08-05-2009, 13:08
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White House collecting personal data
August 5, 2009
Cornyn worried White House collecting personal data
@ 1:30 pm by Eric Zimmermann
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) is worried that the White House will use a new media outreach program to collect the personal data of its political opponents.
Yesterday, the White House asked supporters to forward "fishy" claims or rumors about the President's healthcare plan to a White House email address as a way to respond to "disinformation."
Cornyn says this practice would let the White House collect personal information about people who oppose the President.
"By requesting citizens send 'fishy' emails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, email, addresses, IP addresses and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House," Cornyn wrote in a letter to Obama. "You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program."
Cornyn asked Obama to cease the program immediately, or at the very least explain what the White House would do with the information it collects.
"I am not aware of any precedent for a President asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure speech that is deemed 'fishy' or otherwise inimical to the White House's political interests," Cornyn said.
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009...personal-data/
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08-05-2009, 13:19
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Hmmm, sounds rather Stalinistic to me.  
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08-05-2009, 13:38
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More like the Alinsky playbook from Chicago.
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08-05-2009, 13:39
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Hmmm, sounds rather Stalinistic to me. |
Some how we've got to put a collar on this guy or we'll all be marching goose-stepping to his orders............... 
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08-05-2009, 17:44
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What's this...the former community organizer is upset with communities organizing?
Oh, the irony.
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08-06-2009, 07:11
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Obama's dissident database could be secret -- and permanent
Obama's dissident database could be secret -- and permanent
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...-52571822.html
"So the White House, whether by design or accident, has requested information from the public that will become 'records' under the Presidential Records Act, yet would be impermissible for any government to otherwise collect under the Privacy Act," writes one Judiciary Committee source. "Where were the lawyers in all of this? What is their legal basis for authorizing the collection of these records?"
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08-06-2009, 07:59
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We are on the road to hell folks. Every day my stomach turns a little more.
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08-06-2009, 08:17
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We are on the road the hell folks. Every day my stomach turns a little more.
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I concur; unfortunately it was completely predictable considering his behavior on the campaign trail,
http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...a+Truth+Squads
I've said it before; the one is no friend to freedom of speech, especially if that speech is against him or his ideas.
The first step is to collect the names of the critics, which inevitably leads to the second step....silencing the critics.
I hope I'm just wearing too much tinfoil, but this is very disturbing to me.
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08-06-2009, 08:28
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The White House can add my name to their list - but I will not go gentle into that good night. 
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08-06-2009, 11:05
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Where is the ACLU?
Is this not a clear violation of our civil liberties?
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08-06-2009, 11:20
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Where is the ACLU?
Is this not a clear violation of our civil liberties?
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Good point TR......  Where the hell is the ACLU when you could use them?..... To me it's proof they only have their own agenda that they follow....
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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08-11-2009, 01:28
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