1984 Anyone? Government Control of All Free Speech.

This is sure to become a major headline if it isn’t already. I just found, and have been skimming over a bill introduced in the senate (S. 773) called The Cybersecurity Act of 2009. From what I’ve been able to tell from the short time I’ve spent just skimming over it, this bill effectively gives the president both the power to control private sources of information on the internet in an emergency, and the power to declare what constitutes a cyber emergency.




Since the Department of Homeland Security has already declared “right-wing” speech as a threat to national security, one can imagine what can be considered a cyber emergency. I expect them to go after this very blog once given the chance. I’ll definitely be keeping you all updated on this bill as I read more closely into it as I have kept you as up to date as possible on the health care bill. This is truly despicable, but not all that unexpected after the health care bill; they were defeated by free speech on that front, so why not go for broke? This particularly hits home for me because my home town senator Evan Bayh is a cosponsor of this bill.



We, the people have demonstrated that we are too well informed for them to push through legislation in the dead of night, now they are going after our means of acquiring such information. Our “representatives” in the government have really gone too far this time. It is up to us to decide what information to believe, not to the government to declare an emergency of ‘misinformation’ and decide what they think is ok for us to know. If this is the sort of legislation we can expect from them, then they have obviously become too cozy in their positions of power. It’s time to remove them starting in 2010.