Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Free speech under attack
Something is going seriously wrong here.
It seems that the Government fears the citizenry, and may try to enact laws that will certainly cause the citizenry to fear the Government.
It's easy to conclude that the foundations of our Constitution may be under attack by a Government that is sworn to protect them...
It seems that the Government fears the citizenry, and may try to enact laws that will certainly cause the citizenry to fear the Government.
It's easy to conclude that the foundations of our Constitution may be under attack by a Government that is sworn to protect them...
At WorldNetDaily.com, Drew Zahn reports:
"Privacy advocates and Internet experts have been quick to sound the alarm over the act's broadly drawn government powers.
'The cybersecurity threat is real,' says Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which obtained the draft of S.773, 'but such a drastic federal intervention in private communications technology and networks could harm both security and privacy.'
'The whole thing smells bad to me,' writes Larry Seltzer in eWeek, an Internet and print news source on technology issues. 'I don't like the chances of the government improving this situation by taking it over generally, and I definitely don't like the idea of politicizing this authority by putting it in the direct control of the president.' "
