“The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects ‘shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed’ by the Department of Homeland Security,” McCullagh reports. “Anyone failing to comply would be fined.”
“That emergency authority would allow the Federal Government to “preserve those networks and assets and our country and protect our people,” Joe Lieberman, the primary sponsor of the measure and the chairman of the Homeland Security committee, told reporters on Thursday,” McCullagh reports. “Lieberman is an independent senator from Connecticut who meets with the Democrats.”
McCullagh reports, “Due to there being few limits on the US President’s emergency power, which can be renewed indefinitely, the densely worded 197-page Bill (PDF) is likely to encounter stiff opposition.”
Under Lieberman’s Bill, which is formally titled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or PCNAA “the Federal Government’s power to force private companies to comply with emergency decrees would become unusually broad,” McCullagh reports. “Any company on a list created by Homeland Security that also ‘relies on’ the internet, the telephone system or any other component of the US ‘information infrastructure’ would be subject to command by a new National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC) that would be created inside Homeland Security.”
Full article here.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
MDN: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix”
Seems love is a dirty word these days….
Great quotes MDN!
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday, June 17, 2010 shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20.
http://bit.ly/IhrCW
I want to meet one of these 26-percenters who “strongly approve” of Obama. They have to be the most deluded, gullible saps on the face of the planet.
While the country drowns in debt and joblessness and the gulf coast drowns in oil, Obama has already played more rounds of golf in 18 months than Bush played in his entire two terms.
Obama voters: You were hoodwinked by an empty suit. It’s okay to admit it.
This is about the mac or Apple uh….how?
I’d give Obama power to delete political posts on MDN.
This should state “grant the *President*” not Obama. He’ll be out of office one day but the power will remain with the office. Stating it the way you have MDN is unnecessarily inflammatory.
Now, is this a necessary power to have? Given the state of US infrastructure security the answer is sadly yes.
Doesn’t matter what party – they both want more and more control and more and more of our money. They are all bums and should be thrown out.
Time for DarkNet.
=:~)
@MDN
Amen brother and/or sister, sibling, fellow human, … ah forget it!
Amen brother!
Who gives a shit? Where are the white iPhones?
MDN,
Could you please delete the post written by The Party of No? It seems to be completely unrelated to the topic and inflammatory.
And it’s just another power that’s eventually easier for the NSA (Masons, Illuminati, et. al.) to exploit.
Darkness:
“Given the state of US infrastructure security the answer is sadly yes.”
The necessary evils in a rapidly and senselessly hacked world.
Would recommend the books: Daemon and Freedom…
I tend to agree with the ‘Darkness’, at least partially. The internet has become one of the most critical elements of the infrastructure (not just for US, but the world). As such, it has become rather easy to exploit for extremely malicious deeds.
It doesn’t take too much imagination to picture a scenario in which the internet could be leveraged to launch a concentrated attack on key institutions in the US, and crippling of the communication infrastructure could easily cause collapse of all sorts.
Unfortunately, the ‘kill switch’ wouldn’t provide much relief, if any, except in very exceptional situations (when some malicious effort was siphoning critical sensitive data and disabling the network were to stop it). Otherwise, killing the communication infrastructure can easily kill all economic activity. The recession of past two years would be nothing compared to what could happen if the internet were ‘killed’ by such a switch.
Sponsored by LIEberman. ‘Nuff said.
Except, this is the inherent weakness of cloud-based computing. Someone or something can turn off the cloud.
Stupid George Bush… This is all his fault…
R2:
This is how you create and build such pent up demand that the astronomical sales of black iPhone 4s will only be a prelude to the second wave of record sales by sudden appearance of “missing in action” white phones….
Get over Obama, this is about any one in the White House. Lieberman has been siding with the GOP more these days. Don’t get me wrong, this bill is scary, and need to be stopped NOW. What the hell are they thinking. This bill will feed the crazies on both the left and right, and should. No President should have that much power.
“Power corrupts, absolut power corrupts absolutely.”
