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Posted on 01/01/2007 4:00:40 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 01/01/2007 4:19:48 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Are you ready for a FReepathon?
Well, we're entering a new year and a period of new challenges. Pelosi & Co have some big plans for us. Unfortunately, their plans are not necessarily conducive to continued liberty.
As a matter of fact, their immediate desire is to further clampdown on our rights to free speech and freedom of assembly. If you loved McCaine/Feingold, you're really going to love Pelosi. It's aimed directly at grassroots organizations and could all but neuter political forums like FR.
Under Pelosi, any grassroots organization that reaches 500 people or more and asks them to communicate with their representatives regarding political issues would be required to register with the government as lobbyists and report quarterly on finances and expenditures and report separately on each individual issue they're advocating.
Huh? What happened to the first Amendment? Between McCain/Feingold and Pelosi, it's gone. Free speech and freedom of assembly would be history. Regulated to death. Forums and grassroots organizations like FR would be completely under the government thumb.
But it's not just the feds. The states are clamping down too. We're currently locking horns with the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia, the home of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison and the cradle of American Liberty itself now has a law they're trying to apply to Free Republic. Their state law requires charities that raise more then $5,000 per year in Virginia to register and report audited financials to the state. And even though we're a California company and clearly not a charity (we raise money to fund our operations, not for charitable purposes), they want to cross state lines and regulate our activities.
I tell you, between federal and state governments clamping down on our rights and the mainstream media corporations pressing the copyright issues, we're quickly losing our rights to organize and communicate on the Internet. The freewheeling wide open days of the Internet frontier are just about to end for the grassroots citizen.
And what's really ironic about all this is that just as the terrorists and enemies of freedom abroad are ramping up their Internet activities aimed at destroying our free society, we are being squeezed off the Net by the domestic enemy at home.
Oh, well, enough of my ranting. It's a new year and we have plenty to be thankful for. Thank God for each new day of good health and freedom. Thank God for our courageous military and may He watch over and protect our men and women in uniform wherever they may be serving and may they all return safely home soon.
Here's wishing you all a Blessed and Happy New Year!
God Bless America and God Bless us all.
God willing and through His good graces, we shall prevail!
Special note to Virginia residents:
We still do not have a resolution for the donations issue with the Commonwealth of Virginia, so please hold your donations until we get it resolved. As it is, any donations received from Virginia have to be returned or turned over to our lawyer to hold in his trust account until we get the matter settled.
Thank you all very much!
Regards,
Jim Robinson
Thank you, Mo1, for all your hard work on behalf of the fight for Liberty, Justice, Truth - the work of the godly, amen!
Top of the morning before you've had your morning cuppa coffee
Another kind of bored
How the mighty hath fallen. New York was in first place once. I think we need to start thinking like George Steinbrenner and make some trades.
New York Minute
Time for coffee...
WOW! There she is! How did you get a picture of their mom??? You are so clever!! LOL
And I thought we had the makings of a dynasty.
BUMPING By before heading to school
Good Morning Y'all
I need lots of coffee
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Time will tell, time comes to those who wait, time waits for no one... bump
No, they seldom are happy. Most Democrats are really not stupid, so, when one knows that one is on the wrong side of the facts nearly always, one seldom is happy.
That's why they are always so angry.
(jmo)
I'm thinkin' here:
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Thanks Mo1 for the link on Bush41... our local news last night made a very quick mention of him being "in the hospital" saying they'd tell us why later, but they left it for the very last item of the newscast and it got all of 10 seconds. It was disgraceful.
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