March 07, 2005

FEC and Blogs

If the FEC decides to regulate blogs under McCain-Feingold, I have only two words for you: Civil Disobedience

That's all I have to say about that.

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I will say what i want when i want on my blog.

Posted by: cube at March 11, 2005 10:54 AM

If anybody --public entity or private individual-- "imputes" that a commercial endorsement, political comment, book review or some such, has "contributed" x-dollars to the recipient or subject, then I will be entitled on that basis to claim compensation from the parties affected by my endorsement, comment, review, etc. And if no compensation is forthcoming (for obvious reason: The market value of my unsolicited input to them is exactly zero), I will be entitled BY LAW to claim exactly that "imputed" compensation or sue for "theft of services".

If I cannot sue for Theft of Services, then no "service" has been rendered, and the "imputed value" of my "contribution" becomes moot. If, on the other hand, my "services" claim (by twisted logic akin to the recent Commerce Clause ruling on growing marijuana for private therapeutic use) is validated, every incorporated entity in this country will go bankrupt overnight.

Why?-- because all anyone will have to do to make a buck is disseminate an unsolicited public endorsement, comment, review (whatever); regardless of quality or utility, claim compensation as entitled by some doofus bureaucrat's "imputed value"; and obtain requisite payment under pain of corporate fines, class-action suits, etc. brought under such obviously applicable statutes as the Reconstruction Amendments defining uncompensated labor as akin to slavery.

Of course, when it comes to First Amendment rights, the rot in our court system is extremely far-advanced: Free Speech has become a mere privilege, granted or rescinded at whim of self-aggrandizing Congressional incumbents. But even so, it will be hard for even our dimmest judicial bulbs to maintain that, a) A citizen's private speech has a definable commercial value aside from whomever it addresses; and, b) That nonetheless, this "imputed value" as defined has no corresponding dollar amount, so that whatever "imputation" the relevent Statute ascribes is in fact worthless, because in payment terms the "contribution's" price is zero.

Posted by: John Blake at July 9, 2005 02:04 PM

All this does its delay the invetiable, and that is something that should of already happened.
Its now time to arm oneselves and defend your rights.
That judge in Washington should be ignored.
If he orders arrests, then, the second American revolution/Civil War starts when the warrants are servered and the servers are shot.
Molon Labe.

Posted by: Terry at July 9, 2005 04:04 PM