During time of war, the first thing China will do is try to shut down America’s electricity and disable as much of our information infrastructure as possible. They will also try to cripple military networks and those of key defense industries. The first thing we need to do when there is a serious outbreak of hostilities is pull the plug on traffic from China.
We will still have foreign nationals from China on our soil that will cause mayhem. Hopefully, the FBI is watching them.
To those who say the above is non-politically correct fear mongering, I say this: There have always been wars in human history and there <u>will always be</u> wars in the future. The government, fortunately, isn’t allowing nitwits with “flower power” to impede preparations for the next war.
agreed, great quotes… that said, I recommend adding “Cyber War” to your reading list.
It looks like MDN basically took the headline from the Drudge Report.
I wonder if anyone has read THIS bill….
@@Darkess: You say that as if MDN and Drudge aren’t one and the same person.
@ WetFX – Right, why tie it to Obama? He’s only got 30 months to go, right. Think about Sarah Palin having this power.
@GregL – So the way we keep our attackers from shutting us down via the internet is to shut down the internet ourselves? OBTW, China will never have to attack the US, they just have to raise the prices on manufactured goods a little and buy us with the profits.
And if there was a cyber attack from “brown people” somewhere in the world and Obama DIDN’T instantaneously diffuse/fix/cure the problem, he’d be called weak and ineffective.
MDN jumped the political shark. Again.
“I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson
This isn’t a bill giving Obama power. It gives power to the duly elected President of the United States, who currently happens to be Obama, but once was Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, Nixon, etc.
As I see in in the rare circumstances of a National emergency this level of control is already the President’s responsibility, not a power, and need not be made explicit by a new law.
@R2
President Obama hates white iPhones.
This is crazy, all they need to do is to disconnect US networks from the rest of the world.
Don’t worry, MDN…President Palin will have that same power in 2013…
MDN Try anger management therapy. You exude BITTERNESS.
Homeland Security is widely regarded as the most dysfunctional agency of the US government. The same DHS that thinks terror is a “man made disaster”, that can’t (or won’t) defend our borders, that isn’t allowed to use the word “jihad”, that can’t properly maintain a no-fly list, that chose to standardize most of its computers on Windows – this is the agency that will help protect our electronic infrastructure?
The threat to that infrastructure is however quite real. cf. Richard Clarke’s “Cyber War”. Scary stuff.
I think the Teabaggers that run this site should start a political blog and leave this one for Apple related news.
WTF! are you kidding me, what is this CHINA!?!
There goes freedom.
Let’s see.
1. Take over the auto industry.
2. Take over the financial industry.
3. Take over the student loan industry.
4. Take over the housing industry.
5. Take over the healthcare industry.
Now, take over the internet.
Thank you Obama and Democrat party voters. You guys have helped in the transformational change of this country. From liberty to tyranny.
No POTUS should have this power, let alone Obama. I had a friend who once called W the worst President ever. Might have been right; I didn’t agree with him, because I think W had some competition for that honor, but Obama may be the most dangerous and least competent.
Are we really waterboarding the Internet? Other media can be misled on what to air but they should not be able to shut down this venue to free speech
“While the country drowns in debt and joblessness and the gulf coast drowns in oil, Obama has already played more rounds of golf in 18 months than Bush played in his entire two terms.”
I would love to see evidence of this. And no you can’t quote Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh.
You teabaggers are wrecking our country. Obama can’t address any of our serious problems because you wingnuts are in complete denial of reality.
Teabagger: “Drill, baby, drill! Get the gubment out of the way!”
Obama: “Um, we probably should move away from oil, it’s not good for the environment. And in the mean time we should probably heavily regulate drilling to make sure nothing bad happens.”
Teabagger: “Shut up you communist fsckstick! Get out of my America!”
** Oil spill obliterates the gulf coast **
Obama: “Um, see? Drilling is dangerous and should have been regulated. And we really should move away from oil.”
Teabagger: “Shut up you socialist! Why don’t you DO SOMETHING!!! WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?”
