FEC May Regulate Web Political Activity

Yahoo News ^ | 10/13/04 | SHARON THEIMER, AP

[Tax Government]

The "laws" under which web political activity would be regulated are PLAINLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL and an attempt to MUZZLE FREE SPEECH.

[Watery Tart]

How do they stop foreign advertisers who wish to influence our election?

Like Terayza Heinz?

Like George $oros?

[Watery Tart]

Former Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean made the most pronounced splash online when he stuned his rivals....

And your point is....that he got the nomination?

And Internet message boards, known as blogs....

At least get this part right! You got your bloggers, and you got your message boarders! Two entirely different things!

Both, however, have free speech!

[joesnuffy]

"I don't think anybody here wants to impede the free flow of information over the Internet," Weintraub said. "The question then is, where do you draw the line?"

Well if you cant figure out the difference between "Free Speech" and terrorism, violence, and obscentity...you need to look for a real job

imo

[Prospero]

"I don't think anybody here wants to impede the free flow of information over the Internet," Weintraub said. "The question then is, where do you draw the line?"

You don't. Stay out of it government. We the people have the right to speak.>

Once, a Bright-Shinning Line separating Liberals from Conservatives, blurred when the President signed McCain-Feingold.

This statement above should end all discussion... but there is that little matter of free speech.

If Porn is protected, then I think my little blogs and all the myriad voices crying in the wilderness are protected too.

If not by government, then by the Creator from those rights flow.

100 and more page-long opinions of the court cannot change "Congress shall make no law..."

[joesnuffy]

Pres Bush needed to purge the FCC and every other agency of it's angry beaver dem holdover bureaucrats damming up the stream of efficient good govt.

All of our govt. needs to be purged of it's Clinton holdovers the way the Clinton's purged Washington of what they considered Bush holdovers...of course that went so far as firing the little people in food service who had been there for 40+ yrs...some since Kennedy and Johnson

But Pres Bush is not that kind of guy...it isn't in him to put people out of work...he cares about them and their families even though they are not loyal supporters..he will not rule by fear like Bill and Hillary did and how Kerry would (given the opportunity)...

It amazes me how many Americans cannot see the jewel of a president we have compared to what is lurking in the wings trying to get into the house in order to spoil it...

There is an old saying ..you don't know what you have til it's gone....In Pres Bush's case I hope we have to find that out for at least four more years...

The democrats have become the party of national suicide

imo

[Beckwith]

In their dreams.

[Notwithstanding]

I think this Wertheimer guy is the husband of the archliberal whiny NPR "journalist" (Linda Wetheimer) who covers the US Supreme Court as if ultra-liberal left-wing jurisprudence was the only civilized and legitimate point of view.

Any know for sure?

Amazing how she covers the "news" in a partisan fashion without regulation while he lobbies to make sure there is no competition from any other forms of media.

[Notwithstanding]

Fred and Linda Cozby Wertheimer have been married for 32 years. Linda, 58, who grew up in Carlsbad, N.M., has been with public radio since 1971 and is a host of All Things Considered. Fred, 62, grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and is the head of Democracy 21, a public interest organization he founded in 1997. Prior to that he was the head of Common Cause, another public interest group, for 14 years.

She is also the chief SCOTUS "reporter" for NPR.

[DJ Frisat]

Hands off the internet, dickweeds.

[Thane_Banquo]

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[reformedliberal]

They like her. She is someone they can relate to. Laura is *too* nice, sweet, loyal, cogent, normal. That makes them feel inferior. They would love THK as their (shudder) First Lady.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Titan Magroyne]

"I don't think anybody here wants to impede the free flow of information over the Internet," Weintraub said. "The question then is, where do you draw the line?"

You don't. Repeal McCain-Feingold. Even heard of the First Amendment, dipstick?

[goldstategop]

CFR is criminally stupid as well as unconstitutional. To close down Free Republic, the Feds better be prepared to send millions to jail.

[Hardastarboard]

My first reaction to this was anger. Then I realized that if they did as good a job with the Internet, which is still essentially uncontrollable, it will be years before they even figure out how to get to the net, much less regulate it.

"What? I have to have a computer to get to this Internet thing? What's a computer?"

[new cruelty]

Well it's about freaking time someone from the government stepped up and muzzled the masses. Things were starting to get out of hand.

< I'm New Cruelty and I approved this sarcasm. >

[CThomasFan]

They would define anything that is not pro-state to be hate speech, trace it by IP address and prosecute the sender.
Unfortunately this is just another piece of the puzzle leading to Christians being labeled as the real "terrorists"...and arresting them for posting their beliefs on the web, printed matter or the networks, and banning them from travel by putting them on "watch lists", and ultimately not letting them buy or sell in order to stop the flow of finances to the "terrorists"...all in the name of protecting the State.
I'm not against the patriot act....we really have no choice at this point because of the cancer of terrorism...but its definitely laying the groundwork for the antichrist.

I know this was a little off topic...but not much. Ending free speech for some ends free speech for all...and if that part of the constitution is bendable, then we no longer have a bill of rights.

[Arrowhead1952]

Get a load of this garbage ping.