[defenderSD]

Hey all you senators and congresscritters. Stop trying to silence us. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. There are other career opportunities for you.

[Valin]

McCain's proposal defines grass-roots lobbying broadly. He wants to regulate "any attempt to influence the general public

Is he INSANE? I wonder, how many phone calls it would take to shut down the Senate phone system?

[Jimbaugh]

Is McCain in the Republican party or the NAZI party?

[freepatriot32]

rare double ping to both my lists

"We have the right to annoy the hell out of them, as does every single citizen in the United States. They serve us - we don't serve them!"

bears repeating and we have got to do sometihng this election year to make sure they never forget that if an incumbent is running in your district vote against them(preferably libertarian) if no one is running against your incumbent run against them.(again preferably As libertarian)

now if you wanto contact nancy pelosi i have provided all her publicly available contact info for her officethat is all on her government run website paid for by you the taxpayers below and as you can see i have provided her fax number. But I must warn you if you are considering sending multiple black faxes from public fax machines that cant be directly traced back to you easily(an all black piece of paper through the fax lines which uses up almost all ink in a fax machine quickly causing loss of money and time from having to change ink every few minutes instead of days ) I must and I repeat must discourage you from doing so. So please dont even consider doing that ever we are better then that and should show the respect to nancys office that it deserves

Web Site: www.house.gov/pelosi E-mail: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov Washington Office: 2371 RHOB Washington, D.C. 20515-0508 Phone: (202) 225-4965 Fax: (202) 225-8259 Main District Office: 450 Golden Gate Ave., Burton Fed. Bldg. San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone: (415) 556-4862 Fax: (415) 861-1670

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[jan in Colorado]

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[Smokin' Joe]

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[nopardons]

bttt

[nutmeg]

Do NOT miss this article!

Excerpt:

They are two of America's free, unregulated voices of political activism but a gathering storm of Washington regulation threatens to stifle them forever.

Grass-roots activists and Internet bloggers, who largely escaped the restrictions of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act, are the targets of a looming, two-pronged government assault which aims to lasso and corral the last wild mustangs on the political range.

Regulating Grass-Roots Activists

The Senate is scheduled to debate lobbying reform shortly after it returns from this week's recess. While most congressional attention has focused on measures aimed at traditional lobbyists and lawmakers, there also have been attempts to impose restrictive new rules on grass-roots lobbying organizations.

Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., are pushing a proposal to require these organizations to register and to report to Congress on their activities. Failure to comply would result in civil or criminal penalties.

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

And they want to censure W for surveilling terrorists. Sometimes I think the biggest terrorists are those in Congress (both houses).

[Mo1]

Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., are pushing a proposal to require these organizations to register and to report to Congress on their activities. Failure to comply would result in civil or criminal penalties

I Want to know is when are members of Congress going to be held accountable when THEY break the law???

[traviskicks]

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-Edward Abbey


Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
-Benjamin Franklin

[prisoner6]

COME AND GET ME COPPER!

prisoner6...no on second thought

PRISONER6!

Just so you know who is gonna ingore ANY kind of attempt to silence me.

[AmericaUnite]

Bump. Good synopsis.

[Amelia]

Grass-roots activists and bloggers insist there is little, if any, corruption in their respective and often overlapping realms. They ascribe ulterior, more sinister, motives to their would-be regulators. Zuniga [founder of Daily Kos] believes they are motivated by a desire to quash grass-roots media because sites like Daily Kos and Red State threaten traditional bases of power. That belief is essentially the thesis for "Crashing the Gates," his new book and first foray into traditional publishing.

Zuniga reserves his strongest venom for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "This is intended to squash citizen media," he said. "Pelosi and company are complicit, no matter how much they lie about their intentions."

Who would've thought we would have areas of agreement with the Daily Kos? :-)

[Hardastarboard]

"It is imperative," wrote the New York Times in an editorial, "that the courageous lawmakers who supported the McCain-Feingold reform law four years ago stand together against making the Internet a cornucopia of political corruption."

The (Evil) Empire strikes back.

[azhenfud]

NO SPEECH - NO MONEY

NO SPEECH - NO MONEY

NO SPEECH - NO MONEY

NO SPEECH - NO MONEY

[summer]

This is really awful. Any elected official who votes for, or supports, laws to regulate bloggers will forever lose my vote. This is a power grab like no other -- taking power from the people.

[cvq3842]

This is one instance where I would strongly consider breaking the law and letting them try to prosecute me. Let them explain it to the world. Or would they censor that information too? Nonviolent protest has its place; if posting on a website is a crime, then something is terribly wrong . . .

PS Please pull this post if this is against site policy. Setting our OWN rules is different from the state dictating them. Thanks.

[shezza]

Major Ping

[RKBA Democrat]

I'm obviously not thrilled about the idea of political free speech on the internet being regulated. But I don't think it's going to be all that big of problem as a practical matter, at least in the short term.

Why: the internet doesn't reside solely in the U.S. If this sort of regulation actually becomes reality, I would predict a mass exodus of bloggers to offshore servers and websites.

Now there's some irony for you. Americans outsourcing their political free speech to other countries.

[E.G.C.]

Here are my thoughts on the subject.

I have to give kudos to Jim Robinson for doing such an excellent job of addressing this issue.

What we are clearly witnessing is a blatant and deliberate act of treason by power hungry bureaucrats in Washington who seem to have absoulutely no consideration whatsoever for the very people they were elected to represent.

And I'm afraid what's going to happen is this nation is going to end up like Zimbabwe where people who don't show loyalty to these bureaucrats are going to end up being denied access to essential things like food or clothing or medical care.

These bereaucrats clearly do not have the best interests of this nation in their hearts. Their only interest is to reacquire and keep power so they can missuse and abuse it for their own selfish interests.

They will have that chance prior to General and Primary elections and there will be no legal way for us to blow the whistle on them with the new laws being proposed or ordered by these judicial activists.

To say the intentions of these Washington bureaucrats is blatantly and totally malicious and harmful is an absolute understatment. I wonder how these POS's sleep at night knowing that what they're doing is completely and totally 180 degrees from what the founding fathers wanted.