Should Obama Control The Internet? (Free Speech Alert)

Mother Jones ^ | 4/03/2009 | Steve Aquino

[Calpernia]

The fact that he is occupying the presidency is an abject, abysmal tragedy.

The fact that the insurance salesmen still have an opportunity to make a sale is also an abject, abysmal tragedy.

[Centurion2000]

Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?

Do the words F#$% NO resonate inside his empty head?

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

HELL NO

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

Exactly. If former President Bush had proposed this, the libs would’ve been screaming for his impeachment. obamanation must be stopped.

[TigersEye]

How many Rubicons can one Caesar cross?

[aruanan]

On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.

Maybe it would encourage the world's best hackers and virus makers to employ their skills in targeting something really worthy.

[DocRock]

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[Candor7]

I believe you are right and Iceland would be a protected bastion of independent sovereignty. No one can push them around, and they have nothing more to lose, they lost it all already.

We could still network through satellite hook ups.

I am on Hughes net. I will be drawing this legislation to their attention and see if they have any plans to do a work around.

[TheThinker]

Obama is a full-blown fascist using the goodwill off the tail-end of the civil rights movement to seize control of the country.

He's nationalizing the banks, went straight for the private money supply, nationalizing the car companies, overregulating industry, and now he's aiming for control of the information flow of this country.

That's damn ambitious for someone who we have no idea as to his true origins.

I'm not stupid nor very paranoid but I know that this country is in very deep trouble.

Obama is a national security crisis.

[Freedom2specul8]

Exactly. What does it mean when we don’t know who the enemy is anymore?

[LucyT]

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Check out #69.

[LibertyRocks]

Absolutely agree with you, and most of the nation is too busy, or blind to notice, or even care... It’s quite sad.

[TheThinker]

A lot of conservatives are saying these tea parties are a waste of time.

I don't think so.

Conservatives need to crawl out of their warm holes and be visible and act like we have the courage of our convictions.

[LibertyRocks]

“hoping to incite insurrection”

You’ve hit the nail on the head with that. We’re in VERY dangerous times. They will push, and push, and then use any resistance as an excuse to push more...

[LibertyRocks]

Well, he can’t be THE Anti-Christ for various reasons (place of birth, hatred for Jews, etc...). HOWEVER, as far as being an embodiment of evil? Yeah, he definitely fits that description.

[LibertyRocks]

That’s what I was thinking too... Jammed, or monitored nowadays.

[LibertyRocks]

“I wonder how our Rep. leadership will react to this?”

CRICKETS... They aren’t any better than the Democrats, IMHO...

[LibertyRocks]

People communicating the truth compared to the propaganda. That’s the only threat I can see...

[mojitojoe]

Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)

Why does she bother to put an “R” behind her name?
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She’s no R and never was. A trojan horse, just like zer0. I detest that woman.

[mojitojoe]

Exactly. And we need to get VERY busy doing just that.JimRob should be looking into an off shore mirror site
out of Iceland, with full Eurosat hookup.
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This is insane!! We need to figure out a way to stay in touch if that happens. You can bet they are just looking for a chance to declare marital law. The internet would be the first to go. Now if the time to work around it, not after they do it. They are really pushing their luck. I doubt our troops who are are sworn to uphold the Constitution and defend this country against tyranny, would take too kindly to being cut off from contact with their families due to the Communist Kenyan’s coup.