Public servant Joe Lieberman is attempting to saddle America with another “national security” measure. For Joe, that usually means slaughtering Muslim toddlers. But this time, he points his 12-gauge straight to the heart American constitutional liberties: The First Amendment.

Writes Justin Raimondo,

Who else but Joe Lieberman would introduce a bill to give the President the power to shut down the Internet with the flick of a switch? … If the “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act” passes – and isn’t that a name that embraces practically every collectivist bromide extant? – the Department of Homeland  Security would establish a “cyber-terrorism” sub-bureaucracy, the Office of Cyberspace Policy (OCP), and the National Center for Cybersecurity and Communication (NCCC), with the former lording it over the Internet – a Cyber-Czar – and the latter unleashed to spy on and otherwise guard the “cybersecurity” Senators Lieberman and his two co-sponsors aver is imminently threatened.

It doesn’t matter whether Congress is a chamber of devils or angels. And it doesn’t matter whether the national security threats they foresee are imaginary or real. It is un-American and immoral to give an unconstitutional sub-agency of the unconstitutional Department of Homeland Security the unconstitutional authority to shut down the Internet at the President's say-so. Call your representative and challenge him or her to stand with the First Amendment and the rule of law by opposing the rotten "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Security Asset Act."