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Americans Are Called to Duty, Against Each Other That Is.
On August 4th, 2009 an announcement was made to the following:
If you see anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the
health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP.
That’s right, if you oppose the White House views have your own opinions or express disbelief to others the White
wants to know about You. If you feel your life should not be in the hands of government, but in a doctor of whom
you choose, the White House wants to know about You. To make it simple if you disagree with the White House
and their suffocating master plan on health care, and you express it openly the Government has asked all citizens in
this country to snitch on one another via an e-mail site known as flag@whitehouse.gov.
Flag…..Flag……Oh Yea, "Flagg", I remember that name.
Not looking like a rumor anymore.
Remember this Democratic Dominated White House is
hell bent on punishing each and every American by
bringing them to a level short of citizens living in a third
world Dictatorship.
Below are compilations from a number of sites I heard
and researched to confirm this rumor.
Noted: From Red State.Com
From the White House website: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning
from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain
emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re
asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems
fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Emphasis added. Of course, as we’ve seen in the health care debate to date, the term “disinformation” is used by
the Obama White House as a catchall to describe any opposition to the President’s push for single-payer,
government-run health care — meaning the White House wants to be informed of any forwarded emails or blog
posts or any “casual conversations” that could be taken as opposition to their health care overhaul plan.
The White House has, as yet, offered no explanation of what it is they plan to do with the tips on policy opposition
they hope to receive from citizen informers.
Interestingly, as Jake Tapper pointed out on Twitter this morning, the title of that post on the White House is a
quote from John Adams’ 1770 “Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials.”
(h/t Jon Henke)
UPDATE: As Erick, one of RedState’s resident lawyers, points out here, this program may go beyond sinister and
actually be a violation of current U.S. law.
Further, flag@whitehouse.gov is not currently subject to Freedom of Information Act requests — something a
freedom-loving legislator (Jim DeMint? Tom Coburn? Paul Ryan? Eric Cantor?) should seek to correct at his or her
earliest convenience.
From Fox News:
Illegal, Critics Say
The White House has been under fire since posting a blog on Tuesday that asks supporters to e-mail any "fishy"
information seen on the Web or received electronically.
The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see "fishy" information about the health
care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say.
"The White House is in bit of a conundrum because of this privacy statute that prohibits the White House from
collecting data and storing it on people who disagree with it," Judge Andrew Napolitano, a FOX News analyst, said
Friday.
"There's also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives. It can't try to
rewrite history by pretending it didn't receive anything," he said.
"If the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it
violates another statute."
Napolitano was referring to the Privacy Act of 1974, which was passed after the Nixon administration used federal
agencies to illegally investigate individuals for political purposes. Enacted after Richard Nixon's resignation in the
Watergate scandal, the statute generally prohibits any federal agency from maintaining records on individuals
exercising their right to free speech.
The White House has been under fire since it posted a blog on Tuesday that asked supporters to e-mail any "fishy"
information seen on the Web or received electronically to flag@whitehouse.gov.
"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there," the blog said, adding that "since we
can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help."
The blog was posted partly in response to a video posted on the Web that claimed to show Obama explaining how his
health care reform plans eventually will eliminate private insurance.
The video, featured on the Drudge Report, strung together selected Obama statements that the White House said
were taken out of context.
The White House said it wanted to be made aware of "fishy" comments about its health care plan because it wants
to set the record straight. But critics called White House move an Orwellian tactic designed to control the health
care debate.
"This is a very troubling attempt to stifle the free speech of Americans who have the constitutional right to express
their opinion and concerns about health care," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and
Justice. He called on Obama to repudiate his blog.
"This move is an attempt to intimidate those who have legitimate concerns about the health care plan," Sekulow
said. "And, worse, it turns the White House into some sort of self-appointed 'speech police.' This new White House
reporting program strikes at the heart of the First Amendment and has no place in this important debate about
health care."
Sekulow said he imagines that opponents of mandatory abortion coverage are engaging in what the White House
considers "fishy" speech and should be reported.
"What the White House is touting is absurd," he said.
But Napolitano said the White House probably cannot be sued because of sovereign immunity, unless someone was
harmed by what the government did with the records. But that's unlikely, he said, because the person would
probably be unaware of the harm.
"That's a silent violation of your right to privacy," he said.
