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Senators propose granting president emergency Internet power
cnet ^ | 06/11/2010 | declan mcclugagh

Posted on 06/11/2010 7:54:43 AM PDT by devane617

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To: catnipman

Hey, just like good ol’ Hugo in Venezuela, right? My question is why stop at the Internet? Why not allow seizure of all television and radio channels too, while we’re at it?”

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2053


81 posted on 06/11/2010 9:23:30 AM PDT by jessduntno (America is now just like Easy Company in Bastogne...and Obama is Lt. Dike. God help us.)
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To: jrg
are we talking "pig" pork or a euphemism for the one eyed trouser trout?

LOL! Pig. As to the other reference I will defer to others who thankfully know more than I on that subject.

Remember about a month ago Obamalamadingdong's Administration was making noises about trying to get people to eat better through legislation? Later that afternoon he and his entourage stopped to eat at a rib joint somewhere and he ordered ribs and french fries. The health food Nazis were all over him for ordering ribs and fries on the same day he was proposing legislation to outlaw the lardassification of America....

82 posted on 06/11/2010 9:31:57 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: jessduntno

I don’t see opposition, too many helpers in Congress. This really could be the final nail.


83 posted on 06/11/2010 9:32:09 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: Redleg Duke
Lieberman and Snowe. Figures.

Have they explained just what-in-heck kind of *emergency* is it that would require a sitting president to violate the Constitutional rights of Americans this way?? As horrific as planes flying into buildings was, I don't see that as cause to justify this nonsense, what do they consider worse??

Enabling the establishment of a dictator, I don't care they are doing through the legislative process, this strikes me as some kind of violation.

84 posted on 06/11/2010 9:33:28 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: BuckeyeTexan

And it won’t be virtual...


85 posted on 06/11/2010 9:39:25 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (I Love My Country, but I Hate my Government...)
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To: devane617

Why don’t people see what this man is doing? Is congress really that blind? What’s in it for them? I am so frustrated with this man!

Obama is God’s curse on America.


86 posted on 06/11/2010 9:45:56 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: catnipman

Just give him time...


87 posted on 06/11/2010 9:47:08 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: MozarkDawg

Have they explained just what-in-heck kind of *emergency* is it that would require a sitting president to violate the Constitutional rights of Americans this way??.....

They want to shut down web sites like Free Republic and Yes...this is way more serious than 9/11!!!


88 posted on 06/11/2010 9:51:13 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: devane617

I wouldn’t even give this power to President Palin (both because I would worry about the dead and parasitic voters selecting someone like Obama and because it’s outside the proper bounds of government power), although she would almost certainly refuse to use that power. There is no way I would give this power directly to the anti-American thug in our White House.


89 posted on 06/11/2010 9:52:27 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: devane617

These idiots are going to start the second American Civil War!!!


90 posted on 06/11/2010 9:53:05 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

We need to get out talking points that if Obama shut down off-shore drilling without a second thought, killed the remaining jobs in LA & TX without even giving it serious consideration, what the hell would he do to the country when he decided after a round of golf to shut down the Internet.


91 posted on 06/11/2010 9:57:16 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: ClearCase_guy

Might need a kind of “pony express” for today.

How many people have printers and word at home?

Many times more than there were printers in the colonies.


92 posted on 06/11/2010 9:57:43 AM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
"I’ve seen this movie before:

1) Republic Senate grants Palatine emergency power, he becomes Emperor

2) Germany government grants Hitler emergency power, he establishes dictatorship.

3) American government grants Wilson emergency power, he establishes dictatorship.

4) American government grants Roosevelt emergency power, he establishes dictatorship.

etc

etc

etc

etc

And this:

N) American government grants all Presidents emergency power, they establish a permanent form of "soft" dictatorship.

93 posted on 06/11/2010 10:00:59 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Windflier; LucyT; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; PhilDragoo; Candor7; rxsid; MeekOneGOP; ..
Ping.................

Senators propose granting president emergency Internet power

WF,

It’ll start Revolution II, if they do this.

That's exactly what the regime of Chicago thugs are trying to accomplish in order to postpone/cancel the Nov. '10 election that they can't afford to lose. They are probing, poking, threatening, offending, ignoring public opinion on immigration, the economy, etc. They are catering to the far-left trying to precipitate a Reichstag Fire to disarm the population after declaring an emergency and/or martial law. Case in point, incidents of using minority union thugs to beat up Tea Partiers as happened in NC a couple of days ago.

I repeatedly said that the sign(s) would be simultaneous throttling of We-The-People's communications, mainly, the Internet, Talk/news radio and conservative publications. They can't move to disarm and subjugate the population by force with open lines of communications that will alert many parts of the country.

The big difference between the USA and other countries when it comes to said subjugation IS the first and second amendments. The first amendment is well muffled already by a communist media who don't know that their turn will come after the regime takes care of the second amendment, removing the real protection of the first amendment.

If you missed yesterday's Glenn Beck, you had better try to see/hear that program. He didn't say what I'm saying above because he simply couldn't. However, created physical violence by the Left (quoting Glenn:"rivers of blood") has a "window."

I believe the "window" is from now to November 2, '10.

94 posted on 06/11/2010 10:05:14 AM PDT by melancholy
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To: Jackson57
So pulling my tinfoil hat down tight, leading up to the next Presidential election...

Do you really think there will be a next election? Well, a fair one. Of course, I've said all along that this one was fixed so when exactly was the last fair election of the people?

95 posted on 06/11/2010 10:11:50 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: Thermalseeker
Don’t forget or discount HAM radio operators

Until they knock on your door and confiscate all your equipment.

96 posted on 06/11/2010 10:12:54 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: Thermalseeker

Bloody? Oh, puleez. There is a usurper in the oval office as we speak and nothing, NOTHING, has been done. The sheeple will continue to fall in line.


97 posted on 06/11/2010 10:15:18 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: jrg
He's a stealth Muslim.

He admitted he was a muslim just a few days ago. It was posted here somewhere.

98 posted on 06/11/2010 10:18:55 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: bgill

where? I would love to see that!!


99 posted on 06/11/2010 10:27:38 AM PDT by Chickensoup (The Acting President....is an incompetent puppet of Soros.)
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To: devane617

bttt


100 posted on 06/11/2010 10:28:56 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping List-freepmail me to be included or removed. <{{{><)
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