Obama: …
Anyone actually reading this bill?
One observation off the bat that I find terribly fascinating is that William Gibson’s term Cyberspace is now officially part of American Federal Legislation.
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(3) CYBERSPACE.—The term ‘‘cyberspace’’ means the interdependent network of information in- frastructure, and includes the Internet, tele- communications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers in critical in- dustries.
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(4) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of Cyberspace Policy established under section 101.
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010’’.
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I know the impetus for this legislation. “Cyber-warfare” is what they are afraid of. We are constantly being probed and attacked by the likes of North Korea, Iran, and our loan counselors in China to name a few.
The fear is that in the even of a war, the Internet will be one of the main battle theaters and they want to be able to defend it.
My fear is that the “emergencies” cited by this legislation are relatively vague and left open to interpretation by whichever administration is in office.
(7) INCIDENT.—The term ‘‘incident’’ means an occurrence that—
(A) actually or potentially jeopardizes— (i) the information security of information infrastructure; or (ii) the information that information
infrastructure processes, stores, receives, or transmits; or (B) constitutes a violation or threat of violation of security policies, security procedures, or acceptable use policies applicable to information infrastructure.
Violation of policies? Acceptable Use?
Well.. I’m only on page 7.
Were all you right wing bozos as fired up when Bush suspended habeus corpus and illegally tapped phones?
Didn’t think so.
PCNAA
PC is synonymous with Windows and naa means no.
Coincidence, I think not.
So all of you Obama haters on here are still going to be calling for this power to be revoked if a Republican takes office in 2012….
right?
The lucky thing for the Internet is that it’s relatively easy to bypass any such “shutdown” controls, unless the government shuts down all forms of electronic communication whatsoever.
Time to start building my encrypted spread-spectrum digital radio. Unless they shut down all the electricity as well.
(Yet another reason to support your local amateur radio operator.)
@Macromancer
I’m a registered Republican.
I don’t trust anyone with this kind of power. Not Obama, not Bush, not Palin, not Reagan if he were still around, not the Pope, not the Dalai Lama…
not even myself.
It’s a Bad Idea™.
And, btw, we don’t hate Obama. We just love this country as it was, and is meant to be, and we oppose those who want to change that, and we hope they fail in doing so.
Clear enough?
Without proper restraints and controls this could provide limitless opportunities for abuse by Machiavellian, opportunistic politicians.
The proposed bill needs very careful scrutiny by the press and the citizenry.
“China has defended its tight controls on the use of the Internet, vowing to continue blocking anything considered subversive or a threat to its national unity.” – Press TV, June 17, 2010
“The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world’s most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.” See the full article in the Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2009 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html
Do we really want to cede this kind of power to current and future government leaders with its potential threats to our freedoms?
We need a Kill Switch for Congress.
@The Real Rob
Reality check time.
Drilling is already highly regulated. In fact, it is the fault of these regulations that the drilling took place in water over a mile deep, because (at least) one of those regulations made sure that the ugly old oil rigs didn’t clutter up the view of the gulf, apparently because certain people believe more in their privilege than in safety.
It is also, BY LAW, the responsibility of the Federal Government to clean up these spills, and BP’s responsibility to pay for the cleanup. The government has not lived up to its responsibility; BP has committed to far more than they are legally responsible for (i.e., they are trying to live up to their moral responsibility).
No one questions that some regulations were bent, broken or ignored; no one seriously believes that this spill is a pure accident. But that very fact argues that more regulation would have done little or nothing to prevent this spill, given that those who would ignore existing regulations would likely ignore new ones.
Reasonable regulation is in the best interest of everyone. Forcing companies to drill in mile-deep waters for no good reason, limiting their ability to address problems, is in NO ONE’S interest.
I can’t believe that you would be in favor of arbitrary regulation; that is, regulation to no purpose. You shouldn’t believe that we conservatives are in favor of drilling with no regulation whatsoever.
Once the Teabaggers take over the Net, I hope they use Spell-Check.
For some reason I think this idea came from Red China.
