Obama Administration Producing Enemies List?

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list," has asked President Barack Obama to stop an effort to collect "fishy" information Americans see about a health care overhaul.

Cornyn, who leads the Republicans' Senate campaign effort, said Wednesday in a letter to Obama that he's concerned that citizen engagement on the issue could be "chilled." He also expressed alarm that the White House could end up collecting electronic information on its critics.

"I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward e-mails critical of his policies to the White House," Cornyn wrote.

Cornyn was responding to a post on the White House's blog Wednesday in which users are asked to help stop the spread of disinformation about legislation to overhaul health insurance. The post offers an e-mail address, flag@whitehouse.gov, for users to forward anything "on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy."

The White House said the post was merely designed to fight "intentionally misleading" information in the health care debate.

Regardless of the intentions, what President Obama is doing is chillingly close to what was done in Soviet Russia and other totalitarian government, by using people thinking they are doing their country a favor to collect oppo information.

It is not appropriate and we urge all Democrats to ask the White House to put a hold on the free speech violations and start fighting against policy disagreements by pushing their own policies and not collecting others and calling them lies.

Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-cornynflag_06nat.ART.State.Edition1.4bb4d44.html

Tell Me Campaign Finance Regulations Don't Affect Free Speech

Seeking to explore the reach of regulation, Chief Justice John Roberts asked if the government could ban a book that at the end says to vote for a certain candidate. The government’s lawyer said yes, it could (and already has) banned such books.

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