FEC continues push to regulate blogs, choke free speech

I’ve mentioned this before, but since government spreads like cancer, I have to mention it again and again till either I’m in jail or the FEC has gone to hell where it belongs.

Theron Parlin over at Thought Mechanics warns that the FEC is still trying to regulate “political” blogs, which means it wants regulatory control over anyone with an opinion.

Be warned, if you ever blog about anything remotely involving politics, you’re about to become a new class of criminal unless you’re willing to be intimidated, censored, and controlled by the threat of force.

This is nothing more than an attempt to silence Americans from expressing their feelings about politicians. Politicians, as a class, are dirty, lying, narcissistic vultures that feed off the corpses of productive members of society through economic slavery. McCain-Feingold is garbage, and this proposal is an attempt at more garbage.

Where the hell did the land of the free go? The FEC and anyone involved in trying to censor blogs can kiss my ass.

To be fair, many bloggers are claiming the FEC has little to no interest in regulating blogs. I don’t believe them, because I know bureaucrats too well – they want to regulate everything. If you ask a bureaucrat to make up some new rules, they salivate in exactly the same way as an 18-year-old male will salivate if you parade a buxom nude female in front of him.

Not many people realize that until World War II, Americans paid their income tax by writing a check at the end of the year. Back then, the max rate was about 2%. The withholding part of it got started to help out the war effort and was supposed to be temporary. Here in 2005, my income tax is about 25% to the fed, best I can figure. Government can’t be trusted much, so if anyone in government is even dreaming about censoring bloggers, we should be concerned.

Read the proposed rules in their entirety (requires .pdf reader). Warning: 13 pages of mindless bureaudrivel designed to bore you to death so you won’t care enough to bother paying attention.

Update: Please read the story of Iranian blogger Mojtaba Samienejad. How long do you think it will take before American citizens are in prison for blogging if the FEC has its way? It always starts with a few restrictions that only a few people really care about – no political blogging without such and such happening within 90 days of an election can quickly turn into your blog must be approved by the Department of Correct Thinking to ensure that you are projecting proper thoughts that do not offend anyone else.

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