So two wrongs make a right. As usual.
Over on Cornyn’s Senate Web site, for instance, you find that people who want to contact the Senator are asked to submit personal info, such as their names, addresses and emails, which are all required
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On themselves NOT on other people without their knowledge.
no comparison....
does this mean if a persons info was fowarded they might have a lawsuit?
this is pretty serious. they must have violated an encyclopedias worth of laws. What are the odds any station beside FOX covers this?
This stuff is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Suits MUST be filed.
Hiding the evidence would be another law broken.
I'm sure the MSM will be right on it.
A Senator is not the same as the President. They are both wrong, but there is something much more ominous about the TOTUS doing it.
open union ballots, ratting out your neighbors to the Whitehouse, having the press investigate and eviscerate citizens for “uttering”, elected officials calling/labeling citizens names, election ballot obstruction done overtly and allowed, daily lies, barnstorming NYC...
I am so glad we don’t have Bush repressing our civil rights any longer. Pheww!!!
I await the ACLU,/SPLC go crazy after this white house and pull out all the stops to sue this administration.
Truth be known, the name was originally “flagg@whitehouse.gov“, named after the architect, Randall Flagg, who has sometimes been referred to as a fictional character, but no doubt works for this group now....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Flagg
Obama administration keeps the motivation high to attend the “discussion” in DC.
Lies, excess, hypocrites, thugs.
Geeez, if this isn't illustrative of the difference between the statist-leftists running this WH & the rest of the country (including honest liberals), I don't know what is.
In the Cornyn illustration you have citizens themselves, of their own free will & volition, volunteering their own personal information to provide a contact to the person from whom they're seeking to receive a response.
In the White House's example, we have third parties sending the WH other people's personal information without their permission to report them to the Chief Law Enforcement officer of the land for suspicious activities, and said Chief LE collects that personal information belonging to private citizens who are merely critiquing his Administration's policies, information which has been procured by informants without the express knowledge let alone the consent of the people whose privacy is being violated.
And in Barrack Obama's mind, these two situations are indistinguishable? He's going to stand in front of the nation & make that ludicrous contention with a straight face?
That this President isn't capable of making a legal* let alone an ethical distinction between those two scenarios means he is waaaaay more obtuse than anyone imagined and Barack Obama's Magic Telepromter TM deserves a hearty apology from me. Clearly, I hadn't been giving TOTUS sufficient credit before.
Collecting enemies lists anyone?
obama’s administration is turning out to be everything that the democrats accused President Nixon’s administration of being.
I hope they got mine and spell my name right.
I want them to know exactly who it was that wrote “eff yourselves” and other suggestions.
Many members of congress don’t want to hear from anyone outside of their district. Besides, they want you to provide your own info, not somebody else’s.
Sorry, not buying it... I’m sure Congressmen collect information on their Constituents who write to them. For instance, I had contacted Rep. Obey regarding the AIG bonus law they were trying to pass. Obey (a few months later) sent me a packet in the mail containing a study that had been done by a committee in the House of Reps detailing specifically what was included in the bill itself and why the “lawyers” said it WASN’T Unconstitutional... As for the packet itself — 20 pages at least, and in a Manilla Envelope (Legal Size). Freaked me out at first, but I did appreciate the information even though I disagreed with it...
But, that is NOT what is happening here with the WHITE HOUSE/Executive Branch collecting information as they have done with the Flag@WhiteHouse.gov email address. All I have to say is that someone had BETTER have saved all those emails (or it’s a violation of ANOTHER law regarding correspondances to the White House being preserved in the National Archives).
No matter which way you look at it, this was MUCH different than Congresspersons collecting information from communication to their offices in order to CORRESPOND with their Constituents... That is their JOB. It is NOT the job of the Executive Branch to compile lists of citizens for or against certain efforts ongoing. And ESPECIALLY when it’s set up as it was — a “snitch” line...
The DNC and Obama are in hot water, whether they want to admit it or not... I just hope to God the Republicans are biding their time in regards to calling for prosecutions or special investigations. Perhaps this crime isn’t “Big Enough” for them to call him out on it, but could be part of a much bigger ongoing effort to document all the things he’s done so far... I’m pretty sure that’s all wishful thinking. The GOP members themselves are NOT immune to blackmail - and it’s my personal theory that if you’ve gotten to DC, there is SOMETHING they’ve got on you SOMEWHERE...
If you are not sure about leaving a real email to any site, use
(You can retrieve any answer there if you remember the name you signed up under. some sites do not accept it for sign ups)
Snooping for clunkers: Government trades car credits for access to computer files