Can Obama Shut Down The Internet?

If this Bill racing through Congress passes, and it sounds like it will, Obama will be able to shut down internet access in this country for reasons that could be entirely at his discretion:  "the bill could give the White House the ability to effectively shut down portions of the Internet for reasons that could prove to be politically inspired."  Here's the link:  Congress Is Giving Obama An Internet Kill-Switch.

I would urge you to contact your Congressmen about this, but I doubt it will do any good.  The movement toward destroying the Bill of Rights and our civil liberties began with the passage of the Patriot Acts (1 and 2), the Homeland Security Act and the Detainee Bill.  Now you can be thrown in jail without a hearing if someone hears something you say that they don't like and reports you to the FBI, you can be put on a no-fly list if you have the wrong last name and Obama will be able to control your access to the internet.

Someone remind me:  wasn't Obama elected on the promises of more Government transparency and the willingness to reverse all of the destruction to the Constitution and our democratic rights inflicted by the Bush people?  Let me remind you that Obama took Bush's cell-phone eavesdropping powers and expanded them.  Is this what you voted for?  Not only is our economic/financial system starting to look like that of Weimar Germany in the 1920's, but our political system is starting to look like Germany circa 1932...