Rules for Internet

From the Washington Times Inside Politics (03/25/05)

Rules for Internet

The Federal Election Commission yesterday took its first step in extending campaign-finance controls to political activity on the Internet, asking for public input on limited regulations for the freewheeling medium.

Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, who took the lead on drafting proposals with Vice Chairman Michael Toner, described the steps as "restrained." The commission emphasized a hands-off approach to bloggers, or authors of Web logs, among the loudest and unruliest voices online.

"We are not the speech police," said Mrs. Weintraub, a Democrat. "The FEC does not tell private citizens what they can or cannot say, on the Internet, or elsewhere."

The draft guidelines suggest applying limits that exist in other media to certain political advertising on the Web and political spam e-mail.

The six-member commission approved a work in progress and invited public comment for 60 days before a June hearing. Republican David Mason was the sole dissenter, the Associated Press reports.

The commission said it was exploring Internet regulation reluctantly "ordered to do so by a court" and with the lightest touch possible, exempting everything except certain kinds of paid political advertising.

Indeed, Mrs. Weintraub, you are "the speech police", along with your masters in the parties who have done everything they can to stifle and control speech and discussion of their crimes that are committed in the main Swamp and the smaller swamps across this land.

Here at your compound, you and your minions, actively work to deny your sworn oaths and abandon the fealty owed to your employers.

You say you call for public comment, but in viewing the main page of your fiefdom, checked with three different browsers, not one notice on your main page is available, it is nestled here, which you admit is submitted late and states:

DEFINITIONS OF "PUBLIC COMMUNICATION" AND "GENERIC CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY," AND DISCLAIMERS

If this is not the definition of "the speech police" madam, then I do not know what is, but then again, I am just one of the unwashed and uneducated masses that does not yearn, or will submit, to your control.

Accept this as the public comment from one you wish "hear" from, in written form:

I will say what I want about any god-damned, bottom-feeding, scum-sucking, piece of shit who runs for office that I care to and I will post my comments here and provide the links to their campaigns as well.

Simply put- Fuck you and the horses you rode in on!

--WP