Do you want Barack Hussein Obama and his cronies to have the power to
SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET?
Dear Friend of the Constitution,
That’s EXACTLY what’s about to happen, if Congress passes two new bills… Unless YOU help to stop them!
TELL CONGRESS TO REJECT
GIVING BARACK OBAMA TOTAL CONTROL OF THE INTERNET!
According to news reports, two new Senate bills — S. 773 and S. 778 — ”would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared ’cyber emergency.’”
These two new bills are both part of what’s being called the ”Cybersecurity Act of 2009.”The Act would create a new bureaucracy, the ”Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor,”which would be charged with ”defending the country from cyber attack”… and would report directly to Barack Obama.
But that’s not all it would do: it would also grant the Secretary of Commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be ”critical”to the nation’s infrastructure, ”without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.”
Did you read that? The Secretary of Commerce, reporting directly to Mr. Obama, would be able to snoop through ANYTHING connected to the Internet that a President decides is ”critical”to look at. And it doesn’t matter what the law says — they get to do this whenever and wherever a President wants them to.
Talk about UNCONSTITUTIONAL! We MUST NOT let Barack Obama’s cronies in Congress get away with this!
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution states:
”The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
It’s clear: giving the U.S. Department of Commerce oversight of the ”critical” networks — like banking records — would give the federal government access to confidential, private information obtained without cause or warrant, which is a CLEAR violation of the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition against unlawful search and seizure!
What exactly are these ”critical infrastructure networks”that Barack Obama would have the power to ”take offline”whenever he wants to? The examples they give are things like ”banking, utilities, air/rail/auto traffic control, and telecommunications.”
WHAT??? Exactly HOW do you take the telecommunications networks off of the Internet, when that’s what the Internet is comprised of? And if YOUR bank gets taken offline, don’t you think you might go into your branch and ask for all of your deposits in cash? Don’t you think EVERYONE might do that?
According to one Senate document that attempts to ”explain”the bills, this Act ”addresses our country’s unacceptable vulnerability to massive cyber crime, global cyber espionage and cyber attacks that could cripple our critical infrastructure.”
In a statement explaining the bill’s introduction, liberal Democratic West Virginia U. S. Senator Jay Rockefeller said, ”We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs — from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records — the list goes on.”
Senator Olympia Snowe, a liberal Republican from Maine who is co-sponsoring the bill, gave us this dire warning: ”If we fail to take swift action, we, regrettably, risk a cyber-Katrina.”
In other words, we need to give up our freedoms and liberties in order for the government to give us ”security.”
What was it that Benjamin Franklin once said? ”Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
WE MUST NOT GIVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THESE ABSOLUTE POWERS!
Why would anyone push such a bill? Two reasons: power and money.
The far-left Democrats who now control our government are willing to stop at nothing to give themselves more and more and more power, as well as control over our private lives! And they’re backed by law enforcement and people in the security industry who want to ensure more government dollars go to them.
Politicians and lobbyists want to take away our Constitutional rights — we need to make sure they FAIL. And we’ve got a GREAT way to do that!
