Another Czar at the Obama White House

This time it's for "cyber-security."

I guess Cyber-Security Dictator didn't poll well.

President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.

The adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council but will report to the national security adviser as well as the senior White House economic adviser, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations are not final.

A "czar" does not need Senate confirmation, and unless Congress complains or someone takes the administration to court, all this person and his loyal minions need are a few executive orders to really get the ball rolling on who knows what.

Naturally, you are less paranoid about such things than is the Oklahomilist, and so you query, "Why can't you just trust President Obama for once, damn you?"

Because, being an American devoted to foundational principles, I believe that every man, woman and child should learn to handle their own freakin' cyber security and not depend upon an all-knowing, all-powerful central government czar to do it for them. This includes private business networks. The key word being "private."

Remember when the left used to hit us over the head with our adversion to the word "diversity." And yet now when we wish to be "diverse" and have multiple systems they tell us that we need to get with the 21st Century and fall into an orderly line for inspection?

A "one system suits all" protection grid is the easiest one to compromise, or control.

Right now I consider access to the world wide web as one of the few effective tools I have as an individual American to raise my concerns, joining millions of other like-minded (and not-so ...) voices to deliberate the big and small issues of the day. Especially now that Congress has forgotten how to read bills and debate, it seems like someone ought to. I only get to vote every couple of years, and in Oklahoma's Second District it's not that big a thrill, so the cyber universe is important.

Naturally I want it protected, but I do not want it controlled.