http://www.nyunews.com/opinion/columnists/9284.html
McCain/Feingold is a quarter-step (not even half what it should have been), excellent points in this article. MF (apt initials) seems intended to silence private individuals in our political process. It ignores the real problem, that media controls the medium and sets the prices.
The Swift Boat/Stolen Honor Veterans struggled to have their voice heard in our political process, and only private donations and the Internet saved them. Many in the media tried to portray them as 'not in the spirit of MF' and used it to silence them.
In the next elections illegal immigration will be the "Vietnam War Hero" of the privately funded issues. But only if politicians and media are denied their desire to silence other political speach.
Anything that the press and politicians are BOTH for has got to be bad for us FReepers, and everyone else.
Bump...