Friday, August 28, 2009

Have you ever noticed how reasonably each incision is delivered?

by Smitty

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
If they screwed up and left me alone with the legislation, I'd throw in a rider:

Immediately after restoration of service, there is a national referendum on whether or not the President finishes out the term office in Fort Leavenworth.

Update:
Blogprof covered this story with significant additional detail.

2 comments:

  1. Not in Fort Leavenworth. In Gitmo.

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  2. POTUS Chiquita Obama and his banana-boat first mate Holder are taking pages from Chavez in Venezuela and Castro in Cuba on how to control a media which resists takeover by BIG GOVERNMENT. First prosecute your predecessors and then cut off opposition media sources. This guy is shaping up to be worse than Gee-Mah Carter already, and in GWB's first term, 9/11 hadn't even happened!

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