The ACLU said in a statement to FOXNews.com that the White House blog is a "bad idea that could send a
troublesome message."
But the organization added, "While it is unclear at this point what the government is doing with the information it
is collecting, critics of the administration's health care proposal should not fear that their names will end up in some
government database that could be used to chill their right to free speech."
The White House Thursday denied that it was playing "Big Brother."
"Nobody is collecting names," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "We have seen, and as I've discussed
from this podium, a lot of misinformation around health care reform, a lot of it spread, I think, purposefully."
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who has called on Obama to end the program, rejected the White House explanation.
"Of course the White House is collecting names," he said, arguing that anyone with access to the e-mail account
has access to private information.
"The question is not what the White House is doing, but how and why," he said. "How are they purging names and e-
mail addresses from this account to protect privacy? Why do they need the forwarded e-mails, names, and 'casual
conversations' sent to them instead of just the arguments that they want to rebut?
Asked by FOX News whether the White House was using the blog post as a way to expand the e-mail list for the
administration and Obama's political arm, Organizing for America, Gibbs said the two are "not in any way
connected" and repeated that the White House is not collecting names.
Pressed about the program's goal, Gibbs said it was to clarify for everybody what the misinformation is, adding
that's not a new tactic.
"When you make a mistake in your report, sometimes I e-mail you," Gibbs said to FOX News' Major Garrett.
"Occasionally, I call. Sometimes I just throw something against the wall. Occasionally, it's all three."
Garrett asked why it's necessary to ask so many people to e-mail the White House.
"All we're asking people to do is, if they're confused about what health care reform is going to mean to them, we're
happy to help clear that up for them. Nobody's keeping anybody's names. I do have your e-mail. ...Maybe that's
because I assume future mistakes. But I'm not going to say that," Gibbs said, drawing laughter.
"But nobody's collecting information," he added. "Everybody is trying to give people only the facts around what we
all understand is a very complicated issue."
The Rush Limbaugh Show:
RUSH: I just saw something at RedState.com. Here's the headline: "If you oppose Obamacare, even in casual
conversation, the White House wants to know about it." Jeff Emanuel put this up 1:45 this afternoon. "If you see
anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care
system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP. From the White House website: There
is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to
end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation.
Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an e-mail
or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to Flag@WhiteHouse.gov."
So the White House is asking its supporters, these groupies that hang on their website if they get an e-mail, they
hear anybody talking about fishy stuff, disinformation about the health care plan, send their name, send a copy of
their e-mail to the White House. Now, the problem with this claim of disinformation about health insurance reform,
control of personal finances to end of life care, the White House has gotta understand, people have read the House
of Representatives bill. It's all in there! None of this is being made up. I'm going to tell you who this bunch reminds
me of. There's a parallel going on in the world right now to this bunch that's running this country and the parallel is
Iran. They supposedly had a fair election. The people of Iran didn't think it was fair. They think it was a fraudulent
election and they started protesting in the streets. Even the people of Iran, this was too much to swallow, the
mullahs were just putting one over on them, they wanted a reform candidate to win, they didn't dig any of this, they
didn't think Ahmadinejad was the legitimate winner, they started protesting, and what was the result?
The government went out and started cracking heads, started putting people in jail. Some people have died as a
result of government treatment when they were in protests. Now you've got the White House asking people, its
groupies, to be informants? Let me read this again from the White House website: "There is a lot of disinformation
about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These
rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep
track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an e-mail or see something on
the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to Flag@whitehouse.gov."
Well, I would hate to see what they're going to get now at Flag@whitehouse.gov. I wonder what kind of e-mails
they're going to get now. They're looking for tattletales, they're looking for snitches, they're looking for
informants, they want their groupies to tattle on you if you happen to be telling the truth about what's in the health
care plan. "The White House has, as yet, offered no explanation of what it is they plan to do with the tips on policy
opposition they hope to receive from citizen informers. Jake Tapper pointed out on Twitter this morning, the title of
that post on the White House is a quote from John Adams' 1770 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston
Massacre Trials.'"
So this has happened before in human history. Parents whose minds weren't right, parents who were saying things
against the regime, their children were supposed to inform on them. So now the Obama administration is genuinely,
legitimately asking for informants. Man.
On August 4th, 2009 an announcement was made to the following:
If you see anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the
health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP.
