'Flag@Whitehouse.Gov' A Snitch Line
Is the White House Compiling an Enemies List?
According to Fox News, "The White House is under fire for a blog post asking supporters to send "fishy" information received through rumors, chain e-mails and casual conversations to a White House e-mail address, 'flag@whitehouse.gov'."
The news that the Obama administration is gathering information on American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights has caused a firestorm, from Washington, to the talk radio airways, to the Internet.
Rush Limbaugh thundered on his radio talk show, "They're looking for tattletales. They're looking for snitches. They're looking for informants." Limbaugh also suggested that the email address was a "snitch line" being used to compile a White House enemies list.
Senator John Cornyn of Texas has sent a letter to the White House demanding information on the effort to gather data on "fishy" information. Cornyn suggested that the effort was an attempt to intimidate American citizens from expressing opposition to health care reform.
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air suggests that there is hypocrisy on the part of liberals who complained about Bush administration efforts to gather information on terrorists and their activities. "Obama, on the other hand, has set up a snitch line not for crimes or terrorism, but for simple political dissent. Where is Pat Leahy now? Shouldn't he be demanding to know why Obama wants to put people under "undue scrutiny" merely for the horrible crime of disagreeing with the President? For that matter, where is the Village Voice and Nat Hentoff?"
The revelation of the 'flag@whitehouse,gov' email operation comes on the heels of a Democratic National Committee ad that described people protesting health care reform at Congressional town meetings as "a mob." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the protestors of carrying swastikas, implying some kind of Nazi influence.
If anything, this kind of reaction to dissent is going to make the dissenters even angrier than they already are. The United States was founded by just the sort of people that President Obama and his Congressional allies disdain, gun toting, tax resisting red necks who didn't flinch when the King's men came marching up the lane to put down a group of patriots that they thought of as a "mob" as well.
The modern rebels are not coming to Congressional town halls with muskets. Their voices and their votes are still potent enough weapons. And now the Obama administration has given them another thing to complain to their now frazzled Congressmen and Senators about. One doubts that they will be very pleased.
Sources: White House Draws Fire for Requesting 'Fishy' Information From Supporters on Health Reform, Molly Henneberg, Fox News, August 5th, 2009
Cornyn to Obama: Shut down Snitch Central, Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, August 6th, 2009
Published by Mark Whittington
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183 Comments
Post a CommentIf the whitehouse is writing a list of oponents, Please include me. Oboma should post the promises he has kept, there should be adequate space in this box. If everyone is requirred to buy health insurance to protect themslves they should also be required to buy a gun to protect thenselves. There is lots more, ask me a question, I won't lie.
When the call came from the White House to report "fishy" emails and information, I performed my patriotic duty. I sent the sons of b!tches a copy of the First Amendment.
First it was the Housing, Banks, Auto Dealership's now Health Care and Cap & Tread what is next O yes and you can not pay boniest with out approval to so buy guess who the one of the President stooges I don't know about you but that is wrong. Sounds a lot like a dictator by the name Hugo Chaves in Venezuela he runs everything down there and if we are not carful we will loose are freedom here in spite of what are troops are doing, it may not be the Talban or Al-Qaeda because our troops will take care of them it is our President we have to worry about. In my mine I believe deep down hi roots are with those who are fighting us who attack us and killed 3000 people! We the people need to stand up and take back are land 2010 is coming as it 2012 don't forget how these people are trying to destroying are country little by little, so slow we don't really see it until it's too late.
"God Bless America"
Communication is theocratic, not to suffer detrainment is need for an interpreter, the official language is Portuguese translator of the computer may invalidate the value of the message the word of the Lord Jesus.
urgent
President Araraquara 28/08 2009
Barack Obama;
Neste termo lhe apresento a atribuição da parte do Altíssimo senhor Jesus a participar e priorizar, pois se trata de algo sobre natural incomum.
As revelações esta a conceituar a vossa excelência onde se determina a competência indiscutível de vossa autoridade com recursos legais a substabelecer às comunicações teocrática da sétima aliança e as leis morais do santo governo de Jesus em estatuto a todos os presidentes e autoridade governamentais no mundo para fazer os consertos vindicados principalmente sancionar lei de combate as idolatrias.
As comunicações do Altíssimo senhor Jesus suas novas leis
It is not true that there is not another Health Care Proposal. quillenco.com has a proposal that takes control from government, cut taxes and provide health care insurance to every American. Yet they won't even consider their proposal. Why?
Oh, honey, Obama does not need to wiretap. He has czars to go ahead and do what the white house wants. Hell'o, Congress, are you listening? Wow, what a job! Appointed by the President, for the President, without regard for anyone except the Presidents agenda.
You're right Mario. We will be classified as recist, communist, anti-american, and we may even have a file somewhere. I'll be glad to take the questionaire.
I want you to understand, sometimes a simple idea accepted by the people, is a trick to set a precedent of law in the future. Keep that in mind as the rest unfurls.
Somebody point out to me, where in the Constitution the Federal government is given any authority over healthcare. Even if they had such authority, they run MediCare, Medicaid and Social Security, and they are all bankrupt. Who in their right mind would give them anything else to run into the ground?
It is a very sad day when no realizes what this healthcare reform is about. It's about raising taxes so that Congress has more money to waste!