MCCAIN, FEINGOLD, WEINTRAUB TELL BLOGGERS NOT TO WORRY

National Review Online ^ | 3/9/05 | jim geraghty

[numberonepal]

I'll stop worring when CFR is repealed. Until then, from my cold dead mouse hand ....

[KidGlock]

Don't worry.

Yeah, right.

And the IRS man: "I'm here to help you."

[johnb838]

Is there any support at all for repealing, or at least fixing?

[Sunshine Sister]

My question would be that my free speech has been drowned out 60 days before and election already. Why wouldn't McCain/Feingold try to drown my electronic voice?

[FormerACLUmember]

I do not trust these totalitarians and the "activist judiciary" which stole my First Amendment rights... and has obvious plans to further erode the Bill of Rights.

The democrats' only hope for return to power is to severely damage free speech.

And McCain? He took the sole traitorous RINO role in the evil "campaign reform" after his shame at being one of the infamous Keating Five. The dude is unfit to be President.

[PRSop2000]

Personally, I think that the only time blog's SHOULD be regulated is when they ARE raising funds for a political candidate and ONLY then.

[Valin]

Why wouldn't McCain/Feingold try to drown my electronic voice?


Well we can't have just ANYBODY speaking up about politics. Particularly right before an election when most people are paying attention.

Now sit down, shut up, and send in your money!

[OKSooner]

Uh-oh. They're from the government, and they're here to help.

[Valin]

Why then? Is fund raising a bad thing?

[Lowell]

CONGRES SHALL PASS NO LAW! These guys refuse to remember that. AND THE SURPREMES BACKED THEM UP. They all got to go.

[vbmoneyspender]

The Supreme Court will save us -- with us being politicians and MSM members who don't like being criticized by the peasantry.

[KarlInOhio]

First of all, we're not the speech police. We don't tell private citizens what they can or cannot say, on the Internet or anywhere else. The FEC regulates campaign finance. There's got to be some money involved, or it's out of our jurisdiction.

I spend money to connect to the internet. Therefore, if I communicate about political topics over the internet money is involved so it is under the FEC jurisdiction.

The broadcast controls were relatively easy for the FEC to implement. The FEC just had to aim at the actual broadcasters and their government issued broadcast license to enforce the rules. Clear Channel (etc.) wouldn't risk their licenses to allow people to express their opinion. However with the internet there aren't just points the government can apply pressure to shut people up. Even if they try to shut down onshore webhosts, there is still the rest of the world to host blogs of American citizens. To enforce any rules, they will have to arrest the people with opinions rather than just leaning on broadcasters. Imagine the outrage if the Robinsons had to do the perp walk for Free Republic.

Every time I hear McCain talk about Campaign Finance Reform, I just replace whatever he tries to say with "We have to destroy the First Amendment in order to save it."

[Bar-Face]

"And McCain? He took the sole traitorous RINO role in the evil "campaign reform" after his shame at being one of the infamous Keating Five. The dude is unfit to be President.
"

This dude is unfit for any public job, including the Senate.
But just like West Virginny and their Senator Byrd (kkk WV) the rest of us have no control over who or what they send to Washington.

[boofus]

Suuuuure.. Just like the anti-gun lobby isn't there to try to ban ALL firearms. Just the ones that are too big (.50bmg), too small (saturday night specials), too black and scary (AR15), too tactical (HK USP Tactical), 'armor piercing' (FN 5.7), sniper rifles (Remington 700), streetsweepers (12 gauge shotguns).

Those BCR stooges will use exactly the same strategy to nullify the 1st Amendment, like they did the 2nd.

[Sprite518]

McCain you will never get my vote. You are an enemy of our first Amendment right of Free Speech. Shame on you, and your quisling friends in the MSM that help pass the campaign finance reform.

[numberonepal]

Is there any support at all for repealing, or at least fixing?

Besides FReepers making phone calls and sending emails, not to my knowledge.

[goldstategop]

Sorry if we don't take them at their word. What's needed is to repeal Constitutionally Forcible Rape. 100% of it.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]