16-Year-Old High School Student Alec Scheer to President Obama, "Your Internet Tyranny Will Fail"

President Obama, your internet tyranny will fail
Reposted from: We Are 1776
By: Alec Scheer
February 12, 2013

President Obama,

The Hill has reported that you are expected to release an executive order regarding cyber-security. Your Administration’s spokesperson stated, “You know that the President believes that cybersecurity is a very important issue. It represents a huge challenge for our country. He has called on Congress to take action. Unfortunately, Congress has thus far refused legislatively.”

It is my duty, as an American citizen – and as a student who has a full life ahead of him in this nation – to inform you that you are drastically violating your oath to the Constitution. When the Founders drafted the Constitution, they left the legislating power in Congress for a reason: To prevent would be dictators and tyrants. They knew all too well that when one man has the sole ability to decide what is best for a nation and its people, that the nation would be propelled into despotism. Having said this, I would like to simply point out that you can’t bypass Congress for whatever convenient excuse you have. I would think this basic concept is rather easy for you to grasp. After all, you are a Constitutional law graduate from Harvard. Knowing that you have an extensive understanding of the Constitution, your habit of constantly signing executive orders for what you want done, when Congress doesn’t do it, just further shows that you are blatantly violating the Constitution and the rights of individuals in this county.

“The order is expected to establish a critical infrastructure cybersecurity council manned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, staffed by members of the departments of defense, justice and commerce, and national intelligence office, according a preliminary draft leaked in September,” USA Today reported.

You have a sick humor. You expect Americans to pay to spy on themselves by taxing the hell out of them. Moreover, you expect them to pay to have your Administration infringe on their privacy rights. Furthermore, from a Constitutional and free market position, you are expanding the government with yet another agency to supposedly “protect” Americans. In my opinion, the best protection you can offer the people you’re supposed to represent is by relinquishing your power. Now obviously, this is just my wishful thinking. I know that despots never relinquish their power until the nation’s people relinquish it for them.  Furthermore, by creating another agency – which expends more tax dollars into more big government programs – you are depriving the people of the resources they need to purchase goods from producers; and you are depriving entrepreneurs from the funds they need to either produce or invest in more capital, which generally employs more people and expands the economy.

My last concern is basic: Why do you feel the need to monitor and regulate the internet? I know your excuse is for “security,” however, this seems to be the standard excuse which every tyrant uses, along with “it’s for your safety.” Both you and Bush Junior have justified the molestation performed by the Transportation Security Administration on innocent American travelers with excuse of “it’s for the betterment of our national security” and “it’s for your safety.” Thus it is hard for me to believe that your cyber-security initiative will actually offer security and protection. In fact, there is a 100% chance that this supposed “security” program will, in fact, become a right infringing program.

The last thing I have to say to you is: Stop the drone killings, stop destroying our freedom and our economy, stop the murders you have allowed occur in foreign lands, and stop expanding the institution which holds a monopoly on force. This, of course, would require you to relinquish your power.

Remember, Americans are growing tired of your dictatorial actions. If you continue on down this road, I can’t promise you that people will retain their anger. Your actions will inevitably lead to an uprising, just as the actions of past dictators led to uprisings.

From a pissed off high school student,

Alec Scheer,

Founder of We Are 1776

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