This is just a drill: Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for

Free Republic ^

[Jim Robinson]

Now hear this:

Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for 30 days. No non government approved electioneering messages may be transmitted over the internet for the 30 days immediately preceding a primary election.

That is all.

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The above exercise was just a drill. But if John McCain has his way with his proposed rules for regulating political free speech on the internet, this is how we will be forced to operate in the coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.

Carthago delenda est

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I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

If the thought of losing your right to express yourself online makes you mad, it is high time you let Senator John McCain know how you feel.

McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Washington, DC

241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg.
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2235
Fax: (202) 228-2862

Phoenix

5353 North 16th Street
Suite 105
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
Phone: (602) 952-2410
Fax: (602) 952-8702

Tempe

4703 S. Lakeshore Drive
Suite 1
Tempe, Arizona 85282
Phone: (480) 897-6289
Fax: (480) 897-8389

Tucson

407 W. Congress Street
Suite 103
Tucson, Arizona 85701
Phone: (520) 670-6334
Fax: (520) 670-6637


McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Other contact #'s

US capitol toll free -

1-877-762-8762

Senate Offices:

Cloak Room Democratic: (202) 224-4691
Cloak Room Republican: (202) 224-6191

(From post #732 by bd476)

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

If the thought of losing your right to express yourself online makes you mad, it is high time you let Senator John McCain know how you feel.

McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Washington, DC

241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg.
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2235
Fax: (202) 228-2862

Phoenix

5353 North 16th Street
Suite 105
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
Phone: (602) 952-2410
Fax: (602) 952-8702

Tempe

4703 S. Lakeshore Drive
Suite 1
Tempe, Arizona 85282
Phone: (480) 897-6289
Fax: (480) 897-8389

Tucson

407 W. Congress Street
Suite 103
Tucson, Arizona 85701
Phone: (520) 670-6334
Fax: (520) 670-6637


McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Other contact #'s

US capitol toll free -

1-877-762-8762

Senate Offices:

Cloak Room Democratic: (202) 224-4691
Cloak Room Republican: (202) 224-6191

[Indy Pendance]

" There may be an effort afoot to renew the Recall John McCain effort. Stay tuned."

What's the state political climate like? Is it likely he'll be recalled? He's up for re-election in 2010, but if he goes for the pres nomination, isn't there a republican rule, if you run, you have to give up your seat?

[OKIEDOC]

Don't you think that the New York Times and it's brother minions are just a little jealous of lost influence.

President Bush needs to get in the middle of this mess and get it straightened out before it blows into another full blown Katrina, Dubai or Val Plame incident.

I can't believe (at least I do hope their not that stupid) for one minute that the handlers around the president are not aware of the treacherous ground upon which the McCain Feingold CFR is about to place them with both their conservative base and their enemies on the left.

[frankiep]

The law introduced by McPain and his buddy, and subsequently passed by the two legislatures and signed by the President, (and not studied closely by the President)

Huh???

Can we please stop making excuses for the President on this? The fact of the matter is that he agrees that free speech is just a privilege, not a right, that can rightfully be taken away on a whim. Either that or he really didn't study it closely, which should throw up a HUGE red flag. After all, shouldn't we expect the President, the person we elected to lead us, to do his job and at least understand just what the hell comes across his desk that he is signing?

The never ending stream of apologists here is frightening.

[Indy Pendance]

What's ironic is this

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602124/posts?page=1109#1109

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[Smartass]

[bd476]

I had already written to Senator Boxer and was just writing to Senator Feinstein on her online form. It came back as "server too busy."

Gee, I wonder why...

[\/\/ayne]

There was an election since then in which 2,000,000 people voted for Senator. So, I guess you can double the amount of signatures needed now to about 500,000

Man, that's daunting! How about we impeach the most liberal Supreme Court Judge instead? Then we can get the law repealed for sure!

[potlatch]

No smiley face nuts, hmmm.

I'm off to cook dinner.

[Quix]

I very strongly agree.

Excellent mantra to flood every idiot Washington office with; carry on posters at every demonstration; flood every radio and TV talk show with.

And preach from every pulpit.

[Smartass]

See yuh later.

[proud_yank]

Great post! BUMP

[penowa]

See how much Hugo and McCain have in common? No more criticism of the "Supreme Leaders" in charge of the peons (us) if McCain is elected. For that matter Hillary too. Just watch what Hugo does to Venezuela and you'll see what McCain has planned for us. The Bill of Rights is in trouble already from the unconstitutional crap passed in the last congress and signed into law by Bush plus the property grab instituted by the previous Supreme Court. Won't be long before the gun grabbers go back to work if the Democrats take over in '06, and say bye to Rush and talk radio.

[Spiff]

What's the state political climate like? Is it likely he'll be recalled? He's up for re-election in 2010, but if he goes for the pres nomination, isn't there a republican rule, if you run, you have to give up your seat?

That's another possibility. Let's go ahead and let him declare his candidacy and then swoop in with a strong move to make him give up his Senate seat to run. Ideas?

[af_vet_rr]

You expect the right and left to get together on this one? Please think again.

Why wouldn't they? Together they've done a good job of keeping third parties down, and the internet represents the easiest and cheapest way for a third party to reach voters.

The internet is in many ways a threat to the status quo and the two parties, because all of the sudden the entrance fee for you or me, or anybody else wanting to be heard by large numbers of people has dropped to basically nothing.

Pardon my language, but it scares the shit out of both parties that you or I could throw up a website for free, and be heard by thousands, even hundreds of thousands or millions. We don't have to spend millions to get a TV station or network to run ads, we don't have to spend tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands or more on ads in magazines and newspapers.

I manage a website for a friend that is politically oriented - a couple of his commentaries have been linked to from here, and from some of the high profile Conservative-leaning bloggers, and literally his traffic goes from 500 people a day to ten thousand or more people in a few days. The site pays for itself through two small ad, and he writes in his spare time, just a few hours a week.

Sure, the Democrats and Republicans love the internet for getting messages out and organizing people, but many of the party leaders fear it, because of the above example, and because of sites like Drudge Report (nobody had heard of Drudge until he broke a story that led to the impeachment of a sitting President). They can spend $10 million on some campaign over some issue to reach X number of potential voters, and it can be negated by a half dozen people with websites that combined, easily cost less than $500 a month to maintain (which can easily be paid for through advertising).

It's very foolish (and dangerous) thinking that the right and the left are not worried about the influence of various websites.

[F16Fighter]

...Future NWO generated tyrannical contingencies planned for the future."

The GOP itself has facilitated the agenda of the NWO for the present.

[Indy Pendance]

I'm just the feingold half. I'd like to hear from Arizona state freepers on this.

[gotribe]

Hey Jim, please violate the law.

[Giant Conservative]

Quick, where are the "big tent" folks who tell conservatives that RINOs like McCain are nothing to worry about???

[AmeriBrit]

Just think positive, he's given us a few scares but the CIC hasn't let us down yet.