Posted on 01/17/2007 7:36:04 PM PST by jmc1969
An outfit called GrassRootsFreedom.com is reporting that the U.S. Senate is considering legislation that would require political bloggers with readership over 500 to register as lobbyists. If they fail to register, they could face criminal penalties up to one year in jail.
"Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and report quarterly to Congress the same as the big K Street lobbyists.
(Excerpt) Read more at informationweek.com ...
Vitter has an amendment to remove this, the blogger section, from the proposed legislation from what I read last night here.
As I'm sure you know, put me right square in your camp on this one! These anti-Constituionalist ''representatives'' of the people, so-called, need a good dose of grape up their backsides.
Hope you're well, and a very Happy New Year to you!
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich said he would push for media reform as chairman of a new House subcommittee focusing on Federal Communications Commission issues.
Kucinich, D-Ohio, and a presidential candidate, said the new Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee would focus on issues such as net neutrality and major telecommunications mergers, Radio Industry News said. Kucinich outlined the subcommittee and its responsibilities during a recent media reform conference in Memphis.
The panel also would consider Fairness Doctrine, eliminated in 1987, which had required broadcasters to present controversial topics in a fair and honest manner.
"We know the media has become the servant of a very narrow corporate agenda" Kucinich said during the Tennessee conference. "We are now in a position to move a progressive agenda to where it is visible."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Congress must be terrified by the internet.
Why is the new democrat majority so TERRIFIED WHITLESS over citizens discussing politics.
Are they affrait of 300 million individual Rush Limbaughs?
Wrong congresscriter, wrong branch, wrong fridge!!!
Oh my...I'm seeing ghost! Hey my friend. I'm doing beyond well even given the state of our union and the world.
It's insane out there! For example, I'm having a hoot reading morons actually defending the federal bureaucrats that they swear are destroying our country put two Border agents in jail for nicking a drug smuggler from Mexico in the butt! But it's the law they say.
We are doomed my friend. And no commodity trading is going to make that fact go away! LOL
Always a pleasure.
Whachu say Breaux!?!
Newspaper subsidy act.
This is to protect the dinosaur media.
Hmmm will Hanity have to register? Oreily? Olbermyn?
Host on a server outside the USA, how would that work?
As we all know, it's necessary for the health of the brain and body to keep finding new interests, correct? Yr hmbl srvntt is doing exactly that these days in two separate endeavours (and, not that you care about futures, of course, but you might (MIGHT...) be interested in Time & Timing.
And, you might also be interested in the philosophy underlying a novel by Vince Flynn, Term Limits.
Or, then again, you might not.
Nicetaseeyaagain, mate!
Duly added to my Favorites list.
I'll try and force myself to read through the dryness! lol
I keep thinking I should sell short on oil futures but what do I know. I thought at $50 a barrel I could have made some cash. Again, talking out my anus here and really not sure what that means.
Frankly, I'm putting my money in assets. Guns and ammo to be exact. And real estate. I've got my eye on a nice cave with a self-contained water source! LOL
Dingy Harry himself.
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry [D - NV] (introduced 1/4/2007)
Cosponsors
Sen Bennett, Robert F. [R - UT] - 1/4/2007
Sen Brown, Sherrod [D - OH] - 1/8/2007
Sen Cantwell, Maria [D - WA] - 1/4/2007
Sen Collins, Susan M. [R - ME] - 1/4/2007
Sen Durbin, Richard [D - IL] - 1/4/2007
Sen Feinstein, Dianne [D - CA] - 1/4/2007
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [D - NJ] - 1/4/2007
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [D - VT] - 1/4/2007
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [D - CT] - 1/4/2007
Sen Lott, Trent [R - MS] - 1/4/2007
Sen McConnell, Mitch [R -KY] - 1/4/2007
Sen Menendez, Robert [D - NJ] - 1/4/2007
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [D - MD] - 1/4/2007
Sen Salazar, Ken [D - CO] - 1/9/2007
Sen Schumer, Charles E. [D - NY] - 1/4/2007
Sen Stabenow, Debbie [D - MI] - 1/4/2007
Sen Webb, Jim [D - VA] - 1/4/2007
Not surprisingly, many of the sponsers are also big gun grabbers. 4 Republicans, surprised to see Lott on there, and 14 'Rats, including Dingy Harry.
The list comes from thomas.loc.gov
I added the party affiliations, from the Senate web site.
It is a trashy law...apparently the politicians see freedom of speech as problematic when it's utilized against them. I wonder what the general response will be if lots of people start becoming political prisoners in the US.
The Nat'l Rifle Assoc is one of the Libs' principal targets, and must be silenced at all costs, even at the cost of the First Amendment.
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NEVER FORGET
The Enemy is now Within...
...and always has been.
NEVER FORGET
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The moment, the very moment, that this SOB's agenda gets into law somehow -- note that it cannot do so honestly or Constitutionally -- we all become slaves.
Please note that nothing -- insofar as I can tell -- in the Constitution prevents or prohibits citizens from picking up pitchforks or other convenient devices, and lifting and dumping would-be tyrants into the nearest convenient dumpster, or performing other similar actions.
Naturally, if one or another of our colleagues here can find the appropriate emantion or penumbra, of which I'm unaware, in the Constitution, that argues against the graf above, I should count it a privilege and a favour if said colleague would point said penumbra or emantion right out to my attention, and to my (evidently) unskillful and ignorant comment.
Besides what, in spite of the web the lefties still got Congress? They're quivering at just what enemy?
Because many of us contribute to FR, but not all, the nonpaying lurkers could be considered the General Public, while those who pay and post could be considered the "clients", and thus it would apply to FR.
You know that's how it will be interepreted, if not right away, eventually. Probably right away for FR, maybe no time soon for DU. (Do they even pay, or does some sugar daddy pay the freight for the DUmmies?)
Did you see the list of sponsors and co-sponsors in post 56? There be republicans there too. That's not to say the dems aren't bent on evil...it's just that they have accomplices.
Yeah, ever see a DUHathon?
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