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Shays-Meehan Gives Unions a Free Ride - WSJ. ~ LINDA CHAVEZ
The Wall Street Journal. editorial page ^ | March 6, 2002 | LINDA CHAVEZ

Posted on 03/06/2002 3:50:49 AM PST by Elle Bee

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Campaign-finance reform is suppose to limit abuse, not protect it.

The campaign-finance reform bill passed in the House has been called many things, including the "Incumbent Protection Act." But the Shays-Meehan legislation could also be called the "Union Abuse Protection Act" for its failure to cure ongoing abuses by union leadership. Incredibly -- and contrary to the spirit of a 1988 Supreme Court ruling -- the bill actually creates more protections for unions that use workers' dues for political activity. So much for the war on "soft money."


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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: silenceamerica; votefraud
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1 posted on 03/06/2002 3:50:49 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: VOTE FRAUD
Labor v. Ashcroft
The thought of a vigorous attorney general scares union bosses ~ WSJ.

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Blood in the Water -The Democrats got Chavez without cashing in a single chit ~ WSJ.

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2 posted on 03/06/2002 4:02:50 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee
Well, of course. That has been the demoncrap position from the beginning. McClain goes along with this obvious ploy of the demoncraps. There needs to be a level playing field. Bush needs to veto this bill because it is unconstitutional and only aids the crap party.
3 posted on 03/06/2002 4:13:14 AM PST by set the record straight
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To: Elle Bee
There is only one form of campaign finance reform that can work or that will be meaningful. The United States is not a viable nation unless we pass a Constitutional Amendment for TERM LIMITS.

Thanks to the dumb SOB (son of a Bush) who drove a steel stake through the heart of the world economy, we can now look forward to the next depression with a Democratic clean sweep in 2004. There will be no presidential election in 2016 because the United States will have ceased to exist. There are two real tragedies in this scenario. The first is that it will not be a bad thing. And the second is that the man who saved the world from nuclear extinction and set the stage to save the Constitutional Republic given us by the Founders became its assasin. He made two bad decisions. He chose a SOB (son of a Bush) for his running mate and then he kept him for his second term. The first dumb SOB gave eight years of America's worst President and the second SOB betrayed any pretense of doing the right thing in order to avoid the wrath of the media and the unions. He abandoned conservative principles in favor of prostitution and pandering for votes.

I have ceased being a Republican. I once that the way to get our freedom back was to defeat the Democratic Party. And the only party with any hope of defeating Democrats was the Republican Party. The Republican politicians fooled us all. They were more interested in being re-elected than in changing America for the better. When you convert from a Republic to a Democracy, you get whores in control. You always get what you pay for. Ben Franklin was right and we didn't keep it. Now we are left with secession as our only recourse to get our freedom back. The sooner the United States collapses the better off we all be. Hopefully there will be a group of competitive republics that arise from the disintegration that is going to occur. Competition in freedom will be the way for the regional nation states to attract the productive minds and the capital they will bring and create. When the United States is dead, the world will be a better place. Years ago, I read the Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson. I thought he was nuts when he predicted the demise of the United States. Life is a game of inches and seconds. The Founders gave us the most beautiful government ever devised by the mind of man. Like all things devised by man, it was still flawed. The most glaring flaws were slavery and a lack of term limits. We ended one form of slavery in this country only to have the Democrats replace it with another. This combined with a lack of term limits proved fatal. I hope we have learned enough to profit from the experience. Two steps forward and one step back leaves a lot of room for progress.

I hope Texas is the first to secede, but it will probably be part of Kalifornia or New York. It really won't matter. The first secession will trigger a stampede. And then the scramble and choices will multiply. My best guess is that we will see at least 6-10 nations emerge. Perhaps more. The competition for productive citizens and citizens with capital will be immense. It will not take long for the socialist states to begin starving. Their populations will swell with parasites who demand more and more. As they inflate their currencies and beginning drowning in their own mess, they will become increasingly militant. But this will be short-lived. Today's convential weapons are putting war beyond the vale of being thinkable. It will take only one example. The surviving socialists states will become emulators and the next renaissance will have begun. I thought it would be the Reagan Renaissance, but it will be the renaissance of the Sovereign Individual. Davidson was right.

4 posted on 03/06/2002 5:11:47 AM PST by B. A. Conservative
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To: B. A. Conservative
I hope Texas is the first to secede, but it will probably be part of Kalifornia or New York. It really won't matter. The first secession will trigger a stampede. And then the scramble and choices will multiply. My best guess is that we will see at least 6-10 nations emerge. Perhaps more. The competition for productive citizens and citizens with capital will be immense. It will not take long for the socialist states to begin starving. Their populations will swell with parasites who demand more and more. As they inflate their currencies and beginning drowning in their own mess, they will become increasingly militant. But this will be short-lived. Today's convential weapons are putting war beyond the vale of being thinkable. It will take only one example. The surviving socialists states will become emulators and the next renaissance will have begun. I thought it would be the Reagan Renaissance, but it will be the renaissance of the Sovereign Individual. Davidson was right.
5 posted on 03/06/2002 5:14:40 AM PST by B. A. Conservative
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To: Elle Bee
Despite this Supreme Court decision, unions have continued to abuse union workers' rights because there has been no federal agency enforcing that prohibition.

LOL! This is supposed to be the job of the NLRB. The only thing they try to do is to gut Beck.

6 posted on 03/06/2002 9:09:07 AM PST by flim-flam
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To: flim-flam
"All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal than others......" Animal Farm - George Orwell
7 posted on 03/07/2002 3:32:04 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee;Silence, America!
Silence, America!:

Silence, America!: for Silence, America!. 

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A further Mini-Editorial!

Folks, these clowns, corrupters, and frauds in Congress are trying to silence YOU!

Wake up, doggone it!

Rush and Hannity and all the hosts in the world can inveigh against this garbage day and night, but unless you actually do something about it, it will not matter one tiny iota!

Now is the time! If not now, when? When they arrest your wife or kids for "improper speech?"

Get off your rear ends and send some emails and faxes. Write letters, especially letters to editors.

Call talk shows- the local ones are easy to get on and reach a lot more people than you may realize.

This- right here, this "issue"- is where the rubber meets the road...

There are over 70,000 members here, and I know each of you knows at least two or three more people you can tell about this-- so do it! Now!

And tell them to tell 2 more people, and tell them to "pass this on to 2 more..."

The right to speak freely is as fundamental to a free society as the right to defend yourself against unprovoked attack. This is a frontal assault on your liberty and the freedom of your children and spouse.

It's time to move out, folks- march, or die....


Here's a Note to Activists:

Want to do something? Go here:

Ignorance Making You Ill? Cure It!

for links, tools, & instructions about how to contact a pile of different people, and how to send a link to this story right here ( or anywhere else ) to a "mass email" using Outlook Express.


I say again, people- it's time to speak up- or be forever silenced!


A further aid for activists:

Sorry for the difficulties some of you experienced yesterday in reaching the
> web site to send out the 100 faxes to all 100 U.S. Senators through Sixty
> Second Activist.  The URL was so long it sometimes jumped to a second line
> in the transmission, thus breaking the link.  Here's a shorter link that
> should take you to where you need to go:
>
> https://secure.chargedcontribution.com/ATA_60s_Shays-Meehan2/gopnv.asp
> ( this link, while not free, allows you to send faxes to 100 senators for $21.... )


I say one last time- speak up now, or be forever silenced!



8 posted on 03/07/2002 3:35:18 AM PST by backhoe
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