Jim Fletcher has emerged as a surprise dark horse in WorldNetDaily’s plans to peddle as much anti-Obama paranoia as possible. Last week, for example, Fletcher declared that if President Obama is re-elected, “there will be no more country.”
Fletcher is at it again in his Sept. 28 WND column, in which he begins by discussing a New York state proposal to ban anonymous Internet posts, then quickly leaps to the anti-Obama paranoia stuff:
A far more sinister potential involves the possibility that Barack Obama – in a second term – would move to silence his critics, primarily online.
Early in Obama’s rise to the presidency, a Mother Jones article raised the ugly issue: “Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?“Senators John Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, think so,” the article reported. “They introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor – an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.”
Now, hold on there, pardner. Since I still live in a free society and have the privilege of writing for a champion of free press, let me be the first to say … I totally believe Obama would love to silence his critics online, and that he’ll do it if given a chance. A second term would be a free ride for him to enact sweeping changes to fundamentally alter America.
There: I said it, and I mean it.
Fletcher declaring that he means what he says doesn’t make what he says any less crazy or paranoid. It just makes him the ideal WND employee.