Obama signs order outlining emergency Internet control

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The hits keep coming from this guy…potential hits that is.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57469950-93/obama-signs-order-outlining-emergency-internet-control/

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Geez, I’m so surprised, NOT.

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Thanks for the links, I know I feel safer. :help:

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And just to think…if you wanted to challenge his EO’s, Eric Holder, or a myriad of other shitty things this guy has done you’d need a Costco sized building full of high dollar lawyers and a pocket book that would make Bill Gates blush…

Part of the problem with a government capable of spending ~3.5 trillion a year.

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I seriously doubt the IA side of the NSA doesn’t have the capability to prop up critical infrastructure in case of any predictable sort of large scale attack, so anybody stating that this sort of thing being a necessity is uniformed, ill informed, or has no clue how unimportant 98% of web traffic is.

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so where are all the Dems that were against Bush when he signed the Patriot Act. Now Obama signs himself all these emergency powers and not a peep