Cybersecurity Bill Gives Obama Dictatorial Power Over Internet

by duo | April 10, 2009 at 01:04 pm
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller introduced Senate bills 773 and 778 to give President Obama unlimited power of control over the Internet, including the power to shut it down.  According to Infowars, Sen. Rockefeller declared last month that we would all be better off if the Internet was never invented.  Sen. Rockefeller cites security concerns as the reason why the president needs infinite power over the Internet in America, however some people regard the bills as an attempt to erode free speech and free press rights.

"Senate bills No. 773 and 778 are about controlling information,” argues InfoWars reporter, Kurt Nimmo.  “The bills have nothing to do with mischievous kids with laptops in Latvia.”

An excerpt from the Infowars article is below, and the full report is available at the link.

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Cybersecurity Bill Gives Obama Dictatorial Power Over Internet

http://www.infowars.com/cybersecurity-bill-gives-obama-dictatorial-power-over-internet/

InfoWars
April 6, 2009

Rockefeller’s bills introduced in the Senate — known as the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 — would create yet another government bureaucracy, the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor. It would report directly to Obama. Rockefeller’s legislation would grant “the Secretary of Commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be critical to the nation’s infrastructure “without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access” (see a  working draft of the legislation here)

In other words, Obama would have a Cyber Czar in the Commerce Department and the power to shut down the Internet.


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The rationale for the bills is that computer hacking can be responsible for unacceptable security risks on the scale of Katrina to the Gulf Coast.  Some disagree and believe Rockefeller's bills are merely attempts at fear mongering meant to rob Americans of free press and leave the citizenry at the mercy of mainstream media to deliver relevant news at a time when increasing numbers of people are turning to independent news sources and citizens journalism for what they perceive as more unbiased coverage on current events, including controversial news.  Many people view Senate bills 773 and 778 as being Change that America does not need.

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UPDATES - news excerpts on cybersecurity:


Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government
14 June 2009


http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news



Pentagon Plan: Cybercommand Will Be Run by Four-Star General --DoD views cyberspace as its domain as well, a new battleground after land, sea, air and space. 13 Jun 2009 A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to 'protect the nation' from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations against adversaries' computer networks. Some administration officials have begun to discuss whether laws or regulations must be changed to allow law enforcement, the military or intelligence agencies greater access to networks or Internet providers when significant evidence of a 'national security threat' was found. Under plans being completed at the Pentagon, the new cybercommand will be run by a four-star general, much the way Gen. David H. Petraeus runs the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from Central Command in Tampa, Fla.

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Yahoo Tech News - April 22, 2009

US adviser says cybersecurity must be joint effort
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090423/ap_on_hi_te/us_cyber_security



(AP) - SAN FRANCISCO - The challenge of protecting the government's computer networks is too big for any one agency to handle alone, a top adviser to President Barack Obama said Wednesday. That suggests the administration doesn't intend to consolidate control of U.S. cybersecurity under a single department like the National Security Agency, as some have feared.  The comments by Melissa Hathaway, in her first public appearance since completing a still-secret 60-day study on the nation's computer security, were light on details but offered some hints on how the administration plans to address the turf wars and confusion surrounding the country's patchwork cybersecurity policies.




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Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. ~ Hosea 4:6

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All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.







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duo

May we never be without independent media and have our news sources limited to mainstream media alone.  The relationship between mainstream journalism, corporate enterprise and government is too strong to allow room for full coverage of news events delivered without bias. See this link: http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/story/story07.html

Mary

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Scrivener

I just wrote a lengthy post here.  I believe malicious government fusion center censors caused it to disappear from this message window before I could hit the "submit" button.

Apparently, these authoritarians hope commentators won't want to go to the trouble to recompose their messages.  This is blatant censorship.  Now, they have slowed my typing here via real-time remote computing software that has hijacked my internet connection.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect in Communist or fascist nations, not in the USA.

Please read this article, linked below, and urge the ACLU to SUE the government on the grounds that the surveillance programs are being used as a PRETEXT to harass, censor and control telecommunications users -- A CLEAR INFRINGEMENT UPON CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED RIGHTS.

http://nowpublic.com/world/govt-fusion-center-spying-pretext-harass-and-censor

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anon comment

Bright guy that you are, do what others have learned to do.  Write it in "Word", save a copy of it OR compose it in the NowPublic space and make a copy of it before you post it.  But for the love of God, get off your high-horse, stop complaining about garbage that it's counterproductive to complain about, in the absence of proof/corroboration.  Anyone with even half a brain could see what you're doing, which is getting yourself and the rest of us absolutely nowhere. It's so clear that you have no interest in exposing and/or ending OS.  You want targets/victims to be dismisses and marginalized.

