*Excellent: Keep the Government From Snooping in Our Email, at the Washington Examiner.
“Civilian libertarians were apoplectic over former President George W. Bush’s “warrantless wiretap” program, which sought to monitor communications from terrorist networks overseas. So why are they not screaming bloody murder now that President Barack Obama appears slated to receive unprecedented power to monitor all Internet traffic without a warrant and to even shut the system down completely on the pretext of national security? The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 – introduced by Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, and cosponsor Olympia Snowe, R-ME – bypasses all existing privacy laws and allows White House political operatives to tap into any online communication without a warrant, including banking, medical, and business records and personal e-mail conversations. This amounts to warrantless wiretaps on steroids, directed at U.S. citizens instead of foreign terrorists.”
Thought I’d throw this up here, but I can’t find the actual text of the bill. Anyone else?
*This guy is afraid that the Tea Party movement will lead to a real revolution, because “It’s a message of fear, prejudice and, quite frankly, hate.” Hear that people? Your right to peaceable assembly and protest is hateful and dangerous, because it is anti-Obama. He won suckers, roll over and accept the counter-revolution already. All this talk of liberty and redress of grievance is not helping the children.
RELATED: Chuck Shumer, who in the past likened talk radio to pornography, continues to be a f@#k-tard.
“ But the hard right, which still believes when the federal government moves chop off its hands, still believes, you know, traditional values kind of arguments and strong foreign policy, all that is over.”
Traditional values and strong foreign policy are over. Remember that when our enemies come swarming out of the woodwork. Also, when did having a traditional belief system and believing in a strong foreign policy morph into “the hard right”? JFK would kick this guy’s ass. Hell, so would FDR, without needing to get out of his wheelchair.
*According to this guy, believers in the second amendment are responsible for the recent spate of shootings. Bob Owens at Pajamas Media calls shenanigans.
*Heh. From Gerald Warner at The Telegraph: Barack Obama – President Pantywaist
“President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow.”
*Your Daily Dose of Awesome: What kind of blog commenter are you?
-QC-
