Beware the White House

This White House is very tech savvy. It wants to "own your computer" when you sign up for the "Cash for Clunkers" program; it wants to monitor your browsing habits with "cookies;" and it wants you to report your neighbor if you notice anything "fishy." Now, it wants us to believe that the most recent Internet-related story involving third party healthcare e-mails is another mistake. Don't believe the government's excuses.

They know exactly what they are doing and aim to use (control) the Internet to shove its programs and bills (agenda) down our throats.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The present administration has not even tried to hide its disdain and disregard for our privacy and our right to speak without intimidation.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects the right to anonymous speech; so — ot cannot try to find out who or where or why folks oppose the president!

Second, the statutes that the president has sworn to enforce make it unlawful for him or anyone in his name to take our names and information.

Third, the threat to deliver cookies to the computers to those who communicate with the White House is an egregious violation of privacy.

The Supreme Court rejected the idea that the First Amendment permits the government to make and keep a record of the faces and voices and ideas of its domestic political opponents. The Court called this "chilling" the right to speak freely; in other words, denying it the breathing room that free speech requires. The whole purpose of the First Amendment, the Court wrote, is to encourage — not discourage — open, broad, robust political debate; and any inhibition, real or threatened, that comes from the government is unconstitutional.

And the Obama Admin, he and his cohorts are downright Nixonian with their constant attempts to villify and punish those they do not like (e.g. FOX).

Beware!