Resist the Attempt to Stiffle Your 1st Amendment Rights

The assualt on political speech starts in earnest now. The FEC will be coming after the blogosphere and with a vengence. This is all the more reason that McCain-Feingold needs to be repealed and/or modified. The FEC, which refused to make a ruling on the 527's last year, is also not of a mind to appeal U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's ruling that the internet needs to be regulated under McCain-Feingold.

This is a nothing less then an attempt to stiffle free speech. Free political speech was a founding tenant of this country. While one can argue the merits of whether or not donating significant amouts of money to a political campaign is a free speech issue, there can be no arguement that what occurs in the blogosphere is speech. There are those that are concerned that the Patriot Act would take away freedoms, they need to also be very concerned about this attempt to muzzle the bloggers.

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