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anon comment

I believe that hackers and "cyberstalkers" exist -- I believe their acts are criminals, but in the absence of proof, those who complain about it are probably not going to get anywhere.  I'll eat my hat, so to speak, if I'm wrong.  I'm on your side, I really am.  It's just that these problems have to be attacked in a methodical way with some pretty big names in the picture.

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duo

I have the proof.  I have made copies of films for years and have placed with with people who I trust.  I can show you proof for every allegation I ever made.  That is what comes of having a grandma who watched every episode of Perry Mason from the time we got our first TV when I was about 4 years old.  That is also the result of working with law firms for almost 20 years.  I never write anything until I have the proof in hand.  Never. 

I will soon do a YouTube with some of the proof.  I correspond with so many prisoner activists and people involved in the struggle to promote human rights and civil liberties who have the same censorship issues that I take it as a matter of course.  However, I can see that the majority of the public may need to actually see what happens to be able to understand and believe it.  So you came to the right one, because they pulled every technical trick available to suppress the news about my brother Larry's secret death in Shelby Co. Jail, which was followed by an elaborate cover up by many higher ups.  See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com See the DOCUMENTS tab to see all the conflicting accounts of folks trying to explain something that cannot be explained except by one word:  CONSPIRACY.  And if you think those documents are astonishing, the last update to our website was over a year ago.  We've been through USDC Kangaroo Court since then.  Wait until you see the new documents.  They will blow you away.

Censorship is probably as old as ink.  All people who practice their free speech and free press to do anything other than agree 100% with the status quo suffer from it eventually.  Rev. Martin Luther King was censored throughout his activism, and it seems to continue even today, 41 years after his assassination.  See this article:

MLK's Final Speech Was Fraudulently Edited to Change History
http://my.nowpublic.com/culture/mlks-final-speech-was-fraudulently-edited-change-history

The folks who suppress any records or investigation about Larry's death and prevent The Cochran Firm from paying for defrauding us include even the USDOJ.  So, on this news, they used ALL the tech tricks.  Even the other prisoner activists who also are stalked and censored online never heard of some of the stuff they use on my writing.  But I can show you.

Last night I sent emails to some of my Care2 friends about the torture of prisoners in America, and today, my Yahoo email says I have a 48-hour lockout for my own good - due to "unusual activity."  Folks ought to treat everybody right and then there would be nothing to hide, just like I told you in my YouTube videos: Cochran Firm Fruad 1 and 2.

Like MLK said, "Just be true to what you wrote on paper."  If higher-ups no longer want America to be a democracy, let's just get it out there.  Put it to a vote!  But wait, that is my upbringing talking.  I guess voting would not be the way to dispense with democracy, would it?

Blessings!

Mary

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duo

Thank you for responding.  I work with a digital camera and a cell phone camera at my computer desk.  When I type something the "shadow people" don't like, they delete it when I hit submit.  They also slow my computer down to the point that I am typing at 15 wpm.  When they do this, I get my camera loaded.  Then I re-input my data or copy it again from the Word document which has the original input, like Anon suggested.  Then, when they delete my work again, I film it.  I have enough film to do a documentary now, because it seems the "shadow people" don't like most of what I write.  I am going to release some of it in a YouTube film, but we plan to keep some for a disc to be placed in the jacket of the book regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal and the subsequent cover-up by the higher-ups. (Yahoo the phrase in bold to see what I mean.) 

My problem is that most of the film, I am just sitting there at the computer hitting one letter at a time and it takes a while to get to the point where I hit submit and they delete the data.  That makes the film boring for viewers.  If I pay someone to speed the film, I am concerned that folks will wonder about the authenticity if it is not real time.  What do you suggest?

Sometimes, folks don't delete the whole post when I hit "submit," but they actually WORK WITH ME.  While I type on a certain site, the data the cyberstalker plans to delete will become bordered in broken lines.  Then when I hit "submit," only select data will disappear!  That is "censorship as you go."  On that same site, I used to get a message in red in the upper lefthand corner of the area to type that said, "Flag This."  Then, when I hit "submit," that post would certainly disappear.

I don't know if you are aware of this one:  The shadow people have the capacity to show you a screen that is UNIQUE TO YOUR URL!  Yes!  I sometimes think I have made posts to certain sites, and I see it there.  But when I look from another URL (especially if I do not sign in as a member), the post I put on the site is not there at all!  Furthermore, they can put up false information about sites being closed for maintenance, if they do not want you to post there.  I have had that happen to keep me out of Care2, Ellen Degeneres, and NowPublic.  Then I call the site, and they know nothing about it -- there had been no outage.  That is how I know that most cyberstalking is done without the sites where you work cooperating or even knowing that it is being done! 

