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This is just a drill: Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for
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Posted on 03/23/2006 8:03:45 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Edited on 03/24/2006 11:31:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

Now hear this:

Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for 30 days. No non government approved electioneering messages may be transmitted over the internet for the 30 days immediately preceding a primary election.

That is all.


The above exercise was just a drill. But if John McCain has his way with his proposed rules for regulating political free speech on the internet, this is how we will be forced to operate in the coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.

Carthago delenda est


I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!



If the thought of losing your right to express yourself online makes you mad, it is high time you let Senator John McCain know how you feel.

McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Washington, DC
241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg.
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2235
Fax: (202) 228-2862


Phoenix
5353 North 16th Street
Suite 105
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
Phone: (602) 952-2410
Fax: (602) 952-8702

Tempe
4703 S. Lakeshore Drive
Suite 1
Tempe, Arizona 85282
Phone: (480) 897-6289
Fax: (480) 897-8389

Tucson
407 W. Congress Street
Suite 103
Tucson, Arizona 85701
Phone: (520) 670-6334
Fax: (520) 670-6637


McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Other contact #'s
US capitol toll free -

1-877-762-8762
Senate Offices:

Cloak Room Democratic: (202) 224-4691
Cloak Room Republican: (202) 224-6191

(From post #732 by bd476)


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To: Jim Robinson

Do the RATS underground have to shut down as well?


221 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:10 PM PST by Libloather (You say Dubai, and I say hello...)
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To: me-here

Welcome to FR!

Things move pretty quickly here at times. No better place on the web for news and activism. :)


222 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:41 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon 4 President** Just call me an undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: Lurking in Kansas

I'm just wondering how much more shit the average American Jane and John Doe is gonna take before the entire lid blows off this country.


223 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:46 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: gondramB

It is, Mr. Robinson is not giving us the details for the shutdown, as far as we know, he is doing it voluteerily.


224 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:48 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: gondramB

Is it, Mr. Robinson is not giving us the details for the shutdown, as far as we know, he is doing it voluteerily.


225 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:57 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: me-here

Welcome!


226 posted on 03/23/2006 8:37:02 PM PST by toldyou
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To: Jim Robinson

Hopefully, people will utitlize their free time away from FR to make a few phone calls. In my opinion, there's nothing like phone calls. Lots of them.


227 posted on 03/23/2006 8:37:10 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Will_Zurmacht
I have no idea what they have in AZ, I am unlucky enough to have Kerry and Kennedy. No recall here. I do know that much. And our house member Olver, is a commy, in fact is listed on the DSA member list.

Calling any of them gets you absolutely no where, except to be told "if you don't like it move."

I can't be much help on that score, but if there is anything I can do I will.
228 posted on 03/23/2006 8:37:14 PM PST by gidget7 (PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Please say you are joking. I will suffer withdrawls...it will be like detox in my home. (Better go get some chewing gum and munchies.) Is DUh going to be shut down as well?

Time for McCain to get about 50000 phone calls, faxes, and e-mails of "gratitude" from FReepers. Hey McCain, thanks for protecting our first amendment rights!

You may want to post the yahoo info.

229 posted on 03/23/2006 8:37:21 PM PST by I'm ALL Right!
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To: All
From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602097/posts
Bloggers – The Second Front

The House, meanwhile, is considering the Online Freedom of Speech Act proposed by Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, The "blogger protection bill," as it is known in some circles, simply codifies the current status of Internet bloggers. Senators Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Harry Reid, D-Nev., are co-sponsoring a similar bill in the Senate.

Blogger-backers believe the bills are necessary because the Federal Election Commission is considering whether to apply the rules of McCain-Feingold to Internet communications. In fact, FEC Chairman Michael Toner delayed a long-awaited decision on the matter until the end of March to allow the House to consider Hensarling's bill.

Given Toner's public support for the measure, bloggers believe the delay was a warning. "It couldn't be more clear," wrote Michael Krempasky, one of the founders of Red State, a popular conservative blog. "Pass [this bill] or face regulations on the Internet, period."

Instead, the House passed on the opportunity to vote on the bill. It was held up in committee. At present, it does not appear that it will pass before the FEC decision. A staffer in Hensarling's office told NewsMax they anticipate floor debate sometime during the week of March 28, but it's still unclear whether it will pass at that point.
I believe our marching orders can be derived from that. Flood Congress now to get that bill out of committee. Let GWB know that an EO delaying any FEC rule making decisions prior to Congress acting is necessary. Tell him we don't want to win freedom in Iraq while we're losing it at home.
230 posted on 03/23/2006 8:37:47 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
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To: Jim Robinson; PeaceBeWithYou; null and void; Borax Queen; nicmarlo; Darlin'; goldensky; faux_hog; ..
Spread the word.

Everybody get out their Check Books and send money to FreeDominion so they can buy more server space.

We all meet there and we can be FreeRepublic in exile.

231 posted on 03/23/2006 8:37:51 PM PST by Pontiac (Ignorance of the law is no excuse, ignorance of your rights can be fatal.)
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To: Brad's Gramma; onyx; BurbankKarl; Squantos; Grzegorz 246; lizol; Lukasz; Lijahsbubbe; ...
This is not a drill. Ping.

232 posted on 03/23/2006 8:38:00 PM PST by bd476
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To: Lurking in Kansas
P.S. Especially in schools!!

All levels of education have been usurped.

233 posted on 03/23/2006 8:38:05 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: Jim Robinson

McCain isn't funny. He's never been funny. He has always struck me as mentally unbalanced. He belongs in an asylum, or a cage. Maybe the NK Chicom's had it right.


234 posted on 03/23/2006 8:38:15 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: dubyaismypresident

Well, I consider myself a "Michael Savage independent conservative," I admit outside of the war on terror, there are times I wonder about President Bush to if he is looking out for our best interests on economic and border policies. But that's for later. McCain is much worse. I hope this is a joke, man.


235 posted on 03/23/2006 8:38:16 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Michael Savage for President - 2008!)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

NO MORE FR!!!???

Wow...I guess now I'll have to get a job, move out of my parents' basement, maybe find a girlfriend...

NO!!! WE'VE GOT TO FIGHT THIS!!!!!!


236 posted on 03/23/2006 8:38:32 PM PST by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: Paul C. Jesup
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237 posted on 03/23/2006 8:39:09 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL ( **Hunter-Tancredo-Weldon 4 President** Just call me an undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: Lancey Howard

I'm on it. Jeff Sessions, first thing tomorrow morning. I am at least grateful to have a Senator with a sense of reason.


238 posted on 03/23/2006 8:39:15 PM PST by del4hope (It is time to dust off US sedition and treason laws.)
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To: Jim Robinson
SOMEONE PLEASE POST MCCAIN'S OFFICE NUMBERS, ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE SENATE.

TIME FOR THE BIGGEST FREEP EVER!

TIME TO SHUT DOWN THE SENATE PHONE SYSTEM.

THIS IS BS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER

THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS KING AND IT IS TIME FOR THE REAL POWER TO ASSERT ITSELF. US!

FREEP MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS! LET US DEFEND JIM AND FR! DIAL TILL OUR FINGERS BLEED, THIS WILL NOT STAND!
239 posted on 03/23/2006 8:39:15 PM PST by Danae (Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
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To: Quix
The question is as usual who will be targeted for select
enforcement...

Given who was behind CFR and who signed it into law without
a struggle....

The dems and so called conservatives are all for this....

Which means ONLY certain conservative groups will be targeted for enforcement...

imo

240 posted on 03/23/2006 8:39:21 PM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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