Posted on 06/29/2005 1:46:27 PM PDT by AWestCoaster
The Federal Election Commission says Web blogs just might be a threat to democracy and it's considering whether to police them.
The issue, being discussed during FEC hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday, is whether some Web sites actually provide unregulated benefits to specific political campaigns. The famously free-spirited Web community is fighting back.....
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I'm not going to say how I feel about the FEC...the things I would say would probably make even a german sick. I wouldn't be surprised if the South rose again at this injustice...and the Northwest as well. These liberal hippies are all getting on every decent conservative person's last nerve...after the stupid Fifth Amendment Violation.
Just another loss of freedom by the oh-so-beloved Clintons. Oh, Supreme Court Justice Souter may get his home bulldozed by Eminent Domain. Oh, maybe the Clintons will get their house bulldozed by eminent domain too. I say we bulldoze any house that the FEC resides in...maybe the Supreme Court too.
Stupid FEC and Stupid SCOTUS...I'm ranging mad.
Yes, but could we really elect officials who would?
Who after all counts the votes... the powers that be.
I said it before and I say it again...
an FEC poweful enough to regulate speech offensive to us, say like howard stern, is powerful AND corrupted enough to regulate OUR speech if it offends them or makes their base of power feel threatened.
and despite howls of protest from our true friends on the Christian right, there is no practical way to shoot at janet's nipple, or sterns mouth, and not hit ourselves in the blogosphere. it's tit for tat... pun intended.
there's just too much threat to the government powers that be, in the blogosphere, whenever we discuss what we hear, see or KNOW they are doing behind our backs in a public venue.
the government cannot tolerate whispers, let alone megaphones. And this is coming about on our 'conservative majority' watch... proving that the libertarians and democrats are in some degree, right about us.
we conservatives, apparently want a nanny state to watch what every body ELSE says or does that offends US... but are HORRIFIED to see that the beast we built to do that... is turning to rend us asunder.
this is a very very dangerous time.
=free speech
=gun rights
=property rights
=illegal invasion on steroids
all issues that have arisen during our 'conservative' watch.
yeah ,... I'd love to stay at a beautiful hotel on the site where The Supreme Court stood , "hello , Room Service?? ,, send up a Surf & Turf , please , yeah , we're big tipperzzz!!"
The government will never censor/police the web blogs, the 1st ammendment guarantees this.
Blogs are democracy.
Are you confusing the FEC with the FCC?
"Define irony - bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash." - Steve Cuscemi "Con Air"
no...
the FEC and the FCC are both branches of the executive... run by our team.
and they are regulated and financed by the congress... also run by our team.
and their actions are adjudicated by the judicial branch... we we are supposedly the majority of... which apparently this week had no problem with seizing property rights (rush and the cons. talk circuit are still buzzing about it.)
the point being that laws are being originated, enforced and adjudicated by an increasingly powerful central state, that is bent on inserting itself into every avenue of our lives and freedoms.
and it is all happening on OUR watch.
The powers of the executive branch are too broad.
and when they take away the right to post on blogs, or regulate it (which is what they do first) for our safety, or for political reasons...
some folks say... they have gone to far in using the power they have.
I say the power they have and are using, as we speak is beyond what the constitution allows in the aforementioned areas to name just a few....
and regardless of the department of the executive branch that the expansion of power is coming under, it is all happening with OUR president, and OUR conservative controlled congress at the helm.
and regulating speech on the internet political blogs, make NO mistake about it, is wrong, illegal and happening under our auspices... conservatives, republicans.
The danger of letting branches of the executive have this kind and quantity of power, actually should be apparent to you... without any explanation.
Unless of course, you are one of those that DO want them to regulate some things that YOU don't approve of... which is the basis for buidling ever more powerful laws and organs for controlling the first amendment rights... of everyone.
Eventually, YOU and ME...
and this very website.
Happy federalism to ya!
Posting messages about news stories and donating money to the campaign of your choice is a threat to democracy?
I agree.
(and she'll say that her evangelist husband heard from God to do this).:)
speaking of threats to Democracy, Ted Kennedy must be on his 6th Bombay Gin/Tonic by now.
bank on it.
and I will go one step further.
I think W bush will do so on sites that vociferously oppose his pro illegal immigration policy... BEFORE that day arrives.
and its going to.
the fact that clintongs are partying with bushes elder and jr... are precursors and foreshadows of what THE POWERS THAT BE intend to do.
It will begin on OUR watch.
That way they will claim this is a bipartisan issue.
count on it.
and get a new screen name and random proxy browser.
(which won't help much)
an FEC poweful enough to regulate speech offensive to us, say like howard stern, is powerful AND corrupted enough to regulate OUR speech if it offends them or makes their base of power feel threatened.
Which made it clear that you were ascribing actions of the FCC to the FEC. Come clean on that score, at least.
Well .. the real flap is that some of the democrat members of the FEC are afraid that CONSERVATIVE blogs might be helping out the conservatives, and not being held to account as making a in-kind donation.
Of course .. they don't expect MoveOn to be held to the same standard; even though 527 rules do not allow them to coordinate with the dem party - they do it anyway and they are not held to account.
However, FR is not a blog - FR is a forum.
I've asked Senator Warner numerous times to please let me know what an individual, such as myself, can do to violate the law and bring down the wrath of the FEC.
He has yet to respond. He was in favor of that law, voted for it, kisses McCain's tush, and maybe other parts, every time he can, but Warner and his running dog lackeys in his support staff have yet to figure out what I can do to openly violate that law.
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