Posted on 05/18/2014 5:58:47 PM PDT by mandaladon
On May 15, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on June 3 on amending the U.S. Constitution to limit political speech. If ultimately adopted, it would mark the first time in American history that a constitutional amendment rescinded a freedom listed as among the fundamental rights of the American people.
The proposed amendment was introduced by Sen. Tom Udall (D-CO) as S.J.R. 19 and if ratified would become the Twenty-Eighth Amendment. It provides in part that “Congress shall have power to regulate the raising and spending of money and in-kind equivalents with respect [to] the Federal elections … [and] State elections.”
The proposed amendment includes a provision that “Nothing in this article shall be construed to grant Congress the power to abridge the freedom of the press.” So Breitbart News, The New York Times, and the mainstream media would be able to say whatever they want, but citizens and citizen groups such as the National Rifle Association could not.
The American people have amended the Constitution 27 times in the nation’s history. Ten of those happened in a single package when the states ratified the Bill of Rights, and another three occurred between 1865 and 1870 following the Civil War, forbidding slavery and racial discrimination.
Reid usually opposes amending the Constitution. In 2011, Reid voted against S.J.R. 10, a proposed constitutional amendment by Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee (R-UT) that would require the federal government to balance the federal budget. In 2004 Reid voted against S.J.R. 40 that would have protected marriage as the union of one man and one woman, which would not include same-sex partners or polygamous marriages of three or more people.
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The First Amendment is about political speech. It is not about protecting foul mouth rants, cursing, pornography, etc. like it has been portrayed.
Harry Reid wants an amendment that says people who disagree with him have to shut up.
How is that going to silence anyone on the left?
JFK is about as far from the Democrat party of today as the RINOs are from the Republican party back then.
http://www.amendmentgazette.com/2014/05/01/proposal-analysis-sen-t-udall-113th/
So the internet can be controlled.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
Well, if he is one of Colorados resident scumbags, his name is Mark.
Great question for Cory Gardner to ask the eco-nut Mark do you agree with your brother Tom to amend the Bill of Rights?
The Incumbent Protection Act.
Gardner needs to hang Reid and Obama around his corrupt marxist neck.
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