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August 10th, 2006 · 1 Comment

When Congress comes back into session, roughly 60 days before the November midterms, it will essentially be immune from criticism. That’s because Congress — acting, of course, only in the interest of “clean” politics — passed a ban on ads that mention federal candidates’ names in the window 60 days before the general election, as part of McCain-Feingold in 2002.

So, say the Senate takes up an immigration bill granting full amnesty to all illegal immigrants this fall — it will be almost impossible for grassroots groups to advertise against it, because they won’t be able to run ads during this period naming the people who are sponsoring or voting on the bills. Criticizing them by name during this window is against the law. You can’t ask voters to “call Congressman [So-and-So].”

It’s almost unbelievable, but it’s the system we live under thanks to Sen. John McCain.

From The Other Side:

If a conservative organization wants to run a political ad criticizing any Congressman up for re-election during that 60-day window, I’ll let them run one on this website, for free, right up until Election Day.

And if Congress or for that matter law enforcement think that I’m going to refrain from criticizing an elected or wannabe-elected official, ever, they’re sadly mistaken.

From The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:

As to you, Traitor McCain: Of all of the U.S. servicemen and women who have found themselves in foreign captivity, YOU had to be the one to survive?

And, in case it even needs pointing out, this is a BI-PARTISAN issue. The First Amendment does not distinguish between Left and Right, so we herewith pledge allegiance to any Lefty bloggers joining this campaign as well. If they come after YOU, they come after US as well. We will stand together against this un-Constitutional act of High Treason or we will hang separately. Political differences are completely irrelevant here.

Join us. Join us, conservatives, liberals, progressives, libertarians and whatever else your political affiliation may be.

THIS. WILL. NOT. STAND.

It could more accurately be called the McCain-Feingold censorship law because it stifles political speech, protects incumbent politicians and consolidates power in Washington. This law is of the Congress, by the Congress, and for the Congress, because it protects members of Congress by silencing opposing points of view.

McCain-Feingold explicitly rejects James Madison’s warning in Federalist 10 that the destruction of liberty in pursuit of “curing the mischief of factions” is worse than the disease itself.

What would the Founding Fathers have thought of such free speech “blackout periods”? The days leading up to an election ought to be filled with debate. Free speech and activism, by informing and organizing the public, empower average citizens to promote a cause they believe in and to demand honest and responsive representation. Instead, the incumbent politicians that supported McCain-Feingold prefer to keep us quiet and prevent us from making noise about their records as Election Day gets closer.

And so I hereby announce my decision to stand together against this travesty of freedom. I WILL make statements both for and against elected politicians by name UP TO AND INCLUDING THE DATE OF THE ELECTION no matter what RINO McCain says I can or cannot do. Civil Disobedience.