Where is the American Civil Liberties Union when you need it?
Massive databases of unwitting American citizens are being created right now by the Obama administration for no legitimate government purpose. This is politics being subsidized by taxpayers – pure and simple.
It is one of the most egregious abuses of power I have ever witnessed in my lifetime – and, not unlike Bill Clinton’s use of the Internal Revenue Service to target political enemies in the 1990s, it is happening with scarcely a whimper of protest from so-called “civil libertarians.”
If any Internet business harvested e-mails in this manner and used them for its own purposes, it would be characterized for what it is – big-time spamming.
Internet businesses are shut down for less.
But when the same techniques are used by the government, it should be considered a far more serious matter.
When government maintains data on individual citizens for its own political purposes, we have officially entered into the Big Brother world of “1984.”
Barack Obama is a guy, let me remind you, who won’t let the citizens of the United States see his own birth certificate, but he is keeping electronic dossiers on them!
Not only are the e-mails being covertly gathered, they are also being categorized by political classifications. How much work would it take to turn the files of those opposed to Obama’s policies into the largest enemies’ list ever collected?
It’s time to start calling Barack Obama what he is – the spammer in chief.
But even that title doesn’t do justice to the crimes associated with this kind of official intelligence gathering on the people of the United States.
I believe this is an impeachable offense. And, for the life of me, I can’t figure out why others don’t recognize the insidious nature of this conspiracy.
For weeks I have been receiving hundreds of messages from across the country from people alarmed about how they ended up on Obama’s e-mail list. They swear they didn’t sign up. They just started receiving his communications unsolicited.
Because it was all anecdotal, I didn’t pay too much attention to the complaints. But, now they all begin to make sense.
Think about what would happen to you or me if we harvested e-mail addresses for any purpose and sent out massive amounts of unsolicited e-mail to that database.
There are laws against this.
How does the White House, whose central responsibilities are enforcing the laws of the land, get away with lawbreaking?
I guess the answer is as simple as this: Who’s going to prosecute?
Now, I have no illusions that an impeachment case will be made against Obama for this abuse. But I do believe Americans are growing weary of this kind of corruption in the White House. It’s time to turn up the pressure and spread the word. His friends in my industry are obviously not going to do that.
Don’t be confused by White House excuses that the program is only an attempt to be in compliance with the Presidential Records Act.
That’s a bad joke.
This is the same White House that earlier announced plans to lift a government ban on tracking visitors to government websites, and potentially, collect their personal data through the use of “cookies” – an effort many suspect may already be in place on White House sites.
A ban on such tracking by the federal government on Internet users has been in place since 2000; however, the White House Office of Management and Budget now wants to lift the ban, citing a “compelling need.” In fact, according to the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, federal agencies have negotiated agreements and contracts with social networking sites like Google, YouTube, SlideShare, Facebook, AddThis, Blist, Flickr and VIMEO to collect information on visitors for federal websites. All of these private companies are known to have agreements with federal agencies, but the public has never seen them.
And, of course, we all remember the famous “snitch” program under which citizens were asked to forward to the White House e-mail address anything they might see “about health insurance reform that seems fishy.”
I’ll tell you what smells fishy – this White House’s grab for power at any cost and without regard to matters of privacy, the law or any sense of decency.
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