Internet Informant: White House Wants You To Be A Government Snitch
If you oppose government-run health care in an e-mail or on a website, the U.S. government wants to know it.
When your cyber-friends discover that you ratted them out, will you be able to enter the Witness Protection Program? Or will it be a moot point because those you snitched on get sent to re-education camps? Ridiculous? Not if the most powerful man in the United States is asking people 
to do their patriotic duty by reporting dissidents. This is a program that the governments in China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela would be proud of…Of course, they already use the informant system to identify and hunt down dissidents.
This is not about health care. It is a First Amendment free speech issue. If you cannot disagree with the President of the United States in an e-mail or in a forum without being reported to the government for it, then the Bill of Rights means nothing. And if you agree with the President on healthcare, what happens on the next issue that you happen to disagree with him?
Anyone who wants to report this post should e-mail flag@whitehouse.gov.
Just remember…you could be next. And if you’re ‘lucky,’ you’ll get listed in the Who’s a Rat database.
Goldman Sachs: Welfare Weasel Tries to Silence Blogger Free Speech
Isn’t it nice to know that Welfare Weasel Goldman Sachs appreciates the government bailout that it received (your tax dollars) so much that it has apparently hired a Wall Street law firm to crush a blogger who happens to be critical of its misconduct?
Your tax dollars are being used for this nonsense in addition to those executive perqs?
The blogger, Mike Morgan at GoldmanSachs666.com, isn’t intimidated. Rather than wait, he went on the offense and sued Goldman Sachs in federal district court.
It will be interesting to see what happens. Goldman Sachs probably figured its deep pockets, combined with a big law firm, would scare the blogger into silence. To do this, Goldman Sachs asserts the blogger has infringed on its trademark and engaged in unfair competition. Anyone who views Morgan’s site (including the prominent disclaimer) will not mistake it in any way for a Goldman Sachs’ venture or competitor but recognize it for what it is – a place to vent about the bad practices that Goldman Sachs has engaged in.
Goodbye free speech? If we can interpret the U.S. Constitution to authorize the President to give your tax dollars to the incompetent, the next logical step would be to start eliminating those pesky parts of the Bill of Rights that allow criticism of those second-handers who feed off the government.
Speaking of which, let’s highlight some of the Goldman Sachs incest that enabled it and its corporate cronies to take your tax money to spend as they see fit.
- President Bush’s last U.S. Treasury Secretary? Henry Merritt “Hank” Paulson Jr., former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs.
- John Stevens Corzine – Governor of New Jersey, former U.S. Senator, and yes, former Chairman and co-CEO of Goldman Sachs.
- Robert Rubin – Before becoming President Clinton’s U.S. Treasury Secretary, Rubin was, you guessed it, the CEO of Goldman Sachs.
These are just a few examples. Government “service” has served Goldman Sachs and it cronies well. If you look to who has benefited from crisis bailouts, ranging from Mexico in the 1990s to the current TARP fiasco, you’ll find that Goldman Sachs and the other corporate welfare weasels it deals with (AIG, Citigroup, etc.) have done extremely well getting your money from Uncle Sam without any strings attached.
In short, Goldman Sachs deserves contempt for its attempt to suppress blogger free speech.
As for taking your money (using the government as tax collector), you can decide what should be a fitting punishment.
