Posted on 11/28/2010 8:10:04 PM PST by combat_boots
The Senators who had the unmitigated gall to vote for the COICA bill (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) violate our basic fundamental right to free speech. The net is the final frontier for truth and free speech. The cost is great: lots of lies and liars and Soros-funded propagandists -- but so what?
Techdirt explains: (hat tip Katherine)
First off, the bill would allow the Justice Department to take down an entire website, effectively creating a blacklist, akin to just about every internet censoring regime out there. Now, it is true that there is a judicial process involved. The original bill had two lists, one that involved the judicial review, and one that did not (it was a "watch list," which "encouraged" ISPs and registrars to block -- meaning they would block them). However, everyone seems sure that the second list will not be included in any final bill. Even so, there are serious problems with the way the bill works. Case law around the First Amendment is pretty clear that you cannot block a much wider variety of speech,
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No, that title belongs to DeMint.
Kerry must have been absent that day, sipping
red wine on his yacht in Newport. Hopefully
he’ll spend the next 12 months there.
He’s my Senator and he is a piece of garbage.
We have known for years that ethanol won’t work. There have been a lot of studies done on it.
Well, Mr. Ed (Senator Grassley) probably knows that, too. However, he’s no doubt getting donations from Big Ag.
I wonder what happened to Sessions. He’s usually a conservative...must be a reason...?????
Come 2012, there is a reckoning to be had.
The dirty rat, he’s gotta go too.
sfl
This surprises me not at all. We flipped both houses of our legislature this year and the Witless Wonder is up in 2012. Then it's all hands on deck for Stuart Smalley in 2014. We WILL clean house.
John Cornyn -- Texas!!!!??
What th'! Now, that DOES surprise me! I guess I know who to boot out next session! I guess he is a closet liberal when I thought I had voted for a conservative last time around!
Angry Texan Ping!
Let's get a true conservative to run against him in the primary and kick his @$$ out.
I think we're stuck with him until 2014...
Sen Cornyn is looking to get his rear end booted in the next election.
I with you, this really does surprise me.
Looks like he just cooked his goose on this one. I hope it
becomes common knowledge before election time rolls around
for him!
Yep...afraid we are, but that gives us plenty of time to
build a case against his butt! He turns out to be as
brainless as the other closet libs!
Up to this tipping point, I thought he wanted the best for
Texans. Not so, it seems!
Kick his butt right out!
that’s an oxymoron...
no one elected in office is a true conservative.
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