Once Again Proving Hussein is a Dick

I know I'm late on posting today...sue me, I was busy.

A Senate bill was ever so quietly re-introduced yesterday, slightly reworded and still vague as hell. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is on the docket again. For those of you unfamiliar with the bill, it's the one that would give Ol' Bammy the power to turn off the internet "in case of emergency". It gives the prez power to declare "a cybersecurity emergency" relating to non-governmental networks and plan accordingly. Which is ACLU language for "the prez will have a killswitch to turn off any computer network he doesn't like, no matter how grossly unconstitutional it may be." One senator suggested that the power would be akin to Bush's grounding of all air traffic in the wake of 9/11; Sen. Jay Rockefeller (Dipshit, W.V.), the author of the original mess, said the bill is "critical to protecting everything from water and electricity to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records."

There are so many places to call "bullshit" here...where to start?

Let's start with this: can you imagine the loud, prolonged, and furious outcry from the Left if this had been a right-wing idea while Bush was in office? We'd still be hearing about abuse of power, fascism, Nazism, secret cabals, world domination...all of that crap. But let one of Hussein's lackeys bring it up; well then, that's a different story. We need to protect the country, right?

Do they know that water and traffic lights are run by governmental agencies? And do they know that electrical companies and especially banks have more sophisticated security measures in place than the government would know what to do with? Are they aware, as the article points out, that the experts in this field, who would be required to make this plan work, are already employed by the private sectors of the economy this plan is intended to protect? That's like asking a mall cop to relieve an Army MP on guard duty. It would increase the chances of a security breach.

And why the concern over electronic health records? Maybe the concern lies with the fact that if, by some satanic intervention, Obamacare passes, the government won't want people investigating all the lies, corruption, and bullshit the Left would need to use to keep the program afloat? I can't imagine someone with the know-how to do so much damage to the country by hacking a network somewhere would be concerned about health records. How much damage could lost health files really do? Not much; it might be a great inconvenience, but hardly a harbinger of socio-economic collapse.

So we're right back where we keep landing so many times with Hussein: it's just one more attempt to eliminate freedom in this country. Take control of the media, the airwaves, the internet...control as much information as you can so no one can figure out what you're up to. Because in Bammy's case, it's always no good.

Story here.