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And the left thought the internet police was only a figment in the imagination of conservatives!

From CBS News --

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the Justice Department's subpoena. (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-center amalgamation of journalists and advocates that – according to their principles of unity and mission statement – work toward "promoting social and economic justice" and "social change.")

The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded "all IP traffic to and from www.indymedia.us" on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to "include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information," including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers' Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on. More...

Will Political Dissent be Silenced by Obama's Internet Police?

H/T to Dr. Doo2little over at Cleveland Tea Party Patriot blog for this one.

I fully understand that cyber warfare and cyber attacks are a national security threat. With that I am willing to have some of my rights intruded upon in the name of us having a secure nation -- but only too a limited extent. Though some on the left went totally ape shit over the Patriot Act, I had no problem with it. I did not find the wire taps intrusive... if you were not planning to attack our country -- then you had nothing to worry about. I may be wrong, but, other than terrorists, I have yet to hear about someone being convicted of a crime from the wire taps.

Fast forwarding to present day... any restrictions placed upon the American public should be viewed as questionable. Why? Because collectively the new administration has launched a full frontal assault on being American and everything for which we stand. When this administration says, " in the best interest of our country..." or, "... in the name of National Security," the echoes of Hugo Chavez and other Socialist, Marxist, Fascist, Communist, etc... dictators ring through our halls of justice & freedom.

Never in the history of our country has an elected U.S. President used his office as a tool of stripping away our rights or turning fellow Americans against each other more than President Obama. Using the Dept. of Homeland Security to label outspoken individuals as extremists, instruct the FBI to open files and investigate organizers of any so-called anti-government rallys and the dispatching of union thugs to beat socialized health care naysayers are just a few things President Obama has done as he forcefully tries imposing his socialist views on our country. This modern day constitutional assault on any and all free thinking legal citizens of the United States is of historical proportions.

Now, and again chirping in the name of "national security," Obama is planning on expanding their insidious reach into our lives by creating the Internet Police giving him emergency access to our personal information and the authority to shut down websites....

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.

The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to "direct the national response to the cyber threat" if necessary for "the national defense and security." The White House is supposed to engage in "periodic mapping" of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies "shall share" requested information with the federal government. ("Cyber" is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.) More...

Even without imposing the Internet Police, some Internet search engines have already taken it upon themselves to become Obama's Goose-Stepping Internet Goons. As I posted here when Google recently blocked access to the website of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) through their search engine.

Obama's Self-Appointed Goose-Stepping Goons

I find it funny that the BD/SM loving Democrats continue defying all logic by hosting Town Hall meetings. It's almost like they think they will come up with something clever to say and "poof" we will all go away. I'm thinking maybe they' re hoping they can get a You Tube worthy moment by finding one where maybe their supporters of socialized health care out number the opponents.

In one of the latest Town Hall tussles in Reston, VA, an aptly named ass-crack of an police officer, Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr, takes it upon himself to become one of Obama's self-appointed, goose-stepping goon's by declaring martial law on the freedom of expression.

Taking issue with a poster depicting his leader as the "Joker," Officer Ass-Crack imposed the new Obama version of "Selective Free Speech."

From WND --

A video of the town hall held earlier this week by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., shows an unnamed protester standing on school grounds carrying a sign that read "Organizing for National Socialist Health Care – The Final Solution" and depicted Barack Obama in the Joker's makeup.

Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. then told the protester that even though others were holding signs, his sign was unacceptable because of the depiction of Obama.

"But you got this with a picture," Cheeks said, explaining why the protester was being singled out from the others. "That's the difference. This has got a picture on it. That don't have a picture on it.

"Sir, leave the picture down," the officer said. "If you put the picture back up, you'll be charged with trespassing."

The protester continued the argument, wondering how his presence among hundreds of others at the town hall meeting could be deemed trespassing.

The officer answered, "If I told you once to take it down and you put it back up, I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with."

Unable to turn the Town Haller in at the Ruler of Red Shed's "Neighbor Fink Link" -- created especially for silencing these type of so-called "anti-socialized health care hooligans" trying to exercises their God-given & Constitutionally protected rights -- the colonically challenged ass hat of a handcuffer just threatens to just make up a law and charge the guy.

How American!

Well if that sign got Officer Cheeks all tightened up, after buffing up his shiny black knee high boots, I'm sure this sign would have him herding you off into a cattle car.

Click here and you can see video of the incident and a brief run down on many of the Town Hall tussles.