncleVanya

“The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency””

That would be constituted by any criticism of Barack Hussein Obama on the internet or by Email.


10 posted on 08/29/2009 4:36:34 AM PDT by RoadTest (Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Psalm 129:5)
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To: Salvation

“St. Isidore of Seville, pray for us.”

Um - - - why don’t you pray? Jesus threw open the door to the Throne Room for you. Isidore’s praying days are over.


11 posted on 08/29/2009 4:37:53 AM PDT by RoadTest (Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Psalm 129:5)
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To: UncleVanya

DU hates it too. It’s a loser.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x475618#475643


12 posted on 08/29/2009 2:49:46 PM PDT by ROTB (Love your enemies, in the name and faith of Christ.)
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To: UncleVanya
BTTT

Read and then re-read the tag line I have had for over four years.

13 posted on 09/06/2009 5:01:51 PM PDT by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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