“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 peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
FEC isn’t congress, and regulations aren’t laws, so I guess we are screwed, unless of course the g0p stands up to this, so I guess we are screwed...
If regulations aren't laws then they cannot be used in a criminal case; moreover, if the Congress has no authority to pass a certain kind of law they cannot, by delegating their own authority, create something which does have that authority.
Even Jesus said: Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
(John 13:16, NIV)
It takes ten minutes to reset a blog site from the US....to any of a hundred other nations. FreeRepublic could easily be set up to run out of the Isle of Tonga, or even North Korea.
So this gimmick they fantasize about....is just to get people stirred up and for Congress to act in some fashion which shapes some bogus law to occur or some political fight to diminish something.
I can set up a web site or even a phone number from Tonga in minutes. I can set up a bogus mailing address in Tonga. The idea that the FEC can control me....is about twenty years too late. Your chance came and went. I’m free now.