McCain-Feingold is proving to have opened a Pandora's Box of tyrannical policies.
Commissioners of the FEC are openly talking about REGULATING - (read abridging) - blogs which make some forms of political commentary during the last 60 days of federal elections - (THE MOST IMPORTANT time TO BLOG on elections).
This is a HORRIFYING development.
Here's a solution:
Let's start a movement to AMEND THE CONSTITUTION with an NEW AMENDMENT which would protect NOT ONLY BLOGGERS, but protect ALL SPEECH - very very clearly. I'd word it something like this:
"The government shall make NO laws 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."
Oh. Sorry. You're right: THAT'S THE FIRST AMENDMENT (sans the establishment clause)!
I guess we just need a SCOTUS that will ENFORCE THE CONSTITUTION! Sheesh! Because they upheld McCain-Feingold, this SCOTUS has given, in effect, more 1st Amendment protections to pornographers than to citizens during elections!
Patterico has suggested what we bloggers ought to be doing about the very threat to free speech which McCain-Feingold hath wrought: NOTHING. Go there; read it; you'll agree.
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