Posted on 06/29/2005 1:46:27 PM PDT by AWestCoaster
My favorite passage in Siddartha by Herman Hesse:
"good stupid sheep of the herd."
Marcus Tullius Cicero, about 45 BC:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Is someone who works for the FEC called a FECes?.........
First day in office, if she could. But she won't win.
Dumbass FEC won't win this.
Their idea that blogs are unregulated means to promote an official is laughable considering the fact that the CPUSA gets a pass on reporting donations. CPUSA backs the Democrats election after election yet they are allowed to hide just who their donors are due to fear of reprisal?
After Dubya signed the Campaign Finance Reform with the stated intention of passing the buck to the SCOTUS, all bets are off with regard to free speech and elections.
Thanks again, Mr. President. You're one helluva conservative.
...Don't worry, SCOTUS will back us up (right?)....
Oh sure! ;-)
Bend us over is more like it.
YES! oh, God, yes! except for Brad Smith.... LOL!
Hillary gets in, FR gets banned, and all hell breaks loose.
But then I am an optimists/sarcasm
Do you believe this crap from Larry Noble? Center for Responsive Politics--my rear end.
The FEC is A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.
I still have relatives in the Ukraine....they probably have more freedom than we do here in the US.
....Or will very soon.
In the minds of the MSM and the conventional wisdom, Rather and CBS aren't guity of anything; FREE REPUBLIC is at fault for exposing their fraud and upsetting the applecart.
Has the FEC stopped people from writing op-ed letters during a campaign? Can we put up campaign signs on our property? Oops, my bad, we're all renters after Kelo anyway!
Oh no it won't. The left is exempt from any kind of regulation it imposes on its critics. With the MS media whores on their side, and the courts leaning decidedly left, they would never be held to the same standards as the truth tellers.
Well, of course. If not, we'll have to regulate that unregulated lot!
Hillary knows that if she is to have any chance of being elected President she must first neutralize the inter net and talk radio.
Being true to the clinton m.o., hillary herself will do and say nothing. She will have her deciples working behind the scenes and below the radar on it.
This is not the first comment about the political effects of the inter net.
2I will set up shop for you Tanks. I don't answer to the FEC."
Thanks man, nice to have a back up.
Tanks = Yanks. Need more coffee.
Stupid laws only create more outlaws. The American people take their right of free speech very seriously and no one will stop us from speaking our minds.
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