Because it's good for China it's good for the US?

A tacit admission that the US is no longer a democratic republic.

I DESPISE this traitorous bastard! Connecticut…WAKE THE FUCK UP and resign this prick next election!!! (That is IF your election isn't fixed!)

First they get us into a continuing state of war, then they try to create new powers only to be used in a time of war, which now is apparently constant. Geroge Orwell would be proud. And repulsed.

I am not your “internet friend” you zionist puke.

Joe, Joe, Joe you hypocritical son of a bitch!!! Who in their right mind would believe anything you ever say again… They didn't name you “Liarman” because you told the truth… You know Joe, integrity, respect, and believability are like money in the bank, first you have to earn it, then deposit it and then use it wisely… You, Joe, are bankrupt…. Kaput, Woti, Finished, Pau…. You have none left. You have hung yourself out to dry by sucking up to your Zionist masters, you know those Fascist dog shit sons of bitches that are running Israel.. The same bastards that ambushed the USS Liberty and killed and maimed my brothers.. You know, the same ones that haven't recieved an apology from you or those like you in government today. Both the government of the United States and the government of Israel…

Just what we need is another Repig's belief that total government control is better…. Fuck you Joe! Crawl back under the cow pie you crawled out from….

No Joe, you're dogshit, I have a very difficult time of scrubbing your memory out of my mind, it is that distasteful…

Just this old Chief's 2 cents

This is a real bona fide MF.

How in the hell is he still chairman of the Homeland Services Committee?

Probably because he is a Charter Member of Aipac…. The Zionists lobby in the United States.

I personally would like to see open season declared on these mofo's, They are in the same league as the Fascists of Mussolini, and not very far behind the Brown Shirts of Hitler….

Lieberman needs to “relax” about Iran getting the bomb as it will likely be years until the opportunity presents itself of using it on Israel.

Just trust Joe Lieberman.
trust in the police state
trust the 9/11 lies

trust AIPAC
trust Israel

No, Joe. Kill the bill and stop being a fascist. You can take your GOP friends that are helping you out on this and drown in the gulf.

Send Joe to China. Strip him of all of his “uppity rights” and let him feel like a ” small man”.

This isn't China,so calm down Joe.

There he goes again .. Lieberman the snake …. Do you believe him ? …

Screw absolute power and dictatorial controls.

US politicians have turned into communists, so deport them or try them for trfeason

Lieberman's not worried. He saw no problem when Bush was president, either. He thought Bush was a great chief.

Joe Lieberman: Go fnck yourself.
Hadassah Lieberman: You go fnck yourself, too.

Democrats who were fooled into supported Lieberman so many years ago: You all go fnck yourselves, as well.

Lieberman continued: “So I say to my friends on the Internet, relax. Take a look at the bill. And this is something that we need to protect our country.” – Joe's only friends are in power.

Like I said before, I can't wait to watch fuckface Obama sign this piece of shit.

BTW, Are they going to disconnect everyones phones too? Obama and Joe can go fuck themselves, Al Qaeda is less of a threat to America than these fucking scums.

So I say to Joe Lieberman, blow it out your ass! Smarmy festering puke lickspittle. Considering the craven warmongering nature of 'killer' Joe, if his lips are moving, the nasty little freak is lying.

Fuck that traitorous zionist bastard!

The only thing we need to protect our country is to have fewer fascist politicians like Lieberman.

The media is Zionist controlled, so Holy Joe just needs to stop the truth from passed via the internet. BTW, will Jewess Kagan tilt the Supreme Court to call this hate speech and then censor it?

Look at the first three letters of his last name and know that he is also a closet republican and you will know that he is never telling the truth anytime he opens his mouth.

So, okay, then if a bank is under attack, then perhaps steps need to be taken to protect a bank's capacity to engage in transactions without being attacked by a foreign or other source. Exactly how does this relate to civilians using the Internet, to the “flow” of everyday information on the Internet?

We're attacked, so we can't get the NYT? We're attacked, so we can't post blogs? What's really in the bill?

This is dangerous as a bill and given how broken the Senate and government is, I wouldn't trust this.

Give us one valid reason to believe a word you say Joe. Sorry, but I can't think of any. You have a habit and pattern of lying through your teeth.

One of the most abusive, terroristic, brutal, horrific dictatorships in the world, responsible for literally millions of human rights abuses, held up constantly as the antithesis to American Freedom and liberty, and Lieberman wants America to be more like them?????????????

