Mark Steyn; praise him! Praise him! Praise his blessed name! points out that the White House , ie President Obama, is asking American Citizens to report anybody who says anything dodgy ( read 'critical') about the nationalisation of healthcare to the White House.
Get that? The head of government of a nuclear-armed nation wants freeborn American citizens to report on other freeborn American citizens for saying things about government policy that the self-same government doesn't believe to be true.
Now, I would never, under any circumstances, want to to interfere with the internal politics of a friendly, sovereign nation, and I don't mean to start now.
However, if they want untrue things reporting to the State, what harm could it do to give them TRUE information about, for example, actual socialized medicine here in Britain, plus other delightful aspects of the Welfare State which the Democrats so openly and flatteringly admire, who better to put them right than us Brits?.
Obviously, the American State might find it a bit more difficult or time-consuming to sort out and investigate freeborn American citizens who have been saying untrue things about socialized medicine's bright American future, but surely it's a small price to pay for putting them right?
The email address is: flag@whitehouse.gov
Thanks for all the Liberty Ships and Shermans and tyres and GIs and Polaris and NATO and Desert Storm and Sat Nav guys.
This one's for you.
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Well, so far, they've not been very receptive to differing points of view. Despite that pesky First Amendment that supposedly guarantees such things...
9 August 2009 at 20:12Turing word: disist
Could it be part of their somewhat sinister "profiling" agenda?
9 August 2009 at 21:20PS: Many Americans urge the wider population to email gla@whitehouse.gov with info on their representatives or all and sundry, to swamp the system.
9 August 2009 at 21:25A sound idea which we should use in the UK.
Yes, and as I mentioned in the second half of this post and one of the updates just to request that information and store it, however briefly, is against two articles of US privacy law. One of the breaches appears to be very serious, the article being intended to strengthen constitutional protection in the digital age.
9 August 2009 at 21:44Oh, and I have already written to the address given, with some crap to waste their time and pointing out that they were breaking the law.
9 August 2009 at 21:45Obama is actually a communitarian.
10 August 2009 at 10:05Doubting Richard.Me too - I sent a post of mine about the NHS. Good luck reading it, FBI - or will they just hand it to Acorn.
10 August 2009 at 18:53Haven't they got Osama Bin Laden to look for, poor dears?
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