Uncle tells us that Sen. Harry Reid has a bill in the Senate that will in effect require any blog that reaches more than 500 people and discusses politics must register with the FEC as a lobbyist.
I thought that liberals supported free speech and dissent and all that first amendment stuff. What's going on? Anybody who would like to argue in support of registering blogs is welcome to argue their case in the comments section. Better yet, come up with a good argument, and I'll put it on the front page.
As for Harry Reid, I will register as a lobbyist when I am paid to contact congresscritters and other vile scoundrels in order to influence their vote. But as long as I am talking to the people of the United States, whether I seek to influence their vote or not, you have absolutely no right under the Constitution to interfere with or restrict that speech in anyway. Let me refresh your memory, sir:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
If this is what the progressives call progress, they need a new dictionary. Theirs is broken.
Posted by Rich at January 10, 2008 10:16 PM | TrackBack