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FEC chair warns of chilling regulations, book ban on conservative publishers
« on: July 24, 2014, 05:19:49 AM »
Totalitarianism rearing its' ugly head again . . . I wonder by which party?

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FEC chair warns of chilling regulations, book ban on conservative publishers

BY PAUL BEDARD | JULY 23, 2014 | 3:42 PM

The chairman of the Federal Election Commission today blasted Democratic colleagues opposed to his effort to protect conservative media after they imposed rules on the publisher of Rep. Paul Ryan's new book, opening the door to future book regulations -- or even a ban.

“By failing to affirm this publisher’s constitutional right, statutory right, to disseminate a political book free from FEC conditions and regulations, we have effectively asserted regulatory jurisdiction over a book publisher,” warned Chairman Lee E. Goodman, one of three Republicans on the six-person FEC.

“That failure reveals a festering legal uncertainty and chill for the free press rights of books and book publishers to publish and disseminate political books free from government regulation,” he added.

His comments after the FEC OK'd Republican Ryan’s request to promote his new book, The Way Forward, were immediately and sharply rebuked by Democratic Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub. “No one is banning books,” she said.

Weintraub also hit Goodman for suggesting “that we are motivated by partisan bias, which is really not appreciated and untrue. I want to categorically deny that.”

The idea that one can determine how true an argument is by the amount of resistance to it certainly applies here.  "Free speech for me, but not for thee."

The rest is at:  http://washingtonexaminer.com/fec-chair-warns-of-chilling-regulations-book-ban-on-conservative-publishers/article/2551197
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Re: FEC chair warns of chilling regulations, book ban on conservative publishers
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2014, 07:14:56 AM »
To those worried about the death of America: Have no fear...it's already happened. We are officially a third world nation of men over laws. Every court case and regulation is being decided on partisan lines. There is no point in obeying the laws of the lawless. We should stop pretending it is otherwise.
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