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Well, well, well. This one REALLY surprises me! No, REALLY. REALLY. Pshh..yeah.


Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you with the following: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/28/senate-president-emergency-control-internet/


A bill that would give the president the authority to shut down the internet if he deems any situation to be particularly "dangerous" to the cyber security of the nation. By the way, what is deemed "dangerous" is fairly ambiguous. In other words--well, you get the picture. At any rate, it may sound benign enough to the untrained ear, especially if it is in the name of our national security; however, it paints an ominious picture of the plans our current leader has for our nation. In my (untrained) opinion the issue merits two questions.


First- don't the private (whoops...my bad....apparently "private" anything is becoming a little too PI: "Politically Incorrect") internet companies have a responsibility to their paying customers to keep things safe? Isn't making sure that the procedures that they have in place for the cyber security of their users are of the highest grade, in their best interest as a private (uh oh, there's that bad word again...) company? Well people, we already have Government Motors, Government Industry, Government Enviroment, and the Dems have their fingers crossed for Dr. Government as well.......so what the heck- why not toss in GOL! (Government Online, for those of you still catching up)


Secondly- I think that it's time to play a little "name that successful Obama program," after which point we can talk about whether or not giving the president carte blanche as to usage of the country's cyber on/off switch is a safe decision. . . . . . . . . . . .

Well, as I can't seem to think of any, I don't quite see how we are supposed to trust him that he'll use that authority ONLY in the event of an emergency. To put this into perspective.....what scares me so much is that he and his entire administration, and the far left Congress has spent the entire summer telling America that those of us who speak out against this exponential governmental growth are domestic terrorists, dissenters, radicals, and rioters. We "functionally retarded conservative right wing activists" spent the entire summer be told to shut up. We spent the entire summer being quieted. We spent the summer being told that by speaking out through the various channels (internet blogs, talk shows, town halls) we were behaving in an "un American" manner. Obama and his supporters have used every method short of full-on violence to shut us up this summer! Wouldn't it simply be easier to close down people's websites? Talk radio? Conservative news sources? That's what China (among other communist nations) currently does- Chinese citizens can access internet that the government has pre-approved. If you try accessing anything else....beware. I'm not saying we are there yet.....but if I've said it once I'll say it till doomsday- the signs are all there. Giving the president this kind of power over the American people is not only unprecedented in nature but is absolutely dangerous. The words I and so many others like me type at this very moment will be silenced with the swift movement of a pen unless the American people stand up and fight for what is right.


Yes, our enemies are real, and they would like to see us fall. There are many ways in which they would like to perpetrate our cyber world. There is not, however, the need for a bill to be passed into law which gives the president of our country the right to control the internet at his whim. Whatever happened to the CIA, and their purpose for existence? Oh, that's right....they must be too busy trying to stay afloat while Washington D.C. punishes them for keeping us safe for 8 full years. How shameful.