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Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
CBS News | CNet ^ | 1/7/10 | Declan McCullagh

Posted on 01/07/2011 8:57:35 PM PST by LibWhacker

STANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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To: KoRn
This is so bad, I had to check to see if it was satire.

It isn’t....

I was hoping when I clicked on this thread that the source article would be some conspiracy website like prisonplanet or such. That it's from CNet and reported by Declan McCullagh is disturbing to say the least.

The Obama administration is going to protect us from trying to memorize passwords? Um, no thanks. Sadly, I could see lawmakers from both parties rallying behind such an endeavor.

161 posted on 01/08/2011 4:48:44 AM PST by Gena Bukin
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To: luv2ndamend

No, no, no... everyone knows that the logical place for any bar code tattoo is on the tongue!

That way, every time one needs to do anything requiring it, they are forced to stick out their tongue.

:-P (<— see?)


162 posted on 01/08/2011 4:49:04 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: LibWhacker; Neil E. Wright
Big Brother is really now upon us. Will us Constitutionalists accept such an egregious power grab or will we revolt? The "progressive socialists" have been doing it for decades.

The sheeple will think this a good thing. Frig them. Let them sink into their cesspool of Dancing With the Stars and Desperate Housewives and other mindless distractions.

Personally, for me, this is the last straw. It is facism in its truest form. One of the main tenants of totalitarianism is control of free speech. THE one last outlet for 1st Amendment rights (free speech on the Internet), is now being abridged to the max. If they push this through - it is now war!

I say again, WAR! I will NOT stand by and watch this happen.

I'm 61 this month, I have little life ahead due to my bad lifestyle, which I ask NO one to account for. Anyone who believes the same as me, let's connect via secure comms. I want these totalitarians to just be deaded. Try me.

Disclaimer for the DHS and other LEO's. I'm talking sh*t on an Internet board. I support you and would never kill innocent civilians. Got it?

163 posted on 01/08/2011 4:50:37 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath Is Forever)
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To: LibWhacker

More of his laser beam attention on the jobs problem. /S


164 posted on 01/08/2011 4:50:50 AM PST by ladyvet
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To: LibWhacker

Looks like he wants to know who said what, so he can send his goons over to make “attitude adjustments” when people speak truth to his authority.

Last time I read the constitution, it didn’t say that you had to identify yourself in order to exercise your first amendment rights.


165 posted on 01/08/2011 4:53:36 AM PST by meyer (Obama - the Schwartz is with him.)
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To: LibWhacker

Please try it you Kenyan POS. Go on, and watch what happens. You and your fellow socialists have pushing too much too quickly. I really hope you try this one. Think backlash!!!


166 posted on 01/08/2011 4:57:41 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath Is Forever)
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To: LibWhacker

nobama and his ilk hate America, hate Freedom and hate you.


167 posted on 01/08/2011 5:00:25 AM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: lonevoice
How does this cr*p keep happening under the radar?

Because the flippin' media is in bed with them. Goebbels would be proud of the propaganda machine that our leftwing media has become.

168 posted on 01/08/2011 5:00:52 AM PST by meyer (Obama - the Schwartz is with him.)
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To: bushwon

Where is the ACLU on this?!?!

Where is the American Communist Lawyers Union? HHAHAHA ... preparing a case against you as we speak... :)


169 posted on 01/08/2011 5:04:54 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: LibWhacker

Oh joy, a whole new form of identity theft to worry about. He can call it “Project Mark of the Beast”.


170 posted on 01/08/2011 5:04:58 AM PST by Scutter
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To: Innovative
Obama thinks knows he was elected Fuhrer Our Beloved Great Leader.
171 posted on 01/08/2011 5:10:38 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: Innovative

Gary Locke prime example of a tyrant in waiting. See Comment 89.


172 posted on 01/08/2011 5:12:34 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: Innovative

If we only knew who is really pulling the leash of “Dear Leader” — it certainly isn’t Bo, the dog.


George Soros, Peter Lewis et al.


173 posted on 01/08/2011 5:15:48 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: LibWhacker
Nazis in charge of the Synagogues!
174 posted on 01/08/2011 5:16:04 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Greysard

we don’t care what Chinese gov’t collects about us, and neither does the Chinese gov’t.

Maybe we should, and how do you know? I can think of many senerios where the Chinese would very much care about certain individuls web activities, none of them good.


175 posted on 01/08/2011 5:20:31 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: Syncro

...what safeguards will ensure that the Gov will not track what political sites you visit, books you read etc?

Uh, that’s why they want to do this, isn’t it?


That’s why I am hoping that a court declares it unconstitutional


176 posted on 01/08/2011 5:26:42 AM PST by mewykwistmas
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To: Scutter
Criminals or “Terrorists” will simply use false ID’s or steal identities from law abiding citizens, which will incriminate countless innocent citizens.

This whole scam is simply designed to control our behavior, as well as identify political association and eventually they will use it to track down people who do not comply with the State mandated ruling party agenda.

Tea Party members are already labeled as “racist”, radical and dangerous. The MSM campaign to tag them with what ever other “crimes against the State” is a guarantee eventually. Then they will be easily rounded up and charged with vast amounts of “evidence” gathered under this system.

It's like having the IRS handle collecting the Medical Insurance and penalty payments from the citizen population, under MaObamacare. They passed this in the dead of night, behind closed doors, completely against the Constitution, and they did under the Commerce Clause which has nothing to do with either illegal mandate. They will use the same tactic in this case. And they will make it happen.

Unless that is, the Republican’ts finally stand up and put an end to this evil. And I am not holding my breath. Republican'ts always whine and complain and talk a great fight around election time, but later lay down like sick dogs or hang out with the flea ridden Left in the Congressional Chambers.

I really don't expect much else to get done towards stopping this.

177 posted on 01/08/2011 5:29:20 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Ping!


178 posted on 01/08/2011 5:29:54 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: basil

Oh, and I forgot to mention that this scam is meant to collect taxes on Internet activities.

Any doubts?


179 posted on 01/08/2011 5:31:33 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: LibWhacker

Obama can kiss me where the sun don’t shine....


180 posted on 01/08/2011 5:37:48 AM PST by Doofer
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