Aren’t these the people who threw their heads back and howled at the Patriot Act?
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Nope these are the people, along with RINOs, who passed it against the warnings of people like Bob Barr, Dick Armey, Butch Otter, Ron Paul, Paul Weyrich, and others.
Some leftist blogs were against it but leftist politicians always loved it. Clinton tried to pass it in 1995 under a different name but couldn’t get it past enough Republicans. The Patriot Act was Janet Reno’s and Eric Holder’s wet dream.
Some of us here on FR warned that people here weren’t going to like the Patriot Act and other such laws when a Democrat regime had those powers, but few listened.
Newly proposed legislation would give the federal government authority to seize and even switch off the Internet during a national crisis.
The bill, put forward Thursday by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., would allow the DHS to issue emergency orders to companies providing services such as search engines, software and broadband Internet, according to CBS. Companies that didn't comply would face a fine.
"The Internet can also be a dangerous place, with electronic pipelines that run directly into everything from our personal bank accounts to key infrastructure to government and industrial secrets," Lieberman said. "Our economic security, national security and public safety are now all at risk from new kinds of enemies: cyberwarriors, cyberspies, cyberterrorists and cybercriminals."