According to the AP, our wonderful congress critters failed to pass an amendment that would exempt the internet from campaign finance laws.
The effect is that the FEC can now proceed with rules and regulations on what I can say on this blog and when I can say it.
Guess what?
NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!!
Not in this lifetime anyway. The right of the people to speak freely, and this most definitely includes political speech is a right enshrined in the COnstitution and it will take a lot more than a bunch of pusillanimous cowards hiding behind bogus laws to take that right away from us.
Which just may explain the push to legislate the Second Amendment into irrelevance, along with the Ninth and Tenth.
And I'd like to single out the following Tennessee representatives, who all voted against the amendment: Jim Cooper (D); Harold Ford (D); Bart Gordon (D); John Tanner (D); and Zach Wamp (R). To each of you I say go find a copy of the Constitution and read it. Pay particular attention to the Bill of Rights, and realize there's a good reason why the first one concerns freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I'm covered by both clauses, you idiots, and you cannot tell me what I can or can't say.
Any questions?
Posted by Rich at November 2, 2005 11:41 PM | TrackBack