Under this, Uncle Sugar gets to find out all about the little people in the political process.
Excerpts:
“Right now, grassroots groups don’t have to report at all if they are communicating with the public,” said Dick Dingman of the Free Speech Coalition, Inc. “This is an effort that would become a major attack on the 1st Amendment.”
“This bill would apply to those who have no Washington-based lobbyists, who provide no money or gifts to members of Congress, and who merely seek to speak, associate and petition the government,” it said. “Regulating the speech, publishing, association and petitioning rights of citizens is not targeted at corruption in Washington, as Public Citizen and its supporters would believe. Instead, it is targeted directly at the 1st-Amendment rights of citizens and their voluntary associations.”
Nice work, Public Citizen and Speaker to be Pelosi......this is one way you can put the screws to these groups, most of whom espouse political and social conservative viewpoints, and many of whom would be forced to shut down as a result.
Next, look for a return of the old FTC "Fairness Doctrine" in an attempt to kill off conservative talk radio.
Count on it......
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