Posted on 05/06/2012 5:08:17 PM PDT by Innovative
...Now comes Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) with a comparable contribution to another debate, the one concerning government regulation of political speech. Joined by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 26 other Democrats and one Republican, he proposes a constitutional amendment to radically contract First Amendment protections. His purpose is to vastly expand government's power - i.e., the power of incumbent legislators - to write laws regulating, rationing or even proscribing speech in elections that determine the composition of the legislature and the rest of the government. McGovern's proposal vindicates those who say that most campaign-finance "reforms" are incompatible with the First Amendment.
Newspapers, magazines, broadcasting entities, online journalism operations - and most religious institutions - are corporate entities. McGovern's amendment would strip them of all constitutional rights. By doing so, the amendment would empower the government to do much more than proscribe speech.
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Add to that the distinct fear of a left loaded SCOTUS and you have a recipe for disaster.
Regulating and rationing speech and even mandating certain things. Onderful
I guess Romney will have to find a way to top them, so as to attract those moderates and stuff.
Dear George,
You’ve been more than willing to throw the 2nd Amendment under the bus your entire miserable life. Now they’re coming after the right you cherish most.
I’m tempted to say “’Ef you, you bow tie wearing pansy”, but better late than never I guess.
Any admenment to the Constitution has to pass 3/4 of the states before it can be adopted! 3/4 of the States won’t let it thru!
And the idiots in Congress needed to be voted clear out of the country! Deport ‘em!
Yeah - not good. There are few recourses after such a national direction is undertaken; watering the tree of liberty is a grave endeavor. Pray it does not come to this.
What I don't understand is where these idiots think they are going with this grandstanding. It isn't going to happen. It simply isn't.
Funny how the left loves “organizing” except when it’s people getting together to form a corporation. Then they want people to be as separate and atomized as possible, with no ability to multiply their power by acting collectively.
As with all words used by the left, it only means whatever they want it to mean when it advances their "cause".
If a word actually meant something, why then they would be constrained by reality in a way they do not accept.
The left is built on pillars of false assumptions about reality and lies that derive from them.
Jim McGovern, a Mass. Marxist-Democrat, is one of those wackos like Jim McDermott, Kucinich, Murphy, etc. who infest the halls of Congress like a mental disease.
However, he is a bellwether of the Democrats desire to emasculate the Constitution. Watch him, he is dangerou.
Remember, they are inalienable rights.
It’s the fact that mainstream Democrats support such a thing that I find so scary.
Pelossi et al. really are wanna-be Fascists.
“The amendment is explicitly designed to deny such rights to natural persons who.....come together in corporate entities to speak in concert.”
Does that apply to the New York Times and the Washington Post?
Or a Tea Party. You know -- those hate groups.
Hate speech is never protected by the BoR, you know. That's why they invented it, and then assiduously affixed that label to everything you and I say.
How soon can that "one Republican" be removed in disgrace?
Without the Second Amendment, the First Amendment is unenforceable.
Without the Second Amendment, the First Amendment is unenforceable.
God help America, and remove evil intended for America by faithless leaders in positions of power.
Did you notice the election in France and Greece went to those promising less austerity. !!!
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