Obama to Create Cyber Czar In Awareness Effort

This article begins, "The Obama administration is creating a "cyber czar" within the White House to coordinate the nation's computer security. Critics already say the post will not have enough authority to haul the government into the digital age."

No. Critics say Obama would like to silence dissenting opinion by all means available, just like they do on the Internet in China. This is a Trojan horse. Federal intrusion into the Internet is the last thing we need.

Later on the article states, "U.S. cyber efforts have been plagued with turf battles and confusion over who controls the country's vast computer systems." That's because the First Amendment forbids such a thing. The computer servers on the network are private property and are therefore, by right, controlled by their owners. Is there any confusion over which agency controls the country's vast news media? If you don’t watch out, you'll be next. Do we also need a “media czar” to haul the government into your business, seeing how it has recently fallen on hard times like the banking business and the car business.

Given the fact that the original czars of history were well known as some of the most brutally repressive and cruel tyrants mankind has ever suffered, I find it extraordinarily inappropriate that anyone in a free country like this one would have that title in any context. Our politicians should learn to respect our rights and our freedoms, and learn to think of us as citizens, not subjects. Down with the czar!!!

Ted Bridis and his editor at the AP should be ashamed of themselves for not seeing through this, and exposing this for the power grab that it is. Or maybe they just copied and pasted the White House press release more or less verbatim.

Barry of CA 8:02PM May 29, 2009