no...
the FEC and the FCC are both branches of the executive... run by our team.
and they are regulated and financed by the congress... also run by our team.
and their actions are adjudicated by the judicial branch... we we are supposedly the majority of... which apparently this week had no problem with seizing property rights (rush and the cons. talk circuit are still buzzing about it.)
the point being that laws are being originated, enforced and adjudicated by an increasingly powerful central state, that is bent on inserting itself into every avenue of our lives and freedoms.
and it is all happening on OUR watch.
The powers of the executive branch are too broad.
and when they take away the right to post on blogs, or regulate it (which is what they do first) for our safety, or for political reasons...
some folks say... they have gone to far in using the power they have.
I say the power they have and are using, as we speak is beyond what the constitution allows in the aforementioned areas to name just a few....
and regardless of the department of the executive branch that the expansion of power is coming under, it is all happening with OUR president, and OUR conservative controlled congress at the helm.
and regulating speech on the internet political blogs, make NO mistake about it, is wrong, illegal and happening under our auspices... conservatives, republicans.
The danger of letting branches of the executive have this kind and quantity of power, actually should be apparent to you... without any explanation.
Unless of course, you are one of those that DO want them to regulate some things that YOU don't approve of... which is the basis for buidling ever more powerful laws and organs for controlling the first amendment rights... of everyone.
Eventually, YOU and ME...
and this very website.
Happy federalism to ya!
an FEC poweful enough to regulate speech offensive to us, say like howard stern, is powerful AND corrupted enough to regulate OUR speech if it offends them or makes their base of power feel threatened.
Which made it clear that you were ascribing actions of the FCC to the FEC. Come clean on that score, at least.