By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

It’s not bad enough that the new Diversity Czar is gunning for Conservative Media and threatening to trample our 1st Amendment rights, we now have Obama getting ready to seize the Internet in the event of an “emergency.”

By the way, this is one author who doesn’t give a flying crap whether the White House likes the term ‘Czar’ or not. I also don’t care about your dithering over a ‘Czar’ is defined as whether they are appointed by the Senate or not. Semantics and clever attribution don’t change the fact that my personal definition of a ‘Czar’ is an individual in the government or connected to the government who wields an inordinate amount of political power and either answers only to the President or to a select few in power in the White House. You can pound sand if you don’t like it…

First we have the Czars and the corrupt interest groups and bullies such as ACORN and SEIU. Then we have militarized corps being formed by Obama – his own private brown shirt militia. Then we have free speech threatened by the Diversity Czar and now Obama is passing a bill that would give him emergency control of the Internet – any emergency will do.

I am asking the same questions that Glenn Beck is asking and I have been asking them for a long time. Mr. President, just exactly what are you getting ready to do? Is martial law and Internet seizure part of your game plan? Because it sure looks like it to Americans out here…

From CNET News:

Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller’s aides this week, but were not immediately available for interviews on Thursday.

A spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess. A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president’s power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001. The source said that one primary concern was the electrical grid, and what would happen if it were attacked from a broadband connection.

When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. “We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs–from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records,” Rockefeller said.

I don’t know about all of you, but I’ve got a really bad feeling about this… Most disturbing of all:

Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.” The White House is supposed to engage in “periodic mapping” of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies “shall share” requested information with the federal government. (“Cyber” is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)

“The language has changed but it doesn’t contain any real additional limits,” EFF’s Tien says. “It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)…The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There’s no provision for any administrative process or review. That’s where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it.”

Translation: If your company is deemed “critical,” a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.

I urge all of you to read the CNET piece in full. Ask these questions and demand answers now. If we don’t, we will rapidly become a fascist state and you will find virtually all of your rights have disappeared or have been severely reduced. I don’t know about you, but I don’t fancy living under Obama’s boot heel. Give me liberty, or give me death…

Update: RedState – Democrats echo Truman and threaten to nationalize Internet

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