Joe Lieberman wants to be dictator of Egypt

[Enrique]

http://dagblog.com/politics/joe-lieberman-wants-be-dictator-egypt-8770

Simply stunning. The lesson that outgoing (but not outgoing) Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman has learned from Egypt's oppressive dictator Hosni Mubarak is that the President needs to be able to order the shutdown of Internet access in the U.S., too.

Lieberman's been pushing this cause since last summer but even in the face of current events, he's not backing off. It's just so depressing. We should be having the exact opposite conversation. Were I in any position of power I'd be pressing the FCC to revoke the U.S. licenses of any telecommunications companies that complied with Mubarak's edict.

Countries block Internet access not just to stifle expression but to take away people's ability to coordinate their actions and, of course, to know what's going on. A successful crackdown depends on fear and you stoke fear by making people uncertain. In the old days, dictators would shut down the newspapers and television stations at times like this. Now it's the Internet.

I don't mean to take sides in Egypt. I don't know enough about the country, its history, culture or current events to really take sides. But I know that the fraud of Mubarak's repeated "election" victories are an open secret and though I somehow doubt that the protesters share my view of the perfect classically liberal society, they do have my sympathies as they are certainly are victims of oppression.

This is not the time to bring Mubarak's policies to the U.S. and once again, Lieberman should be ashamed of himself. But I get tired of writing that last bit.

[Demeter]

1. He Has My Permission

He'd make a tasty hors d'oeuvre for the mob....

[DCKit]

3. There's a Biblical ban on selfish. nt

[fascisthunter]

2. let's send him there... then he can talk all the shit he wants

little wimp

[backscatter712]

4. There's only one reason why a goverrnment would want to kill-switch the Internet...

When they want to do something so fucking horrible that they don't want anyone talking about it.

[lonestarnot]

5. Ackety.

[Ferret Annica]

6. He should be president of a nudist colony in Antarctica

And we should encourage that endeavor by airdropping him there naked with instructions to go forth and search for others to come join it and populate it with him.

I can't stand that guy.

[peekaloo]

7. Why not erect a shrine to him instead( a la Sphinx)? The Great Sphincter !

[malaise]

8. Only a stupid moron would shut down the internet

If you want to see youth on the street shut off their cell phones or social media websites.