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Originally Posted by Miscreantgnomie
If what you say is true varus WOW just wow
Im 100% against shutting anyone up left ot right
Al Franken SPeak on 100% Allen Comes etc I dont want to shut anyone up.
even the hate rascists speakers anti semites on this board I allow them their platform this is the place to do it.
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Liberals don't want you to remember this for obvious reasons...feel free to google McCain-Feingold restrictions.
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* provisions to make it illegal for a group to discuss with an elected representative his "message" - - for example, how to best promote a pro-life bill - - and then discuss the same subject in communications to the public within his state or district (by defining such communications as illegal campaign " contributions");
* language to ban many types of groups from sponsoring TV or radio ads for one month before a primary and two months before a general election, if the ads even mention the name of a member of Congress (for example, an ad that says, "Please call Senator Jones and urge him to vote for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act"), and to allow certain other groups to purchase such ads only under an array of restrictions, including requiring public identification of anyone who contributes $1,000 for support of such ads;
* provisions that in effect require a political group to provide advance notice before urging the public to support or oppose a federal politician - - thereby allowing powerful incumbent politicians to take advance measures to block speech they don't like - - for example, by pressuring broadcasters not to accept ads.
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This is what Fiengold is all about.
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Fortunately, some in Congress are stirring to action. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) recently introduced the "First Amendment Restoration Act," which would repeal the McCain-Feingold restrictions on political advertising just before an election. Bartlett faces an uphill struggle to enact his bill, not least because some of his fellow House Republicans are vulnerable and thus benefit from the restrictions on advertising in McCain-Feingold.
Two centuries ago, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which punished critics of the government. Inveighing against the Act, James Madison pointed out that "the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of communication thereon, is the only effectual guardian of every other right." By restricting the rights of all Americans -- liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican -- to publicly examine and to criticize members of Congress, McCain and his allies may be creating a bipartisan coalition that will one day pass Rep. Bartlett's bill. That day cannot come too soon.
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http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-17-04.html
Powerful stuff; of course this backfired on the Dems who were receiving quite a bit more soft money than the Repubs.
I have a memory like an elephant; it would blow your mind how much I can recall; of course I attribute this to not drinking and doing drugs. So understandably most from Cali would be shocked at my talents.
Varus