Jack's Rant Friday, June 18

A News Article:

(June 18) -- Newly proposed legislation would give the federal government authority to seize and even switch off the Internet during a national crisis.The bill, put forward Thursday by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., would allow the Department of Homeland Security to issue emergency orders to companies providing services such as search engines, software and broadband Internet, according to CBS. Companies that didn't comply would face a fine. "The Internet can also be a dangerous place, with electronic pipelines that run directly into everything from our personal bank accounts to key infrastructure to government and industrial secrets," Lieberman said. "Our economic security, national security and public safety are now all at risk from new kinds of enemies: cyberwarriors, cyberspies, cyberterrorists and cybercriminals."

Is this guy stark raving mad???? Give the government the right to shut down all electronic communication???? Congress has come up with a lot of hair brained ideas in the pass but this one reeks of Nazi Germany!

I'm sorry, Mr. Santry, we don't like what you wrote on your blog so we're declaring you a national risk and shutting down your access to the Internet!

This is just the tip of a very large ice burg that has been forming since the Bush administration and it's not a pretty sight! One by one we've seen our constitutional rights stripped away in the name of "national security".

THIS STOPS NOW!

Wake up people, the elected people in congress are not representing us, they're representing some pretty scary ideas, and very large corporations that pull the strings.

I don't care if you're a tea bagger or a left wing liberal, on this issue there should be no party lines and stop this madness in it's tracks before it trods on yet another one of our personal rights!