Obama Philosophy: Control Everything

I think this story is indicative of Obama's overall philosophy towards the relationship between our government and the citizens of this nation. Napalitano says that in order to fight domestic terrorism, the government needs the ability to "monitor" the Internet. Napalitano also says that such "monitoring" won't infringe on any rights or freedoms... and anyway, security is more important.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/18/napolitano-internet-monitoring-needed-fight-homegrown-terrorism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+(Text+-+Politics)

Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation's homeland security chief said Friday.

Napolitano said it is wrong to believe that if security is embraced, liberty is sacrificed.

She added, "We can significantly advance security without having a deleterious impact on individual rights in most instances. At the same time, there are situations where trade-offs are inevitable."

I think this is pretty emblematic of PresBo's overall philosophy, here.


That philosophy is: "If people use it, then government should have some portion of control over it. The more control over it that government has, the better off everybody is."

It's a pretty simple philosophy, but I think it's more than a bit frightening.

Notice how details of exactly what "monitoring" they mean aren't provided. But this sounds an awful like tracking browsing history and possibly monitoring emails, chat rooms, and forums. Silly me, and here I thought that the Constitution limited government's ability to do such things to its citizens.

So we have another power grab. So far, they've seized ownership of auto companies, dictated salaries and policies to banks, and taken over the health insurance industry, just to name a few. Now they want the Internet.

As I said... government control is best. According to our commander-in-chief, that is.