From the Social Security Institute (emphasis mine):

The fight against ObamaCare not only has activated and mobilized average people at the grass-roots to become politically active for the first time in their lives, it also has created an efficient information-sharing network through Google Groups and other networking devices that allows experts to disseminate information, discuss and debate issues among themselves and interact with non-specialists in real time.

It is a kind of spontaneous Wikimedia. It is fabulous, and it means the doors to the Washington backrooms have been blown off the hinges, sunshine now penetrates to the deepest recesses of Capitol Hill, if not in real time, with minimum delay. That doesn’t mean these jokers don’t bear constant watching because no matter how quickly we expose their nefarious schemes, they still are able to cut deals and jam legislation through in the dead of night and under extraordinary parliamentary procedures.

The most recent example of the Wikimedia phenomenon is an email sent out last night by Dr. David McKalip, a St. Petersburg, Fl Neurological Surgeon. Here is his take on the Baucus Bill (Finance Committee Chairman’s mark):

I am reading through the Baucus Bill and what I see is disturbing assault on the profession of medicine. I see a process that will lead to the near extinction of small group and solo medical practices. A system where docs who still want to practice will be forced into hospital employment or large groups. A system in which docs are coerced into primary care or into various geographic areas.

It will be a system where docs are forced into capitated payment models whether they like it or not – or even know it.

A system where docs will be more beholden to a committee’s perception of “efficiency” than the needs of patients.

A system where medical costs will escalate for insurance and medical care and doctors will be further penalized for prescribing anything that is too “expensive”.

This will be the death of our Profession as Dr. Plested warned us in 2006 at I-06.

Read the whole thing.

I would also like to add the social network sites, especially the Ning social network of the Tea Party Patriots where individuals from all walks of life can now create their own profile, make friends, blog, and start discussions.

This new media, what Dr. Hunter has labeled the Wikimedia, is the next evolution in real time communications. Blogs, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, groups on Yahoo and Google, Ning – this is the new paradigm. There will be many a dissertation on how this new media, combined with the Tea Party grassroots movements changed the face of politics forever.

It is the dawn of a new era.

In other news and opinion:

Obamanomics: Hidden Regressive Taxes

Obama Has a Mandate – but with Whom?

Obama: I, sir, am no Jack Kennedy

What Happened to the “War of Necessity”?

Lies, lies, and more lies. The White House seems determined to draw itself into litigation. How stupid can these people be?

White House continues spy campaign: White House Launches Health Tattle-Tale Site on another .gov website. The site is here.

I describe in a previous post how the older now defunct White House flag site violates .Gov domain guidelines as outlined here.

What is interesting is that I am unable to use Firefox’s built in capabilities to look at the White House source code to discern what email address is being used in the section “Contact Us”. I find this a bit fishy. Perhaps someone with more computer acumen than I can figure this one out. I still think it good strategy to inundate the new website’s email address by using the contact form. Millions of emails equates to letting our voices be heard.

Amazing how many lies these people will attempt to propagate in a vain attempt to spread the meme of “ObamaCare” is good for you. Melt the phone (202-501-0282) and send those emails to Lee Ellis (lee.ellis@gsa.gov), policy administrator of the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (GSA FAS) which assign .Gov domains and creates the guidelines for the use of .Gov domains. Be courteous.

Most interesting is the following statement on the main page of the new site:

Links to Facebook, Twitter, and “More Ways to Share,” point to third-party sites that are not on the White House server.

Assume for a moment the White House is not in violation of the Privacy Act of 1974, but is in violation of .gov guidelines which do not allow the use of a government second level domain to be used for political or campaign purposes. In my talks with Lee Ellis, I was informed that two actions that could be taken against whitehouse.gov website of which Macon Philips is the Chief Information Officer (macon@who.eop.gov). A request to take down the website or put a disclaimer on the site stating the page violates the .gov guidelines. Still nothing has occurred to date on the new site, and the old site is now down, whether at the request of the GSA FAS or their own volition unclear at this time.

I must admit I am disappointed in the lack of action on the part of the GSA FAS concerning the new site. The “Reality Check” site, although pointing to a non .gov location, would still be in violation of the guidelines by the very act of providing a link to a site dedicated to campaigning for ObamaCare.

Even with the closure of the old site, I believe the White House is open up to litigation as pointed out in this Fox News story:

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.

Any emails collected by the White House must be maintained via the Presidential Records Act (PRA), which requires the White House to preserve and maintain its records for permanent storage in a government database as reported here.

I still think there is a case for Privacy Act violation by the White House or First Amendment encroachments. I believe these should be pursued with the utmost passion. It looks like the American Center for Law & Justice is doing just that.

New ACLJ petition here. Check out the ACLJ Legal brief here.

Remember, people have died for our freedoms. It is imperative that nobody fear the government, for a life lived in fear is a life not worth living. Protect your rights and freedoms. Obama and his propagandists be damned. Its your life, your future, and the future of your children. The time for sitting down and taking it on the chin are over. Let the battle for the hearts and minds of America be joined.

Contact the RNC – melt the phones (202.863.8500). Ensure they intend on using national television to expose Obama’s overt violation of the privacy of U.S. citizens.

Such a blatant violation of the First Amendment could very take down the Obama presidency. Talk about Waterloo.

Is there a Woodward and Bernstein team ready to take this on? Pulitzer Prize anyone?

In other news and opinion:

White House: You’re not un-American, but you are still corporate shills so just pipe down

Be careful: DOT inspector general challenges O’s stimulus spending.

Overflow crowd at Maryland town hall.

Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting

Internet Snitch Brigade disabled, but…Updated. Michelle is starting to cover the new site. To date, there has been no major player covering the violation of .gov guidelines (rules for thee but not for me?).