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coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.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

[OPS4]

Just sent to McCain HQ, through my Fundraising website for him.
Will update.
Ops4

I am an avid Republican backer who has letters on my wall for President Bush for my help in his last two campaigns for President.

I have worked hard both in Florida, for our candidates.

One of the main sites I have had help us are the Florida Freerepulc.com site, and the
Town Hall site.

It has come to my attention that a move that could devastate all of our hard work is in the works and could cost us the entire consvervative vote in this election.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602124/posts?page=51,50

Read the thread and advise me on this issue, ASAP.
EMM Florida

[OPS4]

Court spurns appeal over ‘Hillary’ film

March 25, 2008

By Jennifer Harper - The Supreme Court yesterday rejected without comment an appeal from a District-based advocacy group that promotional ads for its 90-minute political documentary critical of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are protected by First Amendment rights and, therefore, exempt from campaign-finance laws.

As a result, Citizens United must include a disclaimer and disclose its donors in commercials for “Hillary: The Movie.” The film includes interviews with many high-profile conservatives, including political commentator Ann Coulter, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey.

The cast is billed as “experts, opinion makers, and many of the people who personally locked horns with the Clintons.”

“We are back at square one, essentially,” said Jim Bopp, an Indiana-based lawyer who represented Citizens United in their case. “We plan to continue in the District Court to resolve the case based on its merits.”

In recent years, the group has produced films examining the United Nations, illegal immigration, faith in America and Michael Moore’s 2004 film “Fahrenheit 911,” which was critical of the Bush administration’s actions after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Citizens United became interested last year in the finer points of movie promotion after the Supreme Court ruled that Wisconsin Right to Life could not be prohibited from broadcasting “genuine issue ads” at certain critical times — specifically, blackout periods before elections, as required by the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC), however, still requires such groups to include a list of donors and a disclaimer with the ad itself.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080325/NATION/808377825/1002

[Content Provider]

“I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government.”

“I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.”

Two John McCain quotes that are very interesting juxtaposed against each other.

[TigersEye]

Wow, you are really doing some digging. Good find. I never saw this thread the first time around. I’m sure Yahoo, Google, AOL and MSN will pitch in and help censor political speech here the way they willingly assist the CCP in China.

[Content Provider]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mccain/

It’s a treasure trove. You can go way back by editing the end number, like so:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mccain/14000

[TigersEye]

Thanks. I have wondered how to go back without going page by page in a comments or keyword search. Duh! It’s really kind of obvious isn’t it? (that’s a rhetorical question) lol

[Content Provider]

Wasn’t even obvious to me, and I’m a programmer. But I caught the pattern of the numbers after scrolling through the categories a bit, and figured it out.

calcowgirl, ICMP type 3 packet for you, amusement more than data

[TigersEye]

I don’t feel so bad then because I’m just a point-and-clicker. I have figured out in the past though that I could get into FTP files and other areas of websites I wasn’t supposed to by cutting parts of URLs or trying a higher or lower number on the end than the one I had found some other way.

[calcowgirl]

I do that to jump back in time. Every 1,000,000 digits in the URL is roughly a year.
I think 1,500,000 takes you back to 2003, and so on.

What is “ICMP type 3 packet”?

[Content Provider]

ICMP type 3 is a standard ping... sorry, I’m a bit of a nerd.

[M Kehoe]

Does this mean we have to become a "527?"

Or does this mean it's tea time at Boston harbor?

I hope I don't get too old before the excrement hits the oscillator.

5.56mm

[sweetiepiezer]

What am I going to do with all this popcorn?

[M203M4]

This post goes BUMP (in the night)!

[supercat]

Wouldn't the proper thing to do be to wait until the FEC were to issue a specific fine or ruling against FR in order to challenge the law in court.

How about simply use a filter to replace all mention of "McCain" or "Obama" with "McCensor" and "OtherGuy"? I think you can still talk politics if you don't mention the candidates in question.

[Gaffer]

Does that mean I can’t urge people not to vote for that RINO, too? In his case, I wish this were true. He is a disaster in the making.

[gitmo]

Don’t scare us like that.

[supercat]

It was a REPUBLICAN President who not only refused to veto the unconstitutional travesty, but who signed it into law on March 27th, 2002.

An unconstitutional statute is not law; unconstitutional statutes, other than those which become unconstitutional as a result of a Constitutional Amendment which is ratified after their signing, are void from the moment of inception.

That isn't to say that agents of an illegitimate government won't prosecute people for violating illegitimate statutes, but rather to note that such a government does not deserve deserve any trappings of legitimacy, including the use of phrases like "into law".