The shocking news this week coming out of Washington D.C. was the report that Barack Obama's White House wants us Americans to snitch on each other.  The apparent reason is that Obama is getting worried that the American people are overwhelmingly turning against his socialized medicine scheme.   

Videos on YouTube.com showing angry Americans at town hall meetings confronting their Senators  --  such as that hosted by Pennsylvania Democrat Arlen Specter and Obama's HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius  --  about their concerns about Obamacare have really shaken up the Obama White House.   

Indeed, Obama's health care scheme is in such deep trouble that even the massive lobby which represents tens of millions of senior citizens, the AARP, is now backing down and telling its irate members who are calling in that the AARP is definitely not supporting the Obama health care system or the Nancy Pelosi health care scheme in the House of Representatives.  That first fact is volunteered by an AARP representative even before a senior citizen can complain about a specific health care bill.   

Amanda Carpenter in today's "The Washington Times" reported that the left-wing former television network news "reporter," Linda Douglas, now the communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform, "caused the White House to start asking people to report information on the Web about 'health insurance reform that seems fishy.'"   

Fox News' Glenn Beck reported tonight that "Team Obama wants you to report any fishy report about the White House health care bill."  On the Beck show tonight, former judge, Andrew Napolitano, reported that Congress wrote a law saying that neither the president nor the executive branch shall keep records about Americans who are utilizing their freedom of speech rights."  Judge Napolitano also said that "The president cannot intimidate people by threatening to keep their names on file just because they criticize the president and his administration."  

In Carpenter's column today, she reported that "RedState founder Erick Erickson said that 'given the near certainty that no one will be stripping from e-mails the names of the people forwarding the information, the White House is most likely engaged in illegal activity.'   

"He points to a section of the U.S. Code titled 'Records maintained on individuals' that says government agencies, including the executive branch, may 'maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained unless pertinent to and within the scope of authorized law enforcement activity.'"  

Mr. Erickson goes on to say:  "This will be the first significant time the White House has ignored the Privacy Act and may open President Obama up to litigation."   Where are the watchdogs in the mainstream news media who should be concerned about the First Amendment rights of all Americans?  Unfortunately, they seem to have gone into hibernation for the next four years.   

Ironically, this latest scheme by the Obama administration attempting to get Americans to snitch on each other comes from a president who is only president because Obama began his political career as a community organizer who paid activists to show up at town hall meetings held by elected officials.  Concerned Americans showing up at townhall meetings this month do not have to be paid to express their dire concerns about Obamacare.   

Barack Obama, and his minions such as Linda Douglas, should heed warnings that they will violate the privacy act if they do keep records on Americans who are only providing to their fellow citizens information criticizing the Obama health care plans, but to the Obama administration are providing "information which seems fishy."  The Obama government cannot continue to intimidate American citizens because what they are doing is chilling free speech for all Americans.