Big Brother IS Watching

It’s bad enough our government is asking Americans to rat out their friends, relatives, and associates should they be in vocal opposition to Obamacare. Today, we learn that those who research welfare for car buyers (Cash for Clunkers) may have their computers searched by that same government. As reported in the Patriot Post:

Fox News’ Glenn Beck reported that the federal government posted an ominous message at the Clunkers Web site stating that while logged into the Department of Transportation CARS system, users’ computers would be considered property of the federal government and therefore all materials on the computers could be scanned, recorded, monitored, inspected and disclosed to any element of the government, including law enforcement. After Beck’s program aired, the government quickly “clarified” that users who logged into the site had no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy, which sounds essentially like what Beck reported, just in better legalese.

Can any of us imagine the hue and cry that would have been raised had George Bush thought his government had the right to intrude on individuals’ privacy? Um, wait a minute…