The Left loves to make a big stink about how the Bush Administration is silencing critics or creating a "chilling effect" on dissent or other such nonsense. In truth, the only real censorship in America is a creation of the liberal establishment under the guise of "campaign finance reform." It is not reform, but a blatant infringement of our First Amendment rights that only a liberal activist Supreme Court, which contorts itself into all sorts of linguistic pretzels in order to invent new rights and laws, could find acceptable.

The Federal Election Commission on Tuesday upheld a ruling that prohibits labor unions, corporations and advocacy groups from running advertisements that identify issues or candidates by name in the weeks leading up to an election.
The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act bans such ads but allows the FEC to allow exemptions. In a 3-3 ruling along party lines, the FEC commissioners voted to uphold enforcement of the rules, which prevent interest groups from airing campaign ads 60 days before a general election and 30 days before a primary election.

Think about it again, very carefully: in the United States of America, we have a law that "prohibits labor unions, corporations and advocacy groups from running advertisements that identify issues or candidates by name in the weeks leading up to an election." Isn't this the essence of what freedom of speech is about, to debate issues and criticize politicians? Flag burning is a protected form of expression, but arguing electoral issues is not? This is a genuinely nefarious law that the President, the Supreme Court and Congress - all 3 branches - should be ashamed of and must repeal.

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.gopbloggers.org/mt/majority.cgi/4116

---

Name:

Email Address:

URL:
Remember Me? YesNo

What is the Vice-President's last name?

(NOTE: You must get this correct, otherwise, your comment will be rejected.)

Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)