Can you say Dictator?
US needs to give up it’s controll over the Internet. The controll needs to be placed in an international independent body with representants from all over the world.
I challenge anyone to give one good reason why any President should have this power. I’m pretty sure no terrorist attack can make my iMac blow up in my face, and the joke that any business which “relies on” the internet basically includes everyone. Even ditch diggers are looking up info on the county’s websites these days!
This is nothing more than Washington (both parties) trying to gain control over the internet, because Washington can’t control what people say on the internet. The good, the bad, the ugly, the internet is the ultimate free speech medium.
@PR, been stifling free speech long?
“This is about the mac or Apple uh….how?”
Seems @PR, Apple is a software firm…
“The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects ‘shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed’ by the Department of Homeland Security,” McCullagh reports. “Anyone failing to comply would be fined.”
Bush would be hung in effigy over this, while I doubt you will hear about this on tonights news.
What? Is Lieberman taking direction from the Chinese now? Didn’t they tell the search engine Google to “comply”?… emergency or not, when government gets to prepare a list of dos and don’t and then has enforcement power over you, first by a fine, but who wants to bet that ‘imprisonment’ is not too far behind… over something that is guaranteed to be a Constitutional Right!
“This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today.” Sorry to break this to you but with the morons we have today, “this book”, couldn’t be written! They are not smart enough or oppressed enough to know what Liberty and Freedom is!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/publisher-slaps-outdated-warning-on-u-s-constitution-founding-documents.html
Somewhere I smell First Amendment violations… Hello Supreme Court…
ironic, MDN Magic Word: ‘british’
@Greg L
In a nuclear world their are only two options between super powers – annihilation or peace. If, as you propose, China wanted to go to war with America, don’t you think they would launch nukes along with attacking our information infrastructure?
You better hope that the “nitwits” you speak of have more common sense than you do unless you think a nuclear war is winnable?
Threat inflation has always been the fear tactic of the lowest common denominator and folks like you keep it going with short-sighted statements like the one you made. Think. Read. Don’t just parrot what you hear on the radio. Use all these great Apple products to access some information that just may broaden your perspective a bit.
@enmayche
Thank you…I truly respect your attitude and the way you express it (even though I disagree about MDN’s encouragement of political posts on an information site about Macs and Apple)…
Hating the President (Bush, Obama, whoever) or ANY political figure no matter how ridiculous (Jim McDermott or Sarah Palin..you pick) accomplishes nothing. Only reasonable people, weighing the merits of various courses of action and arriving at a functional compromise will get anything done. Hatred in politics only leads to further hardening of already polarized positions and further deadlock.
So..thanks…I respect your point of view.
@His Shadow
“Were all you right wing bozos as fired up when Bush suspended habeus corpus and illegally tapped phones?
Didn’t think so.”
Probably as fired up as you, a left wing bozo, was when Obama KEPT the Bush program of illegally tapped phones!
OR can you show me posts where you were disgusted with Obama for illegally tapped phones and provide a link to your source?
Think so!
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/7/4/invoking_state_secrets_obama_moves_to_block_challenge_to_bush_wiretapping_program/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/13/obama-administration-maintains-bush-legal-argument-terrorist-surveillance/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/obama-sides-wit/
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/16-1
@Macromancer:
“So all of you Obama haters on here are still going to be calling for this power to be revoked if a Republican takes office in 2012….
right?”
Not if you Obama lovers would join with us in making sure something like this never sees the light of day!
Then neither side would have any worries. Correct?
So join us now, not 2012!
Where were all the anti-presidential-power people during Bush’s reign, or his daddy’s, or Reagan’s, when those guys, especially George W., arrogated so much of it?
Where were all the anti-deficit hawks during both Bush administrations and Reagan’s who all posted historic deficits? Where was the praise for Clinton’s balanced budget?
All this ugliness is not concerned with issues, it’s partisanship, whether racial or the cock-eyed notion Obama is a Liberal (doesn’t seem so), let alone Socialist/Communist/Fascist/Nazi.
