Posted on 03/05/2005 5:20:50 AM PST by backhoe
Then, the Supremes went bad on us:
We need to take our country back, folks. Get cracking.
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Unfortunately, right now we are feeling our oats, but senators, representatives and the MSM have no love of the blogs and want them silenced.
So what can we do? Just the same anyone else has had to do to defend their rights. We have to establish them in the public mind and defend them jealously via some unified group that we can pool resources to effect the outcomes of case law being developed right now.
The FSF foundation comes close, but many here have some basic disagreements with this organization. They are in place though and generally are pointing in the right direction. Otherwise we need to develop and fund our own organization to accomplish these goals.
We have only a few more months before the Free Republic site is in this very set of cross hairs.
McCain Feingold must be repealed as well. It was an abject failure and it is the problem, more legislation to permit the government to "regulate" political speech is an assault to every citizens rights. The only law in this respect should be one that insists on accurate reporting of financial contributions and by whom they are made.
Money cannot be taken out of the system, but we also saw in the most recent election cycle, that the availability of the blogs and free communications can offset huge attempts to "buy" an election. Strangely, McCain Feingold has actually become a vehicle to attempt to turn back the clock so you could buy influence through the MSM and by providing small "in a relative sense" amounts of money to politicians. The blogosphere counters the influence of this money by allowing regular citizens to find and share the truth around the MSM and the campaign staff's crafted messages. As such, we are defending our very own freedom and liberty at this point. To lose this battle is to lose ours forever even as we attempt to free so many around the world.
Good blog- thanks for the link.
Yes, and yes again.
Thanks for the addition.
Hillary said, years ago, that the Internet needed a gatekeeper. [For her future benefit, of course.]
Now, who was she sitting beside in her recent interview from Iraq?
Who wrote this CFR anyway?
[Wanna play connect-the-dots?]
[[More and more I am beginning to think Michael Savage might be right--that the fix is already in and 'she' is in line for the next opening in the White House oval office; that the two-party system exists in name only and there are really no real political differences between the two parties.]]
Just in case anybody here doesn't see the parallel, this is just like gun control (I'm sure there are probably no more than three supporters of gun control on FR, but hey, I'm trying to make a point here). Anything that threatens the politicians and their positions of royalty must be done away with. It's clearly bad.
Love it! Love it! Love it!
McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform boondoggle is a text book of how poorly thought out reforms hurt America and hurt the Constitution McCain and pal Feingold are helping anti-Americans like George Soros who can and do a lot of damage to our systems. Bloggers arent the enemy but these radical MEChA and Reconquista groups are McCain too cowardly to take these people on? Theyre threatening out Border Patrol and our citizens everyday John
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I can't disagree with a word. Dammit!
KEYWORDS: CFR; FEC; MCCAINFEINGOLD; SILENCEAMERICA; WEBLOGS;
Not the FSF.. but the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation works as an advocate for various internet freedom causes.
Generally, EFF is not politically oriented but rather oriented toward maintaining the freedom of the internet as a medium. How effective have they been? Thats another story. I don't really know, they get their name out there. Do they really go to the mattresses?
Right now, we need crazed bulldogs to fight and win on the Judicial front even as we seek to apply pressure on the legislative front.
This is also an important part of this whole mess.
Blogs don't have the same protection as the MSM if this ruling stands
Clarification is appreciated.
>>>Right now we don't have a unified voice to establish (codify) and defend the rights of our citizens to use the internet.
Is that what we are at FR? A lot of activism is launched from here.
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