Obama's Internet Kill-Switch

Fellow American Patriot,

If you're like me, you've been glued to your television and have watched what's going on in Egypt and the Middle East. It's mind-boggling. The demonstrations in Egypt started over high unemployment and a lack of jobs, but spread quickly to encompass the lack of free speech, the lack of honest elections, and police brutality. The protests, organized via the Internet, Facebook and other social communication networks were planned to be a one day protest. The Egyptian government's attempt to silence the people expanded the protest into a melee that caught the eye of the world.

Over-reacting, the Egyptian government triggered the "kill-switch," and shut down access to the Internet by all of its citizens. You might say: "Well, that could never happen here in the United States. We have a Constitution. We have free speech." Granted, Egypt doesn't. Or, rather, it has "free speech" based on the United Nation's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which means that they possess only those rights allowed by government, as long as government allows them. Free speech rights in the rest of the world are privileges that a government can withdraw at will.

But, make no mistake about it: What happened in Egypt can happen here. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government enacted a law that gave him the right, in times of a "national emergency," to exercise the "kill-switch" and and shut down the Internet. Barack Obama authorized the FCC to give him that authority---not Congress, mind you, his own underling, gave him the authority to shut down the Internet if the White House perceives there to be a national emergency.

The main components of U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller's Cyber-Security Act of 2009 (which failed to get out of a Senate Committee) were adopted by the current FCC (by a vote of 3-2) when, on December 21, 2010, Mr. Obama's guidelines were voted on for implementation. One of them was the power for the Commander-in-Chief to use the "Internet Killswitch" in the event of a national emergency.


Our Constitutional freedoms are once again at stake! This time, since other nations are exercising the "executive right" to deny their people freedom of speech, the FCC believes that the Executive of the United States should have that power as well.

Muslim protestors in Los Angeles stand in solidarity with Egyptian protestors. Even without Egyptian access to the Internet, LA protestors chant, "We hear you, Egypt!"

When Egyptian President Mubarak cut off ("kill-switched") the Internet into Egypt, Google patched a make-shift system into Egypt which allowed Egyptians to get their message out. When the the Egyptian government realized what had happened, they reopened the onramps to the Egyptian information superhighway.

This new Obama controlled FCC issued regulation has given Barack Obama, or the Department of Homeland Security, the un-Constitutional authority to shutdown the internet in the United States, if the Administration feels there is a "terrorist" threat. He can shut YOU, AND ALL OF US, down!

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