Wow, Lieberman truly is dumb as the day is long.

http://www.total-anonymity.tk

lieberwhore is the biggest scum in the world

yes

There is not a shadow of doubt in my mind as to Leiberman's agenda here – he wants to protect his beloved country from criticism so that it can continue to do as it has always done and anybody who, by his definition, posts anything anti-Semitic, will be simply censored out. Vote Lieberman and if you are Israeli, he will represent you!

There should be some kind of communication network set up ,like the poney express, from person to person, so that is case the loonies call for action it would be possible to get news and messages from one part of the country to another and from one neighborhood to another.
City to city. If they have this power, they will use it!
Where there is a will there is a way.

Waiting for this dreadful little man's demise we can all play Louis Armstrong's great, “I'll Be Glad When Your're Dead You Rascal You!”

Because there is no real difference between the two. China is only slightly worse. And I don't see China mass invading countries for oil and other natural resources (yet).

Bitterly comical is how Lieberman reveals that he, like all fascist swine politicians who introduce and/or ratify totalitarian legislation, knows JACK SHIT about IT. All he cares about is “controlling” what he does not understand. Nanny Neo-Nazis like Lieberman see threats everywhere, just like the government of Iran and China.

What does epic moron Lieberman say about the internet?

“…..or we have to put a patch on this part of it.”

News flash: you cannot “patch” the fucking internet, you drooling imbecile. Jesus Christ, somebody take the safety labels off all of Joe's household appliances so this problem can resolve itself.

The internet is not “American”. The internet cannot be “shut off”. This is complete fucking bullshit and more fascist lunacy from brownshirt Lieberman. When China launches a massive DDOS attack on US military servers or whatver, do you know what the IXP's are going to do? They're going to warn the Chinese ISP's responsible once, and then they're going to throttle or block the attack selectively, expanding the block if it doesn't cease.

THERE IS NO NEED FOR THIS SUPER RETARDED, FASCIST NANNY BULLSHIT.

F*** You, Lieberman, you paternalistic, Orwellian assclown.

Mr. Lieberman, I'll relax about internet censorship the day you relax about: (1) peaceful nuclear proliferation in the Middle-east; (2) Israel signing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; and (3) Israel joining IAEA and disclosing the extent of the current nuclear arsenal and allowing IAEA inspections of their facilities. Oh, by the way – FREE VANUNU

I think Lieberman should move to China. They might like him better there! He seems to think their politics regarding civil liberties are appropriate.

Lieberman is a douchebag..

His endorsement is all I need to hear..

Now I KNOW it's a tyrannical move.

Even an old leather sack like this c@cksucker can feel the collective hate against him. May his heart explode from the pressure!!

Weasel. Or is that weisel?

Shut up Joe!

China controls their internet access so that they can control the information that their people can get which then helps them control the people.

There are much better ways to fight cyber terrorism/war. One way would be for the government to put some stimulus money into boosting the infrastructure of the internet as well as research into cyber defense and the side benefit would be the creation of a lot of jobs that actually pay a living wage.

You're exactly right.

To think that Al Gore, who I love, picked this wrinkled up prune faced fucker to be his running mate just gives me the willies.

That's the only good possible justification I can resolve in my mind that the election was stolen by the Supreme Court.

ignoramous

Lieberman was a staunch opponent of a single payer, government run helath care system, almost equally opposed to even a Public option, yet he demands we pay $84 BILLION of American Taxpayer's money so Israelis can have free government healthcare?????????????

U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact
Summary

Benefits to Israel of U.S. Aid
Since 1949 (As of November 1, 1997)

Foreign Aid Grants and Loans
$74,157,600,000

Other U.S. Aid (12.2% of Foreign Aid)
$9,047,227,200

Interest to Israel from Advanced Payments
$1,650,000,000

Grand Total
$84,854,827,200

Total Benefits per Israeli
$14,630
Cost to U.S. Taxpayers of U.S.
Aid to Israel

Grand Total
$84,854,827,200

Interest Costs Borne by U.S.
$49,936,680,000

Total Cost to U.S. Taxpayers
$134,791,507,200

Total Taxpayer Cost per Israeli
$23,240

The first casualty of war is Truth. Go ahead, take my internet, I don't need to know anything. Everyone will agree with Lieberman, he's a democrat AND a republican. Make decisions for me Joe. Pull the kill switch on my brain and I will relax. Especially in a time of WAR. When can we expect this, next week?

