The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59735 Message #955326
Posted By: GUEST
19-May-03 - 07:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Smoke and Mirrors
Subject: RE: BS: Smoke and Mirrors
You can't air views on an incumbent's voting record 60 days before an election now. From now on in the US, if you belong to any group which has given money to political candidates, you can be jailed for bringing up a voting record in print or on the public airwaves. The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill. 'The Incumbent Protection Act'. These monsters have seized control and they aren't letting go. Mention that they voted for the Patriot Act and go to jail. What are you going to do with a system like that? Reform it? Nope. Trash it. It is corrupt to the core. And this isn't airy theory about some old 'principles' contained in some old document. This is criminal. Anti-constitutional and anti-freedom. Oh, but they've allowed the Leno/Letterman loophole. Those two can continue to make jokes before elections, just so you don't know anything is wrong. If someone mentions the McCain-Feingold restriction, people will think it's BS because Jay Leno made jokes about Bush the night before.