Is this how liberty and participatory democracy end?
The McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act gets through the FEC intact.
As long as it remains in place, I will not be voting for a single incumbent.
And I intend to disobey this law. I am willing to go to jail for it. The First Amendment is too important to be discarded just because I'm not willing to do a little jail time. The Bill of Rights is not the Bill of Suggestions. Nor is it the Bill of Quaint Concepts or the Bill of Optional Guidelines. They are called Rights for a reason.
"... one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail.
[Update: More at CQ, Instapundit, and Tapscott's Copy Desk.]
posted by The Last American at 9:07:00 AM
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It would be mean of me to say, well, what do you expect of a guy who lived in government housing in a communist country for five-and-a-half years, but, well, I'll say it anyway.
And as an aside, if we rolled back the fascistic laws that have been passed just in our own lifetimes, immediately, imagine how much freer we'd be. It would truly be a shock to the system and some folks would revel in being able to roll down the road blitzed on Falstaff at 100 miles per hour, then stopping to have a smoke in a hospital waiting room, and maybe taking a crap on the courthouse steps.
R
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