I have to agree that this is an attack on free speech in many ways. If you have the ability to shut any part of the internet down then you have the ability to shut it all down. If they are strictly using the “Kill Switch” to be able to disconnect certain parts of the internet down then we do not need a cross the board switch we simply need to shore up the defense of those areas he mentions like power grids and such. If they have the ability to shut down the entire internet then it is just a matter of time before that use it for censorship of those that oppose them. Yeah that's right Joe. Just like China.

Ask yourselves: how would this capability benefit Israel?

Actually, I don't think its possible to shut down the internet without shutting down ALL telecommunications: TV, Radio, Phones, Satellite, military, commercial, private is all interconnected and heavily redundant.

Still, constant vigilance is needed. One thing of many that Liberals & Conservatives have in common is alarm at the steady infringement on American's rights.

Banks use encryption for their transmissions. If they don't they deserve to be hacked.

Granted, most encryption in the US is deliberately flawed, and the Government (NSA) has all the keys. Ditto Europe.

No Government wants a good encryption program out there.

People in power will try to convince Americans that China is gaining power BECAUSE of its agressive, repressive, invasive and stifling behaviors.

More likely it is because the American Gov is mostly corrupt and useless. The field is open and smooth for China to take control of the worlds finance and commerce.

LIEberman=Bullshitter for the NWO.

I will relax when your fascist assclown self has retired.

The very fact it's HIM trying to sell us this shit is really making me wonder if there really isn't a sinister zionist agenda undermining our country…..

Wonder? Not anymore….
Oh hell yes there is….

So we'll only use this in a state of war, but then he subsequently admits we're in a state of constant war. Sounds good!

I'll relax when you're in prison, you traitor. Dual Citizen Traitor.

“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.”

Hannah Arendt

Liebermann wants TOTAL information control in the hands of the Government

I say FUCK YOU, JOE!

Half of our programmers are foreigners . Most of our hardware is built overseas. If we are ever involved in a real cyberwar, we will find the enemy is already behind our firewall thanks to Clinton, Lieberman, Obama and the other traitor corporatist scum. They want this so they can block wiki-leaks.

Israel has built in so many “backdoors” to the software they market even if the net was shut down Israel could still trap every phone in the country .
And by the way Joe fuck off you quisling .

Relax, its just a Death Panel

I propose a bill to protect the US from Joe Lieberman.

“We need this capacity in a time of war”

We are always at war. We're in perpetuwar. That's the idea, eh herr Lieberman?

See in the olden days I could put a bullet in this guy and I would be a true patriot for taking down some one who is curving free speech now if i did it i wold be a terrorist.

Wow: China can do, why can't we?

Yes…a communist dictatorship is a good role model.

That's “curbing” free speech.

How can anyone read this and not KNOW this country and our freedoms are at great risk. Just what does this asshole have to do before he people of Connecticut recall this asshole. And not one of these lame ass “public servants” will do a thing about him either.

These people corrupt bastards all need to be fired. Fired for participating, fired for ignoring the problem and fired for pretending they are “trying” to fix the problem. There is more public support right now for reform, and accountability than there has been in many many years. All it would take is one of those pukes to act like an American.

What “if”. Damn Yanks are always at war.
buzz

Really, it's like he's setting himself up as a cartoon villain. I can't imagine any example that would endear people less to his argument than the China example.

Joe, let's keep this simple: FUCK YOU.

I don't think Joe has any “friends” on the internet. In fact, he's low on friends PERIOD.

The financial elite have learned a lesson in the last decade just as they learned a lesson about common men able to awaken and move the masses. They have discovered time an again the power of the internet and its revolution of information. Ever since they let that genie out of the bottle they have been trying to put it back in. They have been seeking anyway possible to put the breaks on the information revolution because simply it is exactly that a revolution of independent media sources disseminating the truth which is bad for the Corporate controlled state of america cant have the plebes running around informed have to put the peasents back in their places.

Does Lieberman even realize the damage to businesses large and small, and in down-turn the economy that would be caused by such a shutdown? Clearly this has not been thought through enough at all.

However, (devil's advocate here) it's one thing for the Preident to have this ability, and quite another for him to actually use it.

What a belligerent piece of garbage.

I meant to type “and the resulting down-turn in the economy”. :)

The grandstand bozo is reaching for new depths. DARPA created the internet nearly thirty years before anyone outside heard the term. Granted, Defense does not control the switches for the commercial web. However, this nation was made aware of national intelligence agencies' screening of web traffic yielded by the telecomms. Lieberman knows well enough what black boxes follow the president around. There is no need to broadcast to the world that we have circuit breakers. Mine is not a paean for secrecy: still, the game of international security is not played with an open hand. Hang this man on the wall in the circus museum in Sarasota.

