Internet Kill Switch: Will Senate Sneak It Past Us?

Obama, with his Chicago political mentality, would not hesitate to use the "kill switch" to quiet his opposition in the name of the "greater good".

As you can see, I am way beyond giving our President the benefit of the doubt. With his outright campaign lies, his "apology tour", his unconscionable czar appointments, his failure to support Arizona's immigration laws, his withdrawal of missile protection from Europe, his Chavez style takeover of the auto industry, his ObamaCare debacle, his planned destruction of our domestic energy capabilities, and his giveaways of taxpayer funds to unions and political cronies, he has destroyed any trust that I may have had in his intension to fulfill his duty to defend the United States of America and its Constitution.

Excerpt: Sensing Senators don’t have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet Kill Switch bill as a rider to other legislation that would have bi-partisan support.

“It’s hard to get a measure like cybersecurity legislation passed on its own,” Senator Thomas Carper (D-Del.) told GovInfoSecurity.com. Carper is chairman of the Senate subcommittee with cybersecurity oversight.

Under instructions from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) are working to combine their separate bills into one that can be attached to another piece of legislation, such as the Defense Authorization Act. Sneaky Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us