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Internet Utopia - (Sens. McCain, Feingold; Reps. Shays, Meehan propose regulating Internet)
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| JUNE 8, 2005
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Posted on 06/09/2005 2:59:44 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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"Why, when the free market has gone and created the exact state of affairs the reformers have long claimed to desire, are the McCains of the world looking to crack down?
Because the reform movement has never been about freedom. It has always been about control."
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posted on
06/09/2005 2:59:44 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
To: CHARLITE
Whatever it is McCain comes up with in the terms of law I want advice on how to break it early and often.
He is a very tiresome and irksom old totalitarian who appears to have actually "gone over" in his long captivity.
Maybe they would like him back.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:03:29 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(q)
To: CHARLITE
Oh Crap! Here we go again! Any legislation with McCain & Feingold as sponsors, we're in trouble!
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:03:37 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
("Consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies")
To: CHARLITE
Is there a procedure to kick McCain out of the party? Or is he allowed to call himself "republican" no matter what?
To: CHARLITE
"Because the reform movement has never been about freedom. It has always been about control."
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Exactly -- and this is why this socialist shill and his ilk, the McCain-Feingold (et al) anti-First Amendment lot, have to be stopped. The country is getting fed up with the Washington elite, and now they are trying to SUPPRESS what we can do.
Get ready. Here comes the dawn.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:04:02 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: muawiyah
Maybe they would like him back.
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Yes, back to the Hanoi Hilton, one way, all expenses paid.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:05:18 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: CHARLITE
Why, when the free market has gone and created the exact state of affairs the reformers have long claimed to desire, are the McCains of the world looking to crack down? Because McCain is not the maverick media darling he is advertised to be. He is a yes man. It's up to those older than 40, or students of history to determine for themselves whose yes man he might be.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:06:14 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
( There are not enough liberals in Utah to bother to appease. - Warren Keuffel)
To: CHARLITE
Right. McCain-Feingold worked so well last election, so lets create Son of McCain-Feingold....
I will crawl across broken glass to see McCain defeated.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:07:25 PM PDT
by
Fenris6
(3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
To: EagleUSA
"now they are trying to SUPPRESS what we can do."
In this great state of NJ, my son got a ticket yesterday for swimming with friends at a quarry, a place that they've gone to in the summer, for years!
It's all about the MONEY!!!!
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:08:07 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
("Consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies")
To: Alia; Calpernia
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:24:02 PM PDT
by
JesseJane
(43 - First 'illegal alien' Presidente')
To: CHARLITE
Slavery never died. We citizens are all slaves to the government. And soon we will realize we are not free. Wait until the chip is injected in our arms to control everything we do. That's when we will get a potty fee, so be ready to crap maybe once every day or at least when your eyes turn brown. It'll just cost too much.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:24:27 PM PDT
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: CHARLITE
McCain/ Feingold tried their hand on regulating campaign contributions, resulting in opening up campaigns for Billionaires.
His next endeavor came with deal making towards Filibusters, which held for two and a half days.
McCain caused two crash landings which he obviously needs to bury.
He now wants to regulate taxation of the Internet.
Is McCain still for real while running from one failure into the next trying to put his lack of skills/ understandings behind him?
His MSM applause is assured till.... Hillary declares and he gets presented with and has to eat all of his flops.
An eye popping reality check is in store for MCCain.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:27:13 PM PDT
by
hermgem
To: JesseJane
Check your My Comments for a follow up ping.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:32:19 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Calpernia
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:35:16 PM PDT
by
JesseJane
(43 - First 'illegal alien' Presidente')
To: CHARLITE
To: CHARLITE
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there is no reason to believe that monied interests will not attempt to use the Internet to influence politics and policy as they attempt to do with other modes of communication. Indeed, there is every reason to expect that they will." Here is the difference. A webpage I create sits on MY server. It is not broadcast. People come to see it. I don't send it out. It would be like me putting a sign in my living room and people coming over to see it. To equate it with other forms of communication like TV or radio is just wrong.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:40:04 PM PDT
by
Pete
To: CHARLITE
Because the reform movement has never been about freedom. It has always been about control." I heartily agree with this statement. They have already managed to muzzle the NRA around election time with their "campaign reform." If it were not for the internet I don't think that we would have won the last election. Long Live Freedom of Speech in the USA. Down with the RINOs and Dems.
To: NRA Patriot 1976
Agreed. The internet must be controlled by the politicians, for them to control us, rather than us controlling them.
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posted on
06/09/2005 3:48:06 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(Euthanasia is an atrocity.)
To: JesseJane
Thank you for the ping, JJ!
Ryan Sanger has a style which cracks me up; in how right it is:
In fact, the Internet resembles in many ways the campaign-finance reformers' long-sought utopia: full public financing of political campaigns.
YES! Exactly right. Unlike the Fannie Lou/Mae (?) Hammer "solution" and Mr. McCain's most recent "bubble" on FORCED STANDARDS UPON BROADCASTERS HAVING TO GIVE EQUAL TIME TO ANY AND EACH AND EVERY CANDIDATE.
When I saw his proposed "idea".. about that forcing.. I thought of CA's "Total Recall" Election -- what was it ... over 100 Candidates for governor? And that was just for governor. (wondering if Hollywood moguls (and studio fiefdoms *hated* that idea of McCain's...).
While the government is of course not financing anyone on the Internet, the outcome is the same: For an absolute pittance, every idea, every political philosophy, every candidate has access to a soap box.
Bingo!
Who's next in the shell game, newspapers forced to list the websites of each and every candidate? With links to "real" blogs as opposed to "those peasant" blogs? Over time, the MSM would resemble, nothing but listed links during an election, no?
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posted on
06/09/2005 4:05:33 PM PDT
by
Alia
To: CHARLITE
More BS from the RINOs McCain and Shays.
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