Keep your G D hands of my internet. National Security my ass!

Talk about getting punked…

if communist china can cut off the internet then certainly we should be like them.

Oh I forgot to mention, all you morons in Connecticut that elected this guy should be ashamed.

when lying crooked a-hole members of Team Apartheid tell you to “relax” about the plans they have for you, its time to pay attention.

whenever i run into ANYBODY from connecticut, i give them hell for voting in theis useless shill for israel. and they deserve it.

Go F**K Libermann.. honestly..

hey. they can fund the whole operation very easily. stop giving the jews 3 billion dollars a year. i wonder what LIEberman's commission on that 3 billion amounts to?

dont we have problems here in the USA that need fixing?

When this slimy phuck tells me not to worry, that's when I start to worry.

Shut up Lieberman

I actually agree with Lieberdouche for once. This is probably an ability the government should have without having to worry about greedy ass corporations not giving a damn about national security or their user's security because it might interfere with their fucking profits.

S.3480 Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3480/text

There's the bill. Full text. You still won't like it.

yeah, let's be like China. China, the beacon for America…

“China has the power to shut down its Internet, so why can't we?”

“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,”

Very nice. China is certainly the model to use for the future of America. China also suppresses free speech as well as suppresses religious freedom, allows torture of prisoners, has a one-child policy and has an utterly corrupt government… Hey Joe, as it turns out we're already half way there! You guys in Washington are doing a bang-up job!

Beat me to it!

It DOES seem as though Lieberman wants the U.S. to become more like Communist China.

you forget about the other 99 assclowns he plays legislative bingo with?

you forget about the other 99 assclowns he plays legislative bingo with?

Clinton and Obama are corporatist, but the Bushes weren't? Puh-lease. Does the name Halliburton ring a bell?

RE: “So I say to my friends on the Internet, relax. Take a look at the bill. And this is something that we need to protect our country.” – Joe “Il Duce” Lieberman
MY COMMENT: So we should “just lie back and enjoy it”, Joe?

I agree, one child policy! Yay! How about one political party – oh yeah we already have that. Well at least we can depend on some swell internet censorship. Damn how about we get some of those jolly mobile execution vans and organ harvesting… we're way behind here America. I think that also we should re-name our standing army to the “People's liberation Army” after all isn't that what we're doing… liberating the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. It's cool when I chat with people from China they tell me if they had a baby they'd be kicked out of university and that the media “tells us what we need to know”. All hail China bitches. Freedom for the proletariat!

and who exactly gets to decide who we're “at war” with? I know this has been said but FUCK YOU joe.

Jewerman wants your tax money for his ark for seven million zionists. He'll turn off the internet once you start work in his soylent green factory.

I’ve hated him, ever since I realized he sabotaged the Gore campaign from right there at Gore’s right hand side. Then I started being aware of all the other messed up stuff he does/has done. EVIL.

I’ve hated him, ever since I realized he sabotaged the Gore campaign from right there at Gore’s right hand side. Then I started being aware of all the other messed up stuff he does/has done. EVIL.

Lieberman is an idiot, but … really?

Absolutely, its called AIPAC!

“The very fact it's HIM trying to sell us this shit is really making me wonder if there really isn't a sinister zionist agenda undermining our country…..”

yes there is its called AIPAC.

A US court has formally dropped espionage charges against two pro-Israeli lobbyists amid a scandal that had threatened to expose the extent of Israeli grip on US politics.

US District Judge T. S. Ellis on Monday dismissed all charges against former AIPAC lobbyists Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, three days after Justice Department prosecutors announced that handling the case would require the release of top secret military intelligence and should therefore be shelved.

Rosen and Weissman were indicted in 2005 for conspiring to obtain and leak classified information regarding Iran to the Israeli government and journalists from The Washington Post and other media outlets.

Pentagon expert Larry Franklin — who pled guilty to passing restricted military intelligence to the two indicted lobbyists — was sentenced in April to 12 years and seven months in prison.

AIPAC, billed as the most powerful lobbying group in Washington, has strived to distance itself from the spy case to escape further controversy for the sake of its reputation.

The controversy, however, was further fueled by revelations of the involvement of California representative Jane Harman — a longtime member of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence who has access to highly classified security information.

