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It's Just Plain Creepy


Public unrest concerning healthcare reform prompted the White House to solicit emails from the People to convey prospects of disinformation received from chain emails or “casual conversations.” Our Executive Branch put itself in a pickle in that 1) it’s illegal for the President to compile a record of individual political speech and 2) records of the administration can never be destroyed but become part of the permanent national archive. Quite a pickle indeed.

That occurred a couple of weeks ago and, honestly, I’ve not ventured back to the website so cannot confirm the solicitation remains. This creates a nice sag way to a second point. After a nine year ban, our federal government is lifting the restriction on federal websites to utilize internet cookies on all hits to their pages. Internet cookies result in retail websites recognizing you and suggest items based on previous purchases. Cookies also help route software updates and pop-ups.

The circle closed quickly as just two days ago, the People began reporting unsolicited chain emails in their personal inboxes; chain emails from David Axlerod and the White House supporting Obama’s healthcare agenda. 

As if that weren’t enough; Cass Sunstein, Obama’s Regulatory Czar, has written "we hardly need to imagine a world, however, in which people and institutions are being harmed by the rapid spread of damaging falsehoods via the Internet. We live in that world. What might be done to reduce the harm?"

And, "a system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.  Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom's name."

Also within the last two weeks Obama appointed a Diversity Czar at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Mark Lloyd, in Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, suggests private broadcasters be taxed at a rate equal to total operating costs to fund National Public Radio (NPR). Lloyd’s views on localism and ownership imply his appointment may pick up where other attempts to oppress conservative talk radio have failed.

To me, this is just plain creepy and happening so quickly there is hardly time to react. But what can be done? The People voted for this madness and so many of them are still standing in support. History is ticking yet they continue to chant his name.

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