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Liberal definition of free speech;

“Say or do anything you want in accordance with liberal positions with bravado and gusto while bravely having no fear of any consequential reactions or argument”

Convervative Definition of free speech;

“Say or do anything you want as long as it does not infringe on the rights or present personnal danger to others. Suffer the consequences and reactions to your excersie of free speech.”

A historical reminder for Mr. Bingaman :

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

A little history lesson for Mr. Bingaman. Some people are voting for Obama out of fear in the economy. Because a Republican is president, people say they will vote Democrat under the misguided notion that simple party change will make things better. People who vote on that basis are not voting to institute an Authoritarian dictatorship. It is pocketbook only. And Mr. Bingaman and his friends would be well advised to leave issues such as this "fairness doctrine" alone. Or else the blowback would dwarf the ACORN induced fraudulent lanslide that might occur on November 4th.