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Bloggers push politics aside in fight against FEC
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^
| March 19, 2006
| John Reinan
Posted on 03/20/2006 2:44:50 AM PST by RWR8189
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posted on
03/20/2006 2:44:53 AM PST
by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
They're going to have come for me and jail or murder me. I will stop speaking my mind - only over my dead body. As Patrick Henry put it in his now immortal words: "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!"
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
03/20/2006 2:47:16 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: RWR8189
Surely, there are enough differences of opinion on FR to exclude it as being "part of a political campaign."
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posted on
03/20/2006 2:49:19 AM PST
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
To: freeangel
I dare the boot-heeled fascists at the FEC to shut us up. I dare them!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
03/20/2006 2:50:27 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: RWR8189
There are laws and there are regulations. Some laws are bad enough, but when you get bureaucrats arrogantly interpreting those laws into regulations. you have government run amuck. They make up half assed regulations and no one is held responsible.
To: sgtbono2002
Let's remember who tried to stifle the First Amendment: the whackjobs John McCain and Russ Feingold. They're both loons and I hope neither of them ever becomes President. Not on my watch.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
03/20/2006 3:00:13 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
I triple dog dare them !!
LOL
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posted on
03/20/2006 3:28:40 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Funny how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather...)
To: goldstategop
You would think that because of McCain-Finegold that it would put John McCain pretty much out of the race for president.
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posted on
03/20/2006 3:30:25 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Funny how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather...)
To: RWR8189
Lets NOT dare them.
Frankly, I am afraid that this would happen in a heartbeat under madam Clinton.
Removing the free republic name from internic would take about 30 seconds and might very well take years to wind though administrative hearings.
There are many things that would happen to us under the caring, tender mercies of socialist, green policied, loving, caring, its for the children, health care is a right, democrats.
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posted on
03/20/2006 3:41:32 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: RWR8189
Funny how silent the ACLU is when it comes to defending the freedom of speech.
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posted on
03/20/2006 3:46:52 AM PST
by
6SJ7
To: bill1952
Removing the free republic name from internic would take about 30 seconds and might very well take years to wind though administrative hearings. If the government were stupid enough to do this, and they might, you would see anonymous emails appear as a replacement. It would be the 21st Century version of the Pamphleteers.
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posted on
03/20/2006 3:50:59 AM PST
by
6SJ7
To: RWR8189
I find it amazing that the MSM can be immune to all this, passing judgement on blogs and forums. Why should Tim Russert get to practice freedom of the press, but not Jim Robinson?
Who gets to define who is a journalist or not, a news organization or not? Because if you ask me, 90% of the MSM are paid hacks for the DNC. Call them a vast left wing conspiracy and a political organization.
Freedom of the press for Free Republic!
To: 6SJ7
We'd put up Free Republic outside the United States and there would be nothing the Feds could do about it. And if the FEC really means business, they better start establishing concentration camps. That's the only way they can compel people to obey it and I will not obey a law I consider unconstitutional. So there. Come and arrest me.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
03/20/2006 3:53:40 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
...Free Republic outside the United States"...heck, we'll launch a satellite with servers!!!
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posted on
03/20/2006 4:01:32 AM PST
by
mo
To: 6SJ7
They would make anon email illegal in the next 30 seconds.
A new agency would be created to enforce that, and new taxes would be enacted to make you pay for it.
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posted on
03/20/2006 4:09:46 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: goldstategop
Sure they can. Without the name registered... well, that would be just a start for them.
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posted on
03/20/2006 4:11:36 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: RWR8189; All
We need to be circumspect, here. Like it or not, due to McCain-Feingold, the limits are coming. The IRS enacted regulations at least a year ago to limit what churches could do during political campaigns and what could be said in either chirch bulletins or from the pulpit.
If you feel strongly enough about it, start letting your Congresscritter know. But, remember, that the Congresscritters ignored the public when it came to passing or voting down CFR. Bush, acknowledging that it was unConstitutional, signed it anyway. The SCOTUS failed to address the Constitutional issues surrounding CFR and refused to hear the case. Freedom, the Constitution, and the voters lost big on this issue.
Think they can't clamp down on what can be said on a blog?? Think again; we've already lost that battle and we have no friends in high places willing to overturn this dreck of law.
Word of advice - ANYTIME that Congresscritters favor a bill relating to something that is NOT on the American public's radar (such as Campaign Finance Reform; aka McCain-Feingold), be VERY wary and VERY afraid. CFR has shown them all how to shut down our Constitutional rights - they did it under our noses and we let them.
They'll do it again.
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posted on
03/20/2006 4:12:07 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: Alas Babylon!
Why should Tim Russert get to practice freedom of the press, but not Jim Robinson?
Because the press was specifically excluded from any limitations imposed by CFR, web logs like FR were not. That's why there was a big push to try to get political blogs like FR recognized as press sites (it wasn't, by the way).
The Congresscritters knew they could piss us off and it wouldn't matter, but they also knew thast if they pissed off the MSM by including them in the 1st Amendment limitations of CFR, there would be no limits to the hell that the MSM would put them through.
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posted on
03/20/2006 4:16:38 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: RWR8189
That's what happened in South Dakota in 2004, when a group of bloggers backing U.S. Senate candidate John Thune, a Republican, relentlessly attacked incumbent Democrat Tom Daschle. The bloggers were being paid by the Thune campaign, FReepers did it for free!
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posted on
03/20/2006 4:17:13 AM PST
by
sausageseller
(Look out for the jackbooted spelling police. There! Everywhere!(revised cause the "man" accosted me!)
To: goldstategop
We should also remember all who voted for it, who signed it into law, then those who refused to consider it against the Constitution.
All three branches of government screwed America with CFR.
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posted on
03/20/2006 4:17:34 AM PST
by
kenth
(durka durka)
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