Harman was reportedly overheard on a wiretapped phone conversation while agreeing to act on behalf of a suspected Israeli agent and persuade the Justice Department into reducing espionage charges against Rosen and Weissman.

The Israeli agent, in return, promised to smooth the way for Harman to become the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

According to a Congressional Quarterly report released on April 19, the FBI was poised to question Harman about the telephone call and her interactions with the suspected Israeli agent but US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez blocked efforts to launch an investigation.

Harman, who has denied any wrongdoing, has taken the matter up with AIPAC policymakers and has tried to turn the tables by accusing the US government of illegally recording her conversation — a move that has shifted media attention away from AIPAC involvement in the spy case, also named the Lawrence Franklin affair.

In an address to the 2009 AIPAC policy conference on Monday, she chose to focus on the wiretapping rather than her bargaining deals with the suspected Israeli spy and called herself “a warrior on behalf of our Constitution and against abuse of power.”

She went on to promise the heavyweight American politicians who had come to swear allegiance to Israel that she would “not quit on this, until I am absolutely sure that this never can happen to anyone else”.

Baruch Weiss, the lawyer who helped cripple the US government's case against Rosen and Weissman, says the prosecution's loss is a “great victory” for Israel's friends.

This is not the first time pro-Israeli lobbyists charged with espionage escape trial in the US.

Stephen D. Bryen, a pro-Israel activist who played a key role in forging close ties between Israel and the Pentagon, was seen passing confidential documents to an Israeli Mossad agent in a restaurant in Washington.

Michael Saba, former executive director of the influential National Association of Arab Americans, who was witness to the security breach, promptly reported the incident to the Justice Department.

“After I reported this incident to the Justice Department, FBI and Justice Department investigators gathered sufficient evidence on Dr. Bryen's activities to recommend he be brought before an investigative grand jury for espionage,” Saba explained in Armageddon Network

“The case was quietly closed, however, by Philip Heymann, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, a close personal friend and associate of Dr. Bryen's attorney. Bryen was never formally charged or made to account for his actions under oath,” he added.

SBB/AA

China can also send its kids off to the shoe factory, Joe….
Do we need that here too?

In the interest of “National Security”, I suggest we recall every single one of these bozos…

There has to be a hundred amongst us who can actually do this job with honor.

Lieberman tells Web users to ‘relax’ about ‘kill switch’
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Web users tell “traitorman” to not play with things he doesn't understand and to remove himselft from office. Film at eleven…

Fuck Joe LIEberman.

I'm a life long democrat, but will not support the DLC again until they stop supporting this piece of garbage, Joe Lieberman. He thinks the internet is a threat to our national security, well I think he is a threat to our national security. Connecticut, you are a bunch of idiots for voting this guy in again. You deserve what you get.

“Right now China, the government, can kill anyone they need in case they want and we need to have that here too,”

Yes Joe, we have COMPLETE trust in anything you do, since your track record is sooo impeccable.

Relax, we need to be more like China. Notice the facial twitching at 8 seconds. How can anyone believe anything he says? He is the missing Link of the U.S. single party system that poses as a two party system. Hidden in plain view. That's why his name starts with Lie. What's his role now, Minister of Propaganda?

His neck definitely looks fuckable.

Bush is a given. He is lumped in with the other scum.

Do you think that the government could, in any way, totally shut down traffic from a specific country? They are not geeky, smart enough to understand that they can't do it. Fucking politicians don't event know what the internet is (tubes!). Rat bastards. Keep your hands off of the internet. They've been trying to control it since its inception.

Tanks on Tien Min Square. That is all I have to say.

No reason to call names here. Yes, Joe is a fuckwad, but let's not resort to alienating all jews because of him.

Just what exactly is our government securing us from? I ask you this. When will they decide that we can't see videos from our enemies because of national security? I hate the bastards from Al Qaeda and other right wing groups from the MIddle East, but I should have the ability to listen to their crazy ramblings. What other things will the government deem “harmful” to the American psyche. I say no. The internet is not to be controlled.

Shall we begin with, say, the website of the junior Senator from Connecticut?

Seriously, why do some authoritarian politicians feel the need to make us more like the countries we claim to oppose? What's the point of calling yourselves a free people if you start acting like an authoritarian corporate state on the Chinese model?

These people are totally outside reality.

We have to borrow money from China to run our government and they just carry on like nothing has changed. Starting war after war, endlessly funding all this and we cant pay for any of it. And on top of that, now we are starting a war with Iran. Are these people completely insane?

