Posted by
Tzimisce on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:58:44 PM
The New Democratic Congress hasn't even taken over yet and they're
already planning at grabbing free speech from the American people.
After all my studies in American history, I've never seen such a
draconian attempt by a Congress to silence their critics. Not even the
Sedition Act of the 1790's went this far.
Like every Liberal act, it has a nice name. Unliked most liberal acts,
"Civil Rights" isn't included in the title. It's actually called
"Pelosi’s Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2006". (At least
she put her name on it so we all know who to blame.)
What does the law do? It requires organizations that ask citizens to
contact governing officials to register with the government and submit
quarterly reports. Said reports must include the names of group
members, who they urged citizens to contact, what the issues were that
were discussed, how much money was spent and so on. In edition, it
broadens the definition of a "lobbyist" to include anyone who contacts
their Congresspeople for any political reason.
Thus Leftists can walk around and tell everyone they're cracking down
on lobbying. But this would be like instituting police reform by
passing a law that tightens regulations on security personnel at the
mall.
It's more insulting when you hear lunatic leftists defend their grab on
free speech. They'll give you all kinds of grandiose reasons about
wanting to streamline taxes and the desire to monitor political
activity inside the US.
There is no change for big money corporations, million dollar lawyers
and other large cash groups that try to influence Congress. (Apparently
Congresspeople need lots of money if they want to look out for the
little guy.)
The framers of the Constitution wanted a government that people could,
not only get involved in but actively seek to change. Otherwise they
would never have put freedom of speech, press and petition in the first
amendment. Even anonymous messages are covered under the first
amendment. The author/speaker has free speech/press just like everyone
else. Indeed, some times the anonymous speaker has the greatest volume.
There is a good chance this legislation will pass. The law will punish
anyone that tries to redress the Government. It will reign in the
citizens that act out of line and refuse to tow the liberal line. Best
of all, it will take freedom away from the people cause there is
nothing more offensive to the leftist than a free people.