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“Can you hear
me…now?”
I suppose I should consider changing my name
to something like Rip Van Perry since it
appears I have been asleep for quite
sometime. Before I dozed off, I recall the
candidate for the president of the United
States, Barack Obama had been criticizing
the Bush administration for being too
invasive of the rights of the American
citizens.
Now we find that one group (Moveon.org) who
had worked long and hard to put Mr. O into
the White House had this to say (July, 2008)
about Mr. O’s flip flop on telecom
surveillance:
“We’re disappointed in Senator Obama’s
support of the compromise on FISA—the bill
doesn’t go far enough in protecting our
constitutional liberties and allows a free
pass for phone companies who helped the
President illegally wiretap innocent
Americans. We hope Sen. Obama will honor his
word and do everything he can to strip this
immunity from the bill. He’s also said that
accountability is very important to him, so
we’re hoping he will follow up with a plan
for how to protect our liberty and our
security, along with a plan to bring
lawbreakers to justice. Americans want those
who violate the constitution to see
consequences; it’s a core American value and
a winning position for the election. This
along with his strong stands on healthcare,
the energy crisis and ending the war can
help the Senator win in November.”
Of course, MoveOn.org must have believed the
Obama promise that he would take care of
their request in exchange for their support
in helping him to get elected. I wonder how
they feel now? It now appears that the fears
of MoveOn.Org are going to come true. The
FBI is pushing for the right to obtain logs
from all mobile phone companies in order to
track the movements of Americans. Read More
at:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html
What happened here? I was under the
impression (obviously mistaken) that the
Obama administration was going to put an end
to the evil spying policies of the
Bush/Cheney era. Now it seems that Mr. O is
taking the position that none of us have any
‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ when it
comes to making cell calls. Better keep this
in mind when you call your significant other
and speak those little words between now and
Valentines Day. You never know who will be
listening.
In another swipe at our civil rights is the
administrations request for the internet
service providers to maintain a log of all
of the web sites each one of us might choose
to visit. This little discussion is taking
place at this time and is approved by none
other than good old President Barack…..read
about this at:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10448060-38.html?tag=rtcol;pop
Obviously the internet has become a major
part of our lives and there isn’t anyone who
would deny that it has been used to further
the criminal activities of some. But, the
Obama administration seems to focus on
throwing the baby out with the bath water in
their implementation of any of their
policies. Look at healthcare, we estimate
that some 13-20 million citizens don’t have
health insurance, so why not address those
and leave the rest of us alone? The same
logic (perhaps that’s the wrong word to use
in relationship to anything to do with the
government) applies to using the internet.
Why would the government need to track where
I go when they should focus on looking at
the people committing crimes? Certainly we
have no issue with warrants being issued to
facilitate the investigation of criminals,
but to give wholesale approval to store data
on all of us seems to be overkill to me. I’m
certain requiring the internet service
providers to maintain huge amounts of
information such as this would result in the
costs of services to escalate. Of course,
then we would have to build a large
government agency to handle and process all
of the information being passed along to
them. More jobs to fill, more tax to
support, less freedom….there’s change for
you.
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