Back in the medieval days they wouldn't teach the serfs to read to keep them from rebelling. This is the same thing. They know what they are doing would incite riots if the people knew what was really happening. Wikileaks is about to post a truly horrendous video showing wanton slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan, so naturally they are trying to assassinate him now because of “national security”. If our National security depends on this slaughter, then we should be VERY wary of predator drones being flow over US skies. Will they be bombing and killing innocent US civilians because of one “suspected US militant” . Me thinks so.

The type of government being administered in Iraq and Afghanistan is what is going to be brought to the US.

People, this is clearly setup to be a means of killing access to Wikileaks. We mustn't allow the Sheeple to have access to truth. We must only be allowed access to government-approved propaganda (virtually ANYTHING that the mainstream press pulls out its ass).

Joe Totalitarian?

I hit “like” for your comment, just one quibble.

The Dems who supported Lieberman’s continuing Chairmanship on the DHS Committee weren’t tricked, or fooled at all, they knew he’s a slimy prick who would stick it to the Dems every chance he could, yet they still supported him anyway.

Guess they figured as long as he was screwing the liberal base of the Democratic party, then no harm, no foul, even though it’s the liberals and labor unions which provide the bulk of the Dems GOTV efforts.

But since the Senate Dems want to kiss, not kick, Lieberman’s ass so much, then let the Blue Dogs do the GOTV efforts for the party and see how successful they are.

How ironic that the most fascist of today's American senators is the Likud's point man in the Capital.

Is Israel's new motto, “do unto others the evil that has been done unto us?”

Lieberman cares only about Israel’s neocons, he doesn’t give a damn about Israelis who aren’t as far-right as he is.

China can do it! Last time I checked, China was a dictatorship and the United States was not.

Lieberman is quite clear: the US MUST become exactly like China if the obscenely wealthy are to remain in control.

You must not have been paying attention since Reagan was 'elected' through vote rigging. Today the people acting as 'president' must be approved before hand by the obscenely wealthy cabal that controls the Executive Branch. Only pre-approved candidates are allowed to 'win' US elections.

For years I used to believe all that ZOG stuff was a buncha crap.

Not anymore….The more I research, the more
I realize….with great horror….

That shit was all too real….

Master race is no different from chosen people….

that`s what joe LIEberman tells his pages…”relax”, while i shove this up your ass…!

Hey Joe!!!!!! I Think that you had better head out to Oakland CA ASAP, The wonderful people of Oakland have figured out that they could make a statement and make it stick… :Your Merchant Marine is in Deep Shit Joe…. And, the fine people and the Unions of Oakland and the Bay Area are making it happen…. For more info go to http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?l… I don't know about you, but I am going to give these fine folks a Bravo Zulu for their humanism, and fight against terrorism that is being conducted by Joe's mother country Israel….

Get over to Op Ed News and lets give these great people a hand in stopping apartheid and robbery/racism by the Bigots of the middle east..

Just this old Chief's 2 cents

Oh, why isn't this story Front Page here on Raw Story? Just wonderin'.

Already have that. The president can determine anyone including an american citizen as an extra-judicial assassination target.

This bill would be fine IF it were narrowed to give the Prez the ability to kill access to/from ONLY government networks and power grid networks. Beyond that in the civilian internet? Fuck off!

It's not about controlling what you can and cannot see.

It's about turning access off in the event of a huge hack attack. If someone is using Amazon.com to send destructive viruses or whatever to everyone's PC's, they should be able to yank Amazon in the event of an emergency. I don't think any old hacker could really pull something off that would trigger what Lieberdouche is talking about, but this is more for hacking that would need government sized backing, a la similar to what China was doing to Google a few months back. That wasn't THAT bad, but if they can hack something as secure and massive as Google just to gank a few people's information, they can do something far more destructive if they wanted.

If China (or North Korea, Iran, Russia, etc) was pissed at us for some reason and we went to war, they could potentially do some major damage to everyone in this country, given how we're all connected now. That's what this is about. If we went to war with China, imagine if they started hacking into the major bank websites and draining people's accounts or something. Or uploading a virus through Yahoo to every IP address based in the United States and it's allies. It COULD happen and that's the level of maliciousness this is meant to counteract.

I'm not exactly eager to give the government this kind of power either, especially after 8 years of Bush and his abuses. But it's kind of a common sense safety measure. It's like saying you don't want any more fire extinguishers in buildings because some assholes came in and sprayed them all over the place for the fun of it or something. Just because there's the potential for abuse doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.

