And Now the Government Comes After the Bloggers?

Publius' Forum ^ | 11/23/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

"Gubbmint isn't the solution," Ronald Reagan famously said. "Gubbmint is the problem!" Well, until Al Gore invented our wonderful Internet world, there were darn few ways we common citizens could highlight just what the "problem" of government was. But, happily, we bloggers have become the modern version of our Founders plying the pamphleteer's trade. Now, via the incredible world of blogging, we can spy a government abuse and cast the harsh light of public scrutiny upon it. And we can do it in the blink of an eye. All we need is our computers and a little Internet access.

But, now gubbmint is trying to find ways to make it harder for us to highlight their evil, wasteful, illegal ways. For now comes the Democrat Party of the State of Washington trying to reinvent bloggers as "lobbyists" so that we can be regulated out of existence.

Or, if they don't exactly want bloggers regulated out of existence, Democrats at least want to put bloggers in such a position that there are fewer of them because of gubbmint's onerous regulations....

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

[Mobile Vulgus]

Here they come, folks. Obama and his re-education army are on the way.

[Jeff Head]

MOLON LABE!

[humblegunner]

Good thing FR isn’t a blog, huh?

[ritewingwarrior]

Dont know if anyone has noticed this but a variety of items on the web regarding Obama are not available. First off it was the South Park Election Special. It was online right after the showing, now it is the only episode that is offline, supposedly coming back in December. Today Breitbart has a story about Obama’s kids going to a private school. The video is now unavailable. This week i ran across 3 other stories, all video, regarding Obama, that were suddenly not available. None of the sites are ‘lefty’ sites. Coincidence? or threats of lawsuits?
I’m waiting for the New Civilian Security Force to visit my house. Unfortunately I won’t be presenting any papers. Darn it, where did I put those papers. Oh yeh in the gun safe.

[SumProVita]

I think he will do many things incrementally (trying not to draw attention to it). People need to be very observant and alert.

[SkyDancer]

There was an Obama stamp on a website that is now no longer available. They took it off.

[Prole]

[AuntB]

So now we’re all ‘lobbyists’...???

[classified]

Is it possible to download a youtube video posted on line before it is removed?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Cyber high five fellow lobbyist...though I believe we could consider FR a ‘Think Tank’ and we could lable ourselves as ‘consultants and/or political advisors.’

[Momaw Nadon]

Can I put that on my resume?

[AuntB]

Yes, it looks like it’s just not PC enough to be a ‘CITIZEN’....

[paltz]

http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/

[tbw2]

I blog. However, I write about industrial engineering principles in the IT world. Except for perhaps 2 articles on superior medical data management methods than the proposed government medical records database, I’ve never done political article on my blog. Yet this technical blog requires a “lobbying” cert?
http://www.iienet2.org/Blogger.aspx?category=An%20IE%20in%20IT&blogid=612&about=10334

[informavoracious]

Well, this will hit leftist bloggers too, no?

[mommyq]

You just lobbied me to visit your website, so you are now an official lobbyist!

[humblegunner]

It's a way to weed out irrelevant writing.

Blogs, like talk radio, are on the way out.

Anything that simple is too easily abused by the stupid.

[humblegunner]

Well, this will hit leftist bloggers too, no?

Aren't you glad FR isn't a blog?

I sure am. Blogs suck.

[Vaduz]

Da gov-mut got fear now the white house got hacked.

[theJoker]