On August 4, 2009 a post titled “Facts Are Stubborn Things” appeared on the White House blog. It contained the following paragraph:

“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.”

Every Fourth of July, we celebrate the Birth of the Nation. Every Fourth of August, we shall celebrate the Birth of the Internet Snitch Brigade.

How long do you think it took before the Internet Snitch Brigade expanded its reporting from something fishy about health insurance reform to Anti-American Activities? Just five days! Move over McCarthy; here comes Bill Warner. In the post titled “ASSASSINATE BARACK OBAMA PLOTS INCREASE TO 10 RACIST RIGHT WING BLOGGERS FUEL WHITE SUPREMISTS (sic.) SECRET SERVICE SHUT EM DOWN by Bill Warner investigator” Bill Warner writes:

“Articles posted on ultra right wings blogs like “Muslims Against Sharia” by Khamim Massoud such as Obama spies monitoring Jews house-to-house and Freed to Kill More American Soldiers: Taliban Thrives, Thanks to Obama Policy and “Atlas Shrugs Website” by Pamela Geller who posts articles such as “Obama backs Iraqi Terrorists: Iraq investigates alleged US-insurgent talks” are hastening the demise of Preisdent Barack Obama. … The US Secret Service so needs to investigate “Muslims Against Sharia by Khalim Massoud and Pamela Geller for her Anti-American racist activities on her website, which she operates out of her Manhattan NY apartment, and her incitement to hate by others and the possible murder of President Barack Obama.”

Yes, it only took five days to jump from snitching about dissent on health insurance reform to making up wild accusations about “incitement to hate by others and the possible murder of President Barack Obama.” A quote attributed to Joseph Goebbels, a Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany reads:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

Bill Warner may not be a good P.I. (as he claims to be) or not a good bar fighter and martial artist (as he claims to be), but he has certainly mastered the art of Nazi propaganda.

Janet Politano is a threat to this country, emercing herself in deciet and trivia, does she have time to do anythink real? Gietner seems to be an emplyee of Gldman Sachs STILL.

Linda Douglas? Need I say more. These people have no shame. That’s why it IS IS IS important.

Before someone else has to turn me in, I am going to begin making comparisons to the Indian Healthcare System and really scare people. If you’re going to have your SS troops pick me up, please email me for my address so that I’m prepared.

The perfect example of government run heathcare is the Indian Heathcare System.

Lots of people are turning themselves in. One they heard of the existence of this email address, thousands have sent in emails that put into words their disgust of the health care proposal, almost daring the administration to do something.

Of course, the administration won’t – it’s silly to think this email address is a means to stifle opinion or monitor its citizens. It was just a bad idea.

I suggest that all Obamacre opponents just turn themlves in, perhaps several times, by the millions.

Maybe that will slow things down a bit.

For the record, an IP address is ALWAYS included in the header of an email message. But like I’ve said multiple times, that header information may or may not be available when the message is forwarded to the White House. Sorry, not buying the idea that the administration is somehow using this as a way to spy on Americans – that’s done at the NSA and other intelligence areas of our government. If Obama truly wanted to “collect names”, as it were, they wouldn’t rely on something so inherently unreliable as this.

Not a chance.

Get a clue.

But the White House may not necessarily have access to the email headers of the mailing being forwarded. Like I said in the article, the White House is completely at the mercy of the person doing the forwarding.

If the White House truly wanted to invade anyone’s privacy or investigate those who do not agree with them, they’d find a better and more reliable way than email.