Yet more liberal fascism on the march:
…The DISCLOSE Act’s purpose, according to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Chris Van Hollen and other “reformers,” is simply to require disclosure of corporate and union political speech after the Supreme Court’s January decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission held that the government could not ban political expenditures by companies, nonprofit groups, and labor unions.
The bill, however, would radically redefine how the FEC regulates political commentary. A section of the DISCLOSE Act would exempt traditional media outlets from coordination regulations, but the exemption does not include bloggers, only “a communication appearing in a news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication…”
They really want us to go away – and, no, they don’t mean all the blogosphere. You know darn well that Daily Kos and Democrat Underground will not feel the regulatory heat. No conservative would ever complain about a liberal blogger, but liberals would launch endless complaints. We on the right would be harassed out of existence.
Which is the whole point of DISCLOSE and, indeed, of campaign finance laws in general. Power elites – including some allegedly on the right – just can’t stand it when someone asks an uncomfortable question. We’re supposed to be watching American Idol, not pestering our political leaders. The powerful want to get on with the vital work of government (enriching themselves and cronies) and don’t want to bother with the people.
And so campaign finance law after campaign finance law – all ostensibly designed to cut the power of “the rich” in politics, but after decades of new laws, does anyone want to argue that “the rich” are less influential than before? The real way to beat the power of the vested interests is to allow the people to do whatever they please – 300 million Americans, well informed, will be more than a match for any particular wire puller.
One of the things we’ll have to do, once back in power, is to re-codify American law – go through it from page one to page last and simply get rid of all the laws built up over a century to hamstring the people. A long, difficult task, but the future of American liberty depends on it.
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