Oh you know, films and documents released by Wikileaks would be deemed a “national security threat” and they would ATTEMPT to prevent you accessing them. THAT is the target. You must NOT be allowed to see what your government or military is REALLY up to.

I love how this guy is willing to throw all of his civil rights in the garbage pail over a statement that includes the word “probably”.

In an ideal world, people like you are stripped of their citizenship and left out for the wolves to eat.

re Dual Citizenship

Much as it makes for exciting gossip, I just spoke to a Jacob in the senator's DC office to question whether or not it is true that the senator holds dual citizenship and I have been assured with 100% certainty that the senator holds citizenship only in the US. Intelligent people may question the motives of the senator, but spreading misinformation is not helpful.

Lieberman replied. “We need this capacity in a time of war.

Which is clearly ALL the time.

This Lieberman fcktard is trying to do as much damage as he can before his current (and final) stint in government comes to an end in 2012. That date cannot come fast enough.

Damn you people of Connecticut for imposing this fascist AIPAC douchebag upon the rest of us.

Hell, since Kennedy was assassinated!

GET THESE TWO TIMING DUAL CITIZENS OUT OF MY GOVERNMENT

Pretty slick move Senator Lieberman. Seems the Senate will do whatever it takes to take control. If all “We need this capacity in a time of war. We need the capacity for the president to say, 'Internet service provider, we've got to disconnect the American Internet from all traffic coming in from another foreign country, or we have to put a patch on this part of it' then have the bill say just that.
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All those folds of skin…you could get several people fucking them at the same time.

Relax… yeah, thats the same thing a rapist says before a rape

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I agree there is a lot of sketchy voter fraud going on in the last few elections, BUT PLEASE!! Reagan won in a LANDSLIDE BOTH TIMES!!!

OMG read some damn history you nutbar regressives!!!

LMAO

OK…we'll accept that for now…but what about Rahm Emmanuel?

That is the whole NWO (aka Washington Consensus) Agenda. Joe is a loyal solider. As is Barry Soetero and Dubya.

OBAMA: Poppy's greatest creation yet!!

Also, Reagan won in a landslide and is VERY MUCH like Obama.

Reagan was an actor who SAID what Goldwater Republicans wanted to hear. Goldwater Republicans (you guys affectionately know them as “Teabaggers”) were sick and tired of the Eastern Establishment pusing Fabian Socialism through the Republican Party.

Reagan made a deal with the devil and brought the Establishments pointman Poppy Bush onto the ticket, CIA rigged the election with the OCT surprise, not the ballot box.

And Reagan was a fake conservative. A face for the NSCs shadow government takeover to continue. JUST LIKE OBAMA.

Mothman, they aren't insane, they are tactical, as your bigger paragraph brilliantly explains.

PLEASE EVERYONE: Abandon your partisanship! Don't you see what is happening to America? They have us trapped in a fake dichotomy. They are trying to extinguish human liberty's short, 200 year lifespan!!

Do not be bullied by the Establishment's press. SAY IT WITH PRIDE!!! RON PAUL 2012.

Usually I disagree with the majority of comments posted to stories here but you all seem to be right on in your evaluation of liberman and his ilk in this case.

If you keep you eyes open and read news stories from sites other than liberal/progressive ones…you might just come around and see more truth that you care to about your beloved messiah and his NWO minnions.

Somedays you all actually give me some hope !

China has the power to shut down its Internet, so why can't we?

NEWSFLASH NIMROD LIEberman….THIS IS THE USA NOT FUCKING CHINA!!!!!!!!!! I KNOW YOU WISH THIS WAS CHINA, BUT IT'S NOT.

………..so your supporting communism in america? no matter what you say it is literally blocking freedom of speech, what reason could you have for shutting down the internet? so people can't see gruesome scenes? information about things our government is doing that you don't want us to see? well last time i checked that was illegal, so fuck off jackass.

[...] Lieberman tells Web users to ‘relax’ about ‘kill switch’ “Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” Lieberman told CNN’s Candy Crowley on State of the Union Sunday. http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0620/lieberman-relax-kill-switch/ [...]

Let's send Joey to China, see if he can get elected there.

I do not trust politicians (any of them) to have that much power.

All the immature Mossad-endorsed Neocon Zionist nuts in this country *(including those cops!!!) need to sit down, shut up and get on a plane to exit the United States.

NOW.

