A Renewed Assault on the First Amendment

[MrrrrrNiceGuy]

A Renewed Assault on the First Amendment

by Joanie Fischer
January 15, 2007 01:00 PM EST

See if you can wrap your mind around the latest travesty that is seeking to pass itself off as Constitutional legislation. I’ve been having a lot of trouble absorbing the extent of the evil embodied in the Democrats’ most recent assault on my, and your, inalienable rights. My mind prefers to be in a state of denial about this one. Accepting it would be tantamount to an admission that I no longer wield any power at all in the political arena, and that the final nail has been driven into the coffin of government ‘of, by and for the people’.

As if the McCain-Feingold ‘Campaign Finance Reform’ bill weren’t a despicable enough example of the left’s determination to suppress the voice of the average citizen in the political process, the new democrat-controlled senate has introduced yet another assault on the First Amendment -- at least that portion of it that guarantees free speech to the average citizen, and those grassroots organizations that attempt to work in his behalf. As is generally the case, the big guys are exempt from the chains that are being prescribed for you and me.

The ‘grassroots lobbying’ section of newly introduced thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.1:">U.S. Senate Bill 1 (Section 220) contains burdensome reporting requirements, mandatory on a quarterly basis, for just the kinds of grassroots groups that have organized to look out for you and me. And there are civil fines of up to $100,000 if they fail to comply with the new federal dictates.

Story continues here. . .

 

[Voegelin]

Payback for Christians who attend service one or more times a week voting in a landslide for Republicans in the 2004 election. Clinton's pollster, Stanley Greenberg (who is married to Rosa DeLauro, representative from Connecticut) shocked the party when he crunched the 2004 numbers. Democrats have taken several steps to cut the lead Republicans enjoy among this demographic. This is one of them.

Let us not forget, this is nothing new. Lyndon Baines Johnson ended over 150 years of American tradition when he inserted an amendment into the tax code which punished clergy who spoke out on political issues. His party was also the party of poll taxes and literacy tests.

 

[Monica02]

A Renewed Assault on the First Amendment

by Joanie Fischer
January 15, 2007 01:00 PM EST

See if you can wrap your mind around the latest travesty that is seeking to pass itself off as Constitutional legislation. I’ve been having a lot of trouble absorbing the extent of the evil embodied in the Democrats’ most recent assault on my, and your, inalienable rights. My mind prefers to be in a state of denial about this one. Accepting it would be tantamount to an admission that I no longer wield any power at all in the political arena, and that the final nail has been driven into the coffin of government ‘of, by and for the people’.

As if the McCain-Feingold ‘Campaign Finance Reform’ bill weren’t a despicable enough example of the left’s determination to suppress the voice of the average citizen in the political process, the new democrat-controlled senate has introduced yet another assault on the First Amendment -- at least that portion of it that guarantees free speech to the average citizen, and those grassroots organizations that attempt to work in his behalf. As is generally the case, the big guys are exempt from the chains that are being prescribed for you and me.

The ‘grassroots lobbying’ section of newly introduced thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.1:">U.S. Senate Bill 1 (Section 220) contains burdensome reporting requirements, mandatory on a quarterly basis, for just the kinds of grassroots groups that have organized to look out for you and me. And there are civil fines of up to $100,000 if they fail to comply with the new federal dictates.

Story continues here. . .

I hope this does not become law. It is sooo bad.

 

[Voegelin]

During the American Revolution churches set up Committees of Correspondence which, along with sermons, served as the mass media of the day. Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are way, way out of the American tradition in trying to gag political speech by clergy.

The billionaire and multimillionaire donors to liberals--Soros, Bing, Sandler, Lewis, Eychaner, Schwartz--can comply with every law Pelosi enacts (in the case of Soros, his lawyers helped write the CFR law and spent millions pushing it). They have money and more legal talent than they know what to do with. The church down the street doesn't. We are headed toward rule by a very few, very rich, very out of the mainstream individuals if Pelosi is sucessful.

Also if you look at the top ten donors to Pelosi's party there aren't many who identify themselves as Christians there. Odd that the majority in Congress doesn't have one donor to liberal causes in the top five and maybe only one or two in the top ten who represent the faith that about 80% of Americans identify themselves as members of. While Democrats like to depict themselves as main street America, main street is not where they get their funding. Over $25 million of it in 2004 came from Soros' tax exempt, outside of the view of the SEC, fund in Curacao.

 

[imind]

lol.

got a more biased source? i need my daily dose of GOP drivel, and this simply doesn't cut it.

the american public are behind the issues the democrats have campaigned on, and we can expect great changes to be made in the coming months.

this is no assault on free speach, and neither was mcain-feingold. as has been firmly established, there are limitations to all rights, including free speach, for instance, being unable to yell 'fire' in a crowded theater, and dismissing your right to free speach as an employee. should an employee be able to give away trade secrets? its free speach, correct? no.

ensuring grass-roots org's are running their houses properly is not an assault on free speach. its an assault on corruption; something every american should be sick of by now.

 

[Beasley]

Thanks for posting. I'll be forwarding the link along to my email list.

 

[Monica02]

lol.

got a more biased source? i need my daily dose of GOP drivel, and this simply doesn't cut it.

the american public are behind the issues the democrats have campaigned on, and we can expect great changes to be made in the coming months.

this is no assault on free speach, and neither was mcain-feingold. as has been firmly established, there are limitations to all rights, including free speach, for instance, being unable to yell 'fire' in a crowded theater, and dismissing your right to free speach as an employee. should an employee be able to give away trade secrets? its free speach, correct? no.

ensuring grass-roots org's are running their houses properly is not an assault on free speach. its an assault on corruption; something every american should be sick of by now.

Comparing yelling "fire" in a theater to forcing anyone who infroms people on an issue and asking them to call their legislator on it to report thier actions to the government is just nutty.

 

[imind]

Comparing yelling "fire" in a theater to forcing anyone who infroms people on an issue and asking them to call their legislator on it to report thier actions to the government is just nutty.

don't mis-represent my words, please, as i have not compared anything. i have simply reminded other members that their are limits to all liberties.

btw, you've also mis-represented this bill; it does nothing of what you've stated. read it.

 

[Ringo84]

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