This is just a drill: Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for

Free Republic ^

[Jim Robinson]

Now hear this:

Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for 30 days. No non government approved electioneering messages may be transmitted over the internet for the 30 days immediately preceding a primary election.

That is all.

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The above exercise was just a drill. But if John McCain has his way with his proposed rules for regulating political free speech on the internet, this is how we will be forced to operate in the coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.

Carthago delenda est

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I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

If the thought of losing your right to express yourself online makes you mad, it is high time you let Senator John McCain know how you feel.

McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Washington, DC

241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg.
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2235
Fax: (202) 228-2862

Phoenix

5353 North 16th Street
Suite 105
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
Phone: (602) 952-2410
Fax: (602) 952-8702

Tempe

4703 S. Lakeshore Drive
Suite 1
Tempe, Arizona 85282
Phone: (480) 897-6289
Fax: (480) 897-8389

Tucson

407 W. Congress Street
Suite 103
Tucson, Arizona 85701
Phone: (520) 670-6334
Fax: (520) 670-6637


McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Other contact #'s

US capitol toll free -

1-877-762-8762

Senate Offices:

Cloak Room Democratic: (202) 224-4691
Cloak Room Republican: (202) 224-6191

(From post #732 by bd476)

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

If the thought of losing your right to express yourself online makes you mad, it is high time you let Senator John McCain know how you feel.

McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Washington, DC

241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg.
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2235
Fax: (202) 228-2862

Phoenix

5353 North 16th Street
Suite 105
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
Phone: (602) 952-2410
Fax: (602) 952-8702

Tempe

4703 S. Lakeshore Drive
Suite 1
Tempe, Arizona 85282
Phone: (480) 897-6289
Fax: (480) 897-8389

Tucson

407 W. Congress Street
Suite 103
Tucson, Arizona 85701
Phone: (520) 670-6334
Fax: (520) 670-6637


McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

Other contact #'s

US capitol toll free -

1-877-762-8762

Senate Offices:

Cloak Room Democratic: (202) 224-4691
Cloak Room Republican: (202) 224-6191

[Libloather]

Do the RATS underground have to shut down as well?

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Welcome to FR!

Things move pretty quickly here at times. No better place on the web for news and activism. :)

[processing please hold]

I'm just wondering how much more shit the average American Jane and John Doe is gonna take before the entire lid blows off this country.

[Paul C. Jesup]

It is, Mr. Robinson is not giving us the details for the shutdown, as far as we know, he is doing it voluteerily.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Is it, Mr. Robinson is not giving us the details for the shutdown, as far as we know, he is doing it voluteerily.

[toldyou]

Welcome!

[Lancey Howard]

Hopefully, people will utitlize their free time away from FR to make a few phone calls. In my opinion, there's nothing like phone calls. Lots of them.

[gidget7]

I have no idea what they have in AZ, I am unlucky enough to have Kerry and Kennedy. No recall here. I do know that much. And our house member Olver, is a commy, in fact is listed on the DSA member list.

Calling any of them gets you absolutely no where, except to be told "if you don't like it move."

I can't be much help on that score, but if there is anything I can do I will.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Please say you are joking. I will suffer withdrawls...it will be like detox in my home. (Better go get some chewing gum and munchies.) Is DUh going to be shut down as well?

Time for McCain to get about 50000 phone calls, faxes, and e-mails of "gratitude" from FReepers. Hey McCain, thanks for protecting our first amendment rights!

You may want to post the yahoo info.

[NonValueAdded]

From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602097/posts

Bloggers – The Second Front

The House, meanwhile, is considering the Online Freedom of Speech Act proposed by Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, The "blogger protection bill," as it is known in some circles, simply codifies the current status of Internet bloggers. Senators Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Harry Reid, D-Nev., are co-sponsoring a similar bill in the Senate.

Blogger-backers believe the bills are necessary because the Federal Election Commission is considering whether to apply the rules of McCain-Feingold to Internet communications. In fact, FEC Chairman Michael Toner delayed a long-awaited decision on the matter until the end of March to allow the House to consider Hensarling's bill.

Given Toner's public support for the measure, bloggers believe the delay was a warning. "It couldn't be more clear," wrote Michael Krempasky, one of the founders of Red State, a popular conservative blog. "Pass [this bill] or face regulations on the Internet, period."

Instead, the House passed on the opportunity to vote on the bill. It was held up in committee. At present, it does not appear that it will pass before the FEC decision. A staffer in Hensarling's office told NewsMax they anticipate floor debate sometime during the week of March 28, but it's still unclear whether it will pass at that point.

I believe our marching orders can be derived from that. Flood Congress now to get that bill out of committee. Let GWB know that an EO delaying any FEC rule making decisions prior to Congress acting is necessary. Tell him we don't want to win freedom in Iraq while we're losing it at home.

[Pontiac]

Spread the word.

Everybody get out their Check Books and send money to FreeDominion so they can buy more server space.

We all meet there and we can be FreeRepublic in exile.

[bd476]

This is not a drill. Ping.

[processing please hold]

P.S. Especially in schools!!

All levels of education have been usurped.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

McCain isn't funny. He's never been funny. He has always struck me as mentally unbalanced. He belongs in an asylum, or a cage. Maybe the NK Chicom's had it right.

[Nowhere Man]

Well, I consider myself a "Michael Savage independent conservative," I admit outside of the war on terror, there are times I wonder about President Bush to if he is looking out for our best interests on economic and border policies. But that's for later. McCain is much worse. I hope this is a joke, man.

[pcottraux]

NO MORE FR!!!???

Wow...I guess now I'll have to get a job, move out of my parents' basement, maybe find a girlfriend...

NO!!! WE'VE GOT TO FIGHT THIS!!!!!!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[del4hope]

I'm on it. Jeff Sessions, first thing tomorrow morning. I am at least grateful to have a Senator with a sense of reason.

[Danae]

SOMEONE PLEASE POST MCCAIN'S OFFICE NUMBERS, ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE SENATE.

TIME FOR THE BIGGEST FREEP EVER!

TIME TO SHUT DOWN THE SENATE PHONE SYSTEM.

THIS IS BS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER

THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS KING AND IT IS TIME FOR THE REAL POWER TO ASSERT ITSELF. US!

FREEP MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS! LET US DEFEND JIM AND FR! DIAL TILL OUR FINGERS BLEED, THIS WILL NOT STAND!

[joesnuffy]

The question is as usual who will be targeted for select
enforcement...

Given who was behind CFR and who signed it into law without
a struggle....

The dems and so called conservatives are all for this....

Which means ONLY certain conservative groups will be targeted for enforcement...

imo