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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
Hiya Mo, I'm just preparing the Dose so it'll be a secret when post it. No advance warning. :)
LOL!!
It's ready to post now, barring any late breaking news....but everyone would get mad at me if I post it this early......LOL... but I am "tempted."
Lunchtime was a big hassle, so I just sent my donation in as cash wrapped in junk mail so that it could not be seen through the envelope.
I hope that will be okay.
*smooch*
BWAHAHAHAAAAA!
Sweet you! I'm sure that'll be okay!
Oh my,
You sexual predator you!
You posted something that even the erudite men of minerals can't understand ;)
And only those who haven't read your homepage don't understand where you got your name (give the pooch a pat for me...and HG a smooch....don't reverse it either).
'nanner puddin' is in the mail,
cookies are bakin,
the clowns may be making asses of themselves out in the open,
but the campers have a quiet tent in which they can go to laugh ;)
See y'all there....at the real meeting place...
and how archaic is it to refer to I Please Wish? A site that has long been left by all discussed.... seems they're out of the loop.... ?)
Yeah,
and what is sad is the one accusing me of one line flirting was someone I considered a decent human and a friend...
OK, I was wrong. So I'm a rotten judge of character HB! Or maybe I just judge rotten characters wrongly.
Carry me and Star away on the back of your bike! Until HG catches up with us, then I'm swearing that you're a sexual predator with a sex seeking name that lured me to my demise.
Ha!
They are grouping us into categories and they are WAY off.
(shaking my head)
Yep,
do the math...
of the 5 mentioned,
NONE are on I Wish Please now
(2 never even set foot for a visit).
Only 2 never, ever post on the OFST.
Only 2 are on the SalPingList etc.
Someclowns are flaunting their stupids.
(So sayeth da mama o'daband!)
Happy Friday afternoon, BUMP!!!!
Howdy everyone!
Woo hoo!!
We have incoming:
$50 from New York
$25 from California
$20 from Illinois
$50 from Utah
$35 from Colorado
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$25 from New Jersey
Thank you all very much!!
I am curious.
Do you see the requirements for your kids in high school as being harder than they were for you....easier...or about the same??
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