[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I'll stop worring when CFR is repealed.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."

[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.

[OKSooner]

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

[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."

[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.

[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]

[Alia]

Ellen Weintraub might consider that "people" are watching very closely. Under CFR, McCain is proposing to force "local" broadcasters to air the "wee" candidates. My, my and didn't Newton Minow say just exactly the same thing April 12, 2004 -- "This time Minow asked a new generation of FCC members to adopt rules that would require television and radio stations to provide free time for local political races in their communities. "

Mandate for free broadcasts for local candidates"

Ipso.. Bloggers don't need to chill -- they need to be right there observing every single movement the FEC and FCC are making. Period. Chill yerself, Weintraub.