Big Sis: Obama Ready to Sign Surveillance Grid Executive Order
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 20, 2012
Homeland Security boss
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Obama will implement crucial element of the surveillance state by executive fiat.
The latest Obama EO – he has
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So-called cybersecurity is a crucial element of the surveillance state. “Cyber will overtake terrorism as the persistent, gnawing, constantly-at-us kind of threat and danger,” said
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Carter’s prediction fell on the heels of a long and drawn out propaganda campaign by the government warning that hackers and other shadowy miscreants would take down “America’s financial systems, water treatment plants, or the electrical grid that keeps lights on and homes heated,” as the Christian Science Monitor put it.
As
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Instead of protecting Americans, Obama’s unconstitutional EO will allow the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security to extend their surveillance capability. The Senate “bill specifically authorizes companies to use cybersecurity as an excuse for engaging in nearly unlimited monitoring of user data or countermeasures” like blocking targeted internet traffic, the
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Transnational telecoms invariably cooperate with the government. Under the NSA’s
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Data collected under the Cybersecurity Act can be shared with law enforcement for non-cybersecurity purposes if it “appears to relate to a crime” either past, present, or near future. This is overboard and contrary to the spirit of our Constitution. Senator Wyden, talking about a similar provision in CISPA, noted “They would allow law enforcement to look for evidence of future crimes, opening the door to a dystopian world where law enforcement evaluates your Internet activity for the potential that you might commit a crime.” The CSA suffers the same “future crime” flaw.
In short, if enacted or pushed through by executive mandate, the legislation would nullify the Fourth Amendment.
The Pentagon, the NSA and the military-industrial-intelligence complex tried to shove this monstrosity down our throats by ramming it through Congress, but now that the legislative effort and months of scary propaganda have failed they will resort to the tried and true practice of having their selected teleprompter reader issue an executive fiat.
One of the authors of the Senate bill, Joe Lieberman, said he “was encouraged to hear that the administration was close to wrapping up work” on the unconstitutional order. He urged the White House to “move forward on implementing the executive order and not wait to see if Congress passes cybersecurity legislation during the lame-duck session after the election.”
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Obama Plans Executive Order to Force Cybersecurity Boondoggle On America
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 9, 2012
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Power grid not at risk from cyber attack despite scary government propaganda.
Obama plans to violate the Constitution again and issue yet another executive order.
The latest EO would create a government program protecting vital computer networks from cyber attacks, according to
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As
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Despite this, the government has perpetuated propaganda designed to scare average Americans into backing cyber security legislation. In July, the
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Regardless of the sustained propaganda effort, the public has not demanded lawmakers pass legislation allowing government to impose cybersecurity measures on public and private infrastructure companies.
In August, despite the best efforts of “top military and national security officials,” a much-anticipated (by government) cybersecurity bill went down in the flames in the Senate. A Republican filibuster killed “years of bipartisan efforts to establish stricter security standards and, some experts say, could leave the nation vulnerable to widespread hacking or a serious cyberattack,” the
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Obama’s latest EO was contrived after the failure to push through legislation in the Senate. “The administration is contemplating using an executive order because it isn’t clear Congress would pass a cybersecurity bill,” reports Bloomberg.
In other words, the imperial presidency controlled by Obama’s globalist handlers will once again violate the Constitution, specifically
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“An executive order is one of a number of measures we’re considering as we look to implement the president’s direction to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today’s cyberthreats,” said White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden. “We are not going to comment on ongoing internal deliberations.”
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The military-industrial complex is the tip of the spear of the national security state. Cybersecurity supposedly protecting against exaggerated and phantom threats is a key element of the public-private partnership takeover of industry:
Traditional defense contractors, both to hedge against hardware cutbacks and get in on the ground floor of a booming new sector, have been emphasizing cybersecurity in their competition for government business. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, L-3 Communications, SAIC, and BAE Systems have all launched cybersecurity divisions in recent years. Other defense contractors, such as Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and ManTech International, have also invested in information security products and services.
As
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