Obama Wants to Wiretap the Internet         

          President George W. Bush was excoriated by the hypocrites of the far-left during most of his presidency for seeking greater tools for tracking terrorists after 9-11.  His policy to monitor a brutal enemy in time of war was directly responsible for ‘the erosion of civil liberties’, as they put it and this even became a major rallying cry for the Bush-haters in the ensuing years.  But no one could deny that while he was our Commander-in-Chief during the seven years following 9-11, there were no more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

            Enter Obama, the savior who would change all that and a lot of other good things about America.  When a series of terrorist attacks or near attacks occurred during the first 16 months of his presidency, it was clear that his approach wasn’t going to work.  Today it has been reported without fanfare, that the Obama administration is seeking to begin wiretapping on the internet, to include the users of the BlackBerry, websites like Facebook and ‘peer to peer’ messaging like Skype, to protect national security.  Whoa!  Where is the hue and cry from the left wing now? 

          They have also been silent while Obama did some other things that surprised everyone, like sanctioning the shooting of three black teenagers in the head during the Maersk Alabama Somali pirate incident and authorizing deadly drone strikes into a sovereign nation like Pakistan.  Don’t get me wrong.  We actually approve of the progress Mr. Obama has made in his on-the-job training.  We’d just like to have some recognition by his far-left backers that they were wrong.