That’s right, if you oppose the White House views have your own opinions or express disbelief to others the White
wants to know about You. If you feel your life should not be in the hands of government, but in a doctor of whom
you choose, the White House wants to know about You. To make it simple if you disagree with the White House
and their suffocating master plan on health care, and you express it openly the Government has asked all citizens in
this country to snitch on one another via an e-mail site known as flag@whitehouse.gov.
Flag…..Flag……Oh Yea, "Flagg", I remember that name.
Not looking like a rumor anymore.
Remember this Democratic Dominated White House is
hell bent on punishing each and every American by
bringing them to a level short of citizens living in a third
world Dictatorship.
Below are compilations from a number of sites I heard
and researched to confirm this rumor.
Noted: From Red State.Com
From the White House website: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning
from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain
emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re
asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems
fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Emphasis added. Of course, as we’ve seen in the health care debate to date, the term “disinformation” is used by
the Obama White House as a catchall to describe any opposition to the President’s push for single-payer,
government-run health care — meaning the White House wants to be informed of any forwarded emails or blog
posts or any “casual conversations” that could be taken as opposition to their health care overhaul plan.
The White House has, as yet, offered no explanation of what it is they plan to do with the tips on policy opposition
they hope to receive from citizen informers.
Interestingly, as Jake Tapper pointed out on Twitter this morning, the title of that post on the White House is a
quote from John Adams’ 1770 “Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials.”
(h/t Jon Henke)
UPDATE: As Erick, one of RedState’s resident lawyers, points out here, this program may go beyond sinister and
actually be a violation of current U.S. law.
Further, flag@whitehouse.gov is not currently subject to Freedom of Information Act requests — something a
freedom-loving legislator (Jim DeMint? Tom Coburn? Paul Ryan? Eric Cantor?) should seek to correct at his or her
earliest convenience.
From Fox News:
Illegal, Critics Say
The White House has been under fire since posting a blog on Tuesday that asks supporters to e-mail any "fishy"
information seen on the Web or received electronically.
The White House strategy of turning supporters into snitches when they see "fishy" information about the health
care debate may run afoul of the law, legal experts say.
"The White House is in bit of a conundrum because of this privacy statute that prohibits the White House from
collecting data and storing it on people who disagree with it," Judge Andrew Napolitano, a FOX News analyst, said
Friday.
"There's also a statute that requires the White House to retain all communications that it receives. It can't try to
rewrite history by pretending it didn't receive anything," he said.
"If the White House deletes anything, it violates one statute. If the White House collects data on the free speech, it
violates another statute."
Napolitano was referring to the Privacy Act of 1974, which was passed after the Nixon administration used federal
agencies to illegally investigate individuals for political purposes. Enacted after Richard Nixon's resignation in the
Watergate scandal, the statute generally prohibits any federal agency from maintaining records on individuals
exercising their right to free speech.
The White House has been under fire since it posted a blog on Tuesday that asked supporters to e-mail any "fishy"
information seen on the Web or received electronically to flag@whitehouse.gov.
"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there," the blog said, adding that "since we
can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help."
The blog was posted partly in response to a video posted on the Web that claimed to show Obama explaining how his
health care reform plans eventually will eliminate private insurance.
The video, featured on the Drudge Report, strung together selected Obama statements that the White House said
were taken out of context.
The White House said it wanted to be made aware of "fishy" comments about its health care plan because it wants
to set the record straight. But critics called White House move an Orwellian tactic designed to control the health
care debate.
"This is a very troubling attempt to stifle the free speech of Americans who have the constitutional right to express
their opinion and concerns about health care," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and
Justice. He called on Obama to repudiate his blog.
"This move is an attempt to intimidate those who have legitimate concerns about the health care plan," Sekulow
said. "And, worse, it turns the White House into some sort of self-appointed 'speech police.' This new White House
reporting program strikes at the heart of the First Amendment and has no place in this important debate about
health care."
Sekulow said he imagines that opponents of mandatory abortion coverage are engaging in what the White House
considers "fishy" speech and should be reported.
"What the White House is touting is absurd," he said.
But Napolitano said the White House probably cannot be sued because of sovereign immunity, unless someone was
harmed by what the government did with the records. But that's unlikely, he said, because the person would
probably be unaware of the harm.