@now now
Prison planet? Please…I know that site and have listened to Alex Jone’s ad nauseum blather on about the Bilderberger Group and how the world is being controlled by a secret cabal of power brokers out to reduce the human population, create a one world government, enslave the masses, put people in compounds transported there by prison railroad cars. He’s clearly just nuts.
I have NO problem with free speech and I happily listen to Rachel Maddow AND Sean Hannity…agreeing with some, disagreeing with some…and filtering out the hate along the way.
I just believe that there is a place for these discussions but MDN is totally guilty of being a “hit whore” and has deeply conservative values (which is fine) using this site (anonymously I might add) to stir up political hatred to build pageviews. It’s patently dishonest to engage in this kind of behavior since it’s the pageview count is sold to advertisers…People responding to political challenges are I contend, LESS likely to ever click through on an ad for a technology product than those purely here to learn the latest information about their favored platform.
Obama = Dicktator. One world, one color for all
Wow! The lack of intellectual reasoning by some on this forum (in this country, in the world) is astounding!
I won’t even address or comment on the ignorance of those who think this is “another form of government take-over by the Obama administration” beyond the point this statement should already make.
More and more of the world is being controlled through the internet: the electric grid, local water supplies, air-traffic control, stock markets, banking transactions, just to name a few.
For those Neanderthals who think that the attack that will cripple the USA (or any other country, for that matter) will come from some idiot driving a car bomb or a plane into a building, I’ll just say a prayer that you be cured of your ignorance.
In today’s world this is a necessary power to have. Hopefully it never has to be used but it is necessary nonetheless.
I sometimes wonder how some people on this forum were EVER smart enough to hook their computing lives to Apple’s wagon! Sheesh!
Is a first amendment kill switch legal?
just my $0.02
Whew! I thought that said
“Economic Kill Switch”….
-wait
Will someone please put cyanide in the tea bags?
Number one: it’s no surprise that this bill would be sponsored by Joe Lieberman (who, we’re told “is an independent who caucuses with Democrats”, but who addressed the Republican National Convention endorsing McCain/Palin for president!). Lieberman has been in favor of censorship in general for decades. He’s in favor of censoring rap and other music he doesn’t like. He’s in favor of censoring video games. Now he wants to have the ability to shut off the Internet. I guess those Connecticut “far left zealots” and MoveOn.org etc. weren’t too far off the mark when they primaried him out in 2006, eh?
This is obviously a kind of silly idea, and even this “far-left zealot” (from Bill O’Reilly’s perspective anyway) would happily join with the teabaggers in opposing it. I’d oppose Bush having this power, or Obama.
@ The Party of No…vember
Alternatively…
YOU are the one hoodwinked by the right-wing propaganda machine which is funded by big corporations.
While I share concern over the issues in this bill, I would like to ask:
Would you allow a foreign company to take over the streets and highways of this country with impunity?
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BTW – the headline is another example of hype-journalism. The bill does not grant Obama anything, the powers are granted to the president via the Office of Homeland Security. I imagine that if Bush had proffered the same bill, anyone opposing it would be a “soft on security leftie.”
As long as the reason for cutting it off is for good, and not for evil, I’m for it. You never know what the future internet threats are. The internet is still basically in it’s early stages and we don’t know how safe it is from enemies.
And with most of the world running PC’s who knows what national catastrophe could be configured en-mass, all linked up.
Wow.
What a scary fscked up place the US has become.
Burn that bill. Just burn it and dump its proponents on a desert island. This just radically insane and no one should ever have this kind of power. Ever, anywhere.
“The Party of No” speaks truth. Don’t you dare ask to censor him..
folks… take a breather from the Red vs. Blue bullshit for a moment, and ponder the notion that we live in an age where WMDs are digital.
@ emmyache
Wow. You’re blaming the spill on TOO MUCH regulation? You’ve taken teabaggery to a whole new level. You’re like the nutjobs who blame the financial meltdown on too much regulation. I’m dumbfounded by your stupidiy.
