It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to undermine American freedoms than Joseph Lieberman.<\/p>\n
Since 9\/11, the Independent senator from Connecticut has introduced a raft of legislation in the name of the \u201cglobal war on terror\u201d which has steadily eroded constitutional rights. If the United States looks increasingly like a police state<\/a>, Senator Lieberman has to take much of the credit for it.<\/p>\n On October 11, 2001, exactly one month after 9\/11, Lieberman introduced S. 1534, a bill to establish a Department of Homeland Security<\/a>. Since then, he has been the main mover behind such draconian legislation as the Protect America Act<\/a> of 2007, the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act<\/a> of 2010, and the proposed<\/a> Terrorist Expatriation Act, which would revoke the citizenship of Americans suspected of terrorism. And now the senator from Connecticut wants to kill the Internet<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n According to the bill he recently proposed in the Senate, the entire global internet is to be claimed as a \u201cnational asset\u201d of the United States. If Congress passes the bill, the US President would be given the power to \u201ckill\u201d the internet in the event of a \u201cnational cyber-emergency.\u201d Supporters of the legislation say this is necessary to prevent a \u201ccyber 9\/11\u201d \u2013 yet another myth<\/a> from the fear mongers who brought us tales<\/a> of \u201cIraqi WMD\u201d and \u201cIranian nukes.\u201d<\/p>\n Lieberman\u2019s concerns about the internet are not new. The United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which Lieberman chairs, released a report<\/a> in 2008 titled \u201cViolent Islamist Extremism, The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat.\u201d The report claimed that groups like al-Qaeda use the internet to indoctrinate and recruit members, and to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n Immediately after the report was published, Lieberman asked<\/a> Google, the parent company of You Tube, to \u201cimmediately remove content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations.\u201d That might sound like a reasonable request. However, as far as Lieberman is concerned, Hamas, Hezbollah and even the Iranian Revolutionary Guard<\/a> are terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n It\u2019s hardly surprising that Lieberman\u2019s views on what constitute terrorism parallel those of Tel Aviv. As Mark Vogel, chairman of the largest pro-Israel Political Action Committee (PAC) in the United States, once said<\/a>: \u201cJoe Lieberman, without exception, no conditions \u2026 is the No. 1 pro-Israel advocate and leader in Congress. There is nobody who does more on behalf of Israel than Joe Lieberman.\u201d<\/p>\n Lieberman has been well-rewarded for his patriotism \u2013 to another country. In the past six years, he has been the Senate\u2019s top recipient<\/a> of political contributions from pro-Israel PACs with a staggering $1,226,956.<\/p>\n But what is it that bothers Lieberman so much about the internet? Could it be that it allows ordinary Americans access to facts which reveal exactly what kind of \u201cfriend\u201d Israel has been to its overgenerous benefactor<\/a>? Facts which they have been denied by the pro-Israel mainstream media<\/a>.<\/p>\n How much faith would American voters have in the likes of Lieberman, who claims that the Jewish state is their greatest ally, if they knew that Israeli agents planted firebombs<\/a> in American installations in Egypt in 1954 in an attempt to undermine relations between Nasser and the United States; that Israel murdered 34 American servicemen in a deliberate attack<\/a> on the USS Liberty<\/a> on June 8, 1967; that Israeli espionage<\/a>, most notably Jonathan Pollard\u2019s spying<\/a>, has done tremendous damage<\/a> to American interests<\/a>; that five Mossad agents were filming and celebrating<\/a> as the Twin Towers collapsed on September 11, 2001; that Tel Aviv and its accomplices in Washington<\/a> were the source<\/a> of the false pre-war intelligence on Iraq; and about countless other examples of treachery<\/a>?<\/p>\n