"That's a silent violation of your right to privacy," he said.
The ACLU said in a statement to FOXNews.com that the White House blog is a "bad idea that could send a
troublesome message."
But the organization added, "While it is unclear at this point what the government is doing with the information it
is collecting, critics of the administration's health care proposal should not fear that their names will end up in some
government database that could be used to chill their right to free speech."
The White House Thursday denied that it was playing "Big Brother."
"Nobody is collecting names," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "We have seen, and as I've discussed
from this podium, a lot of misinformation around health care reform, a lot of it spread, I think, purposefully."
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who has called on Obama to end the program, rejected the White House explanation.
"Of course the White House is collecting names," he said, arguing that anyone with access to the e-mail account
has access to private information.
"The question is not what the White House is doing, but how and why," he said. "How are they purging names and e-
mail addresses from this account to protect privacy? Why do they need the forwarded e-mails, names, and 'casual
conversations' sent to them instead of just the arguments that they want to rebut?
Asked by FOX News whether the White House was using the blog post as a way to expand the e-mail list for the
administration and Obama's political arm, Organizing for America, Gibbs said the two are "not in any way
connected" and repeated that the White House is not collecting names.
Pressed about the program's goal, Gibbs said it was to clarify for everybody what the misinformation is, adding
that's not a new tactic.
"When you make a mistake in your report, sometimes I e-mail you," Gibbs said to FOX News' Major Garrett.
"Occasionally, I call. Sometimes I just throw something against the wall. Occasionally, it's all three."
Garrett asked why it's necessary to ask so many people to e-mail the White House.
"All we're asking people to do is, if they're confused about what health care reform is going to mean to them, we're
happy to help clear that up for them. Nobody's keeping anybody's names. I do have your e-mail. ...Maybe that's
because I assume future mistakes. But I'm not going to say that," Gibbs said, drawing laughter.
"But nobody's collecting information," he added. "Everybody is trying to give people only the facts around what we
all understand is a very complicated issue."
The Rush Limbaugh Show:
RUSH: I just saw something at RedState.com. Here's the headline: "If you oppose Obamacare, even in casual
conversation, the White House wants to know about it." Jeff Emanuel put this up 1:45 this afternoon. "If you see
anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care
system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP. From the White House website: There
is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to
end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation.
Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an e-mail
or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to Flag@WhiteHouse.gov."
So the White House is asking its supporters, these groupies that hang on their website if they get an e-mail, they
hear anybody talking about fishy stuff, disinformation about the health care plan, send their name, send a copy of
their e-mail to the White House. Now, the problem with this claim of disinformation about health insurance reform,
control of personal finances to end of life care, the White House has gotta understand, people have read the House
of Representatives bill. It's all in there! None of this is being made up. I'm going to tell you who this bunch reminds
me of. There's a parallel going on in the world right now to this bunch that's running this country and the parallel is
Iran. They supposedly had a fair election. The people of Iran didn't think it was fair. They think it was a fraudulent
election and they started protesting in the streets. Even the people of Iran, this was too much to swallow, the
mullahs were just putting one over on them, they wanted a reform candidate to win, they didn't dig any of this, they
didn't think Ahmadinejad was the legitimate winner, they started protesting, and what was the result?
The government went out and started cracking heads, started putting people in jail. Some people have died as a
result of government treatment when they were in protests. Now you've got the White House asking people, its
groupies, to be informants? Let me read this again from the White House website: "There is a lot of disinformation
about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These
rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep
track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an e-mail or see something on
the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to Flag@whitehouse.gov."
Well, I would hate to see what they're going to get now at Flag@whitehouse.gov. I wonder what kind of e-mails
they're going to get now. They're looking for tattletales, they're looking for snitches, they're looking for
informants, they want their groupies to tattle on you if you happen to be telling the truth about what's in the health
care plan. "The White House has, as yet, offered no explanation of what it is they plan to do with the tips on policy
opposition they hope to receive from citizen informers. Jake Tapper pointed out on Twitter this morning, the title of
that post on the White House is a quote from John Adams' 1770 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston
Massacre Trials.'"
So this has happened before in human history. Parents whose minds weren't right, parents who were saying things
against the regime, their children were supposed to inform on them. So now the Obama administration is genuinely,
legitimately asking for informants. Man.
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