Threat of Cyber Attacks Gives Government Excuse for Cyber Control

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Within a month or two after Barack Obama's presidency commenced we began to receive reports of how a blitz of cyber attacks were threatening U.S. Security. I believe the headlines were simply a scare tactic, and failed to indicate that cyber attacks have been with us since the early days of the Internet. The ploy worked, however, leading to the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, and the appointment of an Internet Czar who is a non-elected person with the power to literally shut down areas of the Internet that he or she deems "dangerous."

I wonder how long it will take them to decide that any kind of dissent is dangerous?

Obama has continually sought more and more control of the Internet, as well as being willing to cede much of that control over to the International Community (United Nations).

If the Democrat's proposal succeeds, the president would have the power to shut down the Internet and private networks under the guise of safeguarding essential federal and private Web resources should there be a massive, nationwide cyber attack.

The legislation is chiefly the brainchild of globalist Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and idiot RINO Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). Both lawmakers have longed for a federal cybersecurity bill, claiming such legislation to be necessary to protect the country's Web infrastructure.

This writer believes that allowing the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" gives the federal government the opportunity to quell our freedoms of speech, while unconstitutionally regulating the Internet, which I believe is the last bastion of free speech remaining in this country.

It is interesting to me how these people expect us to believe that under Obama's watch, a president they claim is an internationally respected intellectual, the number of cyber attacks have increased drastically.

I thought Obama was loved by the world? If the leftists are correct about how wonderful Obama is, and how hated Bush was, then why would cyber attacks increase under Obama's watch, especially after following the "hated" George W. Bush?

I submit that anytime the federal government is given this kind of unlimited power over the people, it never ends good for the populace.

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