How Orwellian. 1984 anyone?
First, make sure you’ve seen the former KGB agent’s interview about how Marxist leaders used informers to make lists of politically incorrect people who they want to execute, imprison, or deport after Destabilization–the second step of taking over a country (view the KGB’s 4 Step Process of taking over America here).
Second, remember Obama’s “report a snitch” program from last month where the White House’s official Blog encouraged citizens (informers) that if they got an email or saw something on the web about health insurance reform that seemed fishy to send it to flag@whitehouse.gov?
Third, remember the White House’s talk of removing the ban of using cookies on government websites?
And did you know that federal agencies, in violation of existing statutory privacy rights, already 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 the government?
Well, guess what. Obama has hired a contractor to track and make a list of his critics saying that there is a ‘compelling need’. (Have you watched that KGB agent interview, yet?)
How do they define “compelling need”?
According to Obama “technology czar” Vivek Kundra, the “compelling need” driving this major policy reversal is the administration’s desire to create “more open” government and to “enhance citizen participation in government.”
Don’t you hesitate now to publicly criticize the unconstitutional activities of our government? Don’t you feel stifled in your First Amendment rights? What does the impeachment process entail?
Pray, pray, pray for our country.
Full story here, bits below.
The White House is hiring a contractor to harvest information about Americans from its pages on social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
The National Legal and Policy Center, or NLPC, revealed the White House New Media team is seeking to hire a technology vendor to collect data such as comments, tag lines, e-mail, audio and video from any place where the White House “maintains a presence” – for a period of up to eight years.
“The contractor shall provide the necessary services to capture, store, extract to approved formats, and transfer content published by EOP (Executive Office of the President) on publicly-accessible web sites, along with information posted by non-EOP persons on publicly-accessible web sites where the EOP offices under PRA (Presidential Records Act) maintains a presence.”
The White House websites already contain thousands of comments from Americans – both supportive and critical of the administration and its policies.
NLPC warns, “[V]irtually any communication mentioning the president or the administration could become subject to collection and archiving under the act. This is not out of an ‘abundance of caution,’ but out of an over-abundance of power. President Obama should make sure that this plan goes no further.”
The Obama administration has made several efforts to collect information about citizens in the past. The White House announced a program Aug. 4, pleading with people around the nation to forward to a White House e-mail address anything they see “about health insurance reform that seems fishy.”
The Obama administration has 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 some 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.
In public comments submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, EPIC notes it has obtained documents that show federal agencies have negotiated these contracts with the private sector in violation of “existing statutory privacy rights.” Those agencies include: Department of Defense, Department of the Treasury, and the National Security Agency.
According to Obama “technology czar” Vivek Kundra, the “compelling need” driving this major policy reversal is the administration’s desire to create “more open” government and to “enhance citizen participation in government.”
I perceive a “compelling need” for democrats to be booted out of house, senate, and presidency. Let them collect their information. Based on the massive public outcry against their creeping… no, leaping socialism, they’ll have a database so large it will be unmanagable. I should just mail them my phone book if they want an enemies list.