[eric_b]

Unbelievable. Surreal. I hope it's a sensationalist piece, but they did have many different citations in it. I'd like to see them ever try to enforce these proposals.

When I'm out on the street things seem about the same as they've always been around these parts. More crowded and little meaner perhaps, but that's about it. There does seem to be a strange undercurrent though.

[TITAN]

When they start seriously hitting people in their homes, as this certainly will, I think will be when americans finally fight back. It's going to take a little more though, say they start arresting people for watching Democracy Now on LinkTV or even The Countdown on MSNBC, that's when people will take action.

You can take away an americans freedom of everything, but don't take away their TV or internet interests...

If China could knock out the satellite that broadcasts American Idol and blame it on the us govt., that would surely get the rebellion in full swing...


...

[dukey]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')irst they came for the Communists but i was not a Communist so i did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but i was not one of them so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

[cynicalheretic]

Correct me if I am wrong, the major problem isn't from this law inasmuch as potential new laws that may spring from this one that would be used to further restrict. According to this I have to make at least 25,000 a quarter from my website (never going to happen)

[Micki]

According to the article I linked it states the following;
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')The bill would require reporting of 'paid efforts to stimulate
grassroots lobbying,' but defines 'paid' merely as communications to 500 or
more members of the public, with no other qualifiers.

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ElijahJones', ' ')

I think that most of our public servants and elected officials are good and professional and are trying to work within a system that has allowed for a lot of progress.

[NEOPO]

Describe your apathy in 10,000 words or less... go!

EJ is so fundy it aint fundy
I wonder if he would allow this kind of dissent:

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

Here in America we a descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels- men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight Eisenhower

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.
Voltaire

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

EJ - you would probably make it illegal to take god's name in vain or some such nonsense. Your writing makes my eyes glaze over and my brain go numb.
What Gego ever saw in you...I do not

[shakespear1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Anyone knows what the status is of the proposition that any residents leaving the US would have to register (or apply) first? I think there was a decision supposed to be made during Jan. ')

This is what you had to do in the Communist days in Poland and in other Soviet States !!!

This does NOT sound funny and who the hell has this idea?

[dukey]

Anti-First Amendment S.1 Passes Congress

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t was bad enough George Bush Senior found it necessary to blame bloggers for creating what he deems an “adversarial and ugly climate” (never mind his particular bit of ugliness in Iraq more than a decade ago, eventually resulting in the murder of more than a million people), last month we had the Manchurian candidate, John McCain, introducing legislation “that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards, effectively nixing the open exchange of ideas on the Internet, providing a lethal injection for unrestrained opinion, and acting as the latest attack tool to chill freedom of speech on the world wide web,” as Paul Joseph Watson writes for Prison Planet.

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dukey', '[')b]Anti-First Amendment S.1 Passes Congress

[dukey]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n a victory for grassroots activists across the country, Republicans stood united Thursday night and helped strike Section 220 from the Senate Ethics Bill. This section would have put undue regulations on the activities of grassroots organizations. Almost all Democrats voted to keep Section 220 in the bill.

By a 55 to 43 vote, the Bennett Amendment which would strike Section 220 from the Senate Ethics Bill (S. 1) passed with unanimous support from Republicans. Seven Democrats supported the amendment while all other Democrats voted against it.

[Novus]

I just think Alex Jones is afraid he is going to jail. I don't see the government rounding up Peak Oilers any time soon.

[mmasters]

Do a google news search on "grassroots"

They pulled the grassroots legislation out of the bill at the last minute.

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=400

[firestarter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dukey', ' ')Almost all Democrats voted to keep Section 220 in the bill.

[eric_b]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ElijahJones', '
')
(Responding to 'NEOPO')

Maybe he saw someone he thought would be an easy convert to the ridiculous and slanderous theories about the government that you seem to relish so highly. As for being a fundy, I am certainly not that,
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