April 14th 2009
Obama Is Losing The Hard Left
You wouldn’t know it by reading the headline, but Obama is losing – or has already lost – those few loons in America who truly want Socialism to replace Capitalism. Here’s the headline, from the American Journal of Loons, aka Mother Jones:
Should Obama Control the Internet?
One would think by the headline that Obama remains entirely safe in his cushion of media protection. After all, if the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 had been the Cybersecurity Act of 2007, proposed under the Bush administration, the headline would have been far more provocative, something like “Off with Bush’s Head! He Wants to Control Our Internet!” But Mother Jones actually asks if it’s OK to hand over control of history’s greatest leveler of information to government.
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 gives the president the ability to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any “critical” information network “in the interest of national security.” The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president.
It does?! And you’re asking?! (Here’s the draft bill if you don’t trust Mother Jones.)
Fawning and forgiving as the article is, the comment section gives us a window into the true thinking of the whacked-left readers of the magazine. There are nearly 150 posted as of this moment; here’s a smattering:
Oh, please, it has nothing to do with socialism. It’s called fascism, or corporatism, or perhaps even better a plutocracy. True socialism’s goal is the equality of all people. What’s going on now has nothing to do with the common good of the people. It’s the international bankers and the kings and princes of our age vying for ultimate power — Just the way it has been for centuries.
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how is this admin any different from previous admins?
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No difference. Both sides of the aisle are and have been doing their best to destroy the Republic. Scum bags who have risen to power by lying, cheating and stealing. No matter how you dress them up, they are the scum of the earth.
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Oh, please, it has nothing to do with socialism. It’s called fascism, or corporatism, or perhaps even better a plutocracy. True socialism’s goal is the equality of all people. What’s going on now has nothing to do with the common good of the people. It’s the international bankers and the kings and princes of our age vying for ultimate power — Just the way it has been for centuries.
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Gee – maybe we’ll be just like Orwell’s vision in 1984… we’ll get rid of any remaining truth and depend only on the mainstream media talking heads spewing government press releases as if they were journalists. Then we’ll be docile and controllable – and what the heck, who needs the constitution???
There’s a healthy debate about whether it’s socialism or fascism, and the smart ones get it: It’s both. Obama wants the legal framework of fascism to give him greater control over government, and he wants to use that control to redistribute wealth. The left may be OK with the latter, but they’re definitely not happy with Obama’s direction on the former.
So they’re half-way with us.
