[Valin]

Yesterdays Thread.
Daily Campaign Finance Reform thread-day 8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1042715/posts?page=17#17

[Valin]

If you would like to be on or off this campaign finance reform list please let me know.

[GOPJ]

Freeper "American in Tokyo" found a new foreign money story -- so much for reform: "Academic" seems to be another word for "Chinese agent".

And one of these now involves the CHINESE. Uncovered just about 30 minutes ago.

A Red Chinese "academic" in the United States (Silicon Valley to be exact) publicly encouraging, openly on the Net, Japanese involvement in the campaign for Kucinich. A foreign national based in the USA, heading up a 501(c)3 TAX EXEMPT organization at that! Using his official leadership title of the organization and their website (in Japanese). This should blow the lid off of some dark doings, IMHO.....

[DustyMoment]

The "criminalization of politics" argument that Starr makes is particularly valid since, in essence, that is what the Congress was admitting when they passed CFR.

The problem is that rather than punish themselves for being weak, immoral and unethical enough to avoid the temptation of corruption, the Congress transferred the blame to the voters. This is one of many fundamental flaws with McCain-Feingold.

The irony of this legislation is that the Congress admitted that it was corrupt by passing the law but refuses to actually do anything about it. This is similar to a drunk blaming the alcoholic beverage manufacturers for his problem, rather than accepting any personal responsibility.

Of course, we know that accepting responsibility for anything is anathema to the Congress. IMO, the Congress needs to be permanently adjourned until a new Continental Congress can eliminate all of the existing laws that dilute the Constitution and restore it as the framework of this nation's system of government.

In short, when a minority party like the Dems today, can hijack operations and circumvent the procedures documented in the Constitution, our system of government is broken and is in dire need of repair. We DO NOT need a major overhaul of the Constitution itself, but of the laws passed that dilute its framework; laws such as the 17th Amendment; laws that allow the court to make law from the bench; laws that allow the lifetime appointment of federal judges; laws that support depravity, pornography and corruption, but demonize Christianity; laws that support political correctness.

These are things that we have allowed to happen while the Congress went merrily along its way, creating an elite ruling class while we slept. Well, the wake-up call has been sounded and the time has come to take action to take back OUR country from those whose agenda is to destroy it and hand it over to the America-haters.

[Congressman Billybob]

Good afternoon, my friend,

I have already thanked personally the dozens of people who've volunteered to help me stick a thumb in the eye of CFR, and the Court itself. Please put up a link to the thread on that as a way of inviting hundreds more folks to join that effort.

There are logical questions that many people have about how the in-your-face challenge to CFR can be conducted. Those questions are answered, sometimes repeatedly, on that thread. Also, it saves typing to have it there.

Ken Starr is absolutely right that this amounts to "the criminalization of politics." And that means somebody has to risk jail time to challenge the law. I'm willing to do exactly that.

John / Billybob