ALGORE'S INVENTION ABOUT TO SUFFER A SET-BACK

I tried to warn you a few weeks ago, but my liberal readers squealed, in their usual shrill and unreasoned voices: “That’s not what’s about to happen!”

(Read what I said and the various disparaging comments about what I said HERE.)

Turns out I was right, as I usually am.

If the Senate passes the so-called “Internet ‘kill-switch’” bill, already approved by committee, President BO will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for four months at a time without Congressional oversight.

The original language of the bill sought to make the President’s power permanent, but public outcry limited it to four months.

Those honest folks we call Senators argue that President BO already has the power to do so when there is a “state or threat of war.” That’s under the Communications Act, by which he may “cause the closing of any facility or station for wire communication.”

What those honorable men and women don’t want you to catch on to is that they are now trying to explicitly grant that power to control the Internet specifically.

They say it’s for national security reasons.

All despots always claim that their suppression of the people’s rights are for the security of the nation.

On Sunday, Joe Lieberman revealed that the plan was to mimic China’s policies of policing the web with censorship and coercion.

CNN’s Candy Crowley was told by Lieberman, “Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,”

So there you have it. The door is being opened to allow the government complete control of the Internet.

Can you say, “Free Speech?”