The Internet: Al Gore Giveth and Barack Obama Taketh Away

Entitlement Syndrome ^ | 09/01/2009 | Scott Michaels

[BigKahuna]

Yes, I know Al Gore didn't really invent the Internet, and it's not that I'm against cyber security in any way, shape or form, but I find the latest Senate bill currently making the rounds (excerpt here), in which the President would be given authority to shut down all or part of the entity we call the Internet "in an emergency," to be a little worrisome.

Let me say right up front that I'm not (yet) one-hundred percent suspicious of everything that Barack Obama and his enablers in the Congress get up to. For example, I'm fine with them occasionally taking some time to rename a U.S. post office in honor of Elvis Presley or something like that. Hey...they're our elected representatives, and I give props where props are due.

But, is there anybody else out there who thinks that taking the sledgehammer of government to the private sector use of the Internet smacks faintly of something we might see in Venezuela or China? Especially when there are most likely a wide range of other processes which could do much the same thing…

… What this bill might portend is another attempt by the current administration and its congressional allies to, you know, get a little closer to us. Never mind that they're already so close we can smell the cheap knockoff cologne and also see the remnants in the spaces between their teeth from the pork sandwiches more than a few of them having been gorging on these last several years. After all, they're our legislators; not our family members.

That means we don't have to put up with bad breath and a whiff of B.O. (Hey, that works on two levels!) no matter from whom it's emanating.

[FromLori]

[BigKahuna]

LOL!

[aShepard]

Doesn't Homeland Security already have the authority to commandeer the Internet?

Why in hell does Zero need the authority to personally pull the plug?