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FEC commissioner warns Dems are gunning for conservative media
Washington Examiner ^ | 9/7/16 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 09/08/2016 6:50:21 AM PDT by detective

A key Federal Election Commission Republican warned Wednesday that liberals are moving aggressively to "amend the First Amendment" so that conservatives are silenced and businesses are chased "out of the democracy."

In some the toughest criticism leveled at Democrats, Commissioner Lee E. Goodman said that the attack started once the Tea Party changed American politics in the 2010 election and now dominates the politics of the Left.

"It has triggered a very aggressive movement by people to amend the First Amendment, left intellectuals have placed it on the table," Goodman said on Boston's Howie Carr show.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: citizensunited; clinton; conservativemedia; conservatives; fec; firstamendment; freespeech; obama
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From trying to reverse the Citizens United decision to using the IRS to kill Tea Party groups, Goodman said that the Democrats have moved to change free speech in the country.

The is an organized and orchestrated attack on the First amendment Freedoms by the Democrat Party and the Obama administration.

The FEC is corrupt and is not doing its job of regulating elections.

It is working to deny Americans freedom of speech.

1 posted on 09/08/2016 6:50:21 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Fascism is shifting into high gear I see.


2 posted on 09/08/2016 6:55:09 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: detective

Bkmk


3 posted on 09/08/2016 6:57:13 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: detective

I wish they would just KNOCK IT OFF! Why take out the great freedoms this country was founded on? Why take out the freedoms that people came here for? Who are they? They are not Americans!

Evil, evil, evil.


4 posted on 09/08/2016 6:57:20 AM PDT by madison10
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To: detective

Where are the republicans on this?


5 posted on 09/08/2016 6:57:20 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: detective

If they do this then they need to get rid of PBS and NPR which are 100 percent leftist. We know that will never happen.


6 posted on 09/08/2016 7:00:50 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: dragonblustar
"Where are the republicans on this?"

AS long as the keep getting establishment campaign contributions, kickbacks and cushy post politics jobs they couldn't care less. As we have seen they like to huff and puff for the cameras but when it comes to it they always take a dive.

7 posted on 09/08/2016 7:00:51 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: detective

And this is what was worrisome about ‘the Tea Party’ movement, do we have the guts, organizational skill, and willing to forsake our sacred fortunes? Or do we need sunshine to brew our Tea?

Any of us that thought liberals/progressives/socialist/fascists would give up easily were fooling only ourselves. Can we organize enough to do this for the real long haul, it is going to take at least as long to undo the brainwashing that has permeated the culture. The left rules the education system, media, and as we have learned much of the government enforcement teams from the IRS to the Attorney General and FBI.

Electing Trump is only a tiny step. We have to take out the ruling culture.


8 posted on 09/08/2016 7:02:30 AM PDT by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: detective
Like their Marxist and Fascist comrades, progressive seculars (leftists) are evolutionists who hold that the 'common masses' are stupid, ignorant hominids who must be ruled, controlled, and dominated by superior (highly evolved) humans. Our Constitution on the other hand, is premised on "In the beginning God created (not evolved) man, " making man His spiritual image bearer endowed with mind, conscience, and will. Constitutionally, "we the people" are persons because created in the image of the One God in three Persons.

Ideas have consequences more powerfully destructive than bombs. Thus when evolutionary humanists successfully, though stealthily, supplanted our Creator with an evolutionary cosmogony "we the people" were conceptually reduced to dehumanized products of evolution and our Constitution to the dust bin of history, thereby liberating progressive seculars to 'change free speech.'

9 posted on 09/08/2016 7:08:24 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: EBH

Prayers offered up.


10 posted on 09/08/2016 7:08:35 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Hillary will govern like Obama surrogate PA Gov. Tom Wolfe , taking PA to the bottom.More taxes.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Quite the opposite; they will work until PBS and NPR are all that remains.


11 posted on 09/08/2016 7:09:25 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: dragonblustar

Where are the Republicans?

Many have said they’re voting for hellary, aka a continuation of the agenda, so I have to assume they agree with it.

I’m only surprised that Zerobama hasn’t already bypassed procedure and asked the UN to assist with this evil.


12 posted on 09/08/2016 7:09:31 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (#neverhellary ... but then, I'm just an uneducated hayseed)
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To: detective

If thats’ what the Dems want...the next Civil War? Let it begin! Those f’ing rat bastards!!!


13 posted on 09/08/2016 7:18:29 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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All the “changes” over at Fox seem a little suspicious. I’ll miss Greta, the Hume replacement moves Fox LEFT.


14 posted on 09/08/2016 7:18:50 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: detective

Civil War over the Constitution? You BET!!!


15 posted on 09/08/2016 7:19:37 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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If you read the history this is no different than what they believed in their student radical days in the 60’s.

Abbie Hoffman, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers all believed that one day they would silence their opposition.


16 posted on 09/08/2016 7:19:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Heart of Georgia

You don’t think Mitch McConnell, John McCain and Jeb Bush wouldn’t LOVE to stifle Conservative media??


17 posted on 09/08/2016 7:22:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: madison10
I wish they would just KNOCK IT OFF!

Leftists never knock it off. Never. Expecting them to do so is vain folly.

Why take out the great freedoms this country was founded on?

Because they oppose freedom. Utterly. They lust for power, and their lust is insatiable. They don't reject God so much as they want to be god. Their goal is unattainable, therefore they never knock it off.

Why take out the freedoms that people came here for?

Again, they oppose freedom. They lust for power, for control, for domination.

Who are they?

Followers of demons.

18 posted on 09/08/2016 7:26:34 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: MichaelCorleone

And gutless Republican leaders do nothing.


19 posted on 09/08/2016 7:30:07 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: detective
Suppression of political speech is prohibited by the Bill of Rights providing that it is done by government. Private individuals retain the right to suppress political speech on their own property.

But whether done on private property or in the public domain, the suppression of political speech is to be deplored because free speech is an element of personal liberty and absolutely necessary for the health of the commonweal. The Constitution prohibits it in the public arena because to suppress political speech is to court tyranny but the harm can be equally damaging when done in the private sphere.

Free speech is to be encouraged not just because it is constitutional but because it is right.


20 posted on 09/08/2016 7:30:38 AM PDT by nathanbedford
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