Gross Intrusion of Government into Our Lives.

cnet.com just reported that Congress has apparently been working behind the doors to draft a little-known piece of legislation (S.773) that would effectively permit the President to seize control of private-sector during a "cyber-security" emergency.

The sponsors of the bill, notably Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) explained that this bill provides a capability to the President that is functionally similar to the power President Bush evoked to ground all airborne aircraft in the wake of the September 11th, 2001 attacks. As an example, this would give the President the ability to respond to a cyber-attack directed from or against a network that controls an electrical power grid.

My VERY FIRST QUESTION: Why in the name of all that is HOLY would computers that actually CONTROL an electrical grid would be accessible from the Internet? Any critical system like that should NOT be connected to the Internet. Most military systems use an INTRAnet that is not accessible from outside. Critical infrastructure systems should be segregated from the internet in a similar manner.

My VERY SECOND QUESTION: If President Bush (43) had suggested this there would be a huge outcry from the media and general public. So where's the liberal media on this one? Near silence.

My VERY THIRD QUESTION: Once the mechanism is in place, how would we prevent any administration from abusing it to disrupt the business of a company that is opposing the administration in any manner?

My recommendation: Get any critical system computers OFF the internet. Then President Obama and his Democrat cronies won't NEED to pass this tremendous and gross intrusion of government into the private-sector.