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If the First Amendment doesn't apply to bloggers, ot doesn't apply to any of us?
1 posted on 06/05/2013 3:36:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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he wasn’t sure if bloggers deserved First Amendment protections:

DESERVE?

Free speech is a right, not an earned reward from the White House, Group of 8, or the government.

What is behind this is a White House goal to get "real journalists" licensed, and thus allow legal restraints on bloggers the politicians do not like. It will be the end of a free press with the freedom to write and publish what they please.

30 posted on 06/05/2013 4:26:21 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Get a special prosecutor right now!!!)
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he wasn’t sure if bloggers deserved First Amendment protections:

DESERVE?

Free speech is a right, not an earned reward from the White House, Group of 8, or the government.

What is behind this is a White House goal to get "real journalists" licensed, and thus allow legal restraints on bloggers the politicians do not like. It will be the end of a free press with the freedom to write and publish what they please.

31 posted on 06/05/2013 4:31:29 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Get a special prosecutor right now!!!)
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Linda proves once again... she a complete doofus in clown's clothing.

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32 posted on 06/05/2013 4:31:36 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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I don't recall the 1st Amendment using the the word “journalist” either, so maybe it doesn't include them.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, OR of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

If nothing else, blogs ought to be considered petitions of grievance.

33 posted on 06/05/2013 4:34:42 PM PDT by PsyOp (Put government in charge of tire pressure, and we'll soon have a shortage of air. - PsyOp.)
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This egghead Graham needs a 20 year vacation at his own expense


34 posted on 06/05/2013 4:37:22 PM PDT by chainsaw ("Two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by Obama")
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Republicans like Lindsey were put here by the Devil to make it easier for leftists.


37 posted on 06/05/2013 4:40:58 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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Miz Lindsey Graham-McCain is an idiot.


39 posted on 06/05/2013 4:52:43 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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Bloggers don’t have freedom of speech?

What brand of idiot thinks that way?


40 posted on 06/05/2013 5:10:01 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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Hmmm... think that he got together with Durbin on this nonsense?

Durbin Not Sure if Bloggers Deserve Constitutional Protection

41 posted on 06/05/2013 5:13:06 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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What an asshat.


43 posted on 06/05/2013 5:22:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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Trey Gowdy, please primary this asshat for the good of the entire country.


45 posted on 06/05/2013 6:01:49 PM PDT by EricT. (Another Muslim terrorist. Who saw that coming?)
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Graham is a techno illiterate.

200+ years ago a blogger was just the person who stood on a soap box in the town square.

graham just does not like talk of being primaried.


49 posted on 06/06/2013 8:19:48 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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