An email to flag@whitehouse.gov

[theoldwolf]

This is the exact text of the email I sent to flag@whitehouse.gov:

Subject: Is this what you're asking me for?

To inform on my neighbors? To report the content of casual conversations or private emails that don't happen to coincide with the state's opinion?


"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
'Brien - 1984

I think not!

Sincerely,
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If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are
hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the
truth as we do, and are afraid as we are of seeming to be singular by confessing it,
and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it.
-Leo Tolstoi

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This email is likely to get me on the White House hqiz-list, and subject me to unwanted government scrutiny, but so be it.

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

(Attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller. Niemöller said he was not quite sure when he had said the famous words but, if people insisted upon citing them, he preferred this version.)

Comments

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

Something tells me this was an idea that wasn't fully thought through before it was made public...

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Govts do, not think.
Nark on yer neighbour
rat on your roomie
peach on yer parients

Ref: Red Dwarf Back To Reality

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

By God, we must do our patriotic duty to this nation and our fellow man, by standing up to such injustice.

-=TK

[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

It was a stupid idea back after 9/11, when the Bush White House wanted to make all the truckers on the Interstate into tipsters, and it's a stupid idea today.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I thought Deus Ex semi-prescient when terrorists attacked NYC. Now I think it was semi-prescient in another way.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I've missed what has sparked all this off. What's this all about?

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

'Ere (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2030790/flagwhitehousegov_a_snitch_line.html?cat=9) you are, mate.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see now.
Hmmm... I'd like to think it was done with good intentions, but it doesn't look very good huh.

Mind you, as soon as Rush Limburgh is quoted I always take a step back and have a better look at the article. I can't stand that guy.

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

Looks to me, that they want to know what is being spread, rather than who is spreading it. I agree with secoh on Limbaugh.

The other side of the story is here
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/facts-are-stubborn-things/