I could tell you more, but it would take a book and film to tell and show you some of the censorship that has kept the secret jail death of my brother, a mentally ill American, under wraps and out of mainstream media for four years, perjury allowed in court, and ignored by authorities whose job it is to bring justice.  It has been involved, and is very much ongoing.  See the DOCUMENTS TAB at http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com.

Mary

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AlvarezGalloso

Great story. We must struggle against all forms of censorship.

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duo

I just heard from the address where I usually get the notices I find objectionable.  These are the cc's.  I answered you, AlvarezGalloso, at the first post above to be sure it stayed on page one.  This is the END GAME as far as suppressing the truth about how my family was treated.  This is all she wrote.  We have given the powers that be 5.5 years to get themselves together and do the right thing.  Instead, I am censored, followed, monitored, threatened, and ignored. 

Well either stand and BE WHAT YOU SAID ON PAPER, or get ready to stand around like the king with no clothes.  Because the time is up.

JUST AS WAS ALLEGED IN THE INDICTMENTS OUT OF WILLACY, TX LAST YEAR, DEATHS IN COUNTY JAILS WERE PROTECTED FROM INVESTIGATION BY THE USDOJ UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.  MY QUESTION IS - IS THAT STILL THE CASE?   I would ask that you call me at 678.531.0262, but your calls may not be allowed to get through.   I would ask that you email me at mneal000@yahoo.com, but your emails will have to first be monitored, and if "they" don't want me to receive them, I will not see them.  Or if they reach my mailbox, I can click and click to open them and they will not open.  When I open my email box next time, the emails of their choice may be gone.

INTERNET CENSORSHIP PROTECTS CRIMINALS IN GOVERNMENT http://my.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/internet-censorship-protects-criminals-government-mary-neal

MARY NEAL REQUESTS MEETING WITH THE USDOJ - UPDATED IN COMMENTS http://my.nowpublic.com/world/mary-neal-requests-meeting-usdoj-updated-comments

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The emails usually come from:  jgtea@comcast.net

Today's ccs:

t_racz@dt-computers.net, rschlert@comcast.net, "'Ray Schram'" <rayschram@ptiimaging.com>, raymond10@charter.net, wrzaladeb@hotmail.com, lore.attitude@hotmail.com, "'Jodda Mitchell'" <jadamirada@yahoo.com>, mneal000@yahoo.com, jarno20060@yahoo.com, JAMLADY10@aol.com, "'Rich'" <harleymanfl@cox.net>, "'Birdie'" <jgbirdie505@aol.com>, Annie39@aol.com, VA62856@aol.com, VBrown1072@aol.com, phayes9402@comcast.net, HIAHAWAII@aol.com, cougarden@msn.com div.details a.more {visibility:hidden !important;}

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duo

Look at the last line above -- "VISIBILITY HIDDEN - IMPORTANT"

WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE TREATED THE MATTER AS IMPORTANT A LONG TIME AGO INSTEAD OF IGNORING ME AND CENSORING ME.  YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THE RIGHT THANG!

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CynicalPatriot

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg

Do We Really want any one person to control the media and the images and thereby control our culture.

This is an end run against all political dissidents who are coalescing into meaningful political movements.  Tea Party, Tax Revolts, Labor Unrest all have shared ideas and formed peaceful methods to deal with the trespasses of our corrupt government through the mechanisms permitted and guaranteed by our Constitution.  They have been monitoring our emails and know that the will of the people is over-whelming when the people can share thoughts, plan strategy and implement action in a coordinated manner.

And we haven't even discussed what the evil Corporations and Major Media will do to the internet if they have there way.

Don't just wait and wonder, call your congressperson and tell him if they votes for anything but Net Neutrality, they wont get your vote.

Cynical Patriot

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duo

You are so right, Cynical Patriot.  I hope you will take advantage of an opportunity to show the discontent you feel over the loss of Constitutional protections Americans are experiencing. 

PLEASE COME to the HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH IN ATLANTA, GA ON MAY 16!  http://my.nowpublic.com/world/human-rights-prisoners-march-planned-mid-may-atlanta

If you cannot come to the march yourself, then please help notify your friends and online groups. My writing is censored, and my home computers constantly get attacked and I am removed from the administrator status.   The more people who stand against the GREED that has overtaken our nation and the erosion of justice, the better.  Don't wait until they do to you some day what was done to my family.  Read a summary here:

NEW WORLD ORDER NULLIFIES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1019414

What I was sad to discover in the five years since my brother was secretly arrested and returned dead by police who refuse to account for his death (and the USDOJ won't make them) is that there are already many others who are treated like less than American citizens.  In fact, some are treated sub-human.  I hope to see you on May 16!

Blessings!

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (folks often used to benefit prison profiteers)
http://Care2.com/c2c/groups/AIMI
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duo

Marines Ban Twitter, Facebook, Other Sites

Right now, I have a problem w/ my mouse.  It is a type of virus that is sent to prevent my being able to point and click without a major struggle.  My computer is disallowed from using the "restore" feature to return to a point several days ago before this new attack on my free press rights.  It is not the mouse - I tried several. 

