Cornyn Accuses White House Of Compiling 'Enemies list'

Dallas Morning News ^ | August 6, 2009 | Staff

[WhiteCastle]

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list," has asked President Barack Obama to stop an effort to collect "fishy" information Americans see about a health care overhaul.

Cornyn, who leads the Republicans' Senate campaign effort, said Wednesday in a letter to Obama that he's concerned that citizen engagement on the issue could be "chilled." He also expressed alarm that the White House could end up collecting electronic information on its critics.

"I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward e-mails critical of his policies to the White House," Cornyn wrote.

[television is just wrong]

half of the US will be enemies of the state?

[gwilhelm56]

More than half of USA will be Enemies of

DER FUHRER OBAMA

[Verginius Rufus]

It isn't clear yet if this is just a tactic to try to get people to shut up, or if they are serious about compiling an enemies list. Coupled with the memo earlier this year regarding pro-lifers and other conservatives as essentially domestic terrorists, they may mean business. Their model for a European-socialist USA is not Sweden but East Germany.

What might they do to the people who do wind up on the enemies list? IRS audits? Not being allowed to fly on airplanes? That's too short a list.