The spammer in chief ~ By Joseph Farah

From WorldNetDaily

By Joseph Farah Posted: September 10, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Where is the American Civil Liberties Union when you need it? Last week, WND revealed the audacious plot of the White House to harvest personal e-mail addresses from Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites for political purposes. Massive databases of unwitting American citizens are being created right now by the Obama administration for no legitimate government purpose. This is politics being subsidized by taxpayers – pure and simple. It is one of the most egregious abuses of power I have ever witnessed in my lifetime – and, not unlike Bill Clinton's use of the Internal Revenue Service to target political enemies in the 1990s, it is happening with scarcely a whimper of protest from so-called "civil libertarians." If any Internet business harvested e-mails in this manner and used them for its own purposes, it would be characterized for what it is – big-time spamming. Internet businesses are shut down for less. [CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE COLUMN]