14 February 2005
FEC CONSIDERS MOVE AGAINST NET SPEECH!
1st Amendment Again Under Attack
Well, they're at it again! Yet another attempt inspired from the Republocratic establisment to squash the possibility that effective political speech might actually rock the boat of their incumbancy.
There is an accout of Thomas Jefferson being visited by the famed naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt noted a rabidly anti-Jefferson newspaper in the White House, that violently excoriated Jefferson as being virtually the devil incarnate. He commented to Jefferson that such attacks on the head of state would be unheard of in Europe, and asked Jefferson what he would do about. Jefferson noted that speech was protected by the 1st amandment, and gave the newspaper to von Humboldt as an example of the difference between the American republic and the old world order.
Jefferson must be turning over in his grave at stuff like McCain-Feingold, and this latest consideration by the FEC.
Well, they're at it again! Yet another attempt inspired from the Republocratic establisment to squash the possibility that effective political speech might actually rock the boat of their incumbancy.
There is an accout of Thomas Jefferson being visited by the famed naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt noted a rabidly anti-Jefferson newspaper in the White House, that violently excoriated Jefferson as being virtually the devil incarnate. He commented to Jefferson that such attacks on the head of state would be unheard of in Europe, and asked Jefferson what he would do about. Jefferson noted that speech was protected by the 1st amandment, and gave the newspaper to von Humboldt as an example of the difference between the American republic and the old world order.
Jefferson must be turning over in his grave at stuff like McCain-Feingold, and this latest consideration by the FEC.