ISRAEL'S INSANE PILLAGING ACTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE ILLEGAL…..WHY OBSSESSED WITH AN EYE FOR AN EYE? ARABS WOULD NEVER HAVE INVADED IF ISRAEL HADN'T STOLEN THE LAND UP FIRST…..

Dude, Lieberman is an idiot.

Lou
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I am so tired of the Oligarchical manouevering of the Washington DC Communists, these filthy vile lies are all we see being spewed out of their mouths, we need to enforce the laws we already have, and use them against the criminals who portray themselves as working on behalf of the american public.Why do they try to carry out War on the Americans? Has the USA gone totally and irreversibly Insane?

JOE “FUCKING” LIEBERMAN: THEE poster child for TERM LIMITS.

NOT ONLY THAT LETS START WITH A CLEAN SWEEP.

ALL THE 100 WHITE MEN AND WOMEN IN THE SENATE….. GONE.

ALL 435 SO CALLED REPS…. GONE.

NO PRIVATE MONEY FOR ELECTIONS!

LETS STARTS OVER!

I HAVE TO BELIEVE US “SMALL PEOPLE” COULD DOA BETTER JOB RUNNING THIS COUNTRY THEN THESE SO CALLED ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. I AM SO SICK OF THIS BULLSHIT

Libermann is a scumbag. This is just another big government power grab, nothing more.

If we were at war don't you think they would shut down the internet, no matter what the law said? Of course they would. This law is an unnecessary violation of our civil liberties.

like most of our government officials, lieberman is a fascist thug. as with most of the dems, including obama and hillary, he voted in lockstep with the bush wars, war fundings, torture, surveillance, suppression of what few of our 'rights' remained. andanyway, when is america not at war. all but 40 years of american history, considering that the indian wars went on until 1900… the US has been at war… and during those years, the US backed despots and wars worldwide, fomenting conflicts everywhere. there's profit in every body bag.

there has been increasing expectation of a BIG war, or another 'terrorist' event, whether false-flag or otherwise… perhaps another blow to the economy starts the food riots and martial law? turn off our web? i tend to think that such an act would fill the streets with angry, rebellious crowds… but those can be handled. and if they can't access twitter and so on… easier to squelch.

for some years, i've been reading about the 'undernet.' it is said that the internet as it has been corraled is a sort of myth that the powers want us to believe is a fortress they control; whereas others say that the internet is as controllable as the electron universe. hackers and such need to be working round-the-clock to break open teh levees and let the undernet out. either that or fight fire with fire and focus a big HERF gun at DC, NSA, langley, wall street? gonna shut us down mofos? try a taste of your own totalitarian medicine.

AL GORE lost everything when he picked SORE LOSERMAN as his running mate. This guy should have retired after his first term.

Lieberman = bumb-ass…. nuf said.

Exactly. Besides, the power grid and critical government networks have no business being connected to the internet in the first place. I'm sure it's cheaper and easier to do it that way, but critical functions should be disconnected and ideally run on incompatible hardware/software protocols. Ideally our infrastructure should be decentralized as much as possible, but if we are going to have monolithic entities like the power grid they should be totally fire walled.

This lieberman fella should move to Israel because that is whom he servers. He bows at Israels feet like the dog he is. Be a good doggy lieberman ans roll over and die scum.

I happen to like Joe Lieberman – he speaks his mind and is an independent thinker. A lot of political courage, considering the volume of useless drivel emails he must get from people like those who have commented below.

Did anybody actually think the issue through? I don't know enough about it from this article. Therefore I am keeping an open mind. But Lieberman's endorsement means I need to consider that viewpoint. It is great to have a politician who does not follow the party.

If they are really interested in the security of our critical power, government and financial systems they should work on preemptively disconnecting as many of these as possible, preferably on a physical level. This should be doable for at least the power gird. The financial system will be more difficult to protect but it can and should be hardened. I'm sure just hooking everthing up to the Internet makes all these systems much easier and cheaper to implement but they are leaving themselves open by doing so. We can see what cheaping out has done for the Gulf of Mexico. Putting a 'shutoff switch' on the Internet is a really weak defense. You're only going to throw it if you detect an attack, but that means you are already under attack and likely seriously damaged. This is a cheap but useless feel good step for some politicians who want to look tough, at best, and something more sinister at worst. But like most of the Homeland Security BS, it's not going to really help us out with respect to the stated goal.

I think its safe to say THERE IS JUST A WHOLE HELLUVA LOT YOU DON'T KNOW