Author Topic: Feinstein’s Bill to Kill Free Speech of Independent Journalists ‘Has Votes’  (Read 1648 times)

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This is not good.  Congress now wants to define who a journalist is.  Looks like some stomping on the 1A.

http://theantimedia.org/feinsteins-bill-to-kill-free-speech-of-independent-journalists-has-votes-to-pass-senate/
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I want to define what constitutes a member of congress. I don't think that Feinstein meets any criteria.

It's very close to time to feed the hogs.

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This is definitely not good, albeit unsurprising.  We're expected to recognize the need for a permit to exercise the second, why would it be any different for the first?  These are considered reasonable necessities in our modern world. 

Allowing just anybody to say just anything is dangerous.  What if something a person said had a negative impact on how somebody else feels?  What about that somebody else's right to not have negative feelings?  Hmm?  Doesn't anybody think of other people anymore?  /sarcasm

Just writing the above makes me:   [barf]  I want to rinse out my brainpan . . . .
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It's just a reasonable restriction.

The evil free speech lobby needs to compromise.
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This is not good.  Congress now wants to define who a journalist is.  Looks like some stomping on the 1A.

http://theantimedia.org/feinsteins-bill-to-kill-free-speech-of-independent-journalists-has-votes-to-pass-senate/

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Obviously pigs such as Fienstein are scared to death of the truth. Something they don't have to worry about from the Propaganda Corps that marches in lockstep with them. Independent journalists and bloggers do not.
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She needs to go.

Extra-judicialy if thats what it takes.
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Are such provocations deliberate i wonder.  I submit the consequences will be ugly.
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