The government has not lived up to its responsibility; BP has committed to far more than they are legally responsible for (i.e., they are trying to live up to their moral responsibility).
Wow. Mindblowing wingnuttery. So you’re saying it’s fine that BP can make as large of a mess as it wants, and then can sit back and make Obama clean it all up? What a sick joke.
But that very fact argues that more regulation would have done little or nothing to prevent this spill, given that those who would ignore existing regulations would likely ignore new ones.
1) If the regulation is performed in a competent manner, then it should not be possible to “ignore” regulations. Federal regulators should have full authority over the construction and maintenence of the wells and should have the power to shut down wells that are not in compliance.
2) Even if you believe (wrongly) that proper regulation can never work, then it follows that the only way to really prevent catastrophic oil spills like this is to stop drilling completely. Which means moving away from oil. QED.
Yes, I’d give Obama the power to delete political posts here. Maybe I’ll send him a “heads up.” Irresponsible, MDN. This is not your field of expertise, and there’s enough problems in the Mac world to pontificate on.
Your crusade against AT & T, too may backfire. What’s going to happen the more they’re trashed is that people will just go Android, thinking they’re getting a better deal. Why not think things through before venting your personal pet peeves? No way is Apple going Verizon in the near future. If Android starts getting momentum, it’ll be too little, too late if Apple chucks AT & T.
And if Sarah Palin were running the country now, we’d all be praying for Stalin or Lenin to save us. I, myself, would prefer FDR, Jefferson, or Bill Clinton- the far right is simply unacceptable. But enough about politics.
PLEASE!
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
This story is flying all over the net with equally sensationalized headlines. Reminds me of the Patriot Act days. I’m curious what the bill REALLY says, rather than the rhetoric.
Will someone please put cyanide in the tea baggers too?
Bravo Rheinhard
cybersecurity is no joke, but…
As a card-carrying liberal let me emphatically state for the record: Lieberman is a complete tool.
Fsck Lieberman, and Fsck Obastard even more.
No, no, no, darkness,
They’re trying to change the constitution so dear leader Maobama can keep running for president like our buddy Chavez. Stay current dummy.
emmyache
Nicely put.
And as usual, Real Rob comes back with what seems to be a meth-induced rant.
how about Iran up rising what did govt do shut down the internet and all phone calls etc could us have that kind of unrest? is this the real rason for bill? something to think about.
@TowerTone
I’ll tell you what’s meth-induced: teabaggers like emmyache and Joe Barton who are:
a) apologizing to and for BP
b) demanding the government stay out of BP’s business
c) ripping the government for not cleaning up BP’s epic, unprecedented catastrophe more quickly
I’m just absolutely flabbergasted by this right wing stupidity. I literally can’t comprehend it.
Do you tea baggers not understand that BP just destroyed the Gulf of Mexico?
What fantasy world do you live in where you teabaggers think it’s right to be apologizing to BP?
Utterly mindblowing.
The desk to the US President is AMAZING!! Not only does it have a Big Red Button to launch thousands of nukes it now has the Internet Kill Switch. The only thing that’s missing is a pedal to activate the trapdoor down to the shark tank.
Do you think they do something similar in Ikea?
“Joe Lieberman, the primary sponsor”
NO * F U C K I N G * WAY!
This has to be the fifth Alzheimer’s & hallucinogens & totalitarianism inspired POS Lieberman has proposed this year alone. It’s time they sent him off to the home for demented poliTards.
I also have to differ with one of the quotes provided by MDN:
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. – William Hazlitt
INCORRECT! The love of POWER is a method of over-compensating for LACK of love of self. Indeed, it is a blatant indication of a person’s sense of INADEQUACY. It is a form of psychopathy.
People who love themselves, via what I call ‘The Reverse Golden Rule’, also love others. IOW: How we treat others reflects how we treat ourselves. If only we all understood this very basic principle of human behavior.
Those willing to give up liberty for security deserve niether and will lose both.
-Benjamin Franklin