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To: epow

As even the idiot Dims have figured out with a minimal slight of hand hardly beyond the means of such organizations as those "new" organizations emerge which can say whatever they wish at any time they wish. If these laws mean the influence of the stupid is reduced then GOOD!


77 posted on 08/19/2004 8:01:51 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (My Father was 10x the hero John Fraud Kerry is.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
It's obvious that you have a burr under your saddle concerning CFR, so I don't intend to argue with you any further. If you like having your freedom of speech restricted and inhibited and the right to know how the people representing you in government are voting and behaving, fine and dandy, but I don't.

Yes, there are ways for special interest orgs to get around CFR law to some extent, but why should they have to? Americans should not have to devise ways to get around laws which are unconstitutional on their face. If McCain-Feingold is not a clear violation of the 1st amendment's free speech clause then nothing ever could be. The framers clearly intended the 1st amendment to protect political speech, yet CFR was designed with surgical precision to inhibit and restrict political speech by any entity other than the media and politicians themselves. Pornographers can put anything their perverted minds can imagine on a movie or TV screen, but a couple of weeks from now Dr. Dobson of FOTF won't be able to answer a request for information on how a congressman voted on the PBA ban. I suppose you think that's a good thing too.

A truthful title of the CFR bill would have been "The Incumbent Protection Act". Never in America's history has any law this blatantly, unarguably, unconstitutional been enacted by congress and upheld by the USSC. I didn't believe it could happen in America, but it has. Don't be surprised when the next BOR amendment is ripped out of the old parchment and deepsixed, because they now know they can do it and get away with it scot free.

78 posted on 08/20/2004 12:19:46 PM PDT by epow
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