Attack On Free Speech

Watch what the other hand is doing, folks. While scenes of oil soaked birds and other wildlife and live shots of the gusher beneath the Gulf fill our television screens the Obama crowd is plotting to shut us down.

A controversial bill is being quickly moved though the Senate that will give President Obama the ability to close the internet for 30 days or more, whenever HE decides there is a “threat” to national security. The bill is loosely worded and does not specify criteria the president should use in determining just what such a threat might be.

Prison Planet reports:

The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which is being pushed hard by Senator Joe Lieberman, would hand absolute power to the federal government to close down networks, and block incoming Internet traffic from certain countries under a declared national emergency.

Despite the Center for Democracy and Technology and 23 other privacy and technology organizations sending letters to Lieberman and other backers of the bill expressing concerns that the legislation could be used to stifle free speech, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed in the bill in advance of a vote on the Senate floor.

In response to widespread criticism of the bill, language was added that would force the government to seek congressional approval to extend emergency measures beyond 120 days. Still, this would hand Obama the authority to shut down the Internet on a whim without Congressional oversight or approval for a period of no less than four months.

The Senators pushing the bill rejected the claim that the bill was a ‘kill switch’ for the Internet, not by denying that Obama would be given the authority to shut down the Internet as part of this legislation, but by arguing that he already had the power to do so.

President Obama has been systematically hijacking our business and banking system since taking office. The mainstream media is in his pocket (and the pocket of any other politician they like). As a result many of us rely on internet sources to learn what is really happening. Citizen reporters, bloggers and film makers keep us up to date on news that the mainstream media filters and withholds.

The President already has far reaching powers that allow him to do whatever is necessary in a real emergency.

This bill makes it extremely possible for this or future presidents to close the entire internet system or parts of it based on his own interpretation of a “cyber emergency”. That could very well be sources of information revealing corruption in the administration, scandal that would cause an negative impact among voters, or simple a crack down on free speech in general.

Don’t believe me?  The Prison Planet also has this tidbit of interesting information.

Fears that the legislation is aimed at bringing the Internet under the regulatory power of the U.S. government in an offensive against free speech were heightened further on Sunday, when Lieberman revealed that the plan was to mimic China’s policies of policing the web with censorship and coercion.

“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” Lieberman told CNN’s Candy Crowley.

We should be like China? Please tell me I’m dreaming!

What can we do? Well, we can call and raise hell to our nonresponsive Senators. Of course, that may not work. they don’t seem to care what we want.

Secondly, any Patriots and Patriot groups should be considering and implementing backup communication plans in the event the President decides to shut down our primary means of communication. He would dearly love us to sit down and shut up. We can not do that, no matter what the cost.

We will resort to smoke signals if necessary. Of course, then the EPA will probably be after us too.

With the Stroke of His Pen

Obama is considering signing an executive order to grant amnesty to all illegal's already in the United States.

I’m not an extremely educated person, but doesn’t that go against the Constitution? Isn’t that a way to circumvent the Congress and have the executive branch making law?

He wouldn’t dare do that. Would he? Sure he would. He desperately needs the 15 to 20 million new voters before the 2012 election. Voters who “owe” him something. Voters he can depend on to do his bidding.

I think he will do it when he feels the time is right. Maybe this year, but surely before the 2012 elections, in time to get all the illegal’s on the voting rolls. Look at all the other things he has done that no other AMERICAN president would do:

• Nationalize a car manufacturer
• Fire the CEO of a private company
• Nationalize a bank
• Nationalize the entire health care system against 60 or 70% of the American people’s wishes

I also wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he has an executive order declaring martial law somewhere on his desk. Waiting for the time to be right. Waiting for the opportunity to declare an “emergency”; cancel elections, and become our “president-for-life”.

He wouldn’t dare, you say? Watch him. You’ll see.

Much Ado About Nothing

After reading the article in Rolling Stone about General McChrystal, I am at a total loss as to what the media frenzy is about. Very few quotes are directly attributed to the General and those are not at all derogatory to the President. In fact, most quotes are from un-named staff members.

I read the article slowly, I took my time and looked for the comments the media had led me to believe were there. I found nothing of the sort.

Is this a diversionary tactic to take our minds off the oil spill, the economy, illegal immigration, more job killing legislation and many other possible events that are much more important? Probably.

Or maybe Obama just got tired of McChrystal and wants him replaced?

The end result of reading the article is that General McChrystal is being thrown under the bus. I just don’t know why.

Nothing New Here.

Obama’s speech last night was over 50 days too late. I saw no brilliant leadership, no stepping up to the plate. All I saw was a third-rate politician using a disaster he has basically ignored to push his political agenda.

Thumbs down, Obama. I expected better, even from you.

I Couldn’t Have Said It Better

Please hop over and read this article in the American Thinker….Stuart Schwartz has hit the nail on the head. Read it here.

My Thoughts On The Oil Spill

The oil rig explosion and resulting oil spill in the gulf has broken my heart. It saddens me that in the aftermath of the explosion the environmental disaster has drowned any coverage of the 11 lives that were lost and the devastation brought to their families. Then again, those families were probably relieved at not having cameras and microphones jammed in their faces each time they ventured out.

Now BP is being set up as an evil villain, the scourge of the earth, by the Obama administration. The explosion was an accident. (Am I the only one who wonders about sabotage?) Anytime you have humans and machinery, sooner or later there will be an accident. That’s a natural law. The oil spill and the damage it is causing is a crisis (never let one go to waste, remember) and the Obama administration will make good use of it to further their agenda. I guarantee it.

We have no real idea of how much oil will eventually end up in the ocean, or how far it will spread. I saw one model that shows it potentially entering the gulf stream and heading for Europe. I wonder if the European nations will then sue the United States? Will Obama settle out of court? Will it cause an international crisis?

As an animal lover I am saddened at the loss of wildlife. I realize that there is no way for us to know the total impact this will have on the marine life in the Gulf or the Atlantic for that matter. This crisis will not be over once the spill is stopped. It will last for decades.

I certainly don’t have the knowledge to fully comprehend the long-term effects. I don’t think anyone does.

However, I don’t think we need to stop drilling for oil. We need it, we should go after it. We should learn what went wrong that caused the explosion and take measures to prevent another. We should, perhaps, drill in Alaska and other places where a similar incident would not cause such widespread damage to populated areas or fishing grounds.

No matter what the rabid environmentalists like to think, we are a nation that depends on oil and oil based products to survive. That won’t change in this generation. Developing new energy sources and implementing them will take time and money and we are broke. We must keep drilling and keep building our own refineries to process our own oil. We must find safer ways to drill to prevent further catastrophes like the current one.

We can do it. We are American’s.