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coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.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

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

hello? I read this thing called the first amendment . . . it was in this crazy little document called "The Bill of Rights." Did I just imagine it?

John Mccain, YAAFM.

[Jim Robinson]

All political websites will be subject to the same rules. Well, I'm guessing the New York Times Forum and similar sites will get a pass because they're tied to the press and the press is exempt. (don't know why the 1st and 14th amendments no longer apply)

[bd476]

You're welcome Cindy. :-)

[budwiesest]

Thanks to you too!

Now, for snicks, imagine asking her to don a burkah?

My guess is, she and her generation would kick your teeth out. And McCains, and Hillary's, and Osama's...etc. The list is sooo long.

[Lancey Howard]

I think it was something in the water in Nam that drives him to this.

No, it's simpler than that.

McCain is a crook and he proved it with his role in the "Keating Five". "Campaign reform" for McCain is just his cheap, misguided way of trying to "make amends" and prove to himself and to the world that he's really not a crook. Yet his idea of "reform" always translates into, "Stop me before somebody comes along with a pot of money and corrupts me again!"

In McCain's world, ALL politicians are inevitably corrupted by campaign money because they are powerless to resist. You know - - because they're all crooks.
Like him.

[texasbluebell]

I may somewhat over the hill physically but my keyboard is still young.

I might need a new keyboard. But I'll get one. And they'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm amazed at the amount of whining going on as a result of JimRob's post. This is a call to action, not to despair. If something is going on that we don't like, we FIX IT! We call, we write, we make so much noise that we get a hearing. This is a wake-up call. Put your damn hankies and alternate websites away and start drafting some lucid, RESPECTFUL messages that you're going to deliver to your legislators tomorrow as soon as the offices open.

This is not a broadcast, and it's not a polling place. It's a place we make a choice to visit, and as such, it and the rest of the internet should be exempt from the horror of McCain-Feingold (who by the way is dangerously incompetent). Make that point clear! Tell everyone you can find!

You can resume your tears, or you can do something.

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BUMP that!

[Jim Robinson]

The thread I posted above is the way we'll have to operate in the coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future if John McCain successfully pushes through his new regulations for political speech on the Internet. We should know more by Monday.

There should be a limit to free speech ~ Hillary Clinton.

Why worry about Hillary when we have McLame?

[A message]

BTTT

[flutters]

Hera are a few articles that helped me understand this a little better. Thought I would post them...

Here's what happened:
http://www.acuactionnet.net/hr16061.html

HR 1606 - Hearing Markup
http://www.townhall.com/blogs/capitolreport/TimChapman/story/2006/03/09/189200.html

[La Enchiladita]

I e-mailed and phoned today.
Will do more phoning tomorrow and send hard-copy letters.

[OKIEDOC]

Excellent post and well put.

I admire those who can speak eloquently on subjects.

Funny but this subject came up in my bible study class.

An avowed environmentalist who I most often disagree with, stated that it seemed to her that the founders of this country must all have been smart beyond their time.

Where have all the men who used to spout eloquent words gone.

All we hear in Washington is the RINOs cowering away from the mean old liberals and giving in to political correctness at the expense of our traditions.

As of now I have little respect for cowards and fence sitters unable to defend the beliefs of the majority in this country.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

He's looking for a spot as her VP in 2008. If we all just keep going regardless of their jackhole little law, what can they do? We can call it civil disobedience. Will they round us all up and fine us? This will effect the DU as well. They would have to shut down too. this might be one of those really scary times where we have to join together to fight a common foe.

scary times are never dull.

[Quix]

Thanks.

Are you aware of this?

Georgia Guidestones link http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm

Here's the text on the stones . . . funded by the likes of McCain's funder--George Soros though done anonymously--so who knows specifically--but that ilk of crew, anyway:

*Let these be a guidestone to an age of reason.
*Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
*Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
*Unite humanity with a living new language.
*Rule Passion - Faith - Tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
*Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
*Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
*Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
*Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
*Be not a cancer on the Earth - Leave room for nature. (written twice)

I think that's the mentality we are fighting with this law against free expression.

It's the first . . . rather HARD . . . evidence I've found for the NWO plan to reduce the world's population to 500,000,000.

Wake-up, folks, while there's still light enough to fight.

[La Enchiladita]

Yes, you imagined it, as it is in the Constitution.

[traviskicks]

In case anyone is still giving money to the republican party... hopefully not, but if so, check out these folks:

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/why.php

They are making real change to shrinking government. The Republican party is not.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

By the way, you almost gave my wife (repogirl) heart failure. She loves the free republic. In fact, I think we were both freepers before we met and it was one of the sites we both mentioned as a source for conservative information.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

but was it a living, breathing document dream?

[Quix]

I think your eloquence is far more accomplished than mine.

I agree thoroughly.

Have felt that way increasingly most of my 60 year adult life.

And then the good communicators--except for Reagan--tend to be shallow, glib shysters.

God have mercy on us all . . . and move us to Godly, patriotic actions!

[OKIEDOC]

Good Post

However..............

I'm not whining .......I'm mad.