[rang1995]

12) H.Amdt. 49 by Rep. Miller [D-CA] Amendment to prohibit organizations from attempting to influence legislation; organize or engage in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes; and assist, promote, or deter union organizing. Proposed: Mar 18, 2009. Accepted: Mar 18, 2009

[mnehring]

That link isn’t working.. I’ll find a better one for you

[cripplecreek]

Either a sign of an end or a beginning.

Which is up to us.

[ronnyquest]

Bad, that’s what it is.

[papasmurf]

LOL

Define...prohibit organizations from attempting to influence legislation, or deter union organizing.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Something highly unconstitutional...

[mnehring]

An amendment to the GIVE act, prohibits volunteer(sic) organizations from being politically active.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/L?d111:./temp/~bdaKiOT:1[1-12](Amendments_For_H.R.1388)&./temp/~bdvhW5

I can see how if it isn’t read in context with the parent bill, it can seem shocking, albeit, the entire GIVE act is crap.

[bgill]

The link: “GovTrack.us is currently having some down time”

From what you’ve posted it looks like the last nail in Lady Liberty’s coffin.

[Uncle Miltie]

It’s a headline with no meaning.

[boxerblues]

WTF

[The_Reader_David]

Sounds like a title to an amendment. Presumably it does not forbid all organizations from doing those things (the D after his name tells me that it won’t prohibit labor unions from doing those things). Depending on what narrower class of organizations are forbidden from doing the things, it could be quite obnoxious to freedom and unconstitutional—the more likely possibility—or an improvement on the current situation (again, given the D after the name, very unlikely).

[FlashBack]

Site down....overloaded??

[Faith65]

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[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What else would you expect from people who have never read the Constitution? This flies in the face of the very first amendment.

If this language is in the final bill and the bill is passed and signed in to law...it virtually guarantees that the whole mess will be struck down by The Supreme Court...at the worst...because this language is CLEARLY unconstitutional. Fret not. It will die.

[opaque soul]

Is this Real? If so, This is what outlawing citizenship looks like... being forced into comradship. If you aint no comrad, you aint no person worth havin’ ‘round.

[HoosierHawk]

From yesterday.

Freedom through work.

[Thank You Rush]

Whatever it is can’t be good seeing that a democrat from CA is the author.....

[Brilliant]

Here is the text of the amendment:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r111:1:./temp/~r111y7XdG1:e117872:

Looks like it’s intended to prohibit these organizations from engaging in political activity.

[aberaussie]

With this being an amendment to the GIVE act, perhaps it only applies to organizations administering those programs (of involuntary servitude and indoctrination.) If that is the case, I would prefer that they not be organizing to influence legislation.

[ElayneJ]

What about the right to peaceably assemble and the right to free speech? Don’t these people know anything about the Constitution?????

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT