Washington, DC (TLS). Senator Harry Reid, the new Senate Majority Leader, has introduced legislation that would essentially ban grassroots groups from alerting their constituents about pending bills that directly effect citizens.
The legislation is introduced as 'Senate Bill #1.'
The Senate needs to be inundated with phone calls against this bill. The phone number to call is 202-224-3121. That puts you directly in touch with Capitol Hill.
Tell them you wish for the provisions in the Bill that limit the freedom of speech of grassroots organizations and their members to be removed.
Senate Bill #1 has been made the top priority of Democrats who control the Senate. Stung by grassroots organizations in the past that 'out' the shady dealings of Senators and Congressmen who wish to enact liberty-busting legislation, these politicians wish not only to silence the grassroots organizations that provide the alerts but to make sure average citizens are kept in the dark about pending legislation.
The Bill has one or two honorable components that target lobbyists. However, the Bill does not hamper in the least multi-million dollar organizations like Moveon.org from continuing to mount their grassroots tactics. These organizations have the money to shield themselves. High powered attorneys who work for these groups will insure that the organizations keep up with necessary forms and paperwork, as well as defend them from litigation. Shockingly, the proposed bill does not even address organzations like Moveon.org at all. Such organizations fall into a different category than those targeted in the Bill.
Bloggers and other grassroots individuals and small organizations will be left to fend for themselves in litigation, unless we spend most of our precious time filling out paperwork to submit to Congress that will 'allow' us to call our readers and/or members to political action. In other words, we will need the approval of Congress to do what I am doing now IF this Bill is passed.
My friends, this is nothing less than pure tyranny.
If the Democrat majority can get away with silencing the free speech of citizens and grassroots organizations, you can rest assured that their rights-robbing express will head into other areas of American liberty.
For example, several Bills are being developed as we speak that continue the practice of eliminating 2nd Amendment Rights by gradually hamstringing the ability of citizens to purchase weapons that protect them against home-invasions, rape, and murder.
There are whispers on the Hill today, in addition, that a move is under foot to resurrect another attempt to outlaw homeschooling in America. Such an attempt was launched several years ago, but James Dobson's 'Focus on the Family' sent out an urgent plea to listeners to contact their legislators to stop it. Because of Dobson's freedom of speech in alerting citizens to the underhanded, sleazy dealings of rights-robbing politicians, the bill was defeated. Yet the anti-homeschooling crowd is in Congress in full force with the Democrat majority.
I encourage you today to call Congress and register your opposition to Senate Bill #1. And I pledge to continue to issue these alerts, no matter what laws the thugs approve. The Liberty Sphere will engage in nonviolent resistance to any law that squelches free speech. If this means defying laws that Jefferson believed had no authority because of their tyrannical aims, then so be it.
This is a call to protest. Senate Bill #1 MUST be defeated.
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