Obama Snitch Program Ended ?

[carpro]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26188.html

Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan.

E-mails to that address now bounce back with the message: “The e-mail address you just sent a message to is no longer in service. We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform via http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck.”

 

[LeBuick]

I saw that, he is sure backing down to the right. He's going to become the president with no spine if he keeps backing down to the opposition. Next he'll be bringing out his BC.

 

[Tom Bryant]

Don't worry LeBuick, the President will be back to his impersonation of Tricky Dick and compiling his enemies list...

You leftists were on the list the last time. And you screamed about it. But now a leftist stops making the list, he's caving in to the right.

 

[carpro]

Could be he found out what he was doing was illegal in the first place.

So he is quietly ending the program before someone takes the government to court over it.

Such blatant fascism is still not taken lightly by the citizenry of this country.

 

[donnA]

maybe he found americans weren't as egar to give up freedom of speech as he is to take it away.

 

[LeBuick]

Could be he found out what he was doing was illegal in the first place.

So he is quietly ending the program before someone takes the government to court over it.

Such blatant fascism is still not taken lightly by the citizenry of this country.

What is illegal against collecting email addresses? Is there a law against spam? I sure get enough of it.

 

[Tom Bryant]

What is illegal against collecting email addresses? Is there a law against spam? I sure get enough of it.

This is not an advertising agency gathering information. This is the gov't gathering information about ordinary Americans who are opposed to a policy. Of course, I shouldn't be surprised. This is the same group who thinks that returning veterans are dangerous.

 

[HankD]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck

A rose by any other name...


HankD

 

[donnA]

Is there a law against spam?

wish there was

 

[carpro]

What is illegal against collecting email addresses?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/200...fishy-info-health-reform-illegal-critics-say/

The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see "fishy" information about the health care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say.

"The White House is in bit of a conundrum because of this privacy statute that prohibits the White House from collecting data and storing it on people who disagree with it," Judge Andrew Napolitano, a FOX News analyst, said Friday.

"There's also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives. It can't try to rewrite history by pretending it didn't receive anything," he said.

"If the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it violates another statute."

SNIP

...the statute generally prohibits any federal agency from maintaining records on individuals exercising their right to free speech.

 

[donnA]

ah ah, so crimes were committed against americans praticing freedom of sppech.

 

[OldRegular]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/200...fishy-info-health-reform-illegal-critics-say/

The name is simply changed to protect the guilty!

 

[rbell]

What is illegal against collecting email addresses? Is there a law against spam? I sure get enough of it.

It is amazing the lengths you will go to in defending the one who can do no wrong...

This is not an advertising agency gathering information. This is the gov't gathering information about ordinary Americans who are opposed to a policy. Of course, I shouldn't be surprised. This is the same group who thinks that returning veterans are dangerous.

Ain't it the truth...

 

[LeBuick]

It is amazing the lengths you will go to in defending the one who can do no wrong...

Actually I was sincere, I thought with all the government databases like SSI, IRS, FBI etc... an email address was the last thing that would worry me. You can go to Yahoo and make as many as you want which really means nothing in regards to gathering personal information. Very few people use an email that will genuinely trace back to them when you think about it and if you were that anti-government then Hoovers boys already have a file.

 

[tinytim]

ah ah, so crimes were committed against americans praticing freedom of sppech.

Yes.. and it should be an impeachable offense....

 

[rbell]

Actually I was sincere, I thought with all the government databases like SSI, IRS, FBI etc... an email address was the last thing that would worry me. You can go to Yahoo and make as many as you want which really means nothing in regards to gathering personal information. Very few people use an email that will genuinely trace back to them when you think about it and if you were that anti-government then Hoovers boys already have a file.

You just don't get it.

Yahoo cannot charge me with a crime, imprison me, take away any of my rights, or do anything more than spam me.

But this program, by its very nature, questionable motives.

It's like shaking a haystack, and a couple of needles falling out. Sure, there's a chance that you got lucky and found them. But it's more likely that the doggone thing is full of needles.

 

[just-want-peace]

It's truly amazing that the "Pied Piper", AKA the "0", AKA the "empty suit" etc, etc, etc, still commands such blind allegiance as displayed on this board.

I used to wonder how the Anti-Christ would be able to con the masses into following him, but after seeing the fanatical devotion to the "0" by some on this board, I wonder no longer!

 

[targus]

Actually I was sincere, I thought with all the government databases like SSI, IRS, FBI etc... an email address was the last thing that would worry me. You can go to Yahoo and make as many as you want which really means nothing in regards to gathering personal information. Very few people use an email that will genuinely trace back to them when you think about it and if you were that anti-government then Hoovers boys already have a file.

So would you have a problem if Obama started cross referencing the names that he collected on his health care reporting database against IRS files?

After all by your logic they are just databases.

LeBuick somehow you have managed to surpass all the other "the one" supporters on this board in absolutely abandoning engaging your mind and jumping right into reflex defensive mode when it comes to anything related to the most high and holy, grand mystic, exalted, yes we can, savior of our nation , "the one".

 

[Revmitchell]

So would you have a problem if Obama started cross referencing the names that he collected on his health care reporting database against IRS files?

After all by your logic they are just databases.

LeBuick somehow you have managed to surpass all the other "the one" supporters on this board in absolutely abandoning engaging your mind and jumping right into reflex defensive mode when it comes to anything related to the most high and holy, grand mystic, exalted, yes we can, savior of our nation , "the one".

Obama Jedi Mind Trick

 

[donnA]

It's truly amazing that the "Pied Piper", AKA the "0", AKA the "empty suit" etc, etc, etc, still commands such blind allegiance as displayed on this board.

I used to wonder how the Anti-Christ would be able to con the masses into following him, but after seeing the fanatical devotion to the "0" by some on this board, I wonder no longer!

I have thought the same thing, the anti christ is not going to have any problems at all getting people to follow him