EDITORIAL: FTC floats Drudge tax

washington times ^ | 6/4/10 | editor

[unspun]

These people really are trying to create a civil war. They're insane.

They are at war with America now. Most just fail to recognize it.

[unspun]

A character in an Ayn Rand novel. She was weird, but a lot of people like her work. What she was not, was a true Americanist. She didn’t follow the founding fathers blueprint for America. She was an atheist, nihilist who happened to be an anti-Marxist reactionary. She was a distraction and diversion — way overrated.

[zzeeman]

“But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.” Candidate Obama, 2001 interview

The fact that that one statement alone didn't send a chill up enough people's spines explains why we are in the mess that we are in. And that is no Johnny Come Lately on the scene (as I'm sure that you know), I heard the audio clip played often, before the election.

Big problem is 3-part:
1. Not enough people make an effort to put themselves in a position to hear/read things like that.
2. Not enough people that may have read/heard it, understand what he is saying.
3. Not enough people that may not understand it, give a rat's patootie that they don't!

With a deliberately dumbed down populace so manipulated into thinking that things like how many votes their fav on American Idol may get, or who might be the winner of Celebrity Apprentice this year, are far more important and interesting to them, it is a wonder that our Country hasn't been destroyed decades ago.

[jmcenanly]

They are not trying to ‘reinvent’ journalism, they are trying to keep it the way it was before the age of the Internet. It would be as if the blacksmiths and stable owners gotten together at the turn of the last century to propose a ‘Ford Tax’ to eliminate the competition

[zzeeman]

It could be is happening here.

This regime has Cass Sunstein.

[NonValueAdded]

So "Congress shall make no law ..." doesn't apply to the FTC? I don't think so. They have no independent taxing authority and an EO can only apply to the Executive Branch, no? "They" might have no faith in the free market but that's not on the list of choices from which they can choose.

This is getting dangerously close to "When in the Course of human events" time.

[Still Thinking]

Who’s John Gault?

Possibly related to John Galt, a character in Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

[ / smartass mode]

[Gene Eric]

>> Who’s John Gault?

This Galt stuff is no better than sitting on the tracks to protest the train.

[caseinpoint]

“Self-respecting journalists must reject . . . “

I can see the author has a problem right there. It’s like looking for self-respecting prostitutes.

[GeronL]

They want to tax and regulate “free” speech.

[avacado]

Only if we can also subsidize the buggy whip industry!

[Cheerio]

These people really are trying to create a civil war. They're insane.

I don't think they are insane. America voted for TRANSFORMATION WITHOUT AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION. The boy king is delivering and I fear he can win again in 2012. Stick a fork in America, unless the GOP can retake Congress in 2010 and defund all this TRANSFORMATION.

[BP2]

ON THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Benjamin Franklin

While free from Force the Press remains,
Virtue and Freedom chear our Plains,
And Learning Largesses bestows,
And keeps unlicens’d open House.
We to the Nation’s publick Mart
Our Works of Wit, and Schemes of Art,
And philosophic Goods, this Way,
Like Water carriage, cheap convey.
This Tree which Knowledge so affords,
Inquisitors with flaming swords
From Lay-Approach with Zeal defend,
Lest their own Paradise should end.

The Press from her fecundous Womb
Brought forth the Arts of Greece and Rome;
Her offspring, skill’d in Logic War,
Truth’s Banner wav’d in open Air;
The Monster Superstition fled,
And hid in Shades in Gorgon Head;
And awless Pow’r, the long kept Field,
By Reason quell’d, was forc’d to yield.

This Nurse of Arts, and Freedom’s Fence,
To chain, is Treason against Sense:
And Liberty, thy thousand Tongues
None silence who design no Wrongs;
For those who use the Gag’s Restraint,
First Rob, before they stop Complaint.

[bareford101]

under obamanation world order, people don’t decide which newspapers/magazines they want to buy and which they don’t. obamanation will force the sleeze to be “in your face” by using our tax dollars to fund it... much like using our money for sex “education” with accompanying condoms; abortion murders; and bowing and scraping and paying for the queer agenda. And yes, “queer” is a word. It means just that.

where does it stop?

[top 2 toe red]

They love taxes all right, as long as it only the republicans that continue to pay them...they don’t pay taxes of their own, you know!!!

[hocndoc]

Where is John Galt?

[OldArmy52]

Sounds good to me to have the Govt control news content.
International law favors such...international laws in countries like North Korea, Cuba, China and other one party dictatorships.

After all, Obama and the National Socialist Party (aka Dem’s) are working hard to establish such a dictatorship, here in the Land Of 100 Czars.

[OneWingedShark]

Where do these evil little bureaucratic trolls come from?

Here?

How can they be sent back there?

I'm afraid the above is the only way out... especially after reading "Constitutional Chaos," the first part of "Three Felonies a Day" [I'm in the middle of reading it], seeing the federal [in]action on terrorism & border security coupled with the trumped-up charges against those "Huataree Militia," and stuff like this.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

What is next taxing kids cool aid stands?

N U T S!

[Doogle]

unconstitutional....????.....oh wait, that don’t matter anymore