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When the First Amendment Counts Most, Court Has Been AWOL

A_Freeman Wrote: Oct 10, 2009 11:25 AM
Oh, forgot something. The FEC and all campaign laws are illegal, unconstitutional and infringements on the rights of people to freely associate and participate in the political process. Congress purports to have the authority to regulate campaigns under Article 1, Section 4 of the US constitution concerning elections, but of course this only means what it says, and that is elections, not how the people determine who they want to put forward for a choice in an election.
For congress to have such authority over campaigns would mean they have the right to tell us "THE PEOPLE", the ones who are choosing from among ourselves individuals to be stewards of our rights that we do not have the right to freely influence and work toward...

The air was thick with hypotheticals at the Supreme Court last week as the justices considered whether a law designed to outlaw videos depicting cruelty to animals was constitutional. Because there is no floor to human decadence, so-called "crush videos" depicting women in high heels crushing small animals to death enjoyed a certain popularity. Congress outlawed them. Most of the justices appeared to think that the law ran afoul of the First Amendment and they let fly with a quiver full of theoreticals. "What if I'm an aficionado of bullfighting who wants to promote his passion about the noble fight...