I do not see this ban on social media for the Marines as being as major as some do, and I do not know if it includes Marines stationed only in combat zones or across the board.  I have worked in companies and law firms handling sensitive data, and the computers do not allow one to reach social media, and some other computer capabilities were disengaged.

What I do consider MAJOR is my own censorship which is designed to protect the information that AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WAS SECRETLY ARRESTED AND MURDERED IN GOVERNMENT CUSTODY and all inquiries about the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal have been met not with open disclosure, but instead, his survivors are persecuted, stalked online and in person, censored, and must hide at home like Ann Frank for asking, "What happened to Larry Neal?"

My Facebook account was recently taken over.  I discovered that when I tried to drop a comment on my page against enforced H1N1 vaccines.  I believe folks should have control over their own bodies and no citizens of any country should ever be forced to submit to medical procedures with experimental drugs.  Enforced vaccines is the most absurd and fascist thing I heard of since my brother was murdered and authorities in this HOME OF THE FREE refused to release records of his arrest and death.

Pharaohs, there are many computers.  I'm going to hurry and get our injustice well broadcast before Sen. Rockefeller's laws pass, so that other Americans will know to watch out for their mentally and physically handicapped loved ones.  Most of them don't know that their handicapped relatives are subject to secret arrests and extermination like they were in Nazi Germany. 

Most Americans are unaware that any deaths of citizens in government custody are covered up by authorities.  People would be shocked at the tactics engaged in to prevent my telling the public- cyberstalking, in-person stalking and attacks, regular takeover of my Internet accounts and my personal computers, secret arrangement with certain sites, computer trickery to make my URL show data that is not really posted, and MORE.

THIS IS NO JAMES BOND MOVIE.  STOP THE ABUSE.  OBEY THE LAW.  "BE WHAT YOU SAID ON PAPER," AS DR. KING ADVISED.   JUSTICE WORKS. 

When the police are wrong and the prisons are wrong, and citizens die as a result, and the facilities are sued, just pay your freaking damages, prosecute the jailers if they intentionally killed the victims, and move on.   This elaborate cover-up was unnecessary and juvenile.  Now you have engaged so many others in the conspiracy you want to get rid of the victim's relatives.  THAT IS PSYCHO.  Look at the Internet.  If I stump my toe, people will think you caused it.  The revelation you fear is exactly what you would bring on yourselves.  Again I say to you, Pharaohs, JUSTICE WORKS.  

As a Christian family, we follow God's prescription for settling discord -1) If you have ought against your brother, go to him in privacy and let him know.  Give him an opportunity to make amends.  2) If he will not listen to you, then go to those in authority over him.  3) If he still will not listen, then take him to the courts.  The Bible ends there, BECAUSE THE COURTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE JUST. 

So I go back to step 2  - WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA are supposed to have AUTHORITY over government.  Since the agencies that are supposed to be in authority will not exercise their power to bring justice, this has and will be taken to those in authority over you - THE PEOPLE.

Forgiveness is also a Biblical principle.  But rather than admitting a wrong and making amends and asking for forgiveness, folks would rather engage in subterfuge, conspiracies, computer sabotage, stalking, and all manner of EVIL.  That is unacceptable and illegal behavior.  You break man's laws and God's.  You do not have the sense to recognize how lucky you are to be dealing with Christians who stand ready to forgive.  If you don't take advantage of it soon, then our obligation to offer same is OVER.  Recognize that you have not shut down the Internet YET, and that even if you had, Jesus is known the world over, and the Gospel was spread via word of mouth.  THE TRUTH GOES MARCHIN ON!

I REFUSE TO CONTINUE STAYING HOME LIKE SOME PRISONER WHEN YOU ARE THE CRIMINAL.  THIS WILL HAVE TO BE FULLY AIRED AND YOU DO WHATEVER GOD ALLOWS YOU TO DO, CRIMINALS!  Naturally, I would prefer that you conduct yourselves with the decorum I see in the televised meetings.  Will the Gentleman from Tennessee like to speak?  Will the Gentleman from this place or that place yield the floor?  This is how you should conduct yourselves in REAL LIFE.  All rise! and in walks a man or woman clothed in the honor and respect of the American judiciary system.  HALT! and grownup people stop in their tracks, because the command comes from one entrusted to keep law and order among the citizenry.  HAVE ALL OF YOU ABDICATED YOUR SWORN RESPONSIBILITIES?  ARE YOU ALL LAWLESS HEATHENS WHO HAVE FORSAKEN GOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS? 

The censorship, media blackout, intimidation, and actual endangerment have not worked and will not.  Try justice.  It works.

Mary

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